Five Kinds Of Wrinkles And How To Prevent Them There are five distinct and identifiable causes of wrinkles – the five factors of the aging face.
not just your complexion but the deepest layers of your skin, the dermis. The outer layer of your skin thickens to protect itself from the sun. This shell of dead surface skin causes the leathery look associated with sun damage. The sun also hurts the dermis, destroying collagen and elastin, the materials that give skin its youthful tautness and elasticity. You can get sun-induced crinkles as early as your teens, which will turn into fine surface lines and dryness in your twenties. Beginning in your thirties, you might start to notice little freckle-like brown patches that are actually age spots. By your forties and fifties, skin can yellow and its fine lines become more prominent. You may even get blackheads – one manifestation of sun damage – as your pores enlarge and clog. Fortunately, the single most effective way to prevent wrinkles is to protect your skin from the sun. And since it’s never too late to start practicing “safe sun”, begin slathering on a strong sunscreen with the same diligence you now apply moisturizer. Use sunscreen daily (rain or shine, since the sun’s rays can penetrate cloud cover) wherever you are, whether you’re at the beach or on the tennis court or simply walking to work, eating lunch outdoors or taking an afternoon jog. The thin, delicate skin around your eyes is especially affected by the sun, so the sunscreen you daub under your eyes is more valuable than the priciest eye cream. Old wrinkles. If it weren’t for most environmental factors, like sun damage, you wouldn’t get wrinkles until you were around 65 or 70. Your skin doesn’t age the way your heart or your kidneys do. And aging skin doesn’t lose as much collagen and elastin as you might think. After menopause, your skin produces a little less oil and gets a little thinner. But by and large, the skin is a remarkable membrane. To show just how remarkable, in the late 1980s a team of researchers began studying the skin of Japanese monks, some in their nineties. The monks looked half their stated age. They never go out in the sun and their skin is marvelous, which shows that it’s these external factors that ruin the skin. Sleep lines. If you snooze on your side or stomach, your sleep habits can show up on your face as early as your mid-twenties. “Sleep lines” are easy to identify because they cut across ordinary wrinkles in a pattern that doesn’ t make sense – usually along the side of the chin or cheeks in women. In your twenties, these lines disappear in a few hours. But if you don’t stop sleeping on your face, by your forties and fifties, sleep lines will linger into your waking hours – deep when you get up in the morning and deep when you go to bed at night. You can prevent sleep lines by teaching yourself to sleep on your back. Placing a firm pillow or two under your knees will help you stay in position until you drop off to sleep. Expression lines. Horizontal lines across the forehead, vertical frown lines between the eyebrows and laugh lines at the sides of the mouth are caused by years of repetitive but unavoidable facial expressions like blinking and eating – even kissing. Expression lines can make their debut as faint lines around age 20, deepening as you hit your thirties and forties. Lip lines (tiny vertical lines above the upper lip) may make their debut in your thirties but can appear much earlier if you smoke. To help you stop the unnecessary grimacing that leads to wrinkles, look into a hand mirror while you’re talking on the phone and watch for excessive lip pursing, nose wrinkling and grimacing. Then, stick tape wherever you see expression lines talking hold – across your forehand, between your eyebrows, at the corners of your lips – and for a few minutes, practice talking without disturbing the tape. Lucky people can even learn to smile without wrinkling their eyes. Squinting repeatedly causes crow’s-feet – another type of expression line – along the corners of your eyes. Dark sunglasses are your first line of defense against crow’s-feet, so wear them when you’re outdoors. If you’re squinting indoors, you may need corrective lenses or a stronger prescription if you already wear them. Also, don’t read in dim light, and stop when your eyes are tired. Gravity-prone grooves. The first areas of your face to show the effects of gravity (usually in your mid-thirties) are the corners of the mouth and the eyelids. In your forties, the nose-to-mouth lines that began as expression lines become creases, then actual folds. As you head into your fifties, gravity eventually affects the jawline and chin – and even the tip of the nose and the ears, which actually lengthen. While you may be able to improve superficial wrinkles with various treatments, only cosmetic surgery can undo deeper creases caused by gravity. |
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