She asked if I'd had
botox done.
I hadn't.

I tried everything. Then a dermatologist explained why applying things to your face will never fix what's happening underneath it.

The kind of morning that only happens when your skin stops being something you think about.

Six months ago I was sitting at my bathroom counter surrounded by €340 worth of skincare, wondering why my face looked ten years older than I felt. La Mer. SkinCeuticals C E Ferulic. Retinol every third night. SPF every single morning.

My skin was still dry. Still flat. The fine lines at the corners of my eyes weren't moving.

Three months later, a colleague stopped me and asked, carefully, whether I'd had botox done.

I hadn't. I'd been taking two gummies every morning. That was genuinely it.

She said something I'd never heard in four years of reading about skincare obsessively: everything I was applying to my face was stopping at the wrong layer.

Skincare products, regardless of price, cannot penetrate beyond the epidermis. But dryness, loss of firmness, fine lines, these originate in the dermis. The layer below. Where collagen is produced. Where hydration is stored. And nothing applied to the surface reaches there.

She mentioned a clinically studied oral ceramide called Ceramosides®. Taken orally, it travels through the bloodstream and reaches the dermis directly. Published data. A double-blind trial. Real numbers.

I found Innerbloom Glow. Ceramosides®, hyaluronic acid, biotin, vitamin C. Two strawberry gummies every morning. By week twelve, a colleague asked if I'd had botox done. I told her what I'd done instead. She ordered that evening.

Real subscriber. Consistent daily use. Individual results may vary.