The beauty routine throughout my life has focused on my face. And in the summer, my feet. And legs. From time to time, my hand was looking into it. So now I’m surprised that what I’m most aware of is my arm.
Have a busy day with halter necks, vest tops, spaghetti straps and sleeveless dresses. If you can wear it without looking at your arm, you will need a cardigan.
The reason for the loss of arm tension with age is the natural loss of muscle mass. Especially when relatively inactive, after the age of 30, it decreases by about 3-5% every 10 years and accelerates with age. Also, low levels of estrogen during and after menopause do not solve the problem.
Is there a simple fix? I’m not going to lie, curling some triceps with a can of Heinz beans means shaking goodbye to Bingo wings faster than you can say two fat ladies Not (that the Bingo originator can still say?). Nor can fat be reduced in spots. To increase tension in certain areas, you need to optimize your overall weight and strength training with a healthy diet and exercise.
However, since I go to the fight club, there is no doubt that it is an exercise class that moves the upper and lower body, incorporating boxing movements, weight training, and push-ups (fixing against the wall). The shape of the arm is better than before (because the wrist is weak). If you want to start or switch your home exercise routine, visit a specialist who can devise a program and teach you how to properly and safely perform arm-strengthening exercises such as the triceps press.
Apart from muscle tension, another problem with arm aging is the texture of the skin. My elbows look like wrinkled gritty swirls, and my inner arms are dry parchment reminiscent of my mother’s arms when she lamented that she looked like my grandma. Had the appearance of. In the inheritance of batons of this era, I would like to tell myself that I am fortunate to have lived long enough to notice the loss of collagen. Not everyone is so lucky.
But I still want to make my arms look better. This means using a body scrub, especially behind the upper arms and elbows. I’m trying out Biossance’s new Squalane + Enzyme Sugar body scrub (launch next month, £ 22, lookfantastic.com). While pomegranate enzymes provide additional exfoliation, sugar crystals shed from dead skin cells.
Moisturizing is effective, but it should not only be soaked in strange occasions, but should be done on a regular basis. I’ve heard positive feedback from many puffy testers of Sol de Janeiro’s Brazilian Bum Bum Cream (£ 46, cultbeauty.co.uk), but they haven’t spoken behind the scenes. .. It is packed with guarana, an Amazon plant that contains caffeine, which has a temporary tightening effect, and cupuas butter, which is a particularly nutritious ingredient.
But my personal favorite is Olverum’s new Farming Body Moisturizer (£ 40). A sophisticated lotion containing collagen-supporting ingredients that helped my chewy texture fairly quickly. If you prefer oil, the brand’s Farming Body Oil (£ 47.50) contains grapefruit and peppercorn plants for toning. Highly absorbent and glossy. Excuse me, but slide the sleeveless number and leave the cardigan behind the chair.
Almost this week …
Enjoy the limited edition Onora + Elixe Refresh Start Duo (129 lbs with 2 serums). It is a program that resets the skin color. The opening act loosens and removes dead skin cells overnight, and rescue divers provide a wave of water that makes the cells plump.
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