Should you buy an anti-wrinkle straw to stop lines around your lips?
From fillers to creams, there are plenty of 治療s 約束ing to help 妨げる wrinkles around the mouth.
Many older women now rue their youthful smoking habit for giving them いわゆる barcode lines above their upper lip from years of pursing.
And though Gen Z may have turned their 支援するs on smoking, drinking and other bad behaviours, there’s another habit they have 選ぶd up that is 明らかに 原因（となる）ing them their own lip problems: cups with an in-built straw.
The breakout ― and somewhat baffling ― 傾向 of last year was the Stanley Cup, a combination of a Thermos-style flask and a child’s sippy cup. Celebrities and TikTok-mad twenty-somethings embraced the cup and others like it in their droves, raving about the fact it ‘keeps you hydrated’.
The straw bends sideways and has a 穴を開ける in the 最高の，を越す. Like playing a flute in 逆転する, you loosely 包む your lips around it as you suck away
It also keeps 冷淡な drinks 冷淡な and hot drinks hot, which is 明白に 革命の. The sexy thing is to walk around with it while sipping through the straw.
Now, to 回避する straw-induced 災害 in the 形態／調整 of what cosmetic doctors call ‘peri-oral lines’ (and to make a quick buck), someone’s managed to 納得させる Gen Z ― who, によれば a 熟考する／考慮する, 消費する more skincare than all other 世代s ― that they need to 投資する in an ‘anti-wrinkle straw’ ーするために keep their pout ‘forever youthful’.
Said straw, which can be bought in multipacks on アマゾン from さまざまな brands starting at £5 for four, bends sideways and has a 穴を開ける in the 最高の，を越す. Like playing a flute, you loosely 包む your lips around it as you suck away. The idea is that it dispenses with the need to 極端に purse your mouth around a tiny tube.
ビデオs tagged ‘anti-wrinkle straw’ have had over 600 million 見解（をとる）s on TikTok as enthusiastic, and mostly young, drinkers go into ecstasies over it. One twenty-something influencer, with ?typical 欠如（する） of understatement, ?布告するs it ‘かもしれない the best anti-高齢化 発明 ever’. So, are they on to something?
Ladies, I’m all for looking after your health and 肌 to ?意味ありげに put the breaks on the ageing 過程. I have not ?sunbathed for 30 years, never go to bed without a 洗浄するd 直面する, have an intricate skincare 政権 and am committed to 演習 and eating my five-a-day. But an anti-wrinkle straw is not ?something I’ll be embracing.
‘What’s next ― anti-wrinkle cigarettes?’ says cosmetic 内科医 and skincare 専門家 Dr Wassim Taktouk, when I explain the straw. ‘What abject nonsense.
‘Yes, pursing lips over a lifetime will 結局 see lines setting in ― as does 40 years of talking, laughing and 表明するing yourself. Making 半端物 duck lips as …に反対するd to fully pursed ones on the 半端物 occasion you use a straw is really not going to slow this 過程.’
Anti-wrinkle straws start at £5 for four on shopping websites such as アマゾン, but skincare 専門家s say （人命などを）奪う，主張するs they can 妨げる wrinkles are 疑わしい
The onset of any wrinkles, he 追加するs, is まず第一に／本来 原因（となる）d by ?collagen loss and 独房 破壊 予定 to sun 損失, a いっそう少なく than nutritious diet and bad habits such as smoking (more so for 推論する／理由s of 吸い込むing 毒（薬） than 執拗な pursing) and drinking.
Using a daily high-SPF moisturiser (I like No7 未来 新たにする 損失 保護 Defence 保護物，者 SPF50, £24.95) is what is going to preve nt wrinkles for this 世代, he says.
He recommends SkinCeuticals CE Ferulic High Potency ３倍になる Antioxidant 治療, £165, because it’s proven to neutralise 損失ing 汚染物s, and 潜在的に a 肌-regenerating retinol for those approaching their 30s (try Elizabeth Arden Retinol + HPR Ceramide 早い 肌 新たにするing Water Cream, £60).
‘Those are the building 封鎖するs of 広大な／多数の／重要な 肌 that will make a difference to how you age,’ he says. ‘Buying into fads won’t.’
So, that’s one thing you can 除去する from your beauty shopping 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）, whatever your age.
