Much has to do with each person's DNA, thus a wise person learns how to deal with their own situation versus some one-size fits all advice often coming out of the media. And as one enters later years, keeps an annual eye on all areas of skin that may have been excessively exposed. The one part of my body where my skin looks near my age is the back of my hands.
My childhood summers were about the sunny hot Sacramento region where I learned at an early age how to avoid the pain of sunburn. Decades later, my skin outside my hands, looks much younger than my chronological age that probably has more to do with my particular Caucasian DNA despite being outside throughout each year. I went into KaiserP for a full body skin exam 2 years ago that showed nothing to worry about and am likely going to set up a physical exam including another look at my skin before this ski season begins.
In the summer while extensively out hiking, backpacking, and landscape photography, I wear a sun hat with a large bill and full neck drape and otherwise wear long pants and long sleeved shirts covering my skin, much like peoples in sunny desert regions. Thus not your t-shirt and shorts person like the vast majority of we Americans. However I do like laying on a beach at seashores so tend to have a decent full body tan that I build up slowly each spring without ever getting red. In the winter skiing, helmet, goggles, sun screen below, a modest tan, and full height coat collar, has kept my facial skin fine. In late ski season it just takes a single day without protection to burn through even a good tan.
) "Leaves you bronced (their spelling mistake not mine) and very, very desirable".
