Face
How Does the Face Age?
The natural aging process affects each person differently. In some cases, the aging process may cause people to appear older than their actual age. There are three main facial factors that indicate a person’s actual age:
General Bone Structure and Overlying Fatty Tissue on the Face: As a person ages, the bones around the eye sockets become larger, and the eyes sink in toward the face. Additionally, the bone around the nose begins to point inward instead of outward.
Laxity of Tissue in the Face: Skin laxity generally affects the appearance of the eyebrows, eyelids, neck and lower face. The facial tissues become more lax over the years, resulting in facial sagging and extra skin.
Skin Quality: Younger people tend to have more supple skin, fewer skin irregularities and better skin texture than other. For example, some people may have freckles in their 20s, but these freckles may become permanent sunspots over time.
Together, the aforementioned factors may result in a youthful or aged facial shape. A youthful face generally features prominent cheeks and temples, along with a narrow chin and jawline. Comparatively, the cheeks and temples will start to droop or hollow as a person ages, and the chin and jawline may become less defined relative to a youthful face.
Ethnicity also plays a role in examining someone’s age. Each ethnicity has a different aging process. As such, how a person of one ethnicity ages may vary from someone of a different ethnicity.
The SkinLab Aesthetics team uses an in-depth patient evaluation process to determine the reasons why an individual may appear older than his or her actual age. By doing so, we can offer a personalized facial filler treatment recommendation to help a patient address the visible signs of aging in the face.
What Causes My Skin To Age?
Ultimately, many factors play a role in the aging process, and these include:
Alcohol Consumption: Drinking too much alcohol can dilate the blood vessels in the face, causing capillaries across the cheeks and nose to become dark red and visible.
Diet: A poor diet can result in skin inflammation, leading to oxidative stress that damages collagen and causes wrinkles.
Sunlight: Excess exposure to the sun’s UV rays may cause skin pigmentation and texture changes.
Smoking: Nicotine causes the blood vessels to constrict, restricting the flow of oxygen and nutrients to the epidermis and causing the skin to sag and eventually wrinkle.
Wrinkles
There are dynamic wrinkles all over the face. When we smile, frown, raise our eyebrows or squint our eyes, wrinkles are created as a result of those repetitive expressions. Over time, these wrinkles start to become ingrained in the skin, appearing even when one’s face is completely relaxed.
Botulinum toxin injections work by relaxing the muscles, giving your skin a break and subsequently smoothing out the lines and wrinkles in your face. If treated early enough it can help prevent the onset of lines and wrinkles and if wrinkles have already set in, this treatment can remove and soften them.
Signs of Facial Ageing
What is an Anti Wrinkle Injection and how does it work?
Our facial expressions change because our muscles in our face contract and relax.
Anti Wrinkle Injections are injected into specific muscles which blocks the signal from the nerve to the muscles in the face. This is not permanent but it will last for 3 to 4 months.
After Anti Wrinkle injections, your skin around the area will look smooth and less wrinkled. The untreated areas will still move as normal and you will still be able to smile, frown and laugh but with less wrinkling of the skin in the areas treated.
What are Dermal Fillers and how do they work?
As the skin ages it loses some of its collagen and fat. These are the materials that prevent our skin from being saggy. Thus with age, our skin can become thinner, more wrinkled and less elastic
Dermal fillers help restore our skin to its former youthful appearance. Dermal fillers are injected into the skin in areas where it needs plumping up again and made to look firmer.
We use Revolax & Juvederm Ultra dermal filler, 100% hyaluronic acid based wrinkle filling injections with lignocaine local anaesthic built-in to enhance comfort during the procedure.
PRP Facial Therapy
Not only is PRP or Platelet Rich Plasma used to cure hair loss, but it is fast becoming very popular for skincare facial treatment. PRP is a natural resource, which can be extracted from blood and used for topical cell regeneration, resulting with a more youthful and radiant face.
PRP is concentrated blood plasma that contains about 3 to 5 times the number of platelets found in normal blood. PRP is used to facilitate wound healing, however, studies suggests that it can also serve as an effective and safe treatment for hydrating, brightening and replenishing the skin as well as treating hair loss in both men and women. This procedure has rapidly swept the beauty circuit and for many people it is the go-to procedure for a quick and lasting beauty pick-me-up.