Actually, the younger you are when you start taking good care of your skin, especially the skin on your face, the better you will look as you age. And you should wear sunscreen every day, whether you stay inside or go outside, because the damaging effects of the sun come in through windows, and are emitted by electronic device screens, etc.

If I wear makeup (basically tinted ”beauty balm”, blus, shadow), I remove it with micellar water. The rest is the same as without: wash face with a mild face cleanser (Cetaphil right now) and water, then Pond’s Dry Skin Cream. Lately, Vaseline around the mouth and eye corners. I’m 66, done this forever, and very happy with my skin. Part of it is good genes, I admit! But, I wish I’d worn sunblock more in my youth, and adulthood, and now. I usually remember to put some on my nose and lips at least, and the backs of my hands. Hands tell all!

Amy, when I was your age, I didn’t pay a lot of attention to what I used on my face either as long as I washed it twice a day and put on some moisturizer at night.

I guess I was into my 40’s when I started paying attention more, and the 50’s really made me sit up and take notice. Yes, a retinol product does help with holding off wrinkles in those awful places like between the eyebrows and those marionette lines around the mouth. You can buy some relatively inexpensive products and use them 3-4 times a week and they do a decent job (don’t forget your neck).

Also a good eye cream is a must. I also prefer a lighter weight moisturizer for day and a heavier overnight cream at bedtime. I seldom wear real makeup, preferring a tinted moisturizer instead that contains spf. There are so many good products on the market and everyone has favorites. I’m 74 and just shy of 75 and get many compliments on my skin. Start now and you won’t regret it.

I take off my make-up with Cetaphil at the sink and also have some to use on my face in the shower. Never ever use soap on my face! I leave my face wet after washing, spray it with NAPCA spray and pat on a bit of Eucerin moisturizer with sunblock. I have been using these products for about 40 years, am 67 now, and am very happy with the condition of my skin. I'm not as faithful with body moisturizer, but any exposed skin gets Coppertone lotion. I wear light make-up almost every day -- eyeliner, shadow, mascara, eyebrow mascara. Lately, instead of blush, I use a tiny bit of pink lip gloss on my cheekbones. I usually wear lipstick that feels good and is just a shade darker than the regular color of my lips.

In the morning I wash my face with Cerave face wash, then I put on a Vitamin C serum with Hyaluronic Acid, then Dermalogica moisturizer with 50 SPF and finally eye cream. In the evening I usually wash my face with a face wipe, then I use the Vitamin C serum again, then a night time moisturizer (right now it is No7 Tripe Action Night Cream) and then eye cream. My sil sells Dermalogica so I can get it for 40% off, but I was out of night cream before I saw her again. Once a week or so I will use a face mask, mainly because I have a large collection of face masks right now. After every shower I use body lotion and I love it! Right now I am using Aveeno mainly because it was on sale and I bought 5 ( the limit). But I do like Aveeno.

I have been using Retin-A/Tretinoin since I was a teen (i am 54 now) for acne control and then again as I reached my early 30s. It works wonders keeping sun damage at bay, smoothing lines and furrows and keeping my skin bright. I was my face with a super gentle cleanser from La Roche Posay and moisturize with Neutrogena hydro boost. Cetaphil body lotion, Aquaphor lip balm and Olaplex hair products round out the whole beauty routine. I keep meaning to add Skiceuticals Vitamin C. For sunscreen, I use La Roche Posay as well.

Most of my skin looks really nice, not my face and 3/4s of my arms due to sun damage. I try to use sunscreen when out in the garden or yard years ago when I used to mow a lot but I guess I didn't do a very good job. I've had skin cancer once on my face, years ago so I try to use sunscreen multiple times a day when working outside now. I also finallly bought a brimmed garden hat. I hate wearing hats but am getting used it to.

A few months ago the skin on my arms started to itch really bad. I thought it was due to dry skin so I bought some CeraVe and it's helped some. I use it now on my face too.

Over the years I have occasionally bought those expsensive facial creams but they never seemed to make a difference. Maybe if I had used them for years I would've noticed? I don't really care anymore. I just don't want skin cancer or to have dry, itchy skin now.

I've been using L'Oreal Revitalift Triple power: hyaluronic acid, Vit C and pro-retinol. It seems to reduce the wrinkles, even on my neck, which I consider quite an accomplishment.

