Published: September 15, 2023
Most people don’t spend much time thinking about wrinkles…until they notice their first one. After this, it usually isn’t long before more creases start to make an appearance, along with other signs of aging.
Although there’s nothing wrong with embracing your wrinkles, it’s also understandable if you want them gone. The more lines that crisscross over your face, the older and more tired you’ll look.
Fortunately, when it comes to smoothing away the visibility of wrinkles, you have plenty of options. Keep reading as Avinichi talks you through eight of the best ones!
1) Give Your Skin More Hydration
It’s so easy for the skin to become dehydrated, with mature skin being particularly prone to this. As the skin ages, it thins out. This means that it loses moisture at a much faster rate. Dehydrated skin cells look sallow and sunken, which makes wrinkles appear deeper and more rigid.
Turning this around by giving your skin cells the hydration that they need will leave your skin looking fuller and more volumized. This then smooths away the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
Since mature skin struggles with long-term moisture retention, you’ll need to be consistent with the hydration that you provide. Add a hydrating serum to your skincare routine and use it day and night. The Avinichi Hydrating Multifruit C-Serum would be a great choice. It’s swimming with hydrating compounds, along with two forms of vitamin C. This skin-loving vitamin serves as an antioxidant, which, as you’re about to find out, are game-changers when it comes to reducing the appearance of wrinkles…
2) Antioxidants Are Everything
Your skin contains a structural network – think of it like scaffolding, although this scaffolding consists of collagen and elastin fibers. When those collagen and elastin fibers start to degrade and weaken, that scaffolding begins to break down, resulting in the skin sagging and wrinkling.
What causes the skin’s collagen and elastin fibers to weaken?
Free radical damage is the main culprit. This can come from a number of sources, such as UV rays and pollution. Either way, this damage not only leads to wrinkles but is also a big contributor to dark spots, dullness, and a range of other aging-related skin concerns.
So, what can you do about this?
Antioxidants are your best weapon against the appearance of free radical damage. They’ll help to repair the look of your skin, making wrinkles less noticeable as a result.
The vitamin C serum that we featured above is a fantastic source of antioxidants. However, when it comes to antioxidants, it always pays to use as wide a variety as possible, as each one will enhance the effects of the next. That’s why we also created the Hydrating Antioxidant Serum, which you’ll find in our Phyto Thermal Collection. It contains a different blend of antioxidants than our vitamin C serum, making them the perfect duo for targeting the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
3) Protect Your Skin From the Sun
Did you know that up to 90% of the wrinkles on your face have been caused by UV damage? The way in which UV rays damage skin cells leads to free radical damage, which, as we mentioned above, brings on wrinkles.
So, it goes without saying that if you want to reduce the appearance of wrinkles, you need to stop the sun from making your wrinkles even worse. To do so, you’ll need a good sunscreen. Look for a formula that offers a minimum SPF of 30 and apply this to any areas of exposed skin every two hours.
It would also be worth giving any wrinkled parts of your skin some extra protection. Whether this may involve wearing sunglasses to stop UV rays from exacerbating the crow’s feet around your eyes or donning a wide-brimming hat to prevent your forehead wrinkles from turning into deeper ridges, doing what you can to shield your skin from UV damage will go a long way in helping you to diminish the look of your wrinkles.
4) Experiment With Fast-Acting Skincare Products
Many of the tips that we’re sharing today take a while to work. Antioxidants, for example, need some time to build up in your skin before they release their true power. It can sometimes take a month or two before topical products are able to bring about an improvement in the appearance of your wrinkles.
However, some products are designed to work a little faster than that. They’re formulated in a way that enables them to immediately, albeit temporarily, smooth away the visibility of wrinkles. Although your wrinkles will return the next day, they’re a fantastic way to rock a firmer, tighter, and more youthful appearance if you have a special event coming up.
Avinichi’s Wrinkle Rewind Filler is the perfect example. Safe to be used all over the face, this formula brings together some of skincare’s biggest superstars. Sodium hyaluronate, DMAE, and acetyl hexapeptide-8 work to quickly diminish the appearance of wrinkles while the numerous antioxidants and vitamins in this solution will provide long-term complexion-smoothing benefits if you use the product regularly.
