Your favorite creams that you used for years no longer work? Suddenly you see that the skin becomes loose, has wrinkles, its color changes, and dryness intensifies? Soon wrinkles become deeper and hyperpigmentations follow. You have to act and adjust your skincare to the needs of your skin and its age. Here are the best solutions for the skin when you are over 50 years old.
How fast you age depends on your genes, additionally, gravity has its part in it, but there are also external factors which due to our own actions can also damage the skin and speed up the decrease of collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid. Those hours spent in the sun, UV rays, freeze, cigarettes, allnighters, stress, medication, eating in a hurry, it all leaves its mark. Learn the needs of mature skin and how to take care of the skin and what make-up to wear.
Mature skin after 50 – how does it look?
Once you pass fifty years of age, estrogen starts to decrease. The changes to the skin structure and appearance are unavoidable. The corneum becomes thicker and the rest of the skin layers (epidermis and subepidermal layer) become thinner. The skin has a different color, becomes dull, sometimes yellowish, hyperpigmentations, and widen blood vessels may appear. Unfortunately, with age skin gets fewer nutrients because its absorption ability worsens. The protective layer also becomes thinner. The result is that skin is less elastic, rough, dry, sensitive, covered with wrinkles, and the oval of the face is less supple.
A high-quality cream for mature skin
Creams for mature skin are the key elements of the beauty routine. However, it needs to moisturize and at the same time has an anti-aging action. Base your skincare on the well-known and proven anti-aging ingredients. Those components would be:
vitamin A – or retinol, in a visible way ‘irons’ the wrinkles and, is responsible for the growth of epidermis cells, stimulates collagen synthesis,
vitamin C – is a genius for skin care of the skin no matter its age; fortifies collagen fibers renewal, improves skin complexion, and strengthens blood vessels; its a strong antioxidant so it protects the skin against free radicals. On top of it all, vitamin C eliminates adult acne and makes skin tone even. Vitamin C is well absorbed is delivered in the form of lightweight serum – it then gets deeper and is more effective,
vitamin E and coenzyme Q10 – is yet another substance with a confirmed beneficial impact on the skin; those are strong antioxidants that support skin regeneration,
phytoestrogens (plant-based hormones) – most commonly extracted from the soy and act similar to human estrogen, i.e. boost epidermis regeneration and stimulate collagen production while providing skin with proper hydration.
Mature skin – UV filter always
The sun is the greatest enemy of youth. It speeds up skin aging so your day cream must contain UV filter. Apply it always to the face, but also the neck and cleavage. Obviously, after fifty it’s an absolute must-have to own special under-eye cream – it will flatten wrinkles by the eyes but won’t cause irritation the delicate skin in this area.
The perfect solution is cream with lifting properties. As a night cream use a deeply regenerating product or a good serum that has way more intense and precise action, e.g. serum with retinol. Remember that sun protection filter should be at least 30.
Mature skin and acne
Did you know that after fifty it’s more likely to get adult acne? The predisposition to it is hereditary but can also be a direct result of decreasing hormones. Moreover, widen blood vessels and sometimes painful papules create on the face. This type of skin change requires consultation with a specialist and until then you should avoid strong and highly invasive exfoliators and washing gel with dryness causing action.
Make-up for mature skin
The main task of make-up for 50+ skin is to camouflage all the imperfections, wrinkles, furrows. Use a concealer, high-quality foundation, and powder. Start by concealing the dark circles around the eyes, then camouflage hyperpigmentations or covering widen blood vessels with green concealer. Your foundation should be light-weight and does not gather in the creases. The perfect choice would be DD cream.
You can also go for gentle bronzing powder (it is best when it contains golden particles) or peach blusher. Juice colors of blushers are reserved for the young skin. Choose a powder with HD effect that reflects the light because it makes wrinkles less visible. A similar rule applies when choosing eyeshadow shade.
You can use lip glosses of all types, e.g. plumping or conditioning, moisturizing lip balms with light colors, brown or beige.
Aesthetic medicine for wrinkles elimination
Matura skin will feel great when you treat it to professional care. You should visit beautician or dermatologist on a regular basis. They will match proper treatments with your skin type and advise you at-home treatments that you can try. Perfect for mature skin are glycolic and retinoids exfoliators. After the series of exfoliation, you should consider gentler treatments, e.g. mesotherapy (skin nourishment with ultrasound) or microdermabrasion (mechanical epidermis exfoliation).
If you are done with looking at the wrinkles, you can decide to take more invasive actions. You can inject botox – it blocks nervous system impulses in muscles and makes it impossible to make the facial expression that over the years became responsible for given wrinkles. The effect of botox lasts for a few months.
You can also fill wrinkles with hyaluronic acid, its perfect to flatten furrows, laughter lines around lips and nose and on the cheeks. The effect lasts for more or less six months.
