How is life like having a woman who can be called an ageless face? Angelina Jolie, 46 years old, who is still attractive, seems to be beautiful and effortless, but if you think about the past few years, is there a news that she has lost only 39 kilograms?
Not eating breakfast, smoking and drinking are the norm of Julie's life, and when she was thin, the goddess light disappeared for a long time. It wasn't until she found that her skin was gradually losing its luster and her body began to eat and drink, that she realized the importance of eating regularly.
From a very calorie-conscious vegetarian to a lover of high-quality protein and a sugar-free, low-carb diet, Julie's transition is compelling.
After adjusting your lifestyle, even at the age of 40+, you can always trust Julie's martial arts moves. Even if you have the super ability of appearance, lean figure, straight posture, and no good exercise habits, you can return to the uniform beauty of this ancient Greek god statue overnight.
Now collagen has been lost to the naked eye on her face, but the tight and shiny "skin to bone" state is still the representative of "aging very slowly". However, although her early lifestyle was not advisable, she has a pre-existing awareness of skin care since she was a child, and it is also worth learning.
For example, if there is a skin problem, she must go to the dermatologist, persistently wipe the sun and wear a hat, and this self-discipline also lays a good foundation for her skin's anti-aging ability. At a young age, gu Ailing, who established the concept of school-level skin care, was also the "quasi-Olympic champion", who implemented what Julie did and what she did not do.
This can't help but make people think that Gu Ailing's beauty will not be just invincible and short-lived, but more likely, she will be "older" than her peers.
Even if the difference is nearly 30 years old, Gu Ailing and Julie's maintenance concept is universal, and the mystery is in the "pre-aging" idea, let's learn their "old and slow" skin care secrets.
When skin care enters the plateau period, or the effect does not increase but decreases, it is necessary to start to examine the problem of declining physical function, if you do not make lifestyle adjustment strategies, it will be possible to actively accelerate skin aging.
Gu Ailing also mentioned the importance of diet in an interview. She said that the real good looks should not be exchanged for dieting, and a balanced diet will make a woman healthy and beautiful. In middle and high school, she was also influenced by her classmates and self-media bloggers, and began to calculate her calories very deliberately, and also paid attention to her own food intake in real time, but she would be anxious if she was more than others, and she felt that she could not be thin and beautiful.
Fortunately, after establishing a correct view of diet, she realized that this dangerous diet is not "beauty", but strength is the root of beauty. In the daily diet, protein, fat, carbs, and vegetables are all sources of strength that she calls "must have", so that there is energy to convert when exercising, and body functions will enter a good cycle.
Under dietary or unbalanced dietary conditions, the protein needed to build a healthy skin is insufficient, and the skin will lose its elasticity severely. At the same time, the weight lost in the wrong way will be water, muscle and fat, and when there is no muscle support after fat consumption, coupled with the decrease in the density and thickness of collagen, and the damage to the elastic fibers of the skin, the skin will be one step closer to appear loose.
Getting natural antioxidants from many vitamin-rich prototype foods can also be cheaper and more efficient than using skin care products to make up for them after they have been under-consumed. We must have the correct understanding, the basis of good skin is a multi-party bonus, and it is difficult to offset the accumulated damage caused by body wear and tear alone.
Women's skin aging problems also have a lot to do with hormone levels, in addition to aging, hormone levels fluctuate often have a strong correlation with life patterns. When the secretion of estrogen is reduced, first of all, the water retention of the skin will deteriorate, and then the blood circulation will become worse, and the efficiency of nutrition and moisture delivery to the skin cells will also be reduced a lot, and the skin will open the rough, sallow "yellow face" mode.
From the diet to supplement more beans, grains, rhizome vegetables can help supplement estrogen, while the right amount of high-intensity exercise will also bring an increase in estrogen and progesterone, have a strong effect on muscles and bones, relatively speaking, there will be a "harder guarantee" for skin support.
As she grew older, Julie also realized the importance of sports, and now in addition to some strength training, she has also begun to do HIIT (high-intensity interval training) regularly, and she prefers to try fencing, martial arts and scuba diving than to soak in the gym.
In addition to the gym training program, organizing and participating in some enthusiastic and sweaty aerobic exercises such as boxing, yoga, Zumba (Zumba) and other enthusiastic sweating with my sisters can help the body burn fat step by step, get a good posture, exercise is a good way to release dopamine, and the skin will look younger.
What kind of skin condition can be called youthful? Is it just a simple white and flawless? In fact, the composition of young and not old skin condition: health, uniformity and translucency are the three elements, rather than the pursuit of white and tender, the sense of fullness is the heart's desire.
