MISSING OUT OR FEELING CHEATED: FIRST, THE BAD NEWS HEAD
At thirty the forehead is wrinkled, laughlines are lightly distinguishable around the eyes. This is character.
At forty the bags under the eyes are more pronounced, eyelids develop heavier folds, wrinkles etch deeper. This is also character. The face can also look as if the man is putting on weight as lines start to appear on either side of the mouth running down the face leading to a spare fold of flesh under the chin. The foundations of a permanent double-chin show. A fold of fleshy skin appears in front of the ears.
What has happened is that with age the natural powers of water retention under the skin have started to weaken, retention that was essential to the skin’s elasticity and its ability to spring back constantly into shape. Now it stretches, sags and wrinkles and no matter what claims are made by product advertising, no amount of wrinkle cream will remove wrinkles, nor eyecream remove puffy bags any more than moisturizers can feed moisture back into the skin by being rubbed into it. Cream cannot nourish or feed moisture into the skin, it simply covers
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