MrsSpringsteen
Blue Crack Addict
I don't know-when I was in my twenties I didn't think about "aging" or using anti-aging products, I guess I know now I should have. I spent way too much time in the sun too. Nothing wrong with looking your best but there's something sad about this. Like the article says, what about the self-esteem issues?
Too many frozen faces in Hollywood, maybe that has something to do with it.. and lots of money to be made by doctors and companies by convincing people they are not worthy in whatever way. To be honest if I had the $ I might get Botox, the surgery scares me too much.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051225...JXH8NpH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-
"Forget "40 is the new 30." Now even twentysomethings are joining the quest for eternal youth by using anti-aging products and wrinkle treatments.
Some young adults say they want to reverse the effects the sun has already had on their skin. Others already are feeling social pressure to retain their fresh-faced looks.
"Instead of starting when you're 40 or 45, you might as well start now," says Joanne Katsigiannis, a 24-year-old from suburban Chicago who's been using anti-aging products for about two years.
Like a lot of people her age, Katsigiannis once spent hours at tanning booths and out in the sun without using much sunscreen. She thought she looked better tan, until she realized her skin was starting to scar.
For Leslie Speyers, it's as much about keeping up appearances as anything.
"Vanity is probably the main reason I started using anti-aging products, as superficial as it is," says Speyers, a 24-year-old who works for a publishing company in Grand Rapids, Mich. She notes that maintaining a youthful look is a common worry among her friends — including one who's begun to dye her dark brown hair to hide some gray and another who uses skin-firming lotion on her legs because she thinks they look too flabby.
Both genders agree that women bear the brunt of this kind of anti-aging pressure — though not exclusively."
Too many frozen faces in Hollywood, maybe that has something to do with it.. and lots of money to be made by doctors and companies by convincing people they are not worthy in whatever way. To be honest if I had the $ I might get Botox, the surgery scares me too much.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051225...JXH8NpH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-
"Forget "40 is the new 30." Now even twentysomethings are joining the quest for eternal youth by using anti-aging products and wrinkle treatments.
Some young adults say they want to reverse the effects the sun has already had on their skin. Others already are feeling social pressure to retain their fresh-faced looks.
"Instead of starting when you're 40 or 45, you might as well start now," says Joanne Katsigiannis, a 24-year-old from suburban Chicago who's been using anti-aging products for about two years.
Like a lot of people her age, Katsigiannis once spent hours at tanning booths and out in the sun without using much sunscreen. She thought she looked better tan, until she realized her skin was starting to scar.
For Leslie Speyers, it's as much about keeping up appearances as anything.
"Vanity is probably the main reason I started using anti-aging products, as superficial as it is," says Speyers, a 24-year-old who works for a publishing company in Grand Rapids, Mich. She notes that maintaining a youthful look is a common worry among her friends — including one who's begun to dye her dark brown hair to hide some gray and another who uses skin-firming lotion on her legs because she thinks they look too flabby.
Both genders agree that women bear the brunt of this kind of anti-aging pressure — though not exclusively."
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) I was a lifeguard all through my teens and I knew I had to take care of my skin. 
I think I'll stick to skin lotion.