Sun protection is not for white, but to avoid light damage
For Gu Ailing, who often needs to train in the outdoor snow, sun protection is a skin care link that cannot be ignored. She is very self-disciplined even in her sun protection habits, because she needs to stay in the snow for a long time, high-altitude high-ultraviolet environment, applying high-power sun protection more than 2 times a day is the most basic.
After a long period of exposure, UVA in ultraviolet rays will penetrate into the dermis layer of the skin, reducing collagen, making the dermis layer of the skin thinner, starting from losing elasticity and gradually becoming sagging, gradually producing wrinkles. For ice and snow athletes, thanks to such good habits, her skin aging will be slower in the future.
Sun protection is the key to skin aging and is also a double-edged sword
However, in terms of strict sun protection, Gu Ailing also practiced her views. Although she did have sun protection in snow training, in her aesthetic concept, "not in the sun" is not really beautiful.
Interestingly, there are two sides to the same coin between sun protection and aging, and if you take extremes, sun protection is both an ally and an enemy of the anti-aging plan.
As far as "no sun" is concerned, this will also be a big hidden danger of aging, although after rubbing the sunscreen product can reduce penetration and free radical damage by resisting ultraviolet rays, it also hinders the body's natural production of vitamin D pipeline.
Vitamin D needs to be produced after the skin is exposed to the sun's rays, and the composition of bone health, vitamin D and calcium are indispensable. Moderate sun exposure, the ability to slightly dilate the skin's microvessels, and promote blood circulation, metabolism, sebaceous glands and sweat glands are essential elements for making the skin look healthy and youthful.
Sunlight itself can also activate and regenerate cells, but also promote the production of collagen, elastin fibrin and hyaluronic acid and other substances in the dermis layer, on the whole, the benefits of sun exposure are not many, the key lies in the length of time. The daily unprotected sun exposure time should be within 15 minutes as much as possible to avoid the strongest ultraviolet radiation in the hot sun, and the light damage will be relatively low, and the benefits will outweigh the disadvantages.
Perhaps many people think that the use of sunscreen products will cause a burden on the skin, or the sticky feeling makes people feel uncomfortable, choose a refreshing texture of the product, with sunscreen powder will make the skin feel better, or wear more hats and umbrellas can also reduce the amount of sunscreen used accordingly (provided that it must be worn in place before exposure). The emphasis on the use of antioxidants in daily skin care routines can help the skin offset the burden of sunscreen; in fact, the "burden" in sunscreen products is much lower than that given by ultraviolet rays, so implementing sunscreen is the way to delay aging.
A moderate exfoliation can "rejuvenate" the skin with a good glow
Dull skin will appear old, but it is not necessarily related to whether it is tanned or not. Whether it is young skin or mature skin, old waste keratin will make a career on the surface of the skin, but the results are different.
For young skin, excessive oil and keratin accumulation will appear to be oxidized sallow on the face; as age increases, the skin's metabolic power will decline year by year, and the keratin accumulation of mature skin will appear dull. So exfoliation is important for any age, and in winter, salicylic acid products can be used 1-2 times a week to help the skin metabolize with mild fat-soluble acid ingredients.
In many skin care products for mature muscles, due to the higher demand for moisturizing and locking water, the oil component will be correspondingly more, and after encountering old waste keratin, it will stick to the clumps, thus hindering the progress of keratin shedding. In addition, vitamin A derivatives, the star ingredient of anti-aging, although they will also help the metabolism of the stratum corneum by drying out the stratum corneum and then shedding, it is precisely this feature that this type of product will also add a highly closed moisturizing ingredient in order to enhance the skin feeling.
Therefore, we suggest that on the basis of the use of A alcohol, it can still be combined with acid products, or chemical peeling to help skin renewal, after the metabolism of old waste keratin, you will see shiny new skin, and the maintenance will be more effective at this time.
If you have a habit of using A alcohol at night, you can change salicylic acid to daytime use. Salicylic acid itself is not photosensitive, and there is no need to worry about "anti-blackening" when used in the case of sun protection in place during the day. However, because acids are always irritating and barrier deprived, it is necessary to avoid use in cases of prolonged exposure to sunlight, and even the A alcohol of the previous night should be avoided in advance.
The skin is dull and old, and the dark spots will also accompany it
Due to the aging of the skin, pigments will gradually deposit to form spots, and the appearance of spots will also aggravate the uneven skin tone. The general degree of pigmentation using the common vitrines C, niacinamide, transmiscency acid, bosein, ellagic acid and other whitening ingredients on the market have the opportunity to be improved, but if there is a relatively large area, dark color spots, you need to start to consider laser treatment, it will be more direct and effective.
