Do you ever forget your neck when doing your skincare regime

Do you ever forget your neck when doing your skincare regime?

A 92-year-old woman has been left with a sun-battered neck covered in wrinkles and age spots because she did not use UV-protection below her face for more than 40 years

This shocking photo is of a 92 year old woman, it lays the bare consequences of only using sun cream on your face and not your neck.

Her sun battered neck covered in wrinkles and liver spots after choosing not to use SPF below her face for more than 40 years is.

Remember SPF really is your BFF as this photo proves!

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An Australian skin expert has urged men and women to apply sunscreen to their face, neck and chest after an image of a 92-year-old woman who failed to put any SPF below her jawline went viral.

Author and scientist Hannah English took to Instagram on Wednesday to lay bare the consequences of only using sun cream on your face and not your neck.

A 92-year-old woman was left with a sun-battered neck covered in wrinkles and liver spots after choosing not to use UV-protective moisturisers below her face for more than 40 years.

But the pensioner, who was not named in the photograph or the study, was left with unblemished skin on her face, where she had used SPF products. Experts from the Technical University in Munich, Germany, said the images show the 'striking difference in solar damage' between parts of the body that were protected in the sun. They warned not enough is being done to encourage sun cream use, which is vital in reducing skin cancers. 'It's not too late to start wearing SPF daily! This woman is 92 and wore SPF on the face and not the neck for 40+ years,' Hannah said.

'Which means she probably started in her 50s. Just don't forget your neck and chest. And probably hands.' Regular users of sun cream with SPF 15 or higher can cut their risk of melanoma - a skin cancer that kills 2,300 people in Britain and 7,650 in the US every year - in half, studies suggest. Melanoma of the skin was the fourth most commonly diagnosed cancer in Australia in 2018. It is estimated that it will become the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in 2022. The woman's picture was first reported in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology.

Writing in the journal, dermatologist Dr Chritsian Posch said the picture shows how 'preventing the negative effects of UV-radiation is both important and actionable'. He said: 'Clinical examination reveals a striking difference in solar damage between her cheek and neck.' Looking older because of the passage of time is natural - but doing so because of sun exposure is known as photo-aging. Around 90 per cent of all visible changes to the skin are caused by photo-aging, the Skin Cancer Foundation claims.

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