How to stay looking young? Shave your face! 
Vivian Seljee

 

Jennifer Lopez, Sofia Vergara, Jennifer Aniston. All in their forties but they look at least ten year younger. It may still be years away for us, but don’t we all want to look like them when we’re their age? The 'best' anti aging skin care costs tons of money that we – poor students – unfortunately don’t have. There might be a solution for us. It’s easy and most important it’s cheap: shaving your face.

 

Shaving your face? Yes, you read that right. Ask any beauty enthusiast – or any woman for that matter – and they will tell you that shaving your face is a big no-go. Dr Michael Prager, an aesthetic clinician who has a practice in London, disagrees. "The notion that shaving influences regrowth is wrong," he tells Daily Mail. "The hairs might look thicker because it comes out at a different angle or blunt, rather than tapered to a natural point. But the hairs won’t be changed on a cellular level."

 

Dermatologist Dr Neal Schultz even claims shaving is why men are said to age better than women. "Shaving is a mild form of microdermabrasion, which encourages collagen production. This collagen production reduces wrinkles. Most men shave regularly, and in doing so exfoliating a big part of their face." Schultz says this is the reason that by their thirties and forties, men’s skin often looks better than women’s skin.

 

Renee Daly (52) has recently converted to shaving, although she doesn’t like to call it that.  She tells Daily Mail: "When you think about shaving your face, you picture a man holding a Gilette razor, leaning over a sink. It seems so unfeminine." That’s why she doesn’t use a standard – manly – razor.

 

Daly uses a micro razor by Lilibeth of New York to remove hair around her cheeks, top lip and lower jaw area. It looks like a small eyebrow comb with sharp blades that catch the hair, but don’t cut your skin. "I hold it at a slight angle and lightly comb my face. The hair comes right off. The result: my skin feels lovely and smooth. Moisturisers sink in better, makeup looks more natural and my skin looks healthier."