May 05, 2021
Your neck’s fragile skin is particularly susceptible to signs of ageing and sun and lifestyle damage.
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In her 2006 essay “I Feel Bad About My Neck”, the late author, essayist and screenwriter Nora Ephron lamented that the neck is “a dead giveaway” when it comes to the unavoidable signs that you are, in fact, ageing.
At lunch, she writes, all of her girlfriends (“I suppose I mean my women friends. We are no longer girls and have not been girls for 40 years”) wore polo necks or silk scarfs.
While there is much we can do for our faces when it comes to holding back the effects of time, the fragile skin of the neck (not to mention the way we crunch over our smartphones or constantly crane at a screen) makes it a prime candidate for giving up the ghost.