I've essentially given up wearing make-up during COVID and only put it on for special occasions now.

My mother sold Mary Kay Cosmetics....so I started doing facial masks and wearing makeup @ age 14. I do put spf 50 under my makeup and use loofah type scrubbers to exfoliate my skin and Dermasil face cleanse, but .....truth be told...I look my age...or older. I noticed I immediately aged when I turned 50...because they took me off estrogen. I think THAT made a difference. I'm just being honest.

The makeup I see on YT tutorials is way too complicated for me. I stopped using make up during the pandemic and browsed YT for what to get once i was going out again, omg, three layers of primer, two blushers, no way. I wound up buying whatever the woman at the Bobbi Brown counter told me to get. It wasn't too crazy aside from eybrow mascara of sorts, which I don't think I will use.

I wash my face in the shower with whatever bar soap I'm using, like Dial. I wore makeup as a teen and washed with Noxema. I loved getting a deep tan and never used sunscreen. Only after sun lotions on my body. My laying out day are long past, now I get a farmer's/equestrian tan. I rarely wear makeup at all these days but in the last couple of years I've started to wear a lightweight BB Cream w/sunscreen, by E.L.F. They've discontinued it and I don't know what I will replace it with when my stash runs out. The new version is thick and disgusting. I guess it's the luck of the genes. At 72 I do have a few age spots but few wrinkles. Just a bit of light forehead creases and a few under eye. Most people take me for far younger than I am. I actually have to remind some that I can't do certain things any longer because I am "old". I have never used special anti aging products. My observation is they don't seem to do much good. I recall back around 20 years ago a younger woman in a cosmetics aisle stopped and asked me what products I used since she liked my skin. I told her nothing. Just water based makeup without sunscreen or added chemicals. Special cleanser? Nope. Moisturizer? Only rarely if it felt tight after weather exposure and that would be a cheap "non oily" moisturizer geared to teens. If I not showering I use a baby wipe or one of those wet and foam disposable cleaning cloths. I found a lightweight non oily moisturizer on Amazon I use once in a while for the same purpose these days.

When I was in college in Texas. I had two friends, sisters, who had done the pageant circuit (pageant scholarships went a long way toward paying their tuition). They taught me how to do my morning makeup. That lasted just over a semester, then I decided nope, that’s too much work and too much on my face. i happily went minimal and saved the shading and highlighting for ”special“, and we all were happy with our own looks. I can’t imagine what the sisters did foe theie evening routine. Mind you, they were Florida girls so they probably were more aware of sunscreen then than this Great Lakes girl was.

I'll be turning 70 soon and I have always been on the lazy side with respect to skin care. As a teen I was very lucky as I didn't break out. Now I think I pretty much look my age. I have always been a sun lover and only recently started using moisturizer with spf protection. I basically just use water and a washcloth, and then moisturizer with spf.

I used to use night eye creams but I honestly didn't think they did anything.

So my laziness has been the way I go. Maybe a few times a year I 'll do a facemask, but that's about it.

I do have wrinkles, but not really pronounced. I have under eye bags but I think that's more genetic than anything else. ( so when I can, I wear sunglasses in photos and I look so young! lol).

I forgot to add….just driving can make a difference in sun damage on your left side. I can definitely see more wrinkles on my left side than my right, especially on my neck.

Don’t neglect your neck in applying sunscreen and night cream. For the past 10 or so years I have even used a cream especially for the neck and even use my RetinA on my neck 3-4 times a week nefore applying the neck cream. I use something I order from Dermstore called Neostrata.

I have spent a lot of time out in the sun, running and yard work. I always used the strongest sunscreen I could get, but was never good about re-applying it as I perspired. I also always wear a big golf visor. I still looked good up until about 3 years ago, when the lower third of my face started really showing age. I still have only slight wrinkles on my forehead and around the eyes - I think that is from the protection of the hat, while my lower face is showing sun damage (sagging and frown lines).

My mother always religiously avoided the sun, and used Ponds, vaseline, or Yves Rocher; her skin was always smoother than one might expect at her age. How I look at approaching 70 is how she looked in her early-mid 80s.

Outside, that is the truth! My brother drives a lot, and the left side of his neck, arm, are decidedly sun-leathered.