Nothing has slackened
What bothers you is on the surface: texture, acne marks, the first spots. Filling a face that is still full makes it heavier, not younger.
La DC Lettre · free · for women
Which treatment is right for you? The complete guide, before you invest thousands.
Subscribe to La DC Lettre and get the guide: what is worth your money at your age, what can wait, and what should not be sold to you yet.
- What is worth doing now, decade by decade
- What needs an injection, and what does not
- The price of every treatment, to compare before you pay
- What should not be sold to you yet
The problem
You are not short of information. You are short of sorting.
A thirty-second video explains a treatment without knowing your age, your skin, or what you have already had done. A clinic offers you its package. A friend tells you about hers. Each is right for herself, and none answers your question.
What changes everything
Every decade has its real needs, and they look nothing alike
The same treatment, ten years too early, is money you will not see. Here is what the guide says, decade by decade.
A first line stays at rest
And hormones often join in: melasma, hair shedding. Treated early and lightly, that line needs less product than it will in five years.
Jawline and neck move together
It is the decade where the wrong diagnosis costs the most: slackened skin, slipped volume and fat under the chin are not treated the same way.
Menopause changes the ground
Skin quality comes before everything else. And no device removes skin: past a certain slackening, that has to be said before, not after.
What the guide gives you
Enough to choose, rather than be sold to.
For every concern, the guide separates what a device does without placing anything under the skin from what needs a needle, states the honest limit of each, and shows the price. The day someone offers you something that matches neither your age nor what bothers you, you will know, and you will know which question to ask.
What it does not replace
The person looking at your face.
A nurse or a medical esthetician sees what a PDF never will. Listen to her. The guide is there to understand what she proposes, not to argue with her.
We respect your choice. We just want it to be a choice.
A look inside
The first three pages, with nothing to leave in exchange
You judge from the real thing before giving your address. The rest follows exactly the same hand.
Contents
Four decades, then five concerns
Ages 20 to 29
Your twenties
At this age, almost nothing has slackened yet. What bothers you comes from the surface: skin texture, acne marks, the first spots. It is also the decade where you can build a lead you will never make up later.
Ages 30 to 39
Your thirties
This is the decade of the first line that no longer goes away. Often also the decade of a pregnancy, which leaves its own marks: melasma, hair shedding a few months later, a complexion that has lost its glow.
Ages 40 to 49
Your forties
The decade when firmness starts to speak up. The jawline shifts, the cheeks lose a little of their support, and perimenopause often arrives before anyone names it. It is also the age where combining two approaches gives more than pushing one.
Ages 50 and up
Fifty and beyond
Menopause speeds up what had been moving slowly: skin loses collagen faster in the first years, it dries out, and hair thins. None of that gets fixed with one thing, and nobody should sell you otherwise.
Lines and firmness
4 without injection · 3 with injection
Jawline and contour
2 without injection · 4 with injection
Spots and glow
4 without injection · 1 with injection
Texture and pores
5 without injection · 1 with injection
Hair density
1 without injection · 1 with injection
