Prevention of forehead wrinkles

Reasons for the rapid appearance of wrinkles on the forehead

It is believed that wrinkles on the forehead are a sign of age. Every year their number, depth and length increase. But in many cases, the first wrinkles appear at a fairly young age; in some cases, they appear even before the age of 20.

Collagen and elastin are compounds that retain moisture, swell and make the skin elastic and smooth. With age, these fibers become smaller and retain less moisture. The skin loses elasticity and becomes prone to wrinkles and damage. The first wrinkles appear around the eyes and on the forehead.

No matter how much you would like to prevent their occurrence, this is not always possible. In other cases, the appearance of wrinkles is entirely the fault of the person himself.

Have you already encountered such a problem as wrinkles in the forehead area? What methods of disposal do you prefer: cosmetics, cosmetic procedures or gymnastics? Share your experience of improving skin condition and stopping the aging process.

It’s a shame when the first wrinkles on the forehead appear at a fairly young age and become more noticeable every year. But there is good news: modern beauty formulas can significantly delay their appearance, providing adequate prevention of aging.

1. The meaning of wrinkles: physiognomy
2. Causes of forehead wrinkles
3. Prevention measures
4. Ways to combat forehead wrinkles
5. How to get rid of forehead wrinkles
6. How to remove wrinkles with massage
7. Composition of anti-wrinkle cosmetics
8. Types of cosmetics
9. Tools Overview

The meaning of wrinkles: physiognomy

Each wrinkle on the face has its own memories and secrets - it sounds very romantic. But in life everything is different: the first hint of a horizontal line on the forehead plunges you into stress. According to physiognomy, the science of determining personality type based on external facial features, wrinkles can tell a lot about us.

“Cosmetologists approach character determination by wrinkles with a smile,” says Elena Eliseeva, medical expert at Vichy. “But doctors do not deny the concept of “facial tone.”

This phenomenon is associated with the location of wrinkles on the face. There are two types of facial tone.

One of the reasons for the appearance of wrinkles on the forehead is active facial expressions © iStock

Positive characterized by horizontal wrinkles in the corners of the eyes and on the forehead - they indicate age, but do not change facial expression.

Negative expressed in the form of vertical wrinkles between the eyebrows, nasolabial folds, purse-string wrinkles around the mouth. It is these lines that give the face a gloomy and sad expression that are the most difficult to correct.

Causes of forehead wrinkles

Wrinkles on the forehead form for several reasons. Some of them do not depend on us. We can fight the rest.

Genetic predisposition

“Genetics determines approximately 20% of age-related changes,” explains the expert. — The remaining 80% is the influence of negative external factors. However, such a feature as the shape of the skull, which determines the nature of facial changes with age, depends on genetics.”

Russian women are characterized by deformation-type aging, when the face “goes” down, forming jowls and a double chin.

Mimic activity

Facial expressions are one of the main causes of wrinkles, especially on the forehead. Therefore, the habit of frowning or wrinkled forehead can be classified as harmful.

Wrinkles on the forehead can be corrected using cosmetic procedures © iStock

Bad habits

Apart from obsessive facial expressions and the habit of propping your temple with your hand, smoking and unhealthy eating also affect the condition of the skin.

Smoking impairs peripheral blood circulation, and this deprives the tissue of nutrition. The face becomes dull, lines of dehydration appear, and then full-fledged creases appear.

After an unreasonably strict diets the skin does not have time to settle according to the standards of the “new” thinner face, as a result the eyebrows droop, the forehead becomes covered with small folds.

Lifestyle

Constant stress, lack of sleep, polluted atmosphere, ultraviolet radiation - all this gradually leads to age-related changes. In addition, the habit of sleeping with your face in a pillow, as well as on a hard surface (a man’s own hand or chest), contributes to the appearance of wrinkles on the forehead.

Prevention measures

The aging process cannot be reversed or stopped, but it can be delayed. Here's what you need for this.

Drink more water

Drink at least 2 liters of pure still water daily. Black tea, coffee, juices, broths do not count. The exception is green tea.

Among the measures to prevent wrinkles on the forehead are drinking regime and a healthy diet © iStock

Monitor your diet and diet

“Lean on fresh vegetables and fruits that contain antioxidants,” advises Elena Eliseeva. — It is important to eat fatty fish, a source of polyunsaturated fatty acids. It is better to season the salad with vegetable oil, which is rich in Omega-3, -6 and -9 fatty acids.”

But it is better to limit the consumption of simple carbohydrates. Be careful with strong tea and coffee - they help remove fluid from the body and can aggravate skin dehydration.

Improve night sleep

Try to go to bed no later than 23.00. Night rest should be at least 7–8 hours, but no more than 9 hours, according to the latest scientific data.

Avoid stress whenever possible

This recommendation is difficult to implement, but still. Sign up for yoga or Pilates courses, meditate more often, and in difficult situations, resort to relaxing breathing exercises. This approach will teach you to cope with difficult situations with minimal damage to your appearance.

Play sports and spend more time outdoors

Provide quality skin care

You can buy your first moisturizing cream at the age of 15–16, a preventative anti-aging cream at 24–25, and if your 30th birthday is behind you, don’t forget about regular daily moisturizing. A mask with hyaluronic acid twice a week will significantly increase the effectiveness of care.

