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What Is Worth Doing in Your 40s, 50s and 60s
What tends to be worth the money at each stage — and what people keep paying for after it has stopped doing anything.
The decade where prevention still changes the trajectory and where most of the money gets spent on the wrong things.
Usually worth it
Daily sunscreen and a retinoid
The two interventions with the strongest evidence in this entire field, and the least glamorous.
Neuromodulator, where a line persists at rest
Treating a crease that has started to etch is where the preventative argument actually holds.
Sun damage from your twenties surfaces now, and it responds better now than it will later.
A small amount of structural filler
Deep support in the lateral cheek, placed conservatively, is the version of filler that ages well.
Usually not
Filling every hollow you can see
This is the decade where the overfilled face of the 50s gets built, half a syringe at a time.
Home light and radiofrequency units at consumer power levels do very little.
Early laxity is the one setting where they do something, and it lasts months.
The single most useful habit to build in this decade is photographing your own face in the same light once a year. It is the only way to see a trajectory instead of a snapshot.
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