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ULTRACEUTICALS Ultra C23+ Firming Concentrate, $142.

EMMA

LEWISHAM Skinreset Even Skin Tone

Serum 30ml, $140.

LA PRAIRIE Skin Caviar Nighttime Oil, $780. The secret to ageing well might just be about changing your For most of my life I’ve worked in an perspective. industry – fashion – that considered the Words inevitability of JUSTINE CULLEN ageing as unthinkable, something that happened to Other People. I’m now in my forties, an age I once considered to be well past anyone’s prime, and what I’ve learnt is that, luckily – as with most things we fear – the reality isn’t nearly as bad as we anticipate it to be. I don’t wake up every morning and miserably count the new wrinkles that appear when I smile. When I notice them at all, I quite like the e ect. They make me look warm, like I know stu about life that I might tell you if you smile back. Sure, if I compared like for like against the me of a couple of decades ago, I’d notice the places where gravity has taken its toll. But when I’ve got a blow-dry and I’m really wellmoisturised, the di erence to the naked eye isn’t enough to bother me.

JURLIQUE Activating Water Essence+, $79.

Maybe my newfound ease is because our society is fi nally starting to repent its ageist ways. For every 24-year-old Hailey Bieber making me mourn the loss of my jawline, I also see a Gwyneth Paltrow, looking better than ever at 48. For every runway I see featuring lithe schoolgirls, I see a beautifully photographed ad campaign featuring someone even older than me. The idea that representation counts didn’t come from nowhere. It makes a di erence, especially when your ego is as fragile as that of a woman who just noticed her fi rst grey eyebrow hair.

These days I’m actually starting to anticipate ageing with something akin to pleasure rather than fear. I’m looking forward to getting into gardening and saying anything that comes into my head at any time and wearing too much blush and dressing more eccentrically (my look is going to be ‘Iris Apfel on Vacation’). It’s not just me, either. Studies show that self-esteem peaks around the age of 60, lasting for a full decade. I don’t know about you, but the idea of living without the paralysing self-doubt of our younger selves sounds genuinely wonderful.

I’ve realised that my fear of ageing was never about wrinkles so much as irrelevance. I don’t want to be the person who doesn’t know what Animal Crossing is, or whose musical tastes ended sharply in 2003, forever glitching on The Killers’ “Mr Brightside”. I don’t ever want to be thought of as closedminded or stuck in my ways. You know what will make you appear older than a few little crow’s feet? Getting angry and bewildered when someone tries to explain cryptocurrency to you. My anti-ageing regimen these days includes spending a lot of time on the internet and occasionally in actual life itself, trying to remain culturally au fait and keep my brain wrinkle-free. And for everything else, there’s a serum. And for everything else, there’s a serum.

Though we focus on ageing that takes place above the shoulders, body care shouldn’t be forgotten. Sisley’s new shoulders, body care shouldn’t be forgotten. Sisley’s new Black Rose Beautifying Emulsion plumps and hydrates skin, Black Rose Beautifying Emulsion plumps and hydrates skin, leaving a luxe, satin fi nish (and that addictive rose scent). leaving a luxe, satin fi nish (and that addictive rose scent). This is one tube you’ll have to hide from the household. This is one tube you’ll have to hide from the household.

SISLEY Black Rose Beautifying Emulsion, $210.

Dr Michele I WISH SOMEBODY Squire, PhDqualified scientist WOULD COME UP WITH A BETTER TERM THAN ‘ANTI-AGEING’. I use it and founder of myself because at least personal skincare coaching business everybody knows what I’m talking about, but I don’t think it adequately describes what Qr8, has some sage advice. we’re all getting at. We all know a lot more about science these days. We want science, and to understand what’s actually happening with our skin – how it behaves and how it responds, and doing what you can early to prevent things that are preventable. PEOPLE DO TOO MUCH TO THEIR SKIN BECAUSE THEY CAN. Rather than chopping and changing between di erent products, give them time to work. There’s a strange logic in beauty that you have to add something to fi x something. “My face is red, I need to start using a serum to combat that.” But it’s fl awed logic. Let your skin settle, see what it does, listen to it – and add from there. Instead of overwhelming your skin, really pay attention to it. When you buy lots of products and mix them together, what happens is typically not the result you’re looking for.

VIDA GLOW Natural Marine Collagen in Original, Cranberry & Lime and Peach, $70 for pack of 30.

overwhelming your skin, really pay attention to it. When you buy lots of products and mix them together, what happens is typically not WHAT YOU DO IN YOUR THIRTIES WILL PAY OFF IN YOUR FIFTIES (AND BEYOND). People are often looking for short-term solutions and fi xes, but ageing well is a long game. Basically, there are two types of ageing. Intrinsic ageing is genetically programmed and mostly to do with hormones, menopause and the passage of time. You can’t control that. Your hormone estrogen decreases as you age, and so the changes in your skin will follow, getting more acute as time marches on. Skin is drier from producing less sebum and less natural moisturising actives. The structure of the skin starts to disintegrate so you’re prone to more sensitive skin, which means greater di culty healing wounds (so go easy on things like microneedling). It’s a gradual decline until you hit menopause, things speed up for a period of time, then plateau again, and then speed up once more in your seventies.

