Madonna Turns 50 - Looks Like 40; How Anyone Can Look 10 Years Younger
Push the clock back 10 years? Look 40 - not 50? Yes, it is possible.
What does it take?
By 50, most women - and some men - show some frown lines between the eyes, some deepening of the nasal labial fold (those groove- like parentheses that separate the cheeks from the upper lips).
The skin has some deterioration. The smile lines/crow's feet around the eyes, the vertical lip lines; Smokers, yours will be deeper. Plus, sun damage: brown spots (now called age spots). Some tiny, barely visible red spider veins. The skin's fresh luster is gone. To the touch, that baby skin smoothness is a memory.
Then, there is the unending force of gravity. The upper lids' pleat sits a bit lower; the eyebrow has started to descend. For those blessed with a big happy smile, one of the smile muscles tugs at the tip of the nose and drags it down. So, the tip droops, the nose appears longer.
The chin - neck angle may no longer be as sharp as it was. The profile in the mirror tells the story; there's some hanging going on.
So there you are. Blame the sun, blame the cigarettes, blame gravity and if you are particularly vindictive, blame your parents and your genes. Much of the above may not happen to other 50 year olds who somehow won a better roll of the genetic dice.
What are the answers? Solutions? Remedies?
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What does it take?
By 50, most women - and some men - show some frown lines between the eyes, some deepening of the nasal labial fold (those groove- like parentheses that separate the cheeks from the upper lips).
The skin has some deterioration. The smile lines/crow's feet around the eyes, the vertical lip lines; Smokers, yours will be deeper. Plus, sun damage: brown spots (now called age spots). Some tiny, barely visible red spider veins. The skin's fresh luster is gone. To the touch, that baby skin smoothness is a memory.
Then, there is the unending force of gravity. The upper lids' pleat sits a bit lower; the eyebrow has started to descend. For those blessed with a big happy smile, one of the smile muscles tugs at the tip of the nose and drags it down. So, the tip droops, the nose appears longer.
The chin - neck angle may no longer be as sharp as it was. The profile in the mirror tells the story; there's some hanging going on.
So there you are. Blame the sun, blame the cigarettes, blame gravity and if you are particularly vindictive, blame your parents and your genes. Much of the above may not happen to other 50 year olds who somehow won a better roll of the genetic dice.
What are the answers? Solutions? Remedies?
- To spruce up your not-so-smooth-skin, with early age spots and those tiny blood vessels, consider practical, non-invasive office procedures and home treatments. Retin-A, Intense Pulse Light, microdermabrasion, light chemical skin peels.
If you live in Southern California, South Texas or South Florida and you forgot to put on your sunscreen and kept smoking, your skin may need a bit stronger rejuvenation - think medium strength peel or laser. - Frown lines between the brows? Horizontal forehead lines? Botox is your buddy.
- Deepening nasal labial creases? Fillers, Restylane, Juvederm. Yes, they are temporary, but they are predictable, safe and you can pay for as much youth as your budget allows. You are in control.
- Nose droop? A one-half hour abbreviated nose job. No bruising, minimal swelling of nose and lip. In one week, no one will know. The tip no longer hangs, the lip is longer, you look younger. Bingo.
- Need to crank up upper lids and lateral eyebrows? Botox may just do it. You try it. If Botox doesn't pull it off, you can have a straight-forward one-hour operation through a single hidden incision in the natural upper eyelid crease and be home by noon. This can remove the saggy upper eyelid pleat and raise the lateral brow (called a brow pexy). Stitches out in 5-6 days.
- Sagging neck? Jaw line becoming a bit obscure? Neck sculpture is the play. Through a horizontal, fine-line incision hidden under the chin, your surgeon can liposuction the nascient double chin, shape up the jaw line if needed, cinch up the loose (platysma) neck muscles. Think internal corset.
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