Wrestling with your wrinkles

I have been using moisturising creams for the last 15 years or so.  And as the years have gone by so has the urgency with how many times I apply my potions (morning, night and sometimes a little in the day).  When I've had the money I've used Creme de la Mer and I thought it was a miracle how my skin looked so amazing but I was in my early 30s and could have applied lard every day and would have had the same result.

My usual potion was Olay and all the serums that came with it.  Then having read that No7 was the only cream on the market that "actually" worked, I switched instantly.  So now I'm a sunscreen, serum wearer of the Lift and Luminate range and I have tricked myself into believing how it really does make a difference.

So it was interesting to read in the Daily Fail (it's a guilty pleasure and I only look at the pics!) about a certain columnist who having been a slave to the expensive moisturisers most of her life, embark on a facelift.  It sounded and I can only imagine a torturous procedure.  Having seen a couple of these operations on TV, they poke under your skin with what seems like not a care in the world, sucking and jabbing until they've get you as taut as Madonna's upper arms.

After six weeks of hiding in your bedroom for fear of scaring the postman and living on a liquid only diet, you emerge with a perma air-brush effect and all your friends marvelling at the new position of your eyebrows.  But the reason I found this little article of interest is because and this isn't the first time I've heard this, moisturisers don't actually hold the wrinkles at bay.  Yes, they may soften them or give you a glow on your tired skin but it's not going to get rid of the over-hang on the eyelids or the deep furrows.

I'd always wondered why the mega rich women in the world who surely had access to the creams and potions made up from magical components, did they end up having fillers/botox, facelifts etc?  And I know why, it's because they too realised that having spent years going to bed layered in nightcream made from the fat cells of a baby's bottom that it was all a waste of time.

And so what I have learnt is that Mr Facelift Doctor reckons serums do work and all the better if you apply it before you go to bed.  Of course I think a good night's sleep would be even more beneficial.  Finally it may cost £30 but if you use foundation every day and feel naked without it, Chanel Vitalumiere is the only way.  Now that makes your skin look like a teenager's!