The Skin Ageing Process

The Skin Ageing Process

I do NOT want to grow old gracefully!

I hear many women talking about growing old gracefully and I just want to shout from the rooftops, “No”.

  • 50 years ago, there was very little women could do. Applying makeup was like plastering a wall due to its’ consistency and lack of flexibility. Dyeing grey hair often resulted in a pink rinse effect. So, many women just decided to accept the signs of ageing and grow old gracefully. Even worse, this physical acceptance transitioned into emotional, mental and psychological acceptance. Women became old overnight.

  • Luckily, some heroes rejected this. Heroes in the fields of Beauty, Fashion & Medicine. It is due to the heroes in medical science and research that developed anti-ageing treatments that can arrest the visible signs of ageing. For example, HIFU was developed as a treatment for Cancer and can reach deep into the skin and beyond to rejuvenate the cells, without causing harm - in the hands of a fully trained and qualified aesthetician using medical grade equipment.

  • And, this is true for everything we do. We do not buy equipment from Amazon for a couple of hundred pounds, like some beauticians do for their corner shop, but we spend many thousands of pounds on each piece. For example, mesotherapy injectors can be bought for a couple of hundred pounds. We purchased the world’s ONLY needleless injector for many thousands of pounds. It injects through the skin without creating a needle hole (transdermal), so it is much safer for you. Some beauticians, because they don’t have the right equipment, prefer to do deep microneedling. We do not believe in this. If we need to go deep, we use HIFU because it doesn’t damage the surface of the skin and our medical grade Ultraformer3 HIFU machine costs a fortune. Because we have the right equipment, we ONLY do surface microneedling. We ONLY do what is best for you and your skin

Facial Fat Loss / Migration changes due to ageing

A youthful plump face has the right amount of facial fat in all the right places. As we age, this changes. Ageing causes redistribution, accumulation, and atrophy of fat causing facial shape changes.

The Skin Ageing Process

Facial ageing normally commences between the age of 20 and 30 with different layers of skin, fat, muscle and bone changing independently affecting your facial appearance continually.

As we age, our skin goes through several changes.

  • On the surface, the skin becomes rougher and pigmented as the epidermal renewal cycle become less efficient.

  • Skin collagen remodelling and replenishing processes begin to slow down, causing skin to become thinner and more likely to wrinkle & sag.

  • Skin becomes less elastic causing it to wrinkle, sag and lose lustre.

Under Eye Fat Pads Shift & Shrink

Fat changes with ageing

  • Some areas lose fat; the forehead, temples and upper cheeks.

  • Other areas gain fat; the neck, lower face and jaw.

  • Changes to the fat pads cause contour deficiencies.

  • The areas of fat tend to become farther apart the fat pads appear as separate structures.

Of all the areas of skin on the body, the face is the most exposed to weather and wear, and the most likely to develop signs of ageing

The main cause of an ageing appearance is the slowing of collagen and elastin production in the skin. One of the biggest culprits is sun damage as UV rays cause the collagen in the skin to break down.

Collagen

A structural protein, like scaffolding for the skin, that is responsible for the resilience, strength & durability and makes skin look plump and firm.

Young Skin

Elastin

A highly elastic protein that allows the skin to resume its shape after stretching or contracting.

Older Skin

Epidermis

Dermis

Hypodermis

Muscle

Hyaluronic acid

Elastin (broken)

Collagen (atrophy)

Fat Cells

Ageing is natural, but that doesn’t mean we have to gracefully accept it. Zen Beauty exists to turn back the ageing clock.

As levels of these crucial substances decrease, the youthful complexion we once took for granted begins to fade. Volume is lost in the cheeks, and gravity pulls the skin downwards towards the neck, creating lines and wrinkles and giving you a tired and drawn look.