Is there a counterattack to anti-aging skin care

Yes, but it’s really not the fantasy that 50-year-olds look like 20-year-olds as marketed. Most of them are “pragmatic counterattacks” that bring skin condition that has been dragged down by bad habits far below the actual age back to even beyond the average level of the same age.

Two years ago, I met a sister in a small group of skin care enthusiasts who works as a matchmaker for clients. When she was 34 years old, she stayed up late every day to accompany her clients. She didn’t even bother to apply sunscreen for commuting. The sun spots on her cheekbones spread over half of her face, and her apples were so swollen that there were two deep lines. Nasolabial wrinkles. When she went out to pick up her children, she was often mistaken by other parents for her children's grandmother. She was so anxious that she spent 60,000 yuan to buy an anti-aging suit from a luxury brand. After applying it for three months, there was no change. Instead, she felt so depressed that her whole face shut up.

Later, she stopped fussing and went to the dermatology department for a VISIA test. Only then did she find out that her photoaging level had reached level 3, and the collagen density in the dermis was 22% lower than that of her peers. After that, she kept the process to the simplest: wearing a wide-brimmed hat + a face mask when going out, only applying prototype VC + high-power sunscreen in the morning, using low-concentration retinol with repair cream at night, doing photorejuvenation every two months, and superimposing non-ablative fractional matrix to stimulate collagen every six months. She has been working hard and practical for two years. Last week, she posted photos from the company's annual meeting in the group. New friends who just joined the group thought she was born after 1995, who had just graduated two years ago. Even people who had met her offline before asked if she had secretly had a facelift. She joked that it was a counterattack, and she was just slowly paying back the debt she owed to her skin.

Of course, many people think that there is no such thing as counter-attack in anti-aging skin care. Friends around me who are doing scientific research say that aging is a natural process determined by genes and cannot be reversed by applying anything. There is actually nothing wrong with this - the elastic fibers caused by the natural aging of the skin are broken. It is basically impossible to completely eliminate cracks and deep static lines by applying external skin care products. If you hold on to the expectation that "you will be 10 years younger than your actual age in half a year", you will most likely be disappointed, or even step into the trap of unscrupulous merchants and buy a bunch of useless "anti-aging miracle drugs" and pay IQ tax.

In fact, the anti-aging counterattack is more like patching a flat tire. You used to stay up late every day, indulge in sugar, and not protect yourself from the sun. It was equivalent to poking several holes in the tire and losing most of the air. Naturally, your condition is several degrees worse than your peers who did not have the holes. Now you patch the holes and inflate enough. Even if the wear and tear on the tire wall cannot be fully restored, your running will be much smoother than when it was flat, and you will look full of energy. If you have a regular work and rest routine, good skin care habits, and your tires are always full of air, then no matter how much you replenish air, it will be difficult to have the impression of being "reborn". At most, it will wear out slower than others and age more quietly than others.

To be honest, if you want to get the "counterattack script" for anti-aging, you must first set your expectations correctly and don't believe in the lies about face-changing anti-aging. Secondly, don't pile up expensive products. First, you should find out whether your skin problems are caused by photoaging, collagen loss, or work and rest. Only targeted adjustments will be effective. Otherwise, you will spend tens of thousands in vain, and you will have to accuse anti-aging as an IQ tax, which is too unfair.