Melasma, which is high in women of reproductive age, is a headache, and when large areas of coffee-colored and pig liver-colored spots appear, most of them will be accompanied by poor sleep quality, excessive stress, and collagen degeneration caused by aging and estrogen changes. Therefore, before treating melasma, body conditioning is also very important, and at the same time, the sun protection and anti-aging work are in place, and there is a chance to defeat melasma.
Because melasma is difficult to recur, excessive deposition will make the face look dull and dull, the most efficient way is to go to the dermatology department for treatment, ask the doctor to prescribe external drugs such as hydroquinone, rhododendron acid, Aic acid, etc., with combined treatment methods such as oral transmiscency acid, and use in accordance with medical advice.
Generally speaking, because of aging, light damage caused by pigment deposition (or shallow spots) are relatively easy to solve, through drugs or medical aesthetic treatment can achieve a gradual "shelling", restore the effect of the skin's true color, as long as the follow-up implementation of sunscreen, strengthen skin texture, and then with whitening spots of products, basically recurrence may be relatively low, or it takes a long time to accumulate new spots.
Usually, the treatment of blue-blue deep spots will be more difficult. Half of the deep spots occur in the dermis layer because the refraction of light gives the deposited pigment a bluish-blue and grayish color. If such a degree of spot appears on the skin, it is necessary to go to a professional dermatologist and use a laser treatment with a longer wavelength to repel it.
In terms of technique, "gentle and harmless" will be the best skin care method than massage. Because the mature skin is relatively thin, so the force is too strong, and the gua sha, massage, etc. that are not easy to pinch will be excessively pulled to the skin, and may further lead to pigmentation.
For young skin, it is actually difficult to take the skin texture to the next level, and it is also the most difficult stage of confused skincare before the transition to mature muscle.
At the same time, mature skin is facing a cumulative and visible aging. If you want to give a little hint to women with these two different skincare needs, morning C and night A are the most worth trying set of universal formulas.
Just rely on moisturizing to see the improvement of skin state and not enough, anti-aging, antioxidant, anti-drying ingredients three-way combination, there is a real effect, early C and late A can do it. In general, moisturizing products can only play a temporary role in wetting the horn, of course, the oil component is also very important, but it is like adding a down coat to the outside of the warm coat in winter, and the close-fitting warm clothes and pants may be the hot spot of thermal insulation.
What really plays a moisturizing role is that it seems to make the skin "dry out" vitamin A derivative, although it will make the epidermal cells faster than metabolism, but at the same time will increase the skin dermis in the glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), promote collagen hyperplasia, and repair damaged cells, so the skin's water grip and natural moisturizing factors will have a qualitative improvement, the skin can truly achieve "moisturizing"; at the same time, A alcohol is also known to be the most effective anti-aging and anti-wrinkle ingredient.
For young skin with strong oil secretion, vitamin A derivatives can also play a role in metabolizing keratin and inhibiting sebum secretion, so if some acne is inevitable, the "late A" routine can also be added to the ranks of skin care.
Internal and external vitamin C is as important, thanks to its excellent antioxidant power, can resist free radical damage, for uneven skin tone, dullness and aging have obvious effects, and vitamin A dream linkage, but also to the anti-aging effect to raise the grade.
When used during the day, vitamin C can improve the skin's ability to resist ultraviolet rays, and can also improve collagen synthesis, which also promotes wound healing. Therefore, not only whitening, anti-plaque, anti-aging, when there are wounds and scars caused by acne, the use of vitamin C is also a repair method.
However, there is a big difference in the use of morning C and late A for young skin and mature skin, that is, the choice of product texture. Young skin is usually less prone to oil, so don't choose products that are too moisturizing to avoid pimples and breakouts.
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to any skin problem, especially the anti-aging work path is obstructed and long, not only need to solve the current skin problem, but also have to race against time. However, recognizing aging, finding the right way to improve the auxiliary state, and then adjusting the mentality at the same time, the graceful slow aging itself is also a kind of beauty, isn't it?
Back to the opening character Angelina Jolie, she once mentioned in an interview: "I actually like to observe myself slowly getting old in front of the mirror, because it will make me find the appearance of my mother on my face, which makes me feel warm; it will also make me think of this face full of traces of time, family, and life, reminding me of how beautiful it is to be alive and to be able to slowly grow old." 」 ”
Speaking of Gu Ailing, although you can say that she is now a girl in excellent condition, with her strength of loving life and self-discipline, it is not difficult to predict that her state will still be far beyond her peers in a few years.
And, we believe she will embrace aging with the coolest mindset.
Edit: Verance
Fine Arts: Roland