5) Pay Special Attention to Eye Wrinkles
While all of the products and tips that we’ve shared so far can be applied to wrinkles around the eyes, it’s worth paying some extra attention to this part of your face. Why? Because the skin that surrounds the eyes is much thinner and more fragile than the skin everywhere else on your face. As a result, it’s even more prone to aging. This means that not only does it often develop wrinkles sooner than anywhere else but the creases that appear here will deepen so much faster.
To tackle this, it’s worth investing in one or two dedicated eye care products. Key ingredients to look for include peptides, vitamins, humectants, and antioxidants, all of which you’ll find in the Avinichi Eye Rescue Phyto-Serum. This silky blend has been created to plump and volumize the look of the skin. In turn, this erases the visibility of crow’s feet and other eye wrinkles, leaving your skin looking smoother and firmer.
6) Sleep Smartly
Studies have found that the position in which a person sleeps can greatly influence the development of wrinkles. Sleeping on your side or on your stomach causes certain parts of the skin to compress and distort, which speeds up wrinkle formation.
This is worsened whenever the face rubs against the pillow that it’s lying on. The friction that is caused accelerates skin aging too.
So, how should you be sleeping if you want to reduce the appearance of wrinkles?
If possible, sleep on your back. This way, your face won’t end up being squashed or rubbed against your pillow. If you find that you subconsciously turn onto your side during the night, try placing some pillows around you to prevent you from rolling over.
It can also help to swap your pillowcases for silk or satin versions. This may seem a bit extravagant but going with a smooth and silky material reduces the amount of friction that’s created when your face rubs against your pillow. Instead of a rougher material pulling at your skin, silk or satin will allow your skin to smoothly glide over it. Even better, silk and satin won’t draw moisture out of your skin in the same way that other materials do. This means that you’ll wake up with skin that looks softer and more hydrated!
7) Relax and De-Stress
Remember how we discussed some of the various factors that cause free radical damage and, therefore, wrinkles? Well, it’s not just environmental factors that lead to this damage. Your mental health, particularly stress, can impact it too.
Whenever you feel stressed, your body releases a hormone called cortisol. In small amounts, there’s nothing wrong with this. However, high levels of stress trigger high levels of cortisol. At this point, the hormone starts to break down your skin’s protein fibers, which, as you know, give your skin its firmness and smoothness. The inflammation that cortisol also causes makes it much harder for your skin to repair all of that damage, meaning that it won’t be long before new wrinkles form and existing wrinkles deepen.
Whenever you’re stressed or anxious, you’re also much more likely to squint, scowl, or frown. This causes expression lines to appear on the face. When you’re young, these will bounce away once your face relaxes. However, as you age, they start to stick around, soon developing into permanent wrinkles.
If your wrinkles are potentially down to stress, it’s time to learn how to relax. There are so many different stress relief methods out there so experiment with a few until you find something that works for you.
8) Consider Professional Treatments
Topical products and healthy lifestyle choices will help to reduce the appearance of wrinkles to a certain extent. The less deep your wrinkles are, the better these methods will work.
However, if your wrinkles are very deep and ridged, then you may want to consider opting for some professional treatments too. There are so many out there that have been proven to help with wrinkles, some of which are capable of providing very fast results.
Take Botox, for example. It’s a great way to smooth out expression lines on your face. Fillers are also very effective at adding volume to the skin from within, which plumps away the look of wrinkles. Some fillers also last for up to two years, providing fantastic long-term results.
If injectables aren’t your thing, there are plenty of other options too. Chemical peels resurface the skin, leaving it looking and feeling smoother. Laser treatments can also help to rebuild the collagen and elastin underneath the skin, giving your skin a firmer finish. LED light therapy has similar effects but is completely non-invasive, although you’ll need several sessions to have an impact on your wrinkles.
Conclusion
Many people struggle to reduce the appearance of their wrinkles, but this is largely down to the fact that they rely on just one or two of the methods that we’ve shared above. Instead, if you’re hoping to see some big improvements in your complexion, try following each and every one of our tips. Combining them will enable you to tackle the visibility of your wrinkles from every angle, bringing you a smoother, tighter, and wrinkle-free complexion in no time.
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