Anti Aging Makeup

One anti aging makeup trick being used by some makeup professionals involves putting together a barrage of natural elements that are proven to fight skin aging. Celebrity makeup artist Sue Devitt says, As you get older, you need more and more hydration. I used a triple seaweed whipped foundation that has Vitamins A, B5, C, D, K, and E. It's very nourishing for the skin, and I think that takes 10 years off right there."

The anti-aging makeup products and techniques being used today are very much tune in to one of those most modern of pursuits: multi-tasking. Anti-aging makeups are designed not only to reduce the appearance of wrinkles, age spots and the like, but to actually work at removing them while they are being covered up. These anti-aging makeups contain not just cosmetic chemicals like luminizers, but vitamins, skin moisturizers, and skin anti-inflammatory chemicals. According to 37-year-old fashion consultant Becky Smith of Belleville, Illinois, her Fond de Teint Jeunesse du Visage is "an anti-aging foundation that has a light powdery texture, covers up my spots and lines, and has skin care benefits thrown in. When I travel, I don't need to pack my big jar of face cream, because my anti aging makeup already has moisturizers in it."

However, many dermatologists are not sold on anti-agin skin makeup. It's not that cosmetics designed to actually make your skin younger again can harm you. It's that, according to those who don't put much stock in them, what they can hurt is your wallet--and all for precious little effect or benefit.

The number one "anti-aging makeup" for the vast majority of dermatologists remains: skin moisturizers. Hydration, they feel, is the single most important element needed in progressively increasing amounts as the body ages. These also caution that women should not be tempted to use a foundation to do the task that an additional natural hydrating moisturizer should be relied upon to do.

Dermatologist Amy B. Lewis of New York puts it like this: "Makeup could have a tiny bit of hydroxy acids, a bit of soy and a tiny amount of peptides and call itself an anti-aging foundation. But there wouldn't be enough of each active ingredient to be doing anything for you. After you put on your moisturizer, if you want to add an anti-aging foundation that contains antioxidants or Retinol, it's not going to hurt you. But if you are relying on anti-aging makeup to be your skin's sole moisturizer and rejuvenator, you're going to be cheating yourself."

So, anti aging makeup may at best just be supplements to skin anti-aging techniques used with pretty good results by many "lucky ones" already: protect yourself from UV radiation, stay hydrated, exercise, eat sensibly, get plenty of sleep, and keep your pores cleaned out.

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