JJ Virgin4x NYTimes Best Selling Author, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Fitness Hall of Famer

SkinCare That ACTUALLY Gets Rid Of Wrinkles

13 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment of JJ Virgin’s YouTube video, the speaker explains why the skin around the eyes shows the earliest signs of aging. He notes that periorbital skin is thinner and therefore more vulnerable to damage and cellular senescence. He cites a scientific study that measured the biological age of eyelid and under‑eye skin and found it to be 20–30 years older than the skin on the temples. This accelerated biological aging accounts for the appearance of fine lines around the eyes, often beginning in the early 30s, making the eye area the first place people notice wrinkles.

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because the skin around our eyes is thinner and accumulates more damage. There's a study that measured the biological age of the skin on the eyelid and under eye and compared with the temples, and the skin around the eye was 20 to 30 years older than the— wow, that was like mind-blowing for us as well. And that's why it gets those fine lines. It's the first place, right? So you start later on your 30s, the first, like, on your eyes starts the fine lines. It's because it's accumulating more cell senescence there as well.