How to Eliminate Wrinkles

As you age, your skin loses its elasticity. What was once smooth starts to show signs of damage and aging as wrinkles seem to appear virtually overnight. Fighting wrinkles is ultimately a losing battle as there are no eighty-year-old women living wrinkle-free, but keeping your skin as firm and smooth as possible for as long as possible will give you a more youthful appearance for years longer than you might achieve if you let Mother Nature have her way.

Go On the Offensive

The first fine lines and wrinkles begin to appear sometime in the thirties. Some women are lucky and have smooth skin a bit longer, but the thirties is the time to start truly fighting back against wrinkles – preferably before you even see signs of the first one.

It should be said that keeping your face protected from the sun throughout your entire life is also vital to staying free of wrinkles. Nothing promotes the aging process more than time in the sun or tanning beds. As you approach thirty, begin seeking out skin products that contain anti-aging elements. You don’t need to be doing any intensive wrinkle repair, but anti-aging creams that boost elasticity and increase firmness will help substantially to keep that first wrinkle away.

Add anti-wrinkle requirements to your standard regime for your face and you won’t have to change your routine. Father than just moisturizer in the morning, switch to the version that helps to reduce wrinkles or fight off signs of aging. At night, add a face cream to help keep your skin supple and moist as hydration is another critical part of keeping skin youthful.

Fighting Back

Once the first wrinkles appear, it is tie to add in more defenses. Continue with your current anti-wrinkle programs, but add products that help to exfoliate the skin and have more power to them in regards to keeping the skin firmer and smoother. Be religious about your facial products and soon your routine will be second nature.

As you continue to age, you can begin substituting the heavier defenses for your original light anti-aging creams. Older skin is continually dry, so heavy moisture at bedtime is a night way to help hydrate your skin. Regular trips for facials and peels can help as well as the top layer of skin is the most damaged. 

Take Control

Your final step in fighting wrinkles is to take full control by using surgical methods. Botox can reduce or remove some wrinkles, but used extensively can appear unnatural. Facial fillers can smooth out contours and an eyelift can remove bag and wrinkles around the eyes. The most intensive procedure to remove wrinkles, however, is a full face lift where the sagging skin is pulled back up smoothing out many of the wrinkles that has formed over the years.

Action Plan

• Begin using anti-aging products before you see any signs of wrinkles. This will help hold them off.
• Add a night cream that helps to keep skin hydrated to your beauty routine.
• Add in heavier wrinkle removers as you begin to see wrinkles. These might include peels and other ex-foliations used at home.
• Consider surgical intervention to relax muscles causing wrinkles, to smooth out contours or to lift skin around the eye to make many wrinkles disappear or appear less visible.
• A full face lift will remove many of the wrinkles as it battles gravity directly.

Tips

If you’re smoking or ingesting other harsh chemicals, stop. These also contribute to rapid aging.