When should we begin to use anti-ageing products?
We'd all love to know the secret of looking young, unless of course you have youth on your side and are waxing lyrical about wanting to look older. Oh how you'll learn...
For the rest of us however, reaching a certain age makes us start to panic about lines, which have probably always been there but we've never noticed before.
So what age should we be starting to use, if any, anti-ageing products? New reports have suggested that we're now starting to use products as soon as we hit 20, which considering you've literally just come out of your teens is quite shocking.
If you do start to use anti-ageing products at a young age, does that mean that you'll avoid those dreaded crows feat and frown lines, which were once cute and now the object of much stress and disdain?
With so many products on the market now, it's hard to know what's fact and fiction and where the heck to start. Well, that's where FemaleFirst comes in to help dispel some of the myths and give you some advice to start you on your anti-ageing journey.
Expensive options are not always the best, despite what some adverts and their celebrity endorsers claim. Everybody has a skin care routine which is right for them, the trick is knowing what works for you.
If and when you start to introduce anti-ageing products into your routine, then do some research and ask beauty advisors when out shopping. some expensive brands have the same ingredients in them as the high-street own brands.
As much as we'd love to believe that make-up can disguise all sins, unfortunately make-up can only do so much and it's best in this case to invest in a tinted moisturiser, which also acts as an anti-ageing cream.
Quick fix products are a great short term solution, because nothing, even the most expensive procedures and creams lasts forever. A quick fix cream which shapes creases out for a day or so is perfect if you have a special night planned.
Wrinkle creams seem to be associated with a thing of the past that your mum and grandma used to have on the night stand. But in fact, wrinkle creams are still very trendy and en-vogue, so to speak.
The don't block your pours, which some myths have claimed, instead they can help to tighten and minimise your pours, without leaving behind a greasy residue.