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As women grow older, their top skin care concerns often involve how to prevent wrinkles and age spots. Until Ponce de Leon’s Fountain of Youth is finally discovered, it’s up to us to find the best ways to reduce the appearance of these unsightly face blemishes. While there may be hundreds and thousands of skin care products on the market that promise to smooth out fine lines and reduce the appearance of age spots, sometimes the best remedies are those that can be achieved by making a few healthy lifestyle changes.

None of us are going to magically stop aging. Which means none of us are going to magically avoid looking older. It’s a race against time and, spoiler alert, we always lose! Don’t let that reality be overly daunting or depressing, though, because while the existence of magic isn’t up for discussion, there are real-life, readily available options for you to achieve looking younger. And if you’re under the impression that all cosmetic procedures require a lot of time (time for the procedure, time to recover, time to wait to see the results), then here’s a spoiler alert with a much more positive ending: a major time commitment is not necessarily part of the deal when choosing a cosmetic procedure with the goal of looking younger. 

Here are four cosmetic procedures available to you at our GLOW Surgical Arts offices in Redwood City that can be done in under an hour:

Indisputable fact: You know more now than you did 10 years ago, 20 years ago, longer. Right? How many times have you marveled now at how incredibly naïve you were in your youth? So yes, you’re older. But at least you’re also wiser. Superficially speaking, though, many of us think back on our youths wistfully every time we catch a glimpse of ourselves in the mirror. One of the main factors we all use to determine someone’s age (you apply it to others; they apply it to you) is the skin’s appearance. And there’s no denying our skin starts to lose that youthful glow after a while. As we grow older, skin starts to slow down the rate it turns over. The result of that slowdown is an accumulation of dead skin cells on the skin surface, which leads to a sort of dull appearance and can amplify things like lines and wrinkles.

The effect of aging on skin is an inescapable fact, but there are several options available to you to combat that effect: