Experts have weighed in on the main question aesthetics practitioners ask during tweakment assessments…<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Black Han Sans|||on|||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font=”|||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]
Words by Cassie Steer<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/11\/GettyImages-1879530317.jpg” alt=”Woman looking in mirror” title_text=”Woman looking in the mirror and examining her skin and hair” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” content__hover_enabled=”off|desktop” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″ custom_padding=”||0px|||”] Whether you align with the pro-ageing, slow-ageing or blitz-the-merest-hint-of-a-wrinkle \u2018anti-ageing\u2019 faction, the truth of the matter is that every single one of our faces is going to change as we get older. It\u2019s something to be celebrated (as Drew Barrymore so eloquently put it, \u201cif you age you\u2019re lucky; the alternative is death\u201d). But whilst the narrative around anti-ageing is shifting (\u2018slow ageing\u2019 has been tipped by Mintel to be the biggest beauty trend for 2025 and is essentially the skincare embodiment of noise cancelling headphones) it’s a conversation that we are never quite able to escape whatever guise it takes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n As women, we are subject to a cacophony of conflicting messaging about how we are supposed to be ageing and a quick scan of the comments boxes of celebrities over the age of 40 will quickly reveal whether they are deemed to be ageing \u2018gracefully\u2019 (the nebulous benchmark) or \u2018badly\u2019 `implying that there is a right or wrong way to age. Add in the cruel paradox of cosmetic tweakments purportedly \u2018ageing\u2019 Gen Z faster than their Gen X counterparts and it shows that even the youngsters who don\u2019t have a wrinkle between them are not immune from the tyranny of impossible ageing standards.\u00a0<\/p>\n But whilst \u2018pro-aging\u2019 (taking a positive approach to getting older and embracing self-acceptance) is all very well and good, some of us would still like to feel as though we have some agency over how our skin ages in order to feel fully empowered and that\u2019s where an Instagram post by journalist, author and founder of \u2018The Tweakments Guide\u2019 Alice Hart-Davis caught my attention. She posed the question \u201cAre you a \u2018sagger\u2019, \u2018sinker\u2019 or \u2018wrinkler\u2019?\u201d, terms she explained she\u2019d first heard at a tweakments event; \u201cIt turns out that if you\u2019re an aesthetic practitioner, among the many factors you\u2019ll be considering when assessing a patients face is; are they a sinker a sagger or a wrinkler?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”] In a recent article on Hart-Davis\u2019 The Tweakments Guide website, she delves into the phenomenon with the help of leading aesthetic doctor (and Grazia favourite), Dr David Jack about what each of those might look like. \u201cWhen we look at how people\u2019s faces age, there are three main categories,\u201d he told Hart-Davis. \u201cIs your face losing volume like a slowly deflating balloon? Then you\u2019re probably a \u2018sinker\u2019. Does your skin look like it\u2019s sliding away from the bone structure underneath? Then you\u2019re a \u2018sagger\u2019. And the \u2018wrinkler\u2019 obviously speaks for itself.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n I immediately identify myself as a \u2018sinker\u2019 but what do I do with this knowledge and is it simply another thing to be worried about?\u00a0 \u201cNone of these sound particularly appealing, but it\u2019s just the result of how our genes \u2013 plus the effects of our lifestyle choices \u2013 play out over time in our faces,\u201d says Hart-Davis. \u201cIt\u2019s not something to stress about. We are as we are.\u201d<\/p>\n Whether we choose to do something to counteract the way our faces will change\u00a0(skincare such as retinols, peptides and SPF can definitely help the \u2018wrinklers\u2019 out there but if you\u2019re looking to restore volume or firm-up sagging such as jowls, tweakments such as fillers and radiofrequency are the only things that will have any noticeable effects) perhaps there\u2019s simply something in acknowledging what mother nature has in store for us; knowledge is power after all. And that way we feel more empowered to accept and embrace the changes as they come.<\/p>\n Cassie Steer is acting head of beauty at Grazia with over 25 years\u2019 experience on women\u2019s glossies. She previously served as Beauty Director at Instyle and beauty editor at Marie Claire and her work has featured in Stylist, Sunday Times Style, the Telegraph, net-a-porter.com, glamour.com amongst many more<\/em><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”] Photo: <\/b>IMAGO<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Experts have weighed in on the main question aesthetics practitioners ask during tweakment assessments…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"guestgrazia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4910"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4916,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions\/4916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}if you’re an aesthetics practitioner, this is the first question you’re asking<\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”2px” module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]