How to prevent and eliminate crow’s feet

Crow’s feet are the typical expression wrinkles right around the eyes. They are a common and annoying blemish for many people: how to get rid of them?

 

Crow’s feet: what they are

The crow’s feet are the wrinkles that appear right around the outer corner of the eyes. They are expression lines due to the action of the mimic muscles on face skin.

Even if they can appear in young people, in most cases, they form and become deep with aging, when the skin produces less collagen and elastin and thus becomes less firm, elastic and hydrated. In these conditions the skin tends to sag, forming furrows: the wrinkles.

Moreover, some external factors can boost or favor or accentuate the crow’s feet: genetic predisposition, excessive exposure to UV rays, unhealthy lifestyle (alcohol and tobacco abuse …), unbalanced diet, pollution …

 

How to prevent crow’s feet

Prevention is always the best cure! So, here are a few tips to prevent crow’s feet:

Cosmetics

A good daily care with high quality cosmetics can help you to reduce or delay the appearance of crow’s feet.

The most commonly used active ingredients are:

• Antioxidant ingredients, like vitamin A, E, C, Q10 coenzyme, retinol, resveratrol and various phyto-extracts
• Nourishing ingredients, like vegetable oils and butters
• Moisturizers, like hyaluronic acid, panthenol, glycerin
• Re-densifying substances, like vitamin C, vegetable oils and butters, biomimetic peptides

Food supplements

Anti-wrinkle food supplements can help you to prevent crow’s feet. They can contain antioxidant ingredients, oligo-elements, essential fatty acids, collagen, hyaluronic acid and plant extracts. Nevertheless, always keep in mind the 2 following recommendations:

1. Never use food supplements arbitrarily: only a medical test that verifies possible nutritional deficiencies can lead to a responsible, useful and healthy use of food supplements
2. It’s always better to get the nutrients from natural food; we often throw away the fruit’s peel (rich in valuable nutrients) while spending money to buy supplements that copy those nutrients and make them industrially… Learn more on our article: https://www.clinicadelviso.it/pelle-giovane/

Lifestyle

A healthy lifestyle can help you as well to prevent crow’s feet. Here are a few key tips:

• Have a healthy and varied diet, rich in vegetables and fruit, balanced in all nutrients: proteins, vitamins, carbo-hydrates …
• Avoid tobacco and alcohol abuse
• Limit exposure to UV rays (sun, tanning lamps) and always use adequate sun protection
• Do physical activity
• Exercise your face muscles with face gym; it’s plenty of websites on this topic, like, just for example, Fit & Face – Silvia Pengo

 

How to eliminate crow’s feet

Unfortunately, we can’t stop aging! So, when wrinkles and crow’s feet appear, there’s no option but aesthetic medicine or surgery.

Crow’s feet and aesthetic medicine

In aesthetic medicine, there are several options to eliminate wrinkles and crow’s feet. We can classify them into 4 categories:

• Bio-revitalization: bio-stimulant products and techniques stimulate the production of those components that make the skin firm and elastic (collagen, elastin …). Bio-stimulation consists in micro-injections of bio-compatible and resorbable substances that stimulate skin cellular renewal and the synthesis of new collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid, thus making the skin brighter, firmer and more hydrated and reducing wrinkles. Learn more on Bio-revitalization
• Filler: fillers are injections of filling substances (collagen, hyaluronic acid …) directly into the wrinkles. Clinica del Viso only uses hyaluronic acid, as it is biological, biodegradable, natural, fully resorbable and risk-free. The perfect solution also for deep wrinkles. Learn more on fillers
• Botulinum toxin: it is a substance that temporarily reduces the facial muscles contraction, thus reducing expression lines. It’s the first anti-wrinkles treatment for mimic wrinkles of the face upper third (expression lines, crow’s feet). Its lifting effect lasts about 5-6 months, on average. Excellent option for deep wrinkles. Learn more on botulinum toxin
• Laser resurfacing treatments, namely, the Clear+Brilliant laser treatment: it’s a special laser that stimulates the synthesis of new collagen, thus creating a healthier skin tissue; the skin looks firmer and wrinkles are reduced. It’s the right treatment for young and mid-age skin. Learn more on Clear + Brilliant laser

Crow’s feet and plastic surgery

The mini-lifting is definitely the best solution, because it makes all the face firmer and younger and smooths wrinkles and crow’s feet. It also eliminates excess skin.

It’s a surgery under local anesthesia made with micro-incisions. As it is less aggressive and more tolerated than the traditional lifting, it has nearly replaced it.

Learn more on mini-lifting.

Needles to say, only an accurate medical visit by an expert plastic surgeon can define the right treatment for any kind of problem (wrinkle type and location) and patient (age, previous treatments, pathologies, ongoing therapies …). Always choose qualified and highly specialized plastic surgeons and well-equipped clinics using updated and safe machinery and products.

 

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]