Violations pretending to be old: how to distinguish the signs of facial skin aging

The stories of patients about how, with the help of several injection or hardware procedures, the use of a special cream recommended to her by a cosmetologist, they have become many years younger are quite realistic. But in such cases, it is usually not about real age-related changes that have been miraculously removed, but about some skin dysfunctions that can successfully pretend to be some signs of aging. They can really be corrected quite quickly and successfully. It is important for a beautician to be able to distinguish between real and feigned signs of facial skin aging, selecting the appropriate therapy for each case. Read more about this at estet-portal.com.

Signs of facial skin aging that may not be real

Even experienced cosmetologists cannot always immediately recognize some functional disorders of the skin that look like signs of age-related changes – such as dry skin with fine wrinkles, age spots, vascular manifestations. However, the choice of cosmetic methods of influencing the skin depends on the correct diagnosis.

Skin changes that look the same and can be misleading to the beautician

Signs of functional impairment	Signs of facial skin aging
Superficial dehydration with fine lines	Age-related dry skin
Pigmentation disorders due to sunburn, photosensitizing cosmetics or medications	Age dyspigmentation, senile lentigo
Skin hypersensitivity due to improper cosmetic care	Aging dryness with discomfort and the appearance of small linear wrinkles
Couperose, erythema associated with rosacea	Age-related vascular changes associated with menopause

Functional disorders are successfully corrected using cosmetic means and methods, and age-related changes are not always amenable to the desired correction.

To achieve an impressive effect in correcting the real age-related signs of facial skin aging, a significant amount of time and a complex cosmetic effect are required to improve the skin

The cause of functional disorders can be a violation of metabolic processes in the body, and non-compliance with the drinking regime, and the abuse of tanning, and improperly selected cosmetic care. For successful correction, it is important to eliminate or at least reduce the influence of the damaging factor, mitigate the consequences of its action and then direct efforts to correct violations.

Diagnosis and correction of real signs of facial skin aging

The peculiarity of age-related changes in the skin of the face compared to functional disorders is that they, as a rule, are complex. These are not only small wrinkles that appear, but also a change in the quality of the skin; not only severe dryness, but also disruption of the sebaceous glands, dermal cells.

Getting rid of wrinkles with real signs of aging of the skin of the face will not create the effect of youth, if you do not simultaneously improve the quality of the skin, remove hyperpigmentation, and correct vascular changes

Therapy of age-related changes, which will give a stable desired result, cannot last less than 6 months, and often requires much more time. Necessary activities will be:

• correction of microcirculation;
• draining procedures;
• restoration of the integrity of the stratum corneum;
• intensive stimulation of dermal fibroblast activity.

To successfully correct age-related changes, it is important not only to resort to hardware or injection procedures, use high-quality cosmetics and follow the recommendations of a cosmetologist. A significant role is played by lifestyle changes – smoking cessation and alcohol abuse, reasonable daily physical activity, rational nutrition.

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