But you do have some control over extrinsic ageing, which is caused by lifestyle factors such as stress, diet and exposure to pollution and UV. In Australia, around 80 to 90 per cent of the changes we see in ageing skin are produced by photodamage (UV exposure). The sun upregulates the hormones within the skin that break down collagen, which contributes to deeply wrinkled, highly pigmented and sti skin as you age. While there’s nothing you can do to stop the loss of collagen, which begins in your twenties, the simple act of applying sunscreen every single day will get you a hell of a long way.

IF THE ONLY GLOW YOU’RE GETTING IS FROM AN EXFOLIANT, YOU’RE IN TROUBLE. When you’re younger, you’re naturally glowing because your skin turnover cycle happens every your skin turnover cycle happens every month; you don’t need to do much at all month; you don’t need to do much at all to promote radiance. By your thirties, to promote radiance. By your thirties, things are starting to slow down. If you’re things are starting to slow down. If you’re

KORA ORGANICS Turmeric Brightening & Exfoliating Mask, $62.

GROWN

ALCHEMIST

Natural Hydrating Sunscreen SPF 30, $59.

in a cycle where you’re only glowing after exfoliating and the skin is dull, dry after exfoliating and the skin is dull, dry and perhaps a bit sore in between, that’s and perhaps a bit sore in between, that’s a sign that you’re really overdoing it. As a sign that you’re really overdoing it. As you get older, you want to treat the skin more gently. You really don’t need to exfoliate more than once a week with a gentle exfoliant or a nice exfoliating mask. I tend to prefer chemical exfoliants because they’re just a bit more predictable – in the wrong hands, a scrub can cause damage, unless you’re super light-touch. And then eventually when you overdo it, there’s no glow at all. It’s about supporting healthy skin – healthy skin that’s functioning at its best glows, all by itself.

YOU WANT TO HELP THINGS LOOK NICE TODAY AND TOMORROW. The way that moisturisers and eye creams work, for example, is that they add and hold water in the skin, plumping it up to help temporarily reduce the appearance of lines and wrinkles. Although it’s a temporary thing, they do contribute to helping your skin feel comfortable (especially in cold, dry weather) and give you that lovely glow that we all want. Taking ingestible collagen as part of an overall collagen preservation and plumping strategy can actually increase the collagen density in your skin. It also boosts skin hydration, which helps it to look and perform at its best.

AND DON’T WORRY, ‘TECH NECK’ HAS BEEN AROUND FOR NECK’ HAS BEEN AROUND FOR MILLENNIA. It used to be called ‘book neck’. We’ve all had our heads down ‘book neck’. We’ve all had our heads down for a long time. The neck and chest are for a long time. The neck and chest are particularly prone to gravity. When you’re particularly prone to gravity. When you’re young, you put creams on your face, you put young, you put creams on your face, you put sunscreen on your face, you put a hat on, sunscreen on your face, you put a hat on, but your neck and your chest cop the full but your neck and your chest cop the full force of the sun. It’s harder – and much force of the sun. It’s harder – and much more expensive – to reverse the signs of more expensive – to reverse the signs of ageing in general versus preventing them (if ageing in general versus preventing them (if I had some kind of miracle cure for necks I had some kind of miracle cure for necks and chests, I’d be a multibillionaire, I think). and chests, I’d be a multibillionaire, I think).

SK-II Facial Treatment

Essence 160ml, $229. SK-II’s signature formula works to improve the appearance of wrinkles, age spots and skin texture.

EMMA LEWISHAM Illuminating Exfoliant With AHA/ BHA & 24 Hour Hydration, $80. Natural physical and chemical exfoliants help to brighten, detox and hydrate skin.

LANCÔME Advanced Génifi que Youth Activating Concentrate 30ml, $110. With prebiotics and probiotics, this serum strengthens the skin’s barrier while boosting elasticity.

LA MER Genaissance De La Mer The Concentrated Night Balm, $950. Softens fi ne lines, reduces age spots and fi rms skin while you sleep.

ESTÉ ÉE LAUDER E LAUDER Advanced Night Repair Eye Advanced Night Repair Eye Concentrate Matrix, $125. Concentrate Matrix, $125. For tired eyes, this helps For tired eyes, this helps to reduce pu ness to reduce pu ness and dark circles. and dark circles.

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Immortelle Divine

Cream, $152.

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Because ageing gracefully is as much a mental game is as much a mental game as it is a physical one, as it is a physical one, stock your bathroom stock your bathroom cabinet with indulgent cabinet with indulgent skincare. These timefi ghting favourites make the ritual of self-care feel the ritual of self-care feel as revitalising as any as revitalising as any tricked-up formula. tricked-up formula.

CHANEL Hydra Hydra Beauty Camellia Glow Beauty Camellia Glow Concentrate, $124. Concentrate, $124. Press reset with Press reset with gentle exfoliation gentle exfoliation and powerful and powerful hydration in this gel-like formula.

GROWN ALCHEMIST AgeRepair Moisturiser, $75. Intense hydration to plump and restore skin gently.

LIBERTY BELLE RX Braveheart Deep Clean Botanical Foaming Gel Cleanser, $70. Lactic acid deep cleans, clarifying pores and boosting radiance.

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