I have to be honest, as much as I’m trying to embrace the skin that I’m in, as I grow older, there is something rather confronting about spotting visible changes in my skin that prove I am, in fact, ageing. Plus, as someone who has spent the best part of two decades working out how best to care for my spot-prone skin, there’s a feeling of it being unfair that I’ve now got loss of elasticity, changing texture and an overall dullness to contend with. (First world problem? Most definitely.)
Admittedly, as a beauty editor, I might spend more time than most looking at myself in the mirror to check whether a new moisturiser, spot treatment or LED mask is delivering on its promises, but that doesn’t mean that I’m alone in a bit of bathroom mirror analysis. Now that we’re in our mid-30s, my friends and I often spend time to-and-fro-ing about whether we’re going to take the plunge with aesthetic treatments like so many of our peers or simply let nature take its course and embrace the beauty of our changing faces. I’m currently in a bit of a will I/won’t I dichotomy with the prospect of Botox so before I make my final decision I am spending quite a bit of time (all in the name of journalistic research, you understand) investigating which skincare treatments might genuinely help to restore some of the bounce and plumpness to my skin that I took for granted in my 20s. And there’s one such serum which has impressed me more than others: Trinny London Plump Up Peptide+ HA Serum.
