Collagen is the scaffolding that holds your skin up, without it, everything collapses.
By your mid-20s, you start losing 1% of your collagen every year.
By 40, you’ve lost a quarter of your foundation.
By 50, up to half is gone, leaving skin sagging like a deflated balloon.
Your skin is like the springs in a mattress, strong at first, but when they snap, the surface caves in and wrinkles.
That’s why lines deepen, cheeks sink, and jawlines “melt.”
I’ve seen it in my patients, and I’ve felt it myself — the fine lines deepening, the cheeks sinking, the jawline starting to “melt.”
And once that structure crumbles, no cream or makeup can hold it together from the outside.