Your face gets the serums, the sunscreen, the retinol, the fancy tools. Your neck gets whatever’s left over. Maybe a swipe of moisturizer if you remember. That’s the entire problem. The skin on your neck is thinner than your face, has fewer oil glands, and moves constantly—every time you look down at your phone, every …
You bought the retinol. You used it three nights in a row because the tube said “daily use.” By day four, your face felt like sandpaper and looked like a tomato. You quit. This is the most common retinol story, and it is entirely preventable. The secret is not the product. It is the schedule. …
Three years ago, I was sitting in a high-end ramen shop in Indiranagar, Bangalore, on a first date that was going reasonably well until my face literally started falling off. Not in a horror-movie way, but in a ‘I used too much high-strength prescription retinol and now my chin is shedding into my miso broth’ …
