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Sun Dec 25, 2005 1:38 am  |
Interesting article, thanks for posting it. Personally, I started moisturizing around 24 but I wouldn't exactly call it my quest for eternal youth. 
I noticed the photo of that 24 year old girl looks weird -- think it's possible they air brushed in a few extra wrinkes under her eyes? It looks oddly unnatural. |
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Sun Dec 25, 2005 2:44 am |
| I just turned 21 and am thinking im on a good path to keeping youth. I moisturize religiously and use sunscreen...and I can honestly say it's scary that i see people my age (non moisturizer using people...sun bathers..ect) who are starting to get the line marks for their future wrinkles. It's scary when you think about it..but I am a firm believer skin is very important...because it is? |
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Extremely fair/sensitive skin(mild rosacea)that burns very easy.acne is rare/skin is dry.27 years old. |
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Sun Dec 25, 2005 9:53 am |
| It's sad in a way, that young people feel the pressure to stay "young". It's gotten a little out of control over the past decade. HOWEVER, they are smart.....since it is a reality that we are a youth obsessed culture, why not do whatever you can to preserve it? I wish I had started earlier than 30. |
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Fair,sensitive,combination, skin. 38 yrs old~ |
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Mon Dec 26, 2005 12:37 am |
| I never understood how 20 year olds starting getting wrinkles! I haven't noticed it before but I've been seeing it more and more. I wonder if it's more than just sun bathing? Perhaps their lifestyles are simply not conducive to good skin. |
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Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:06 pm |
| I saw that article too...very interesting. Think the environment today is tougher on skin (more pollution, global warming, etc.)? I wonder if that is why people try to combat it more... |
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Thu Dec 29, 2005 5:50 pm |
wow that article is me to a T
people my age (and moreso people in their twenties) definitely do have wrinkles. my sister, for example, goes tanning waaay too much. she was a lifeguard every summer in high school and now, at 24, still goes to the tanning beds. she has wrinkles under her eyes and crows feet along with frown lines. i keep telling her to stop.
anyway, i definitely agree that there's a lot of pressure on everyone to look amazing.
even though i know it's just marketing, i still want to be unrealistically gorgeous. i look at my friends and their skin is flawless. it isn't fair. some of them don't even wash their face with anything - they just wet it in the shower and that's that. and none of them wear make-up. it makes me feel hideous that they can go without makeup while i'm breaking out and have scars and spots all over my face. it really gets me down and sometimes i avoid going out altogether.
people are definitely scanning my face and looking at the things i'm most bothered by. please don't think i'm being crazy and paranoid about this because i can see when people are looking in my eyes and when people are looking at a breakout or mark. it's easy to see when someone's eyes are elsewhere. everyone is studying each others' faces and comparing. and it's really depressing when nothing's working to fix it. it's a huge blow to self esteem. i wish i could just ignore it, but the fact that it's everywhere in our culture makes it unavoidable. |
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female, 19, dry skin type, breakouts around mouth/chin, few blackheads on cheeks, and keratosis pilaris |
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Sun Jan 01, 2006 3:14 am |
I started in my mid-teens! I don't know what I was thinking but I had breakout problems and did not see a doctor about it until I was in my 30's. It was the best thing I did!
I am glad that I started in my mid-teens because even today some people think I am in my early twenties  |
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Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:46 pm |
I can relate to the women in the inerviews. I started in my twenties: buying Asian sunscreens, anti-oxidants, and using Retin-A. I was shocked when I saw some of the "girls" I went to school with -- many of them were already showing signs of aging: wrinkles, leathery skin, sallow complexion -- due to poor lifestyle choices (tanning beds, poor diet/liquid diet (alcohol), smoking) before we had reached our late twenties. A common attitude was summed up by one of these "girls" while we were still in high school:
"It doesn't matter (what we do to ourselves now). Nobody cares what you look like when you're OLD anyway."
Heh, "OLD" back then was the "thirties".  |
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Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:41 pm |
I started b/c I do have sun-damage and I really want to avoid harsh treatments like botox, chemical peels, and surgery later in life.
Plus, what is wrong with taking care of yourself, right? |
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Moderately fair, dry, prone to break outs on chin, sun damage, 30s. |
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Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:09 pm |
We'll I'm really old (50) by most of your ages but I have very few lines. I've been really impressed with the vit C serums and some other products I didn't believe they could have. I still believe diet is most important My dd does not eat sweets except cookies I make with nut flours and she cares about eating no processed foods. I know I'll start her using vit C shortly (she's  and always use a sunscreen. All those 20's using Vit C serums will not only have better skin but likely avoid skin cancer as well. |
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