I was reading this article in the electronic Daily Mail today: The future face of 40: Botox, fillers and high-tech face creams all mean the Big Four-0 doesn't look like it used to. It succinctly sums up the reality of how being 40 isn't much of an issue in this day & age.
I know that hitting 30 was hard. I really agonised over it for a good couple of years until it happened. With that, the ageing process began, with sun damage and dull skin becoming apparent. I never did succumb to "old" clothes and fought like crazy to avoid looking fat and frumpy.
And then "Aesthetics" happened. Thank God for that! So my third decade was dedicated towards reversing the ravages of time. I remember one Dermatologist condemning my face as a veritable library of dermatological disease. That was at the start of my aesthetic training. After numerous peel, jabs and zaps, plus buckets of potions, I'm happy to say that I definitely look better now than I did 5 years ago.
For me, it's just part of the job. Reading the article in the Daily Mail, I see that without a bit of help, it'll soon be really obvious those who do, and those who don't. The ones that make the effort to look after their skin will have an ageless appearance. Those who don't, are resigned to being forty and frumpy. And the divide will continue to increase as the current 40s hit their 50s.
The joys of accessible aesthetics! I love this industry!
