Mom, What’s Happening to Those Ladies’ Faces?

Via Lisa Wade at Sociological Images (and one of her readers) here’s some human skin:

Here’s some other stuff:

What should we call it? I’m at a loss. Wade quotes Susan Sontag’s essay “The Double Standard of Aging”:

No wonder that no boy minds becoming a man, while even the passage from girlhood to early womanhood is experienced by many women as their downfall, for all women are trained to continue wanting to look like girls.

In 2011, the market for anti-aging skincare products in America was worth $2.3 billion, and a higher percentage of US women use anti-aging products than in any other nation in the world.

[Sociological Images]