One of the advantages of getting older is our ability to start to be able to put things into perspective. It may take a little of the pure excitement out of life but conversely it mostly prevents us from being too dissapointed about the things that happen to us. We learn not to have unrealstic expectations.
My theory is that being realistic about how effective a treatment for crows feet is going to be can actually help that treament be more effective. These wrinkles can be reduced, but by how much and for how long is entirely relative to your situation.
What I am trying to get across is two things. Firstly, the thought that being realistic about the effect you can expect from a treatment will prevent you jumping from one miracle cure to another. This is unlikely to provide the result you are looking for and maybe even start to damage your appearance if you start layering one procedure over another!
Secondly there is the problem of worrying that the results are not matching up to your expectations. Unfortunately, worrying tends to cause us to frown and this is only going to increase the appearance of crows feet on your face.
The solution to all this is to manage your expectations of what you are going to be able to achieve before you even start on a course of treatment. Obviously everyone’s face and skin is different and there are millions of faces out there, but there are some generalisations that can be made that are useful in giving you a ‘frame of reference’.
Should you be in your early twenties when your crows feet start to appear then you should be able to reduce these quite significantly. This won’t need any sort of actual surgery and should mainly just require you to stick to a healthy lifestyle. The big ‘no-no’s’ being; lack of sleep, smoking and too much direct sun. Keeping hydrated is also going to help.
If however you are in your late 30s and early 40s, and your crows feet, which have never really bothered you until now, are becoming an unwanted nuisance, then you certainly have more work to do. The good news here is that there are plenty of methods available to you, such as anti-wrinkle creams, dermal fillers and maybe even Botox injections. The thing to bear in mind though, is that these treatments are unlikely to make you look 18 again. What they can do though is return your appearance back 10 years, to when you were previously happy with it.
As you might expect the most difficult period is from your late 40s onwards, when the inescapable facts of ageing (sorry that sounds a little direct) start to show in our skin and particularly in our face as that is the bit which is generally on show! At this age our skin is losing its elasticity which allows it to sag and as you can imagine, this only serves to make any crows feet worse. In this situation dermal fillers and Botox can only do so much and I can fully understand why so many people go for the cosmetic surgery option.
My view on this is that facelifts unless carried out in a very subtle way on a face that barely needed it in the first place can look (not to put too fine a point on it) plain weird. I get the feeling somtimes that not even their families can bring themselves to tell the truth. If this is a course of action that you are intent on, then please, be absolutely sure you are prepared for the consequences.
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