Often it is a sudden, painful realization. For many women, the aging process accelerates rapidly with the onset of menopause. They may wake up one morning and it seems that their face has fallen apart. This is the culmination of something that began many years before. As the years go by, the skin, helped by the sun, loses its youthful elasticity.
Gravity then pulls the weakened skin downward, more and more as the years go by.
Before long the skin has stretched so much that it becomes too big for the frame it once covered. As a result, bags, wrinkles, pouches and jowls appear on the face and neck. Sometimes it can distort your face so much that you begin to look like a different person. Or at the very least, a tired, older-looking version of your former self. Despite what you hear from the billion-dollar cosmetic industry, there is no potion, cream or medicine in the world that can shrink skin back to its youthful contours.