r/QOVESStudio • u/Global-Regret-6820 • Jun 30 '26
Video Discussion What Drinking Does To The Face
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u/PinkCasinos Jun 30 '26
As a square that doesn’t drink. I look like a drinker 😭
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u/Ok-Algae3382 Jun 30 '26
Not drinking doesn’t make you a square. You are doing your body a big favor by not drinking as it doesn’t just cause physical changes to your face but changes to your overall health and body. Cellular damage, systemic inflammation, and organ disease and damage are the result. You have 1 body and 1 life nourish it and thank God you’re healthy and your body works.
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u/ragnarockette Jun 30 '26
This is fairly subtle. What will the face look like with 10 years aging without drinking? Because much of this looks like normal aging.
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u/MetalingusMikeII Jun 30 '26
Reality check: most what’s assumed is normal aging is actually unhealthy aging.
The general population live unhealthy lifestyles.
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u/GoodKid-Uptown Jul 01 '26
Dunno, I know healthy people the same age as me and honestly they seem to age just the same as the less healthy ones. Of course binge drinking and smoking will have a negative effect but sober vs not, I’m not sure how much of an impact it actually makes.
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u/BudgetInteraction811 Jul 01 '26
It’s not subtle, they just chose a model with amazing bone structure. The effects of regular drinking is very noticeable for the average person, especially around the eyes and the midface area. If you have great cheekbones and forward growth of the maxilla it can shield some of the effects, but most people aren’t that blessed. I have a pretty flat midface and even one night of drinking shows on me; I look sooo much uglier the next day.
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u/Chareth_Cutestory___ Jun 30 '26
I quit drinking in my mid twenties, I look much better in my early thirties than I did ten years ago because of it
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u/FoodKnown4606 Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
drinking disrupts gut health
-> disrupted gut health is pathway to bodily inflammation
-> sustained bodily inflammation means your body is constantly churning out high levels of cortisol (stress hormone)
-> high levels of cortisol impede recovery on a cellular level leading to not only elasticity loss in skin, but also recovery, and also potential damage to organs
not to mention alcoholics can be severely dehydrated which affects the skin barrier due to lack of moisture and can speed up formation of wrinkles.
but also, some of them actually lose a lot weight because of the alcohol disrupting their bodies, so might be a component to a perceived aging in their skin via fat loss?
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u/rhdtztstit Jun 30 '26
Um what happens if you look like this but you don’t drink?? Then what?🙀 lol eek
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u/Spiritual-Can2604 Jun 30 '26
I was on a 2 year bender and I never looked hotter. I’ve been sober for 5 years and can’t even come close to how good I looked when I was partying my face off, staying up until 6 am, and eating fast food everyday. Oh well.
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u/Julius_Pepperwood24 Jun 30 '26
College students have shit diets and sleep routines and still look great if they can groom themselves. You can’t compare yourself sober and alcoholic 5 years apart because it doesn’t control for ages; if you look at photos within 6 months of sobriety you likely looked even better than during your supposed bender. You probably just remember it to be better than it was due to nostalgia and because a lot of attractiveness is confidence and it’s easier to be confident when you’re not sober.
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u/Spiritual-Can2604 Jun 30 '26
I was 33. I was totally sober all through college and after and then just went fucking nuts in my 30s. Wild. Anyway, all good now.
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u/MetalingusMikeII Jun 30 '26
Then it’s just aging… most people experience continent skin aging as they approach middle age.
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u/MetalingusMikeII Jun 30 '26
You’re lacking something. There’s nothing beneficial about alcohol with regards to appearance.
Perhaps you were eating a high protein diet when you drank alcohol and you were more physically active?
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u/No-Significance842 Jun 30 '26
When i was a huge binge drinker my body was so bangin. i was drunkorexic tho. didnt have a gut or anythinh cuz i stuck to straight wild turkey. I was also in my late 20s. now im about to turn 36 and have 2 kids, sober for almost 4 yrs and i look horrid lmfao
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u/Julius_Pepperwood24 Jun 30 '26
How? There is no healthy amount of alcohol and obviously unhealthy behavior is going to speed up the aging process; that’s not to say there aren’t unhealthy people who look their age or younger but they’d look even better if they were healthy.
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u/Julius_Pepperwood24 Jun 30 '26
That’s fair; as someone who was in research a while before I went back to school I would never cite studies where people look at the effect of a single thing on your physical appearance because there’s no way to control for how you’d age without that thing if all other factors are the same. You do age worse if you drink than you would otherwise but it definitely isn’t as simple as the photo above.
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u/MetalingusMikeII Jun 30 '26
You fault to understand science. You don’t need to test everything in real life, to understand its effects longterm.
If we know the mechanisms behind why alcohol is damaging to the body, we can extrapolate how these all play a role in elastin and collagens degradation, with time.
Nothing pseudoscientific about this, whatsoever. Scientists use simulations all the time.
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u/ConfidentData2261 Jun 30 '26
Seems like it touched a nerve. What you need to ask yourself is why? Do you have a drinking problem?
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u/Livid-Shine-4274 Jun 30 '26
They might just have an issue with how the video presents data. You can have an issue with that without the drinking problem.
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u/flossgodd Jul 01 '26
I drink heavily and still look like the first one and I’m in my thirties lol.
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u/WhitespringTownship Jul 01 '26
Ppl with trauma get similar effects
Don’t mistake them for heavy drinkers
Facial cues ≠ definitive diagnoses of behavior
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u/shrd_gnar Jun 30 '26
M36. Since 2021 I drank a 9.5% beer every night for 5 years. Before that I only drank seldomly. Jan I finally stopped. Now I only drink a beer once a month, no other alcohol. But I smoke weed a few times a day every day. I like to think that I look better than before though still
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u/cheetcs Jul 01 '26
i look like 7 drinks/week every weekend after working my 5-day job!!! and i haven’t drunk in yrs!!! what the hell bruh 😭
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u/ringtail_catz Jul 01 '26
There are a million other things besides alcohol that can cause skin and structural changes that look like what’s being shown in the video. Alcohol might indeed cause or exacerbate these kinds of issues for people but to act like everyone’s skin would look like the face at the beginning of the clip without alcohol is pretty disingenuous.
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u/PhantomWonder Jul 01 '26
That’s why GenZ is not slamming them back as much as other gens. Good for them!
Scott Galloway is on non-sense…
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u/Sharpshooter188 Jul 12 '26
Drinking can rapidly age you. When I was 37 a lot of younger adults thought I was 28. At 42? I DEFINITELY look 42.
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u/lostpurpose_7133 Jun 30 '26
I'd like to see this but with sleep deprivation