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How to improve your skin texture!

I'm sure at least half my visitors are expecting a pitch for some miracle wrinkle cream at this point backed by 'studies' that show both women who tried it in 'scientific tests' conducted at the manufacturer's own lab both thought they noticed a distinct 'skin improvement'.

There are skin cream ingredients with proven results backed by real science, but this isn't the page for them. Unless you put into practice the advice on this page first, no wrinkle cream or treatment is going to work for very long and you will have wasted your money. On the other hand, if you can put it into practice for every dollar you spend you will get about six times the effect everybody else does.

So, what does it take then?

Some people are not going to like this at all, but you need to take a decision. Do you want to look half your age all your life or do you want a nice sun tan?

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 orange colour, or you can look young. You cannot have both unless you use fake tan.

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 Yahoo looking for older people without many clothes on. I wouldn't recommend it. 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 or what??

Now look at the rest of his skin..!

Not so bad, huh? 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 unless he has skin so dry it has caused a loss of barrier function 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 fat deposits or loss of fat 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 hour sun exposure on the back of your hand or on your ankles once a week will be sufficient.

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. Especially in sun and snow.

Isn't that a bit extreme?

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 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 burns! Go back indoors. Notice how your skin still feels a slight burning sensation? Its there if you look out for it. Below the threshold of what you are used to noticing, but its there.

From now on you are a vampire! You see daylight on your un-sunblocked skin and you run for cover! If anyone asks you to go out into the Florida sunshine at noon, this is an insane person and no good will come from humouring them.

But its an overcast day!

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.

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 all external skin aging. Other aging will be structural because of lost fat/muscle tone under the skin, due to a decrease in barrier function, caused by glycation, free radicals, replication errors or repeated movement. None of these cause anything like the damage sun exposure does.

But my friends will point at me and laugh!

Yes. Your friends will point at you and laugh as you dive for shadow at the first ray of light.

Fear not.

The smirking will be replaced in due course by thoughtful expressions. Soon your friends will search your attic ('loft') for mysterious pictures, demand your beautician's number, and finally they will beg you to put everything you know on a website so they can read it and ignore it while claiming you must have 'good genes'!

OK - you got the hang of Sun block? You must understand that first or not a word I write on the rest of this site will be of any lasting use.




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