Skin changes are the most obvious signs of aging. The influence of environment factors upon genetic structures is most obvious here. The clones of mutant cells in the form of pigment spots (dermatoheliosis) appear on the parts of skin that undergo sun radiation. Apart from such heterogeneous pigmentation, you may notice a whole range of other changes – wrinkles, flabby, rough and dry skin, etc. Your hair grows grey and thin, or maybe you start suffering from hair loss: your hair comes out and gets replaced with a thin down with bald patches. Nails grow more slowly, become thicker but fragile.

Mimic wrinkles can appear in the early age

Let’s speak about wrinkles. Maybe you think you’re not old yet to have them, but wrinkles are not always a physical sign of aging. Your wrinkles may be caused by various habbits that you don’t even notice. For example knitting your brow when you’re angry, screwing up the eyes when the sun shines right on your face or laughing. The way you sleep is also important. If your head is in the wrong position lying on a pillow too high that your head bends to the neck, you’ll be an owner of neck wrinkles even at the early age.

Still there are more serious factors causing wrinkles and other skin changes. Many women live with internal diseases and often don’t surmise it. The location and depth of wrinkles can tell almost everything about your health.

Cheekbones and chin

1. Flabby skin on cheekbones is an evidence of urinary bladder problems.

2. Wrinkles on cheekbones tell about diminished function of stomach and pancreas.

3. If the skin on cheekbones resembles a very thin pellicle you should check your liver.

4. Slightly swelled up chin – your kidneys work at full stretch.

5. Cross wrinkle on the chin can be a sign of stagnant effects at liver and small pelvis level.

6. If your chin often grows numb, you should visit a cardiologist and make an electrocardiogram – you may have heart problems.

Nasolabial folds

Wrinkles as a map of your health

1. Swell and changing of your nose shape, its violet hue tell about lungs and large intestine diseases.

2. Deep symmetric wrinkles on each side of the nose are an evidence of gastrointestinal tract disfunction.

3. If nasolabial folds go down to the chin, it means that you have problems with digestion – acidity gastritis, stomach ulcer or duodenal ulcer, colitis.

4. Vertical skin-deep wrinkles above the upper lip tell about gynecological disorders.

5. Vertical wrinkles from mouth corners give notice of a possible gastritis with a low secretory function and predisposition to pancreas diseases.

6. If there are a lot of small wrinkles around the mouth, then there are spasms in large intestine.

7. White edging around the mouth draws attention to heart diseases.

8. Chaps in the mouth corners tell about water-salt metabolism disturbances or even about hydronephrytis – derangement of water eduction by kidneys.

Forehead and eyes

1. If you have a lot of cross wrinkles on the bridge of the nose, than perhaps you suffer from spine diseases.

2. Horizontal wrinkles on your forehead are a widespread sign of migraines.

3. Deep vertical wrinkle between the eyebrows tells you that your organism has a shortage of oxygen and fresh air.

4. Vertical wrinkle between the eyebrows to the right points at defective liver and gall bladder, to the left – at spleen problems.

5. Vertical wrinkle in the middle of the forehead tells about stomach problems.

6. Wrinkles below the eyes in the form of a half moon are a sign of possible problems with urinary bladder.

7. Swollen upper eyelids let know about kidney problems.

8. Baggy skin below the eyes gives notice of heart diseases.

Jane Fonda - dazzling mature beauty

Nowadays the situation becomes more complicated because we have an opportunity to delay physical signs of aging, at least the most evident of them. Active exercises help us to strengthen flabby hips and belly, moisturizing milk makes our hands and feet softer. Besides, we can’t forget plastic surgery doing miracles: baggy skin below the eyes and double chin disappear as if with a wave of a magic wand. The fact is beyond any doubt – we don’t look the way our mothers did when they were forty years old. But our ability to look young at a mature age actually turns to reality the myth that woman is as good as beautiful she looks. It’s called Jane Fonda effect.

Jane Fonda has brought healthy life-style and youthful look into fashion. Watching Hollywood stars on TV we hold our breath – they roll in luxury, favoring us with a perfect smile on their everlastingly young faces. They serve as an example of how splendid one man can look at the mature age and we start thinking that we should also look well. And soon it turns to another cultural purpose. It seizes a strong hold on our minds and causes the contradictory situation, when the distinctions on the scale of age become smoothed and obliterated. But at the same time we continue to believe, that a woman with wrinkles on her face, pigment spots on hands and gray hair looses her allure and grace, at least a part of herself.

Actually, the things shouldn’t go this way. The middle of life can be the time of a great spiritual growth, because it’s time when we look in the mirror and ask: “What have I achieved and what am going to do?”