I have developed these really fine vertical lines on my neck that look like dehydration and ageing and I am wondering if anyone has any experience with them and advice that they could give me in how to manage them or even calm them down. I have pretty sensitive skin if thats a consideration, 50+.
What can be done? I am only 51, looking 71 around my mouth. The rest of my face does not look bad.
Hello I am new to Reddit and this is my first post, so please be kind. I have really bad body dysmorphia and lately I have been zooming in on my face. I have noticed that along with super dry, cystic acne prone sensitive skin, my eyelids are more droopy. I’m new to skincare and I’m awaiting a dermatologist appointment. I know peri-menopause is changing my skin badly and I’m just u sure what to do. I thought to come on here and ask for advice if anyone else had or has had the same and if it improved, how? I’m too poor for surgery and high end products. TIA
I’ve been looking at before and after pictures of Nuface and Foreo Bear results and I feel like I’m going crazy. They look exactly the same to me. I can’t even tell which picture is the before and which is the after. They all have labels saying things like “lifted brow” and “sculpted cheekbone” but it feels like low key gaslighting because my own eyeballs see absolutely no difference. I want to believe they are effective, but I can’t find a single unbiased or objective study attesting to that. The only “science” seems to be coming from the brands themselves.
The caveat is that the before and after pics seem to overwhelmingly be of young women who already have good skin and bone structure so obviously they won’t show much improvement when there was nothing to improve in the first place.
Nevertheless, I remain skeptical.
Has anyone ordered the Estriol 0.3% face cream from a telehealth service in Canada?
I've had mild hormonal acne for a few years (45F peri). I started high doses of a vitamin B supplement in March due to a deficiency. That caused a serious acne breakout on my cheeks. I stopped vitamin B supplements, and started using Retin A and topical spironolactone in May. Today my skin is better than it has ever been in my life, almost glass. But I really should start back on the vitamin B supplements. I'm just afraid of another breakout.
I don't see this come up much on any sub, but has anyone else had vitamin B induced acne? Did tret stop it or help at all? My understanding is that the vitamin B changes skin bacteria, which is what causes the acne.
A.M.
Rinse or cleanse with small amount of vanicream
Topical spironolactone along jawline
Prequel tinted sunscreen
P.M.
Oil cleanse
Cleanse with vanicream
Tret
I had a lash lift just over 4 weeks ago and it went VERY wrong. I've had quite a few lash lifts before and they've always been great, but this was a new place I tried because I was out of town and I am wishing more than anything I could go back in time.
My lashes were over-processed and over-lifted and were extremely uncomfortable afterwards. Some snapped off, while others developed what I believe was folliculitis because of the angle they were set and subsequently fell out, or had to be plucked because they were causing so much pain.
I'm now four weeks post-lift and have very few lashes left — maybe a handful on each lid. Before this, my lashes were quite thick and full and I was so excited to get them lifted has it had been 6 months since my last....I am totally devastated.
I've already received a full refund from the salon (who originally tried to correct the botched shape...) and now don't know if I should be going back to ask for some other compensation based on the extent of the damage??
Mainly wondering about how long it took for other people's lashes to grow back after something similar?
Four weeks in, mine are actually looking the worst they've looked throughout this whole process. I'm wondering when I might realistically start seeing enough regrowth to look somewhat normal again, 8 weeks, 12 weeks....longer??
I know lashes have a growth cycle and that I probably just have to be patient, but I'm really struggling with how upsetting this has been - I barely want to leave the house because I feel so self-conscious.
Has anyone else had a lash lift that caused significant lash loss? How long did it take before your lashes grew back, and how long until they looked reasonably normal again?
Please help me ❤️
Ended up trusting the “aesthetician” (registered nurse as a plastic surgery clinic) and got 3ml of filler to start. Next up will be addressing my skin quality.
Still a bit of puffy swelling and bruising under my eyes and in my chin area which makes my jowls look a bit bigger. These will subside.
I’m pretty happy with the subtle but refreshed look! I still feel like me. Just a less dry and saggy me.
Tried to get some pics in different / comparable lighting to my before but it’s hard!
It was $2100 NZD and she used Teoxane.
48F. I’ve always been thin’ish but in the last year or so my veins have gone crazy on my hands. People notice and close friends and family ask me what happened to my hands. Please advise what can be done for this problem.
I’ve used topical estrogen and no it was not this transformative, lol.
The fomo I have felt when I see an advert like this for a new active is real. Most actives (including this one) have very marginal gains, however.
How do you navigate finding the best version of you as you age, on your budget, when you are served up so much misleading BS?
I swear I woke up one morning and seemingly overnight the fat on my arms changed to a crepey disaster. I'm 65. It really did feel that fast, one summer they looked like my arms and the next they didn't.
Since then I've been through five or six creams. A couple of drugstore ones, a crepe corrector, one my daughter swore by, and an expensive one I'm not going to say the price of out loud. I used each one properly, months at a time, not a week here and there. I've tried all the "get rid of crepey skin" creams. Nothing hs helped.
So now I have to keep getting longer & longer sleeves to cover my ever increasing crepe creep on my arms. Losing the battle for sure.
I'm not expecting a miracle at 65 ive accepted my age.. but before I give up on the whole category, has anything actually worked for you?
I get this texture whenever I put on makeup. I assume it’s a skin issue? What’s happening? Second area, same question, how can I improve the look of this?
I just wanted to say thanks to those who’ve commented on my posts about sculptra & filler.
It’s a vulnerable thing, putting your face out there for comment! And everyone has provided such useful intel, and 99.9 percent of comments have been kind and onto it and cool. 😎
What a bunch!! Thanks ladies 💕
I’m about to begin a chemo cream treatment for a small spot on my face that my derm thinks is actinic keratosis. The tube says to apply twice a day for 5 days. I’m trying to time this treatment so I don’t look terrible in early September. I’m in a very visible role at work which picks up starting early September. I’m thinking of starting the cream tomorrow. Does it turn raw pretty quickly or will it only get raw after day 5? Also, in my research I keep seeing people who say they did it for 10 days. Is 5 not the standard?
They also gave me another cream, I think it’s a hydrocortisone cream. Should I be applying that before or over the chemo cream?
Thanks for any tips!
No, a face cream cannot join a separated platysma muscle.
The whole world is trying to cash in on perimenopause right now. Before you spend, be realistic about the actual limits of what skin products can do.
I’m finding that on instagram and Reddit, whenever a woman says she’s in her 40s or 50s, commenters pile on saying she looks much older. “45? more like 60!” on a woman who looks to me great for 45. Or “I’m 60 and I look much younger than her!”
I don’t see this happening with young women, only with middle aged women. It seems the most naturally aging, nice looking women get ripped down like this. Am I missing something? Are these women really looking that old? What is a 45 year old woman supposed to look like? Is she not allowed to show signs of age?
This feels like such a weirdly specific problem, but the skin in and around my ears gets dry and flaky. I've tried moisturizing, but then I end up getting pimples in my ears ... and if you've ever had one of those, you know how painful they are.
I've now reached the point where I'm creepily looking at random people's ears to see if everyone secretly has flaky ears and I've just never noticed. 😂
So - what are we actually supposed to be doing with our ears? Do you moisturize them? Exfoliate them? Use your normal skincare on them? Leave them completely alone?
Is there some secret ear-care routine everyone knows about except me?
My skin has definitely become more picky lately. Some products I have used for years can suddenly feel heavy or irritating, while simplifying my skincare routine seems to work better.
EDIT: I've said "aesthetician" but the woman who I talked to is actually a nurse with 20 years of experience working in plastic surgery centres.
Heya. I’m 45 and been starting to really notice a bit of jowling and lower face laxity the last year or so. I’ve been saving up for ages and been super excited to get sculptra after alllll I’ve seen and heard about it. It seems to be so popular.
So I went to my appointment and the aesthetician said to me that I have a “beautiful delicate face” (I have a tiny head 😑) and that sculptra would puff me up and overwhelm my features and would not address my concerns. I’m super happy that she’s being my honest with me buuuut …. I really wanted something that would build collagen, not just a filler that I am sure my metabolism will burn through in a year. Feels like such a waste of money.
I’ve seen so much online, so many before and afters and women don’t appear to have crazy big faces as a result. They all seem to just look more rejuvenated and a bit more snatched.
My aesthetician has suggested conservative filler to address volume loss and then she reckons we should focus on skin tightness and quality with Secret RF & CO2 laser. It’s such a pivot from what I thought I’d be getting, and have spent so long “researching” that I’m a bit of a loss as to what now spend my money on!
It’s all so expensive so making the wrong choice feels pretty high stakes.
Thoughts? I’ve had a look at some sculptra posts here and they are pretty mixed but err on the side of loving sculptra.
I’ll unload a pic so you can see my face shape.
WWYD?!?
A neighbor of mine who is in her late 60s got her upper arms tightened.
She’s not heavy at all.
She’s rather slender, but she was hoping to get rid of the creepy skin. She’s upset because she ended up with a large scar.
She really didn’t have big bat wings, but the little ones she had are better.
Her Dermatologist said that the creepy skin won’t go away just from the surgery.
She worked out with weights for years and she’s slender .
It’s been over a year since she did the surgery and she said she doesn’t recommend it.
Her Dermatologist said that the operation is to address bat wings, weight, loss, etc..
He said that there are some lasers that can help a bit, retinol creams, etc.
Have any women 65 and older who are slender and work out with weights had the surgery?
If so, was it a success for you?
