Facial aging is something that will take place at a certain time of your life. It can be premature aging, which is terrible, or it can be healthy facial aging, which in some cases can look good on you.Face aging depends on many factors like heredity and the way we treat our skin. The first signs of facial aging are dehydration losing skin’s elasticity and expression wrinkles.The most common wrinkles are the ones around your eyes, lips and forehead.

Obviously, each part of our body ages in different way but the most exposed areas are the ones which have a greater contact with the sun and air. Our face is the most exposed part of our body with these elements but it also plays the role of a business card so everyone tries to keep it as beautiful as possible.

How The Face Ages?

To the surprise of many people, the loss of fat and sun exposure play a bigger role than gravity in aging the face, according to a study presented today at the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) Plastic Surgery 2004 conference in Philadelphia.

"For hundreds of years, everyone has believed that the fat on the face is one confluent mass, which eventually gets weighed down by gravity, creating sagging skin," said Dr. Joel Pessa, assistant professor of plastic surgery and the study's lead author. "In our studies, however, we were surprised to find that this is not the case; the face is made up of individual fat compartments that gain and lose fat at different times and different rates as we age."

Dr. Pessa said the face resembles a three-dimensional puzzle, with fat divided into distinct units around the forehead, eyes, cheeks and mouth. Facial aging is, in part, characterized by how these separate compartments change as we grow older.

"The anatomic fat cheek compartment completely changes how we look at facial aging," said Dr. Rod Rohrich, chairman of plastic surgery at UT Southwestern and lead author of the study.

Face aging can be influenced by our lifestyle because our face gets easily affected by sun, wind, sleep, alcohol and smoking.

• Sun has a very aggressive action on our skin and is the most common thing that leads to premature face aging. Sun radiations increase the production of free radicals which create irreversible damage to our skin so if you want to protect yourself, you always have to use sunscreen.
• Sleeping positions can also causee face aging; a study have recently shown that people who sleep on one side especially the left one can expect to have more wrinkles on their cheeks and chin while people who sleep on their stomach will develop wrinkles on their forehead. Specialists has recommended sleeping on our back and on right side because this way gravity’s action will not be so harmful for our face.
• Smoking also plays important role to make our skin older. A smoker’s face is dry, lacks elasticity and gets wrinkles easier. But premature aging in not only connected to nicotine but with other components of tobacco. Smoking not only takes our skin’s vitality, reduces the collagen levels but also dehydrates it.

People who follow a healthy diet have more chances to prevent face aging than those who eat junk food excessively. Studies have shown that you can take care of your skin from inside by taking vitamins, eating more fruits and vegetables moderately and drinking at least 8 glasses of water a day. Also avoid alcohol because it increases the aging process and affects your sleep so you will get more wrinkles as a result.

• The wrinkles around your eyes can appear at a very young age as the skin in that area is sensitive and soft. You will need to use special eye moisture and always try to remove your eye make up before going to bed.
• It might be better to make facial peeling once a week and use hydrating night creams as you reached to age of 28.Facial peeling stimulates production of new cell that helpts to bring back bightness of skin.
• Once you are older than 30 years it's good to use anti aging products which comprise Q10 coenzyme, retinol or glycolic acid and if your skin is sensitive you should use products contain kinetin. Kinetins diminish your open pores which after a specific age become more visible and fade your wrinkles, giving your skin more brightness.
• At age of 40, facial aging becomes really visible. Your face has more wrinkles, may be because you smoke, expose it to sun, or just because you followed wrong diets.So, try have a look at your lifestyle and make it more healthy and productive.

However, there is no substitute of Facial Exercises that can greatly help to reduce the aging affects from your face.These exercises if done correctly and every day will greatly improve the look and expressiveness of your face.Unlike the skeletal muscles of the body, the facial muscles are directly attached to the skin that covers them.

The facial exercises will require some dedication, some persistence - some work. You'll get results from them if done persistently and you'll like what you see in the mirror after some time.

Facial exercises not only remove wrinkles if done correctly, but also help people's faces look younger for longer, without going under the traumatic and expensive experience of a plastic surgery

However, in general you need to change your overall life style and should make it as much healthy as you can.For staying happy, living longer and beating Aging you can follow these IMPORTANT steps.

1: Eat A Balanced Diet:

2: Help Others in Bad Times (and see the difference)

3. Quit the Damaging Habits (smoking, drinking)

4. Get Regular Exercise

5. Be Pro-Active About Your Health

6. Always Stay Positive, Cool and Calm.

7. Be Content at What You Have.

8. Accept Yourself Just as You are (don't care about what others think about you)

9. Work at What You Love

10. Laugh and Make Others Laugh.

We cannot prevent facial aging because it is a normal process after all, but we can reduce it's affects and can look younger for longer by living healthy, happy and stress free life. 

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