Do Your Stretch Marks Cause You Much Anguish?
Stretch marks can develop anywhere on your body. Even the facial areas, neck, head and shoulders, under and upper arms, and stomach. They are the result of expansion and contraction of your skin. Stretch marks cause your skin to look like ruptures. Some stretch marks are permanent. Therefore, you can only reduce them.
Your skin represents the largest organ of your body. It covers and stretches from your head to your toes. It is flexible and pliable. It moves and changes with you.
When stretch marks become visible on the surface, they show the physical signs of decay, breaking, ripping, and stretching of these connective tissues, fibers, and skin-elements.
What causes stretch marks?
When you are pregnant, you grow taller, wider, and heavier. As a result, your skin stretches. Sometimes the fibers that connect cells and tissue reach their maximum elasticity. Therefore, they break, tear, and rip. They leave you with awful markings, edges, bumps, and scaly 'scars' on the surface of your epidermis, the outer-layers of your skin.
Stretch marks often happen as your weight fluctuates. Skin fibers, cells, membranes, and walls are stretched beyond capacity until they break. Both men and women struggle to get rid of stretch marks.
Puberty and growth spurts can lead to the development of stretch marks. Your bodies are not stagnant, but changing all the times.
Other contributing factors that can cause stretch marks include
Stretch mark is not a medical condition that you need treatment immediately. It doesn't cause pain. You won't notice it until it is visible. It appears from a slight pinkish red, pale skin-coloration, purple, to silvery white. It shows different stages of development of stretch mark.
You can try to hide or cover them with make-ups. You may even change your diet and try some topical creams to remove those ugly markings. Stretch marks can happen to anyone. However, they are likely to develop in teenage girls and pregnant women.
Based on your personal experience, you may express shock and horror when you discover stretch marks on your bodies. Whether you like it or not, you are stuck with them. Even you can't get rid of them permanently; you can reduce the appearance of stretch marks.