Facelift - an alternative to the knife from the era of Catherine de Medici

You cry and laugh, you are sad and you are happy, in a word, you live. And the years go by, leaving thin threads of wrinkles on your face. Looking at you from the screens are Hollywood women your age who, even at forty, look twenty years old. Of course, they performed more than one plastic surgery on themselves. And so, looking at them, you begin to convince yourself that a slight lift is so natural! But is it worth rushing under the knife? Maybe there are other, less radical ways?

For centuries, women have used all sorts of tricks to help them keep their skin young and healthy. Catherine de Medici was famous for her unusually soft and velvety skin. Even at the age of 70, she was popular with young men. The secret of her beauty is simple: every evening she rubbed her face with a piece of velvet cloth. This simple procedure replaced her with a whole beauty salon: soft polishing, gentle peeling, massage and electrotherapy. After all, when velvet rubs against the skin, an electrical discharge occurs, accelerating skin regeneration and the production of collagen in it.

The 20th century brought to the arsenal of female beauty a lot of different options for solving this complex problem, from special massage to the famous Botox. Let's go through the most popular methods of non-surgical facelift, which appear in the price lists of beauty salons:

Electrotherapy: using a special electrical device that sends microcurrents to skin cells and thereby stimulates the muscles on the face and neck, doctors achieve rapid cell regeneration, increased collagen production and improved blood circulation, which in turn improves the overall condition of the skin. Do you remember that the Medici achieved the same effect with the help of their marigold?

The use of special threads, known as "Cleopatra's golden thread", which are embedded in the skin and help maintain its structure, preventing deterioration. As a rule, such a procedure has a beneficial effect on people who are not prone to excessive thinness or weight, and the threads embedded in the skin can be removed at any time.

Radiolifting (Thermage), in which, using a special ThermaCool system of emitting radio waves, the production of collagen (a substance that eliminates wrinkles and tightens the skin) is stimulated while cooling the epidermis. The method is perfect for those who have felt the first signs of aging; it does not require anesthesia and costs from 2 to 5 thousand dollars.

Traditional facial massage, which stimulates blood circulation and improves overall well-being since the time of the Medici, is still the surest means of a facelift for millions of women, as well as cosmetic masks, anti-wrinkle creams, products with added collagen and just a good mood that will help you avoid stress , and therefore will stop the approaching old age.