Age-related changes in the face are not the most pleasant process. It is associated with deformation of the facial muscles and skin aging. This process can be slowed down, but it will not be possible to completely stop it.
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Step 1
A person has 57 facial muscles. They change, dry out and deform with age. These changes affect the position of the lower jaw, stretch the middle of the face, and thin the lips. Muscles lose their tone, relax and simply cannot resist gravity.
Step 2
The processes occurring under the skin appear gradually on the face. First, the skin begins to gradually slide down, the muscles of the forehead relax, the circular muscles of the eyes and adjacent tissues lose their tone. This causes the upper eyelid to float, making the eyes small and heavy. After the muscles of the cheeks and eyes, on which the muscles of the face and hold, lose their shape, age-related "bags under the eyes" appear. Unfortunately, even the muscles on the nose can lose their tone, which leads to the fact that the nose becomes blurry, becoming larger. As the muscles in the central part slip, wrinkles deepen, going from the nose to the corners of the mouth. When the muscles of the chin and cheeks lose their tone, wrinkles descend from the corners of the mouth, and the relaxed muscles of the cheeks form “bulldog cheeks”. The muscles of the neck that have lost their tone quickly form a double chin.
Step 3
Such changes can be combated with the help of massage, cosmetic procedures and operations. Unfortunately, aging affects not only muscles but skin as well.
Step 4
With age, the outer layer of the skin (epidermis) becomes noticeably thinner, while the number of cell layers remains the same. The connective tissues weaken, the elasticity and turgor of the skin decreases. The number of cells that contain pigment decreases, which is why aging skin can look transparent and fragile.
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The blood vessels become much more fragile and very easily damaged, causing bruising and bruising under the skin's surface that can be very noticeable on the face. Such damage remains visible much longer than on young skin, since the ability to regenerate decreases with age.
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The sebaceous glands produce much less sebum with age, which explains the dryness of aging skin. Lack of sebum, increased dryness of the skin aggravate wrinkles on the face. In men, such a decrease occurs only after eighty years, it is then that the deepest wrinkles appear. In women, the amount of sebum decreases after menopause, which explains why age-related changes on women's faces become more noticeable much earlier.
