The Damage to Your Skin
It is no joke that a stereotypical alcoholic face is always portrayed as puffy, flushed and red. That is because drinking alcohol dilates your capillaries which are close to the surface of the skin. If you have a couple of drinks at night (even one or two) consistently for the next few months you will definitely notice the effects on your skin. The effects of alcohol on the skin are quite extreme; I am talking about visible thread veins (hello red face), sagging of the skin, bad complexion with breakouts and wrinkles.
Alcohol dehydrates your body, much of the body's water is held in the skin so when you go out on the town and binge on alcohol you are causing your body to dehydrate as alcohol is a diuretic (this is why you go to the loo more often) and as your skin loses moisture it begins to age and shrivel much faster than normal. Binge drink every weekend and you will begin to find wrinkles much earlier in your life than you otherwise would.
What You Can Do To Help Yourself
Skin is quite remarkable in springing back, stop drinking alcohol and within a month your should see a great improvement to your skin, a better glow and nicer complexion to name just a few things. If you just have to go out and drink, make sure that you hydrate your body as much as possible by drinking lots of water, you can follow each glass of alcohol with a glass of water (this will also help your hangover the next day)
Drinking alcohol can have dire consequences for your skin.
