I am sure that such a thing exists in human biology – most of us are prone to wrinkle at some later stage in our lives, but why is that some women (and men) have baby smooth faces sometimes into their nineties…?

Look at my little friend to the left; he is a shar-pei dog and has more wrinkles than Princess Diana’s wedding dress (wasn’t that a shock when she got out of that gilded carriage…?) That breed of dog have a particular gene that makes them like that and the more wrinkles apparently the better the pedigree – thank god such criteria do not apply to us humans.

It works the other way for people of course, especially for us women. If I had a daughter I would go out of my way to ensure she stayed out of the sun for as many years as possible – that is the only way to keep your skin relatively wrinkle free. Here in Northern Ireland I see ladies in their eighties and nineties with complexions as smooth as that of a babies due wholly to the fact that they have never lived in a hot climate and protected their skins from the harsh cold.

Take my friend for example - I will call her ‘Patsy’ in case she ever googles me and reads this – and how our skins differ. We both grew up living on the northern beaches area of Sydney and spent a great chunk of our teenage years at Freshwater and South Steyne beaches. I am fair with blue eyes, she was redhaired with blue eyes – I went brown as a berry in summer while she burnt raw and peeled. Today, quite some years later (but not that many), my skin is wrinkle free while she had developed deep creases in her face in her early twenties. I stopped sunbaking at eighteen, she continues to this day.

It makes a huge difference does the sun. We girls do all this damage and then freak out when the consequences start appearing; no wonder the wrinkle cream industry is flourishing. I buy a basic moisturiser and it does the job but do those expensive formulas justify their prices…? no they don’t as a rule. It is difficult to get honest testimonials but if you are looking for the best wrinkle cream the link will take you to a review site where you actually do get products that are criticised for not offering value for money. I laugh at the appearance there of ‘Athena – 7 minute facelift’  because I wrote about that product over a year ago as it was widely hyped and also widely panned by those who bought it.

Guess what…it is panned on that site too. Told you it was honest.