People often ask me what they should do to look 10 years younger. Of course, the advice varies from person to person depending on their specific needs. In this article, I’m going to lay out some general guidelines about what to fix in your face to look younger.
If you are the kind of person who never goes to the hairdresser, doesn’t wear makeup or hasn’t changed your makeup style since you were in your 20s, and only buys the most basic and functional clothes at WalMart, then the best thing you can do to look 10 years younger is put yourself in the hands of a good stylist for your hair, have a makeup lesson and let a sympathetic saleswoman at a good clothing store help you choose some clothes. You’ve put yourself on the back burner long enough! Now is the time to do something nice for yourself for a change.
If you’re keeping up with hair, makeup and clothes then you want to take a trip to the medical spa to find out what we can do for you.
The absolute bedrock, most important basic thing to do is to use good, medical-grade skincare products. Good skincare makes your skin look smoother and better; it improves the physiology of your skin so it is more tolerant of all of the usual environmental stresses that damage your skin, like pollution, UV rays and extreme temperatures. Our Vivier skincare products are really effective and cost about the same as the better drugstore brands so if you’ve been dabbling in various product lines with mediocre results, come and get something that really works.
After skincare, you want to think about your face’s texture, color, tightness and volume.
Texture includes things like old acne scars, crepe-like skin, roughness, blocked pores and bumps. My skin used to be so rough from sun damage that I gave up wearing makeup because it just wouldn’t go on right any more.
Color refers to the brown spots of sun damage or abnormal pigment and the redness of broken capillaries, environmental damage and rosacea. An uneven skintone adds 5 – 10 years to your face.
Tightness really means looking at whether you have sagging skin or not enough tightness. As we age, the quality and quantity of collagen goes down so our skin starts to sag as well as wrinkle.
Volume changes in the face include loss of volume or hollowing out of the face, as well as the volume changing position. Many of us find that our cheeks head towards our jowls as we age.
Take a good look at your face in the mirror. How even is your skintone? Does your skin look smooth? Are you pores enlarged? Is the fullest part of cheek up at your cheekbone or is it drifting south? Do you have hollow temples? Do you have jowls? Do you have a lot of lines in your lips or around your mouth?
You probably know which problem is aging your appearance the most or you can come and talk to me and I’ll give you my objective opinion.
The good news is that all of these problems can be fixed – without surgery! Wouldn’t you like to look in the mirror and see a face that looks as young as you feel inside? You will find your mood and energy level totally improve as you start looking better and better.
In future articles, I will write about each problem and the various treatments that can be done to fix them.
Dr. Rose Jeans, MD
Advanced Rejuvenation Medical Spa
