Anyone turning their back on ‘anti - aging’?

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I’d always used organic/simple products... my skin is fine ( l’m in my mid 40’s)
Anyway, l got sucked into watching blogs/ YouTube tutorials etc... l wanted to try everything to delay the inevitable. I’d previously been sensible and realised there was nothing, bar botox/fillers that might make a difference.
Yes, there are the retinols etc... but *they need careful monitoring and can just set your skin off - whenever!
I’ve been trying one Ordinary product after the next, on ( what l think now) is a journey on to nothing!
Seeing as only the retinols can penetrate the skin - maybe everything else is just not worth it?
Emotionally or financially?
Has anyone thought they’d try to ‘fix it’ and then thought “bugger it!”
If you did, what is your skincare routine now, and what did you do previously?
I’m leaning toward a nice simple moisturiser and a good SPF.

Thanks fruitCider. I think I'm more concerned about the sagging jaw line and wondered what could be done here!

Temple/cheek fillers to underpin the facial structure, or PDO thread lift.

I would need a shovel full of fillers to lift my jowls.

Already have pudgy cheeks

I've spent a lot of time in mainland Europe in the last year and felt there was a lot of emphasis on looking good rather than younger. Interestingly I wasn't invisible to men there the way I am here at 55.

I find it harder to accept what age has done to my body more than my face.

Having said all that, it's refreshing that my appearance is no longer the most important/interesting thing about me.

My body still looks OK apart from the belly Actually I have the bosom of a 25 year old. It's very incongruous when I'm nekkid!
OK, so everybody has lines when they smile then? I don't mind my laugh lines but the sagging is upsetting. I'm thinking a face bra?

No, it's true. Two of my friends have an angry forehead vein to go with their shiny smooth skin. And have you noticed how many female film stars have it too? Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts, Cher, Denise Richards, Chelsea Handler. Tom Cruise. I could find more if I googled longer. You get angry forehead veins in far more famous faces than non famous faces. And famous faces are also far more likely to be botoxed than non famous. Ergo...

If you're not one of them, no need to be defensive or upset, just be pleased your skin is accepting the botox and not trying to reject it!

I tried contact lenses, and was quite shocked by the detail I could see in my face!

I used to work with Yr 6, and a group of the girls told me I look 21! They are my favourite people —especially when I 11 yr old told me I look harsh—

I have the forehead vein. I have no idea where it came from or why- I’ve never gone near Botox (yet). It’s really prominent at times and then I’ll go for months and not see it. Weird. It appeared in my late 30s.

Harsh 😄😄

I have started using more serums/oils and finally got a decent factor 50 base

For Moisturiser I use basic vitamin E from Superdrug

But I also think diet and exercise are pretty critical (aged 44)

I will stick with what I have for now

I have a vein like that by my eyes. It appeared about 25. Ahh! I just don't look at it as can't do much about it.

I'm (mostly) fine with wrinkles, though like using a retinoid to take the edge off the worst ones. It's the jowls I am rapidly developing that I would like to eliminate. Sadly, looking at the older women in my family, I'm fighting a losing battle on that score

Yeah I used to think jowls were the worst thing. That was before my hair started disappearing. I'm sure in another few years there will be something else. That or death.

This is why I think the whole thing is pointless. All it's doing, as far as I can see, is making the anti ageing industry a lot of money. Personally I'd sooner rather spend my money on nice clothes.

I don’t like the spongelike quality of my skin. I used to have combo skin with a “glow” T zone. Not it takes SO much Moisturiser to stop my skin looking parched. Halfway through the day, I need to slap more on.

I live in an affluent area many people have botox and fillers. They can afford and use the best practitioners and one can still always tell they have it done. No one should kid themselves that people can't tell. Botox and fillers may remove the wrinkles but you then look like you have had botox and fillers. That is aging per se.
Also wrinkles are only one of many different factors that are aging. Only dealing with them doesn't make you look younger.

I've just watched a bit of Two Doors Down, never seen it before. It's so refreshing that the women in it all look natural. Botox has become so commonplace on TV that everyone has unrealistic expectations of what 50+ women look like.