P pay back expensive cosmetics, and the results are not visible? Rather, it is not suitable for your skin … age. Recently, cosmetologists are increasingly advising us to choose the means for skin care in strict accordance with her "real age". No wonder: it may well be that under current conditions stress and refresh your skin than you at 10 years. How do you know how many actually age your skin?
Knowing the true biological age of your skin, it is possible to draw conclusions about its lifestyle, choose the makeup and procedures. If you like the scientific approach, one may resort to a special procedure to determine the biological age of skin: For this there are special skin-crawlers.
They are able to objectively evaluate such important parameters of the skin, as the lipid composition, dryness or oiliness, water saturation, elasticity, and susceptibility to ultraviolet, a predisposition to allergies. Already from these calculations is determined by the main parameter of the skin – her biological age.
If such a procedure is not available to you, you can try to determine the age of the skin by means of tests. Specialists from different manufacturers offer sometimes conflicting advice on this matter, so we decided to offer you two tests to determine the biological age of skin, to minimize the possibility of error.
Test one
1. Loreal Dermatologists recommend to base number 21 and subtract or add to it the numbers corresponding to your selected answers to questions.
2. Your skin …
– Flat, smooth
– Sensitive, prone to redness +1
– Dry, rough +2
– With dilated pores and "black spots" – 1
3. How resilient is your skin:
– Very elastic 0
– An elastic enough
– In certain areas lost elasticity +2
– Much less elastic than a few years ago, +3
– Facial contour "floated" +4
4. It shines whether your skin?
– No one
– Yes, face -1
– Only T-Zone 0
5. Do you have wrinkles?
– No 0
– Somewhere facial wrinkles +1
– Barely noticeable wrinkles around the eyes and in the nasolabial folds 2
– Crow's feet around the eyes are clearly visible +3
– Deep wrinkles on the forehead, around eyes and lips +4
6. There you have acne?
– Sometimes 0
– Often -1
– Never a
7. How does your face if you sleep a little (you can choose several options at once):
– Excellent 0
– A bit pinched 1
– Swollen +1
– Bags under his eyes a
– Complexion dull, grayish +1
8. Your lifestyle (you can choose several options at once):
– Sport and watch your diet – 1
– Most of the day is spent in a room with dry air, a
– Smoking 2
– Often experiencing stress +1
– Spends much time in the sun 3
– Constantly dieting +2
The result obtained in the end, an approximation.
Second Test
It can help you learn very specific numbers, which can both please and disappoint. (more…)