Which is worse for your skin ?

Festy · 11-05-2013 6:53am #1

Smoking,drinking or to much sun ? No chance of the last one in this country but I included it anyways :pac

racso1975 · 11-05-2013 6:57am

all can be cured by a good facial!!!! I 'll gladly help ya on that front

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 11-05-2013 6:57am

There was a picture of a truck driver's face, where the side that faced the window was much more wrinkled than the other. Pretty crazy, google truck driver tan you'll probably get it.

Festy · 11-05-2013 6:57am

racso1975 wrote: »

all can be cured by a good facial!!!! I 'll gladly help ya on that front

Is that you Pat Bateman ?

monflat · 11-05-2013 6:59am

Festy wrote: »

Smoking,drinking or to much sun ? No chance of the last one in this country but I included it anyways :pac

Smoking I think
this is based on the smokers I know..... around their mouth they are destroyed with wrinkles and they have that yellow tinge off them !
Like wallpaper in a smokers room all yellow and dirty

Festy · 11-05-2013 7:01am

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »

There was a picture of a truck driver's face, where the side that faced the window was much more wrinkled than the other. Pretty crazy, google truck driver tan you'll probably get it.

Is it this guy ? If so,damn :eek:

DEFTLEFTHAND · 11-05-2013 7:05am

Sun is much worse, just look at those rednecks in the south of the USA or Aussies. :pac:

Smoking depends on how much you use the product, One third of tobacco smokers develop illness as a result of the habit. These are the statistics so I presume the other two thirds suffer no harm.

Festy · 11-05-2013 7:08am

monflat wrote: »

Smoking I think
this is based on the smokers I know..... around their mouth they are destroyed with wrinkles and they have that yellow tinge off them !
Like wallpaper in a smokers room all yellow and dirty

True,but with heavy drinkers they look flushed in the face 24/7.I don't know which looks worse tbh.

monflat · 11-05-2013 7:12am

Festy wrote: »

True,but with heavy drinkers they look flushed in the face 24/7.I don't know which looks worse tbh.

Yep u right both drinking and smoking constrict the blood vessel s to the skin
Then again it all depends on the person where they live exposure etc

Pumpkinseeds · 11-05-2013 7:57am

The sun I'd say. My Dad used to do a lot of driving and he ended up with a malignant tumour on his face. Fortunately he had a great surgeon that was able to reconstruct the area he'd had the tumour removed from, it had left a huge hole in his cheek.

I saw a programme a few years ago where they used some special camera to show the damage done to skin by UV light. The surface skin looked fine but the damage already caused was horrendous. No matter what time of year I wear a high factor skin cream.

Tom_Cruise · 11-05-2013 8:09am

I often wonder this. No matter what i do my skin is always terrible. I often see people with flawless skin, people who eat crap and drink heavily. Ive come to realise that its just down to genetics really. The more you worry about your skin the more you notice the flaws.

JustAThought · 11-05-2013 8:12am

Feck -that guys face is ruined. AND he smoked

Schnitzel Muncher · 11-05-2013 8:14am

racso1975 wrote: »

all can be cured by a good facial!!!! I 'll gladly help ya on that front

Sounds a bit gay. Try a faeces facial instead, i hear they are all the rage.

Festy · 11-05-2013 8:15am

JustAThought wrote: »

Feck -that guys face is ruined. AND he smoked

True,but when your in your mid 60's and you look like he does will you really give a fcuk ? I highly doubt it.

Shenshen · 11-05-2013 10:23am

Festy wrote: »

Smoking,drinking or to much sun ? No chance of the last one in this country but I included it anyways :pac

From growing up in more Southern climes (Germany), I would say too much sun is the worst.

You don't really see that here, but back home you get a certain type of middle aged women, usually with fairly affluent husbands, who definintely spent WAY too much time in the sun - on summer holidays, on skiing holidays, and on sun beds in between holidays. And the best way to describe their skin would be "wrinkly roast turkey". They look properly scary.

That said, smoking and drinking aren't great either.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 11-05-2013 11:01am

monflat wrote: »

Smoking I think
this is based on the smokers I know..... around their mouth they are destroyed with wrinkles and they have that yellow tinge off them !
Like wallpaper in a smokers room all yellow and dirty

Again it all depends on how much you use the product, a chain smoker might develop yellow teeth over a decade or more. The beige tinge, cigarette smoking is good for two thirds of us :pac:, it calms nerves and soothes the worried mind.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 11-05-2013 11:11am

Depends on the skin - I have psoriasis and excess sun is vey good for it. It would also depend on whether or not you weargin wearing good sun bloc. If not, sun. If so, smoking.

