When to start anti-wrinkle creams

[Yanka]

The truth is, 50% of what you're gonna look like older is genetics. If you want to know wether you'll get wrinkles or not, look at your mother and grandmother. For example, my grandmother has no wrinkles at 80, but she has naturally a very full (=fat) face that just sagged with age. She NEVER used SPF. And I know people from Northern Europe who had wrinkles at 18.
Genetics is something you can't control. What you can control are equally important things like:
1) Sugar consumption (every time your bloog sugar level spikes, some damage to your skin occures). I forgot the exact mechanism but I know foods with high glycemic index are killer to skin's appearance.
2) Smoking is the second biggest impact.
3) Sun damaga, don't need to say anything about that either.
4) Alcohol - apparently the byproducts of ethanol metabolism affect your skin in a bad way.
5) Sleep.
I'm sure creams and serums do some good but relying on them alone is silly.

 

[Street_a_Licious]

but i can't just say no to sugar! i love my Reese's!

 

[Yanka]

but i can't just say no to sugar! i love my Reese's!

Reese's are not that bad... if you eat a few after a proteine-y meal. Or if you just eat peanut butter instead. Tastes kindof similiar, non?

 

[nijuyanah]

I'm sure creams and serums do some good but relying on them alone is silly.

totally true.

 

[The_Ida]

The body starts to "die" at 23. Cell renewal activity drops and drops...until you die So, before that would be better. I'd rather use a tinted mousturizer with spf than anti-wrinkle anything.

 

[Street_a_Licious]

now Ida, that "death" comment really puts things into perspective

still, i'll cling to my asian-age-entirely-different-and-only-after-50 theory.

ask any asian here on this board (there's loads!), i guess they'll all agree. i hope so at least

 

[The_Ida]

Sun damage is at least half of wrinkles. My mom looks like and she's been in the sun forever. She is now very red and wrinkly. Like an old tomato. No anti wrinkle anything can save her now

 

[Ianastar]

I started using good skincare when I was like 15, and I have people guess my age to be much younger than I really am. I still carded in places actually.

I think you need a good mositurizing product at an early age, but something more anti aging/firming when you reach your mid to late 20s

I read a recent article that said that you should start doing Botox in your mid 30s because at that point its preventative. Most of the people who get Botox already have the lines, and are getting it to soften them. If you start earlier, it takes them longer to appear apparently.

Im going to fight age every step of the way, no matter what the cost. Im actually trying to work a deal with the man downstairs, something along the lines of Dorian Gray.

 

[Alejandro]

wow ida, im scared ****less now that you say that

8pm and i feel the urge of getting under an umbrella

 

[Ianastar]

*pulls covers over head*

 

[Alejandro]

*runs to the makeup drawer and cake on some dior prestige*

 

[Street_a_Licious]

hahaha. Dior Prestige? from those fakeas$ professors/doctors? Ale, you should know better

 

[Ianastar]

*bathes in YSL Touche Eclat*

the light reflectived pigments soften lines right?

anyone...

 

[Alejandro]

oh yah honey, you see the transition from the skincare threads to the makeup threads.

if you can't get rid of them, hide them!

street: all the dior prestige i have is my old gratis.

 

[Ianastar]

awww...I miss gratis.

I just a call to freelance for a men's skincare line called aMENity.

Anyone familar?

 

[Alejandro]

papi stay on topic before you get smacked

 

[Ianastar]

Opps...yes.

Well as far as antiwrinkle treatments...SKIP La Mer

Its a waste of $$

 

[Street_a_Licious]

street wants GRATIS!

i like antiwrinkle creams basically cause a lot of them are HELLA moisturizing and rich. basically stuff i like to use in winter.

 

[Ianastar]

I find that I get more satisfication from the serums rather than the acutal moisturizers. I feel like when used in conjunction with a moisturizer it works really well.

I'm using the whole Caudalie line right now and am loving it. Thier firming serum works well.

Also, I LOVE this YSL kit

saks.com

I just finished mine and really need to get another one. The pen works like a line filler (similar to restilyne) and the tubes work similar to gylcolics/microdermabrasion

 

[seanutbutter]

8pm and i feel the urge of getting under an umbrella

Yeah, it's 6 PM and cloudy here, and I'm considering putting sunblock on!