Are you a wrinkler or a sagger? How to choose the right skincare for your 'ageing type'
telegraph.co.ukway in which we age is determined by our genes. ‘We chose individuals with equal amounts of accummulative sun exposure and measured the mitochondrial (DNA) damage, which showed that it wasn’t the sun damage itself that caused one skin type to wrinkle more than the other, but how susceptible their skin proteins are to UV light.’Whether you sag or wrinkle (in the end we all do both) is not a matter of good or bad (wrinkles are di rigeur after all).
But you have to admit it’s rather useful intel as identifying whether you are atrophic or hypertrophic helps you to determine your best skincare protocol.‘ So how does one do this, I hear you ask.Most of us know whether we are more or less lined than other women our age (don't compare your skin to your male partner as men's skin ages differently to women's).
Yet, if you're unsure, another clue is to examine your skin texture as 'wrinklers' often display a slightly thinner, less springy surface texture than 'saggers'.
By gently pinching the skin on your cheeks, you can gauge how thick and cushiony it feels and how readily it springs back. Wrinkles start to develop in our late twenties (even if they haven’t shown up yet) and are related to a loss of fibrillin springs in the skin.
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