Wear Sunscreen And Maybe People Won't Know You're Old

Why, just last week the Awl Network team chose the efficacy of sunscreen as its topic for our daily debate (this morning we were discussing the best recorded performance of Mozart’s horn concertos; as the voice of reason I naturally plumped for Dennis Brain’s 1953 collaboration with Herbert von Karajan, but the rest of the group, ornery with the insolence of youth, insisted upon Anthony Halstead and the Academy of Ancient Music; I chose not to argue the point too fiercely, confident in my choice and certain that as the ravages of time descend upon my young colleagues they will indeed come to appreciate the wisdom of my selection), and here now comes news that “people instructed to apply sunscreen every day showed 24% less skin aging, as measured by lines and coarseness of the skin, than those told to use the cream as they usually do.” Does this undermine my assertion that pretty much any moisturizer, spackled across your cheeks and crevices with regularity, will prevent skin damage? Of course not. (Nothing undermines my assertions.) But I guess your real takeaway here is that if you want to stay looking young you need to trowel on the slimy stuff. And of course you want to look young. How else are you going to keep up with the generation responsible for this? God forbid your face suggest you have actually been around a bit and learned a few lessons on the way.