Volume Loss: Real Reasons Why Your Skin is Sinking

What’s the deal with fullness? Too much – or too little – on the body, and we’re miserable. Too little on the face, and we’re staring back a version of ourselves that we thought we’d never see; older, aged and tired. Losing that fullness of skin youth is essentially volume loss, with tissue that, as the years go by, starts to waste away as we naturally lose support proteins, collagen and elastin. Too depressing? There’s more. However, that doesn’t mean there’s lots you can do about volume loss to bring back the bounce. Hold tight.

What’s Going On Regardless: The Real Truth of Intrinsic Ageing

Despite the best of intentions, a lifestyle done perfectly – clean eating, frequent exercise, great sleep, and managed stress – can’t erase skin ageing. Unfortunately, even those who’ve lived virtuously get older, and while you can push your health gains, you can’t control your skin through lifestyle alone. This is because intrinsic ageing happens whether we’ve lived with wellbeing in mind or not. And yes, that means lines and wrinkles, but it also means volume loss. It happens because every year we lose 1% of collagen and skin hydration, as well as the deep fat that keeps the face beautifully plump. To top it all off, our muscle mass also dips over time. By age 60, we see up to around 200 cc of lost facial volume. And that means a hollow-looking, tired, and unsupported skin, even with the best lifestyle habits in place.

Building Volume That Counts: How To Win Back Skin Bounce

Before you throw a healthy and well-living out the window, know that what you’re doing is great for skin anyway. Teamed with in-clinic treatments to preserve and push collagen and hydration, and you can restore what age pulls out. Think about stimulating collagen with gold-standard injectables like dermal volumisers that also strategically fill sunken hollows. Carboxytherapy also boosts collagen production by revving up blood flow and oxygen supply to the skin, which needs cell renewal.

For better hydration, skin needling (another collagen multiplier) can be done in tandem with other treatments such as Laser Genesis, injectables, and Transdermal Mesotherapy. Helping push hydration, this type of duo therapy immediately plumps up thirsty skin. Your goal is to also support ageing skin cell turnover, and so heat energy treatments like radiofrequency can precisely penetrate the skin at the dermal level (the mid-layer of the skin that provides structure, strength and elasticity), thereby stimulating fibroblasts. These fibroblasts help not only with structural support but also with tissue repair, so a treatment like The Secret RF Microneedling gives you dermal care for your fibroblasts, plus the advantage of controlled injuries from micro-needling. Basically, visible skin tightening for a face that needs a solution and thorough care before any further volume loss.

Some things are just inevitable. Your tax return, your school reunion and your second cousin’s wedding that your boyfriend wasn’t invited to. Despite your best attempts, all of these have to be dealt with. It’s the same with skin volume loss. At some point, it’s going to need your attention even if you eat like a saint and never skip a day’s workout. That’s the power of well-chosen in-clinic treatments, though; building your collagen, restoring volume through injectables and rejuvenating skin with cleverly combined treatments – the power is back in your hands.