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How to reboot your cleavage

Writer: Lindi Prinsloo, Refine Clinic Hermanus

I once watched a supermodel in one of these reality tv programmes, whose beauty advice has stuck with me for years. Gesturing with her hand as she was filmed in the bathroom of her Soho loft, she said, “Your face starts here,” gesturing to the bottom of her boobs. Too bad I didn’t take her advice to heart, as I’ve apparently been taking care of the equivalent of just my forehead for 20 years.

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As soon as I entered the next age bracket in the drop-down menu of life, I began to notice a red crease (cleavage wrinkle, or “clinkle”) etched on my skin from collar bone to solar plexus. It was tiny, it was probably a case of OCD, but it was there.

From clavicle up, I was a well-rested thirty-something with a pretty decent skin-care routine. But from the neck down, my complexion was broadcasting a different story. At first my “clinkle” would disappear by midday, but it remained until I settled back into bed for another night of side-sleeping.

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