· DAYONE Clinic
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Hello from Face Design Lab.
You probably know someone like this:
someone you look at and think, “She has aged so gracefully.”
Then there are others the same age whose years show far more clearly.
Today I'd like to talk about the facial features of people who seem to grow more elegant and attractive with age.
It's based on what we have found, with medical reasoning, from analyzing a great many faces.
In lifting consultations here in Gangnam,
I notice that people whose face shape holds up with age have something in common.
The key feature is a smooth, firm facial outline.
Think of actresses such as Kim Hee-ae, Ko Hyun-jung, Park Joo-mi and Kim Hye-soo: every one of them has kept a firm facial outline.
Put simply, a firm face shape means the pillars that support our skin are strong.
Many people think aging starts with wrinkles in the skin, but its root cause actually lies much deeper.
It is the aging of the ‘facial bones’ and the ‘retaining ligaments’. These act like the pillars that hold up the shape of the face.
There is a popular belief that faces with prominent bone structure, such as strong cheekbones, often called a ‘northern’ face type in Korea, age well.
It turns out this is not just folklore; there is something to it.
When bones that anchor the center of the face, like the cheekbones, support the skin firmly from within, they help keep skin and fat from sliding down.
It's the same principle as a building: it needs a strong steel frame so it doesn't easily collapse.
That is why I always tell people considering lifting in Gangnam
to look not just at surface wrinkles but at the structural firmness of the whole face.
Another important feature is ‘skin thickness’.
People with thin skin tend to be much more prone to fine lines.
With the same stimulus, they get wrinkles much more easily than others.
In contrast, people whose dermis is thick and whose skin is naturally firm get shallower lines even with the same expressions.
Skin thickness is largely something you are born with, so it is hard to make thin skin thicker later on.
What matters instead is keeping the skin from getting any thinner.
As we age, external stress and aging itself make the skin progressively thinner.
So the thinner your skin is to begin with, the more essential it is to protect it from irritation with sunscreen and plenty of moisturizing,
and adding antioxidant care, such as vitamin C skincare, is even better.
Another area that is surprisingly easy to overlook is the upper eyelid.
When we're young, many of us dislike fullness there and some even have it removed surgically, right?
But with age, that volume above the eyes actually gives a much livelier, more youthful look.
When there is little fat above the eyes and they look sunken, the result is a hollow upper eyelid, what Koreans call an ‘eye hole’.
In youth, sunken eyes can look striking and attractive, but with age they can make you look gaunt and tired.
