Annie Palmer

or…why you are aging so fast and why you don’t have to.

By Annie Palmer| Beautiful Skin

Alright, Is this you?

”Why am I looking more like a French bull-dog each year? Who invented jowls? Why does my face look like an abused piece of parchment…with fractals? I hate math! My skin type is Lipid Dry, so why am I always covered in a fine sheen of oil slick? And somebody please explain why my forehead looks like I have Saran Wrap on my forehead?!”

Ok, I’ll tell you:

The bull-dog face that just keeps on coming on each year is the sugar. Yes sugar is delicious but the more sugar you scarf down, the more aggravated assault you allow on the elastin, literally holding up your face. Sugar ties up your elastin proteins, binds them up until they essentially lose mobility, become brittle, then guess what? Brittle things break. Sugar hates you and it hates ELASTIN, an essential skin protein that keeps your skin looking taut and supple and you looking youthful. Bull-dog face, jowls or if you prefer to fancy it up, naso-labial folds are what happens when sugar gives your Vital Skin Protein arthritis then UV light from all your unprotected sun exposure rains down on your vulnerability and collapses your skin architecture.

Now let’s talk about the water. Listen to your dermatologist! When he/she tells you to drink more water for the dark circles and the shiny forehead. Drink the damn water and don’t forget the accompanying essential electrolytes to aid effective water processing by your body. 

And the Devil? Don’t give the devil that is AGING more power over you. Don’t feed this demon. Don’t do SUGAR, Don’t do Sun (unprotected), and Please, DRINK THE DAMN WATER.

Take care of all your skin and follow the science,

SINCERELY, 

ANNIE