Glitude

Your skin is a window into your age. Most telling: wrinkles. It’s entirely normal for the lines on your face to increase as you add more birthday candles to your cake. “Wrinkles are the end result of collagen and elastin fiber breakdown,” says Patrick J. Byrne, MD, MBA, a professor and the director in the division of facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. Genetics and skin type are two factors out of your control that can make you more prone to them, while lifestyle habits, like sun and pollution exposure or smoking, can speed up wrinkle formation, he says. Sleep position — namely sleeping on your face — can also etch in lines, accordin
g to a study published in the Aesthetic Surgery Journal in June 2016.