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I believe the believed collagen loss occuring in early-mid 20s is really just facial hair getting stronger
Probably everyone here have seen a collagen - age graph like this at some point:
They always show how collagen synthesis stays very high until like 18-20, then it SHARPLY drops and supposedly by 30 you are a collagenless grandpa
Through my facial hair plucking experiments though and obversing others I have come to the conclusion that the decline in skin quality can be attributed mostly to facial hair getting more prominent as you become an adult.
As hair follicles grow, they cause the skin on the face to lose it's homogenity - it's surface get's bumpy and the hair discolors it
No matter how sharp safety razor you use, by shaving you are still just cutting the part of hair follicles above the skin surface, and the result is never perfect... after shaving you might feel like your face is "clean", but it really is not. For those with fast beard growth, the greyness of 5o clock shadow will appear in only a day or even just a few hours
Shaving is not a soluton hence. The only way to keep your youthfull skin quality is by purging the hair from it's roots - plucking that is. But if your facial hair is growing so fast. even plucking too will offer just very temporarily results. The ultimate solution would be permanent hair removal.
Of course ideally you would have zero facial hair so all this is redundant, but few man are lucky to have no hair follicles on their lower third
Another way to mitigate this problem is incorporating makeup into your routine. With the use of BB cream you can make your skin's surface flat and the coloration even, causing it to look youthful
Probably everyone here have seen a collagen - age graph like this at some point:
They always show how collagen synthesis stays very high until like 18-20, then it SHARPLY drops and supposedly by 30 you are a collagenless grandpa
Through my facial hair plucking experiments though and obversing others I have come to the conclusion that the decline in skin quality can be attributed mostly to facial hair getting more prominent as you become an adult.
As hair follicles grow, they cause the skin on the face to lose it's homogenity - it's surface get's bumpy and the hair discolors it
No matter how sharp safety razor you use, by shaving you are still just cutting the part of hair follicles above the skin surface, and the result is never perfect... after shaving you might feel like your face is "clean", but it really is not. For those with fast beard growth, the greyness of 5o clock shadow will appear in only a day or even just a few hours
Shaving is not a soluton hence. The only way to keep your youthfull skin quality is by purging the hair from it's roots - plucking that is. But if your facial hair is growing so fast. even plucking too will offer just very temporarily results. The ultimate solution would be permanent hair removal.
Of course ideally you would have zero facial hair so all this is redundant, but few man are lucky to have no hair follicles on their lower third
Another way to mitigate this problem is incorporating makeup into your routine. With the use of BB cream you can make your skin's surface flat and the coloration even, causing it to look youthful
