With our facial features playing a major role in defining our beauty, wrinkles are secondary to such god-given assets. Any woman blessed to have a slim, fair skinned face with a toffee nose, wonderful-shaped lip contours and wide pretty eyes, all sitting in perfect proportion above her sharp jawline, will shine beauty regardless of the hundred wrinkles settled on her 60 year old face.
With not a millimetre of sagging in sight, she naturally exhibits her inner glow through skin tones inherited from her ancestral generations on both sides of her lineage.
If we were to alternate the image of our imaginary woman and add naso-labial folds between her nose and cheeks, whilst bringing the skin from her jawline to droop down to amalgamate with her neck, her facial structure would appear a lot less defined and much more aged. Perhaps her beauty or expressions would change; certainly sagging can alter the appearance of the person significantly over years, exhibiting a much tired emotion.
With the above contrasting scenarios, it’s easy to see wrinkles and sagging skin as separate characteristics; the former being perceived as blessings from the sun making its mark on the aged, whilst the latter is simply loss of elasticity - skin is less taut with the jawline appearing less sharper at its edge. In any case, wrinkles and sagging often go hand in hand and are rarely present without each other. Wrinkles signify a loss of elasticity in the skin which causes skin to sag.
Geographical Connection to Wrinkles and Sagging
Location not only defines our vulnerability to wrinkles, but also our knowledge and availability of products to counteract them; not to forget, our lifestyle dictates how accepting we are to wrinkles within our circle of family and friends. Imagine two 50 year old females, one from a traditional village in Middle Asia and the other, born in the Californian hillsides, where the latter is subjected daily to media advertising of dermal fillers on billboards and television, with these products being more readily available than in any other part of the world.
Both women are prone to wrinkles and are subject to the same levels of sunshine due to their countries hot climates. But they both deal with their appearances in different ways. Where one may not give a second thought to any deep wrinkles present, the other, possibly due to social and psychological influences, will go out of her way to proactively reduce the slightest presence of a wrinkle. Similarly, with the presence of sagging, improving the elasticity and skin tightness is more likely to be a priority to a lady living on the West Coast of America where image is of highest importance.
Psychological Reasoning
Inner confidence heavily determines how willing an individual is to smooth out fine to deep wrinkles, making skin look flawless and young. With the growing number of brands introducing dermal fillers containing natural, non-animal components, it is easier now than ever before, for women to justify using fillers to counteract any signs of age. When we use external moisturisers to hydrate the outer skin layers, injecting a hyaluronic acid into secondary layers, can be perceived as an alternative quicker method to improving hydration.
If skin appearance is what defines the inner confidence of a woman due to her social circle, then a dermal filler may be the tried and tested priority purchase, that is easily recommended from one friend to another.
