Based on my experience, the headline is right. The money I spent was dwarfed by the extra money I made afterwards. It is just my own experience, but I think it is a cool hack: look the part to get more money.
To give more details, after having studied skin care a bit with the help of google scholar and reddit, I came to the conclusion that wrinkles are multifactorial and due to:
- facial fat depletion : https://www.patelplasticsurgery.com/uploads/5/2/8/8/52880409...
- change in the collagen structure, with less elasticity, likely purely due to sun damage
- gravity pulling the damaged tissue down
For facial fat depletion, there is fat transfer. For the effect of gravity, there is facelifts. Both work wonder.
For changes in the skin structure however, I have tried non fractional CO2 resurfacing, which is said to be much more effective than fraxel. But it did not give drastic results unlike the 2 others.
The article talks about RF microneedling. I wonder if someone here on HN tried, and could comment about the procedure.
I'm thinking about doing that myself next time I travel. Other alternatives are "vampire microneedling", where basically PRP is put on the skin then microneedling is done in the hope that some growth factors will seep though.
The reddit skincare community is wonderful - lots of crazy smart people digging article and testing on themselves, a genuine hacker spirit. I tried one of their suggestions that seemed crazy at the time: acetylsalycilic acid to reduce skin oilyness. It was so simple, so cheap, yet so efficient!
Now I am going to test a skin routine to fix my skin texture: niacin serum in the morning, then sunscreen, and retinol at night, then moisturizer.
It's fun to consider the body has a computer than you can upgrad with surgeries or hack with chemicals applied on the skin!
