Urgent help needed - I've aged!

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I really don't know what has happened but all of a sudden my face has aged. I've got lines everywhere, crazy eyebrows and a bit of a tache. My skin looks red and dry. Have just rung local beauticians for eyebrow wax but there's no answer - so hopeful I'll get booked in soon. What else can I do? Can anyone recommend a good moisturiser that won't break the bank? Any other tips? Have got to stop the rot!!!

Mitco, it's me being a sheep and buying everything anyone on S and B recommends, using it faithfully for about 10 days and then it ending up in a drawer. Which is why I don't look like Eliza....

Aldi's Lacura range is surprisingly good, the wrinkle stop worked very well on my 11's, cant believe Ive been shelling out ??? on creams for years when an Aldi cheapie is just as good!

I have had great success on my eye area and whole face with a combination of Estée Lauder eye serum and night time face serum. Really quite amazing.

I am 35, get on average 5 hours sleep a night and don't drink enough water, drink wine 3 days a week and eat too much cake and chocolate. My skin is really good and I swear it I the potions.

I do need to do something about my 11s. Not keen on Botox. Might try that Aldi product Yoni.

what night time serum do you have Alibaba?

Makeup. Seriously. Without it, I'm not all wrinkles but, after a cosy (late) night in with a bottle of wine (or two, if being sociable) I look like my mother, who's 73. The problem with me is, I'm DEATHLY pale. I'm actually see-through pale and I have to use high factor sun cream because I come up in hives when the sun comes out. Last year (first pic) in Seville, I was sporting a Clinique wash off tan and a bright pink lippy which I also use on my cheeks. And lots of mascara. Colour, or lack of it, can make or break me. My DH laughs at me because I refuse to give in to my pallor. It's all smoke and mirrors darlings, all smoke and mirrors.

I love to see pale and interesting women. I envy them looking fresh and "undone". I could get away with that even ten years ago but now my fleeting hormones are deserting me and frankly,I need all the help I can get!

It is Estée Lauder as well.

Very expensive, but the bottle is lasting for ages. I've been using for two months and if I am a quarter down that is as much as it is.

Then I use marine cream on top, night and morning.

Wash with cleanse and polish at night, dr organic orange scrub and Elemis resurfacing stuff in the am.

Oh, I use the No7 Dermabrasion scrub thing and Roc Wrinkle Filler because it was on offer at Savers. And my Aldi SPF 50. In the past I've used Nivea and Estée Lauder. I genuinely think it doesn't make THAT much difference.

Foundation is Clarins EverMatte in Toffee.

eliza you look stunning

best eye cream I've used is decleor excellence. It really lifts the lids (if you know what I mean - you will if you are my age or older anyway )
it pills though if you put it on over moisturiser, so you have to put it on first

I just used my Elemis Papaya Enzyme Peel so my skin feels nice. I need something for under my eyes. Do La Roche do anything good for eyes? I love Dermalogica, but can't buy that and foundation this month. I want to spend money on a really good foundation, if I knew where to start. At the moment I use Mac Studio Tint, which is lovely and light feeling on my skin, but I need more coverage now. My mother bought me a Mac Studio Sculpt foundation, but I wasn't keen on that. It felt too heavy.

Baaa baaa.

Ali, is it the serum in the brown bottle? The advanced night repair?

LAB- I am always on the quest for the perfect foundation as well. I am deathly pale, and though I wear makeup every day I don't think I wear enough as no-one believes me!! Probably my favourite foundation is Clarins Instant Smooth (the primer of the same name is very good as well) but I understand they are discontinuing it. I read good things on here about Rimmel Wake up foundation but tried a blob on my hand yesterday and the lightest colour here (sth Italy- btw are you in Italy too? Looking at your name?) was just too dark for mozzarella faces like mine) Might try and get some online from UK.

I know how you feel as time seems to be catching up with me.

I try to drink lots of water and not too much wine but I think I need something more drastic.

