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Bad Lifestyle Habits Impact on Your Facial Ageing
These photos speak for themselves. Drinking, smoking and junk food affect our appearance in the long-term. The 42-year-old freelance journalist Anna Magee worked with a forensic artist to create images of what she’d look like 10 years from now adopting different lifestyles. She admits to having cheek fillers and Botox injections in the past.
The three projected images show her face 10 years from now:
SMOKING
A survey of over 1,000 Yahoo! users found that only 28% of smokers admit to being addicted and dependent on cigarettes with 72% claiming “I choose when I smoke and can go without at any time.” 41% of the people ages 18-34 said they only smoke in a social setting, but if you want to avoid these nasty signs of aging, every cigarette may count. Fifty-six percent of people ages 18-34 said they smoke when drinking.
The Ideal Of Beauty
What women want is to look like better versions of themselves, without losing their expression and character. Nowadays, they are more vary of looking “done” than old – in light of celebrity images where Botox, injectables or surgery went wrong! Facial expression is crucial for basic human interaction. Lines are a proof that we’ve lived -we get them when we laugh and express ourselves. The mentality that encourages women to emulate perfection is about the safety of belonging. (Dr C d’Felice: Dare To Be You, Orion). In transforming themselves into living dolls, women feel they fit.
Forget the “ideal” image – when it comes to beauty, it’s time to embrace your unique features
- Your face is your business card – learn to care for it. Make sure you are doing 99 % right in terms of skincare, facial yoga and relaxation.
- Make a point of noting the positive aspects of your appearance in the mirror before you critique the negative.
- Cosmetic procedures can offer benefits but the dangers arise when they erase the features that give personality to a face. In general, people dislike the lack of variety that often comes with these procedures - and although we strive to look fabulous, we should also look real.
Source: Betts, H. Busting the beauty myth. Psychologies August 2010
Twiggy advert for Olay ruled as ‘misleading’
ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) ruled that Twiggy’s advertising campaign for an Olay eye cream was “misleading” because the wrinkles around her eyes had been airbrushed out.
Procter and Gamble, the company behind Olay, withdrew the advert as the row developed over the summer. The promotional campaign claimed that the £24.99 cream: “Reduces the look of wrinkles and dark circles for brighter, younger-looking eyes. More than 700 people complained that the advert had been digitally retouched, but gave the false impression that the Olay “Definity Eye Illuminator” alone was responsible for keeping the former supermodel, 60, virtually line free.
Accusations that it was misleading were upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). An ASA spokesman said: “We considered that the post-production retouching of this ad, specifically in the eye area, could give consumers a misleading impression of the effect the product could achieve. “We considered that the combination of references to ‘younger-looking eyes’, including the claim: ‘Reduces the look of wrinkles and dark circles for brighter, young-looking eyes’, and post-production retouching of Twiggy’s image around the eye area was likely to mislead.”
But the ASA said the public expected some glamour in images advertising beauty products and would expect Twiggy to be professionally styled and made up. It added that the image was aimed at mature women who would realise Twiggy’s look could not have been achieved just by using the product. It added: “The image was unlikely to have a negative impact on perceptions of body image among the target audience and was not socially irresponsible.”
A spokesman for Procter and Gamble said the firm had realised after a short time that the retouched photograph had been “inconsistent” with the company’s policies.
