Best ways to keep the skin of your neck healthy and supple, from creams to an essential daily stretch
- Your neck’s fragile skin is particularly susceptible to signs of ageing and sun and lifestyle damage, including ‘tech neck’
- Cosmetic companies are now taking note, with a slew of new products aimed at targeting this area with tightening, smoothing and toning properties
In her 2006 essay “I Feel Bad About My Neck”, the late author, essayist and screenwriter Nora Ephron lamented that the neck is “a dead giveaway” when it comes to the unavoidable signs that you are, in fact, ageing. At lunch, she writes, all of her girlfriends (“I suppose I mean my women friends. We are no longer girls and have not been girls for 40 years”) wore polo necks or silk scarfs.
While there is much we can do for our faces when it comes to holding back the effects of time, the fragile skin of the neck (not to mention the way we crunch over our smartphones or constantly crane at a screen) makes it a prime candidate for giving up the ghost. That can come as a surprise for some, with the neck (not to mention the décolletage) probably one of the body parts we’re most likely to take for granted.
Well, until now.
Cosmetic companies have taken note with a slew of new products now on the market aimed at targeting this area with tightening, smoothing and toning properties. This includes Dermalogica’s new Neck Fit Contour Serum (promoted as your neck’s “best personal trainer”), Sisley’s botanical-extract-infused Neck Cream (pegged as “the first antigravity skincare dedicated to the neck area”) and It Cosmetics’ Confidence In a Neck Cream.
Emma Hobson, director of education Asia-Pacific for Dermalogica, says that the importance of taking care of the neck is only now becoming a focus.