We are all so concerned about caring for the skin on our faces (I’m guilty of this too by the way, before I launch into the reasons why neck skin needs to be cared for as well), yet we seem to forget that there is a part just below our face which has the same impact on our overall aging and how we look. In other words, you can have a dynamite face with smooth skin and if you neglect your neck, you may have a case of a fifty year old neck on a thirty year old face.
You’ve seen it in magazines on Hollywood movie stars, and I’ve seen it plenty in real life, and every time I see it I think of how I need to stop being more complacent about the skin on my neck and start taking care of it better. You neck skin is very delicate, kind of like the skin under your eyes. It’s not very thick skin, and is prone to getting burnt by the UV rays of the sun and is also prone to aging over the years from the environmental factors as well as sagging.
No one wants a “turkey neck”, so it’s even more important to care for the skin on your neck by using firming agents as well to keep it from sagging and to make gravity work in your favor rather than against you. The reason all of this came about is that, as I am preaching against now, I made one of the biggest mistakes there is to make when it comes to caring for your neck, and I went out in full sun to a flea market over the weekend, with my face triple layered in sunscreen and NONE on my neck.
I ended up getting a sunburn in the shape of a crew neck tshirt on my neck because of it, and now I have to worry about photo damage as well as skin cancer since I am prone to skin cancers due to the fair nature of my skin, especially the delicate skin on my neck.
Not only is using sunblock on your neck important, but using your facial moisturizing and firming lotion on your neck as well as your face is too. Anything you use to care for your face (it better be gentle, to start with), should be used on your delicate neck skin as well. A firming cream, perhaps with the great firming agent DMAE (see revitol review for products with this wonderful agent) may be in order for the neck skin, as it will help defy gravity and keep it up, where it’s supposed to be, rather than sagging.
