{"id":358,"date":"2022-05-28T15:04:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T15:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josordoni.co.uk\/skin\/?p=358"},"modified":"2022-06-20T15:59:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T15:59:45","slug":"time-after-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josordoni.co.uk\/skin\/time-after-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Time after time…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dear Diary: End May<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oof<\/strong>.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s all I can say. This is taking such a long time, and I\u2019m starting to see a slight difference in my skin, but \u2026 oh, man. It\u2019s so slow. I started out, when? March? That\u2019s certainly when the spring light started coming in through the window and made me realise what a mess I\u2019d let my skin get into. I\u2019ll put all about that in another post, together with pictures and a list of what I\u2019ve been doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought to myself, skin turns round, bringing the lower level of the epidermis to the surface, ready to be exfoliated, in about a month, so I should be able see a real difference from the things I\u2019m doing by the end of April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ha!<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What I didn\u2019t realise was that I was talking averages. And my skin isn\u2019t average, any more than anyone\u2019s is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On average a skin cycle is 5-6 weeks. At the age of 19-21,the process can take 14-21 days compared to a middle-aged adult where it is estimated to be 28 days, which is what I expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we grow older, this skin cycle slows to about 45-60 days<\/strong> in our 40’s and 50’s. It can further slow to about 60-90<\/strong> days in our 50’s and 60’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What? 90 days<\/strong>? Three months? And that is just one skin cycle, and it can take two or three skin cycles to see a real change when using active serums. So I shouldn\u2019t be looking for a major, visible change at my age (and to remind you, I\u2019m 67 and a half, as my toddler self says) until end June for a single skin turn over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m so tempted to add in a retinol treatment, just to report back if nothing else, but until my skin stays stable for at least a fortnight, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll add anything new for now. But then, it\u2019s supposed to add so much collagen to skin, and that\u2019s what will give it that bounce and help fill in the floppy skin under my eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What to do? What would you do?<\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Diary: End May Oof. That\u2019s all I can say. This is taking such a long time, and I\u2019m starting to see a slight difference in my skin, but \u2026 oh, man. It\u2019s so slow. I started out, when? March? That\u2019s certainly when the spring light started coming in through the window and made me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21,1],"tags":[22,24,23],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diary","category-skin","category-uncategorized","tag-diary","tag-progress","tag-skin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josordoni.co.uk\/skin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josordoni.co.uk\/skin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josordoni.co.uk\/skin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josordoni.co.uk\/skin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josordoni.co.uk\/skin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josordoni.co.uk\/skin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/josordoni.co.uk\/skin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josordoni.co.uk\/skin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josordoni.co.uk\/skin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josordoni.co.uk\/skin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josordoni.co.uk\/skin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}