When you consider that the skin on the neck down to the chest is a simple extension of what’s on your face, it’s hard to reconcile that this area, which deserves the same kind of attention, is much neglected.
Many of us adopt an ‘out of sight, out of mind’ approach that means the skin below the jaw line isn’t lavished with the same anti-ageing care we give our complexions. It’s a disparity that can make such a striking difference that it famously compelled writer Nora Ephorn to note, “our faces are lies and our necks are the truth,” in her memoir, I Feel Bad About My Neck.