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How to reboot your cleavage By Lindi Prinsloo Refine Clinic Hermanus
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once watched a supermodel in one of these reality tv programmes, whose beauty advice has stuck with me for years. Gesturing with her hand as she was filmed in the bathroom of her Soho loft, she said, “Your face starts here,” gesturing to the bottom of her boobs. Too bad I didn’t take her advice to heart, as I’ve apparently been taking care of the equivalent of just my forehead for 20 years. As soon as I entered the next age bracket in the drop-down menu of life, I began to notice a red crease (cleavage wrinkle, or “clinkle”) etched on my skin from collar bone to solar plexus. It was tiny, it was probably a case of OCD, but it was there.
From clavicle up, I was a well-rested thirty-something with a pretty decent skin-care routine. But from the neck down, my complexion was broadcasting a different story. At first my “clinkle” would disappear by midday, but it remained until I settled back into bed for another night of side-sleeping. So, I did what any sane woman would do before slipping any further down the (leathery) slope to a chest like Magda in There’s Something about Mary, and consulted my most knowledgeable confidant: Google. Type
‘chest wrinkles’ into Google and you’ll get 1 230 000 results… The cleavage region is especially vulnerable to wrinkling due to breasts pulling chest skin downward. Just like the sensitive skin on your face, the chest is often exposed to damaging UV rays that can cause long-term wrinkling and sagging. Most wrinkles are the result of sun damage, but even the most vigilant among us, often forget to slather our décolletage with SPF before heading out the door. Because chest skin is thinner than the skin on the rest of the body, it’s even more prone to sun damage. Complicating matters, it’s about 10 to 15 times more sensitive than the skin on other parts of the body, so it doesn’t tolerate aggressive treatments very well. Still, there are some steps you can take to iron out cleavage wrinkles. Level the playing field A wrinkle is a depression in the skin, and we want to bring down the sides of the wrinkles so everything is the same depth – thus smoothing out the lines. Beginner patients can start with a chemical peel. The fruit acid helps slough out the outermost layers of
skin, improving skin texture. Laser treatments can even things out even more. The non-ablative fractionated laser for décolletage is still the number one go to-treatment for chest wrinkles. Because it keeps the epidermis intact, it is gentle enough for the most sensitive chest area. Fill ‘er up Another way to attack deeper lines is to fill up the valleys so that they’re flush with the rest of the skin. Dermal fillers and relaxers — like Botox and Restylane — are commonly used to treat those stubborn deep wrinkles on the face, but there are plenty of injections you can use to achieve flawless, wrinkle-free skin in the décolletage area, too.
skin to the next level of deep hydration and smoothness.
Chest wrinkles are also caused when the skin produces lower levels of hyaluronic acid needed for deep skin hydration. Dermal filler treatments contain a hyaluronic acid solution for hydrating deep skin wrinkles, filling in the folds for a smooth and younger-looking skin. Gently injected in the wrinkles and surrounding skin, hyaluronic acid rejuvenates skin quality and revitalises skin tone.
Get prickly Micro needling is another way to stimulate collagen production and improve texture. Your aesthetician will use a Dermapen that creates multiple teeny, sterile pinpricks in your skin. As the punctures heal, they encourage the skin to remodel, improving the appearance of wrinkles. Make sure that the original Dermapen is used in a sterile environment, with the correct sterile serums needled into the skin.
A thin watery filler can also be injected via a machine and multiple tiny needles to spread the deeply hydrating dermal filler over a large surface area. We call this procedure ‘Skinboosting’ as it literally boosts the
Bonus: Treating sagging chest skin Want to treat sagging skin alongside wrinkles and sun damage? Many of these wrinkle-fighting treatments can be combined with treatments such as radiofrequency, threads and
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carboxytherapy, to help address sagging neck, chest and breast skin. One could even get a breast lift and see an improvement with stretchmarks on the lower chest area. Breast examination We have been stressing the need to take care of your skin, but it is even more important to take care of your breast health. With October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, adult women should commit to giving themselves an at-home breast exam once a month, and have at least one baseline mammogram or ultrasound scan. If you are concerned about “clinkles”, come and speak to our highly-trained professionals today – and get rid of those scarves and turtlenecks for good!
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