8 Creative Beauty Hacks Celebrities Swear By for Preventing Wrinkles

by Jason Pham / Tuesday, 27 March 2018

Whether we want to or not, everyone ages. Not only is it a part of life, but it’s essentially life itself. And with aging, as many of you probably know, come wrinkles. While they are a beautiful sign of life’s experiences, they’re a telltale sign of how old we are, a detail our society has conditioned us to keep secret. Whatever your feelings are on wrinkles, it’s inevitable that all of us will have them. When they’ll appear is the real question.

We’ve rounded up seven lesser-known beauty hacks celebrities use to prevent wrinkles. Stars such as Kim Kardashian, Salma Hayek, and Angelina Jolie swear by these tips, from the game-changing trick you can do in your sleep to the drugstore lip balm with potent anti-aging properties. If you’re fine with your wrinkles, that’s cool. If you want to prevent them, that’s cool too—no judgment: Perhaps these remedies will help you hold onto your younger-looking appearance a little longer.

Sofia Richie—Aquaphor

She might be 19 years old, but Richie is already worried about wrinkles.
To prevent them down the line, the model told E! News that she sleeps with
Aquaphor, everyone's favorite multipurpose balm, under her eyes.
Considering that Aquaphor contains glycerine, a humectant that promotes
faster cell regeneration, it's not crazy that she believes it prevents wrinkles.
However, if you do try Richie's hack, proceed with caution, as the cult-favorite
balm can also cause acne for some.

“I sleep with it under my eyes because I heard it prevents bags. I’m just
a freak about bags and wrinkles,” Richie said.
A post shared by Kourtney Kardashian (@kourtneykardash) on Feb 14, 2018 at 6:08pm PST

Kourtney Kardashian—Silk Pillowcases

For Kourtney, preventing wrinkles is as easy as switching out
your pillowcase. You might've heard the hubbub around silk-lined items.
In addition to protecting your hair from split ends and keeping it shiny, silk is
also great for the skin. As Kourt wrote on her website and app, silk's
"natural fibers contain amino acids, which are really important for collagen
production and anti-aging." Silk also helps the skin retain its moisture,
a key in preventing fine lines.

"When I have forgotten to travel with it, I instantly notice a difference
on my face with one night of sleeping on a cotton pillowcase," Kourtney
wrote in a post titled "The Item I Swear By for Beauty Sleep."
A post shared by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Mar 16, 2018 at 3:49pm PDT

Kim Kardashian—Sleeping on Your Back

If you're anything like us and can't be bothered by complicated,
time-consuming skin-care remedies, Kim's easy wrinkle-prevention
hack might be for you. In an interview with InStyle, Kim's dermatologist,
Dr. Harold Lancer, revealed the number-one tip he gives to his top client
to prevent fine lines: Sleep on your back. According to Lancer, sleeping
on your face or your side can cause your skin to fold into your pillow,
leading to dark circles and wrinkles over time. To prevent this, he
recommends sleeping on your back, which can also prevent wrinkles
on your body, along with your face.

To avoid this, try to sleep on your back; it doesn’t just benefit your face,
but other areas of your body, like the chest, from potential wrinkles,"
Lancer said.
A post shared by Kate Hudson (@katehudson) on Sep 23, 2017 at 7:08pm PDT

Kate Hudson—Wash Your Face with Ice Water

Cold spoons is an age-old trick to reduce eye puffiness and dark circles.
So what do you do if you want to de-puff your entire face? Splash it with
cold water. Though it's not as effective as taking a giant spoon to your
face (can you even do that?) celebrities such as Hudson believe that
a couple handfuls of ice-cold water every morning makes a difference in
preventing fine lines over time. Of course, Hudson learned the trick from
her mom, timeless Hollywood beauty, Goldie Hawn.

"It sounds
old-fashioned," Hudson told the Daily Mail, "but my mom told me this one
years ago, and it works. You just get a bowl and fill it with ice. Wash your
face with the ice water, and—poof—the puff is gone."
A post shared by Salma Hayek Pinault (@salmahayek) on Mar 13, 2018 at 12:23pm PDT

Salma Hayek—Not Washing Your
Face in the Morning

Hayek believes that washing your face only once a day is the secret
to preventing wrinkles. In an interview on ITV's "Lorraine," the actress
revealed that she washes her face only at night. She does this to preserve
the natural oils her skin develops while she sleeps. Though an oily
face might seem like a nightmare to some, Hayek is a strong believer that
these natural oils are the secrets to youthful-looking skin.

“One strange tip—don't wash it in the morning, at all. Never, because at night
your skin is rebuilding some of the oils that you need to keep your skin
young, and it balances the pH," Hayek said. "So in the morning you can
splash it with water, or do something mild—but you don't want to get rid
of that. And if your skin is dirty in the morning, it means you didn't
clean well at night.”
A post shared by Cameron Diaz (@camerondiaz) on Nov 8, 2016 at 10:03am PST

Cameron Diaz—Sex

The word is still out on whether a postcoital glow is a real thing, but for Diaz,
sex is a surefire way to keep her skin looking young. "It's something healthy
that we need to be doing for many different reasons," Cameron told
Cosmopolitan U.K. Magazine in 2015.

The actress also spoke about the skin-care benefits of sex in an interview
with British Vogue in 2010, in which she called it the secret for her
"fountain of youth." "The fountain of youth [for me], let's see...I guess
it's exercise, healthy diet, lots of water, lots of laughter, lots of sex—yes,
sex, we need that as human beings," Cameron said.
A post shared by Kylie (@kyliejenner) on Mar 16, 2018 at 9:45am PDT

Kylie Jenner—Applying Moisturizer
with a Brush

When Jenner announced on her app and website that she uses
a $72 brush to apply her moisturizer, beauty lovers looked at
her like she was crazy. But the reality star has a good reason for ditching
her hands when applying skin-care products. Along with oftentimes being
cleaner than your hands (dirt and bacteria on your nails and fingers can
cause acne, you know), using a brush reduces the amount of tugging and
pulling on your skin—things that can cause wrinkles in the long run.
A post shared by Angelina Jolie (@angelinajolieofficial) on Mar 22, 2018 at 9:44am PDT

Angelina Jolie—Caviar

In addition to being bougie and delicious, caviar also has powerful
skin-care properties—something Jolie knows very well. According
to the Daily Mail, the Oscar winner is a big fan of Prairie's Skin Caviar
(which contains actual fish eggs) to maintain her vampire-like youth.
The cream, which contains sturgeon eggs, not only softens and hydrates
the skin with fats, but it's also known to regenerate skin cells.