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Section · 4 articles

Ageing

How male skin ages on its own timetable, why the decline arrives later and steeper, and what cumulative ultraviolet exposure has already done by the time anyone notices.

The trajectory

How male skin ages: later, then faster

The male ageing curve is not the female curve shifted right. It has a different shape, and it explains why men notice suddenly.

1,315 words · Saturday 1 August 2026
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