Wibbs · 11-05-2013 11:15am

While all are bad, I'd say sun exposure is the worst. Look at people with very dark skin, they have built in sunblock and as a result they get far fewer wrinkles than pale skinned people. The old "black don't crack" notion has a lot of truth in it. Genetics and gender play a part too. Men have thicker skin so damage takes longer to show.

cypressg · 11-05-2013 11:27am

I never wear sunscreen,I mean what did they do a hundred years ago when they were out in the sun working all day?One of the biggest cons going today,there are people who put sunscreen on everyday before they go out lol!.

Slutmonkey57b · 11-05-2013 11:32am

What did they do 100 years ago? Get ill, get wrinkly, get joint and musculoskeletal problems and die young, for the most part....

Festy · 03-06-2013 6:53am

Wibbs wrote: »

While all are bad, I'd say sun exposure is the worst. Look at people with very dark skin, they have built in sunblock and as a result they get far fewer wrinkles than pale skinned people. The old "black don't crack" notion has a lot of truth in it. Genetics and gender play a part too. Men have thicker skin so damage takes longer to show.

The joys of being a man

IM0 · 03-06-2013 7:12am

sun obviously, the others effect you internally more, your organs, you know the bits that actually matter

Victor · 03-06-2013 7:25am

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Smoking depends on how much you use the product, One third of tobacco smokers develop illness as a result of the habit.

Do you mean "One third of tobacco smokers develop illness as a result of the habit." or "One third of tobacco smokers develop a skin illness as a result of the habit. " becuase most smokers have some illness and it seems half of all smokers die from a smoking-related issue.

Victor · 03-06-2013 7:28am

cypressg wrote: »

I mean what did they do a hundred years ago when they were out in the sun working all day?

And they're all dead now. In fact, many were dead by 60.

starling · 03-06-2013 7:33am

No matter whether you actually develop a more serious condition like lung cancer etc, smoking damages your skin, affecting blood flow and how much oxygen gets to the tissues etc. And the body concentrates on trying to cope with damage to the internal organs first, it's like a triage system in an A&E department, the skin is way down the priority list.

Actual doctors and dermatologists will all tell you that smoking is the no.1 worst thing for your skin, closely followed by too much sun.

Personally I wear sunscreen every day but then I've seen how much UV damage I already had by the age of 30 and it put the fear of god into me.

pirelli · 03-06-2013 8:02am

Wibbs wrote: »

While all are bad, I'd say sun exposure is the worst. Look at people with very dark skin, they have built in sunblock and as a result they get far fewer wrinkles than pale skinned people. The old "black don't crack" notion has a lot of truth in it. Genetics and gender play a part too. Men have thicker skin so damage takes longer to show.

Genetics you say

The sun may be unpleasant for our skin if not dangerous but think of the legacy we pass on to our children.We are making their skin genetically better by staying in the sun.

Burn blister, and peel for the future.

--Kaiser-- · 03-06-2013 12:51pm

Wibbs wrote: »

While all are bad, I'd say sun exposure is the worst. Look at people with very dark skin, they have built in sunblock and as a result they get far fewer wrinkles than pale skinned people. The old "black don't crack" notion has a lot of truth in it. Genetics and gender play a part too. Men have thicker skin so damage takes longer to show.

Black people naturally have thicker skin, which I think would be a more important factor (as an analogy, which gets wrinkly first, a shirt or a jumper?). I know people who are out in the sun all day long and yet could pass for someone 10 or 20 years younger. They don't smoke, however.....

Reindeer · 03-06-2013 1:33pm

Dunno bout you guys, but I can't remember ever having drank or smoked so much that my skin burned red and fell off.

starling · 03-06-2013 1:46pm

Reindeer wrote: »

Dunno bout you guys, but I can't remember ever having drank or smoked so much that my skin burned red and fell off.

The damage from smoking & drinking takes longer to be noticeable, but that doesn't mean it's not happening...once it's noticeable, it's too late to do anything about it without some serious cosmetic procedures

yore · 03-06-2013 1:48pm

racso1975 wrote: »

all can be cured by a good facial!!!! I 'll gladly help ya on that front

Ah jaysus. Ya poor oul' eejit. Did you really fall for that one? And did he also tell you that it was as good as three Hail Marys for penance?

--Kaiser-- · 03-06-2013 2:02pm

Festy wrote: »

Is it this guy ? If so,damn :eek:

Something dubious about this photo. There are thousands upon thousands of truck drivers driving around in the sun, do they all look like this? I doubt it

Which is worse for your skin ?

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