Doing gymnastics for the face

“Face-building strengthens the facial muscles well,” says Elena Eliseeva. - The main thing is to do the exercises regularly. On the Internet you will find many videos teaching facial gymnastics in an accessible form.”

Creams for wrinkles on the forehead may contain hyaluronic acid, collagen, peptides © iStock

Ways to combat forehead wrinkles

If wrinkles on the forehead are not yet too pronounced, you can get by with cosmetic care with a firming and smoothing effect.

“In cases where wrinkles are already very noticeable, preventive injection techniques are suitable,” says Elena Eliseeva. “Cosmetic procedures are carried out in two stages: first, the forehead area is immobilized with botulinum toxin, and after 1–2 weeks, especially deep defects are filled with filler.”

Injections allow you to lift your eyebrows, smooth out wrinkles, and stop constantly frowning or wrinkling your forehead. Sometimes beauty injections are given even to young women with active facial expressions for preventive purposes.

How to get rid of forehead wrinkles

All methods of combating wrinkles come down to cosmetic and salon care, as well as plastic surgery.

Beauty care

These are formulas that increase the synthesis of collagen and elastin. The championship is held by creams and serums based on:

peptides and sugars (proxylane and rhamnose);

components with botulinum-like effect (argireline);

As a rule, the manufacturer also supplies the product with a fair dose of components for instant lifting (silicones or carnauba wax), because small wrinkles are quite easy to visually align.

Healthy sleep and reducing stress levels can help prevent wrinkles © iStock

Salon care

In a beauty salon you will be offered, for example, such procedures.

There are effective methods of lifting massage (buccal) and massage that relaxes muscles.

If the folds are already deep enough, the area immobilized by botulinum toxin is filled with fillers based on high molecular weight hyaluronic acid.

For example, fractional thermolysis. Sometimes this procedure is supplemented with plasma lifting. By itself, it provides almost no anti-aging effect, but it allows you to support and prolong the effect of other methods.

As a last resort, a contour forehead lift remains. This operation is quite traumatic; marks may remain on the hairline. But this is the only way to fully raise your eyebrows and smooth out your skin.

How to remove wrinkles with massage

There are several fairly simple movements that can be repeated at home without the risk of stretching the skin.

Any facial massage is carried out only after applying cream or oil, but in no case on dry skin! As soon as the product is absorbed, the procedure must be completed.

Gently spread a small amount of cream over the skin of the forehead from the center to the periphery, and then proceed to detailed work on the desired area.

If these are eyebrow wrinkles, then use the index and middle fingers of your left hand to firmly press the skin against the bones of the skull. So that the area of ​​wrinkles is firmly fixed, but visible between the fingers and accessible for massage.

Then, using the fingertip of your right hand, begin to gently rub and smooth out the eyebrow folds, moving from side to side (perpendicular to the direction of the wrinkle). The skin can be lightly pinched, gathering it into folds (also perpendicular to the wrinkle).

If horizontal wrinkles bother you, fix them between the fingers of your left hand, smooth and pinch them with your right hand, trying to make movements so that they do not follow the direction of the wrinkle.

At the end of the procedure, place your thumbs under the eyebrows, lift the supraorbital arches (at the same moment, try to resist your own fingers, lowering your eyebrows with all your might).

Finally, do the “Rain” exercise: tap the skin with your fingertips, paying special attention to the area around the eyes. This is great for relaxing muscles.

Proper care will help against wrinkles on the forehead © iStock

Composition of anti-wrinkle cosmetics

Hyaluronic acid - one of the best hydraulic clamps.

Peptides or glycopeptides (sugars or special complexes) have a stimulating effect on fibroblasts - cells that produce molecules of the protein framework of the skin, collagen and elastin.

Retinol - an antioxidant, has a strong keratolytic (renewing) effect, helps fill wrinkles and improve complexion, intensively rejuvenating the epidermis and dermis.

Vitamin C protects tissues from oxidative stress, stimulates the synthesis of collagen and elastin, and has a depigmenting effect.

Adenosine prevents microcontractions of the muscle fibers of the skin, relaxing wrinkles.

Polyunsaturated fatty acids - antioxidants, are structural elements of cell membranes, more often found in creams with added oils.

SPF filters protect skin from ultraviolet radiation and free radicals.

Types of cosmetics

Nowadays they produce many formulas labeled “anti-wrinkle”, but only those that have long-term contact with the skin have a real effect. What ingredients and types of products should you pay attention to?

Cleansers

Water softening additives and antioxidants are welcome here. But you can ignore the peptides and exotic extracts in such products.

Deep skin cleansing

Peels based on fruit acids or low doses of retinol are suitable. Good choices are products with small polymer granules, chemical peels or gommage rollers.

Creams and serums

In their composition, look for peptides, low molecular weight sugars, hyaluronic acid, retinol, argireline (it has a botulinum-like effect) and adenosine (promotes relaxation of the skin in places of greatest muscle fiber activity), as well as vitamin C, SPF filters.

SOS products with the “Cinderella effect” give a powerful but short-term effect, so they are mainly used before a grand entrance. They usually contain collagen, silicones, and carnauba wax.

Anti-age foundations

Manufacturers are developing a very plastic texture for them based on light silicones and antioxidants. The thinnest pigment film does not crack or roll off, even if you grimace for a long time and with intent.

Tools Overview

Prevention of forehead wrinkles

Anti-wrinkle day cream for firming Rénergie, Lancôme

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