JanesJewels
Shiny_Rock
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I'm wondering if anyone else noticed their skin taking a nose-dive shortly after turning 40? I'm 40 and a half. A few months ago I began a religious skincare routine using great products, from Shiseido and Lauder, but my skin is not responding. It always responded very well to really good products of this type before. But now my skin remains dull, has brown patches, is ghost-white no matter how much sleep I get (no rosy cheeks here), has eye wrinkles where I didn't a year ago, and is generally blotchy too. So it's just a ton of discoloration broken by sickly-pale skin and wrinkles that are fast-forming, it seems.
Two questions: Can turning 40 do this to you? Can really bad stress (bereavement, social isolation) do this to you?
To answer my last question, my diet has been terrible for at least the last year. If anyone else has been through a period where they didn't get enough nutrition for whatever reason, did it make your skin look like this? Mine has always been pale with some discoloration, but it would respond to products and it always had a slight "sheen" for want of a better word, but now it's completely dull despite the good products (including exfoliation and masks). What is really unfair is that I've always avoided the sun and I've never smoked! I guess the brown patches might be due to hormones.
I've just switched to Lauder's brightening Cyber White products so I'll see if that helps. I'm using eye serum plus eye cream religiously on the eye wrinkles but I doubt whether it will really help.
Please let me know your post-40 experiences with your skin! Is this normal? Just part of aging? It's a bit dispiriting, especially when I've been trying hard with the skincare. That stuff isn't cheap, and using it properly twice a day takes time, too. I mean, I can cover it all up with makeup and look OK, but I so wish my natural skin looked better.
Never, ever go into a brightly lit all-white Swarovski store with no makeup on. That's when I saw how bad my skin really was!
Look forward to hearing your experiences with your skin post-40.
Thanks!
Two questions: Can turning 40 do this to you? Can really bad stress (bereavement, social isolation) do this to you?
To answer my last question, my diet has been terrible for at least the last year. If anyone else has been through a period where they didn't get enough nutrition for whatever reason, did it make your skin look like this? Mine has always been pale with some discoloration, but it would respond to products and it always had a slight "sheen" for want of a better word, but now it's completely dull despite the good products (including exfoliation and masks). What is really unfair is that I've always avoided the sun and I've never smoked! I guess the brown patches might be due to hormones.
I've just switched to Lauder's brightening Cyber White products so I'll see if that helps. I'm using eye serum plus eye cream religiously on the eye wrinkles but I doubt whether it will really help.
Please let me know your post-40 experiences with your skin! Is this normal? Just part of aging? It's a bit dispiriting, especially when I've been trying hard with the skincare. That stuff isn't cheap, and using it properly twice a day takes time, too. I mean, I can cover it all up with makeup and look OK, but I so wish my natural skin looked better.
Never, ever go into a brightly lit all-white Swarovski store with no makeup on. That's when I saw how bad my skin really was!
Look forward to hearing your experiences with your skin post-40.
Thanks!