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Wed Apr 14, 2010 6:48 am  |
This is a question I've wondered about for years (I've plucked my eyebrows on and off for about 15 years now; they still grow back as wild as ever!). From Dr Schultz's newsletter (though it's not necessarily aimed at him, this is a common view shared by most people):
"Prevent Wrinkles While Tweezing
For many women, tweezing eyebrow hairs is just part of the daily routine. But did you know that doing this incorrectly can actually cause premature lines and wrinkles? Repetitive stretching of your skin can harm collagen and elastic fibers, which promotes lines and wrinkles. This is especially true in very delicate skin, such as that adjacent to the eyebrows. So to avoid creating premature lines and wrinkles while tweezing, instead of pulling the skin all the way in the opposite direction from "the pluck", hold the skin firmly with your fingers very close to both sides of the unwanted hair to minimize stretching the skin and thereby decrease the chance of damage."
When you do facial exercise, they usually encourage you to be rough with the skin by massaging afterwards, pinching, pulling, rolling, tapping, so how does that differ from the skin stress caused by tweezing? Just a thought. |
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Wed Apr 14, 2010 7:06 am |
| He might be one of a few Doctors that are anti facial exercise mentioned? I know there are some against doing it. Most that do a form of FE find the doctors assertions absurd? |
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Wed Apr 14, 2010 7:08 am |
Yes, he is, I posted his link where he was critical of facial exercises a while back.
I'm pretty perky still in my eye area, so it never did me any harm, and I don't really hold my skin while tweezing  |
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Wed Apr 14, 2010 7:15 am |
| ljk wrote: |
Yes, he is, I posted his link where he was critical of facial exercises a while back.
I'm pretty perky still in my eye area, so it never did me any harm, and I don't really hold my skin while tweezing |
LOL I am not that great a contortionist either, I don't hold my skin when I tweeze either! I know using OCM my skin gets quite a work out with massage and I do that daily for years now with nothing but positive effects??!!  |
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Thu Apr 15, 2010 9:48 pm |
| The skin around the eye area is much thinner and sensitive than the rest of the face though. Massage around the eye area usually focuses on a gentle pressing motion on the pressure points. I find that what's really bad for the skin is the action of putting on eyeshdow. It helps to moisturise the eye area well before the all the tugging. |
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Fri Apr 16, 2010 5:31 am |
When you look at how he looks though, it kind of discredits it for me. He never goes into much detail about how he's found this info out. Even with facial exercises, he never mentioned having looked at any specific program and that always makes me wonder how well researched his claims are.
With eyebrows though - geeze give us a break, creating more wrinkles. Funny as I look at older women around me who have near enough plucked all their eyebrows off over the years, and none have wrinkles in the eyebrow area, its all around the mouth, or lower lid... so unless tweezering did that, I think its a load of balloney! |
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