Anti Aging with Sasha - improving your skin texture.
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How to improve your skin texture! Now, you Americans are not going to like this one little bit. You are going to have to take a decision. Do you want to look half your age all your life and save a fortune on surgery, or do you want a nice sun tan? Look. I never said this was easy! If you want something bad enough, you'll have to give up something in order to get it. You can spend half your life a strange orangey-brown colour, or you can look young. You cannot have both. Well, unless you use fake tan.. You can find all the best self tanners and sunless tan products here. Now for some real bad news. Its not just deliberate suntanning. I tried very hard to get you a picture to illustrate this, by typing various keywords into Google looking for older people without many clothes on. I wouldn't recommend that. My eyes hurt! :( So you'll have to do this yourselves. Take a look at your dad when hes out in the garden in summer, watering the plants with his shirt off. See the facial wrinkles? See that reddish 'v' shape round his neck where his shirt was open all year? Wrinkle City. Now look at the rest of his skin.. Chronologically, the skin that has always been protected from the sun looks about 18 years old. He might have some sagging through lost muscle tone or excess weight, but the skin texture itself is more or less perfect where it never sees daylight. Nice and elastic, with even coloration and wrinkling only where the underlying structural faults have caused it. Thats what it takes to keep your skin texture wrinkle free. No daylight. Not just no suntanning and no sunbeds, but no daylight whatsoever. If you are worried about a vitamin D deficiency, for instance if you don't eat pork or drink milk, half an hours sun exposure on the back of your hand once a week will be sufficient, or if you don't even want to do that, take a Vitamin D supplement. The rest of the time, all areas exposed to daylight, even winter daylight, must be protected by a high factor sunscreen. That means a total sun block. All the time. No exceptions. Especially in sun and snow. A good definition of 'art' is 'the capacity to take infinite pains'. Extraordinary results require extraordinary measures. You can spend a fortune later on tightening your skin (even so it will never look natural if the texture is poor) and still not have it look half as good as it would if you had protected it from damage in the first place. Cutting away loose skin is a last resort, and should be done where neccessary, but it still won't help with actual skin texture. Go out into the sun unprotected right now for the last time! Feel it tightening and creasing up your skin. Listen hard enough and you can almost hear it go "crinkle crinkle crinkle" as your skin wrinkles! From now on no sun!! None. Do you know why vampires always look young and beautiful? Its nothing to do with bloodsucking I expect. Its probably because they hide from daylight, most likely! From now on you are a vampire. You see daylight on your un-sunblocked skin and running for cover is a reflex! Don't go thinking "well its a cloudy and overcast day so I can leave off the sunblock!" Its like that where I live most of the time, in London UK, and my neighbors still age! The UV light gets through the clouds just fine, because of its tiny wavelength. Sun damage takes about seven years to show up on your skin, but if you wear total sunblock then wait seven years, you have effectively stopped your skin aging. All other aging will be structural or due to a decrease in barrier function. For a good ten years your friends will all point at you and laugh as you head for the shadows at the first ray of light (Incidentally, UV-A can penetrate glass windows) but after that they will all quit laughing and wear thoughtful expressions when they look at you. After that they will start pestering you with annoying questions and talking behind your back about mysterious pictures that must be in your attic! Not all sun blocks are equal though, and there is more to it than the sun protection factor. The invisible sunblocks tend to start issuing free radicals after about an hour of sun exposure. This is fine if you are only out of doors for a few minutes, or its about to get dark. Other than that, use a sun block with titanium dioxide in it. These do not cause free radicals. How to treat fine lines and moderate wrinkling. How to treat severe wrinkling. Just to recap. If you only do one thing about staying pretty make it "avoiding daylight". Thats 30% of the secret, and sunblocks don't cost very much.
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