Sagging Skin

Skin and Elasticity

When you look in a mirror, do you have an urge to push the skin up on the sides of your face or neck because just that little push makes you look younger? Gravity is usually blamed when skin starts to sag but the cause is more complicated.

As we age, not only does the foundation of bone, fat and muscle under the skin shrink but our skin’s underlying structure changes. Skin renews itself more slowly, produces less collagen, and has less elasticity. Like a worn-out rubber band, skin that’s lost elasticity no longer springs back.

These changes, combined with genetic influences, sun exposure, dropping hormone levels and damaging habits like smoking, lead to slack, hanging skin.

And as if sagging skin isn’t bad enough on its own, the stretched skin can make pores and scars look larger.

Youthful person of a woman with tight skin and plump facial features - Aged woman with sagging skin and drooping facial features

Check Your Skin’s Elasticity

To check your skin elasticity, and potentially ruin your day, pinch the skin on the back of your hand.

  1. Pinch the back of your hand between your thumb and index finger

  2. Hold it for 5 seconds

  3. Let go

  4. Count how many seconds it takes to flatten

What was your snap back time?

  • < 2 seconds, your skin has the elasticity of someone under 30

  • 3-4 seconds, your skin’s elasticity age is between 30 – 44

  • 5-9 seconds, your skin’s elasticity age is between 45 – 60

  • > 10 seconds, your skin is acting like it’s more than 60 

Sagging Skin Treatments

When sagging is mostly due to volume loss, restoring youthful proportions in the face with dermal fillers, fat, and/or skin stimulants (also known as a “liquid facelift”) will lift the skin back up and out, with natural-looking results.

When a loss of skin elasticity is contributing to sagging, several types of lasers and other devices can increase elasticity and build new collagen by applying energy to the deeper skin levels.

Treatment Types

    • IPL

    • Laser Resurfacing

    • Radiofrequency Lasers

    • Profractional Resurfacing

    • Microneedling

    • IPL Photofacials

    • Nanofat 

Only Trust Experts with Your Skin

Luckily, with the expertise and modern cosmetic technology at Skinspirations, there are multiple treatment options to improve all of the signs of aging in the hands, as well as everywhere else on the body.

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