Hi NotTreading. We have a house in Abruzzo, which we use for hols and we are renting here, long story, although we could end up moving there in a year or so depending on DH's job. I am weird because I do go brown, but I am very pale in the Winter. I naturally have very dark hair and brows so I look ill without any colour! Whereabouts in Italy are you?

I have nothing to add (other than that sugar is indeed extremely ageing and that sun protection is necessary at all times!) but I will never remember all these tips so I need to mark the thread and come back once eBay has finished its routine maintenance.

I have just learned that my phone autocorrects its to it's! (more for the pedants than s&b perhaps, but we are women. We can multitask.)

LAB- Puglia.

Am reading this with interest-am 46 and my skin isnt too bad at the moment although very dry. I use clarins face wash and moisturiser every day and the night cream when I remember!

There are days though when my skin does look dull and old (weep) and could do with some extra help. I am interested in the glycolic acid treatments but wonder how harsh they are? My skin is not particularly sensitive but I do react to things with AHA's in. Any advice anyone?

Fedup- I have v sensitive and dry skin and only on week 4 or 5 of the 30% GA treatment did I have some ouchyness.

There are loads of threads from last summer when the peels were a MN trend, check them out to see which one the real acid experts were recommending. I started out on the 5% which made my skin feel nice, kind of like when you use a good serum or primer, but no lasting effect. The 30% definitely did something to the texture though, although not unfortunately to the 11s and the mouth lines. You start off slowly with just 1 or 2 mins and then build up. I only did 2 cycles in the end but am going to get cracking again now I think.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/style_and_beauty/a1432574--sounds-klaxon-30-GA-peel-shizzle-that-you-can-do-at-home?msgid=30976461

That is the main thread.

Thanks for that NotTreadingGrapes-will do some more research.

I read up thread that you are looking for a foundation? Have you tried the new YSL touch éclat foundation? I am really impressed with it- not heavy at all. I had help in choosing the right shade (am really rubbish at matching my skin tone so either look like a ghost or I've been tangoed) and was given a sample pot that lasted for ages so got to give it a good trial run.

I haven't, no, but I've also read good things about it. Might give it a go, presuming that here in Italy they can give me a non-orange pot! It's strange as they obviously adapt colour names for countries as well, because I tried a "pure ivory" on yesterday and was like a Satsuma, whereas in the UK that kind of name would be fine for me!

(inspired by this thread I have just cleansed and polished my face, as although I do stuff to my face at night, mornings tend to involve aiming a bit of foundation in the general direction of my head as I run out of the door)

Thanks for the link NotTreading. Puglia, how lovely.

Coreny aww, thanks. Of course, I'm NOT going to put a "rough day" photo on the site, for all the world to see.

Just a little word on the alcohol intake thing.... This week, cause DH has been away, I've not touched a drop. My son has a disability and isn't well at the moment so, I don't drink even one glass when DH is away, just in case ds needs me in the night and I don't wake straight away. Have to say, I look MUCH better skin wise, for the cutting out of vino this week. So, it's true then!

DH back tonight. Have Prosecco chilled and will look like a bag 'o spanners on the morrow!!

Best eye cream IMO, is the Avon one. A cream and gel "in one". Don't know why, but it really lifts!!

Actually that Avon eye cream rings a bell - I haven't used it but I've read about it.

In a white pot? I have one of those, but never really got going with it because it seemed faffy. Got gel one side of pot and cream the other? (told you I am a cream ho'er, have a pot of virtually everything somewhere in the house!)

I am 40 and about a year ago woke up to a similar scenario you describe.

12 months on and lots of experiments later I have come to accept I need to put in loads of effort all of the time to keep my skin looking the best it can these days.

I exfoliate 2 x per week. Currently using a St Ives Microdermibrasion exfoliant. I have recently settles on Body Shop Vitamin E facial wash, day and night cream.

I was using Dermalogica Active Moist range - which is fab but just too costly for me.

I have been bleaching my tache but am coming around to the fact it need to come off. I am conisdering threading over waxing. Brows wax/tidied every 6 weeks.