Hi, I am 64 and my biggest bugbear is smoker’s lines; I was a sun worshipper in my youth! I have tried lots of serums that claim to help but none I have tried make the slightest bit of difference. Anything you would recommend?

Most of us end up with ‘smoker’s lines’ or ‘barcode lip lines‘ over time, just because we are opening and stretching the skin around our mouths so often as we talk and eat, and over time it loses its strength and elasticity. And you’re right, it takes more than skincare to soften them. If you’re up for tweakments, two things that can help are radiofrequency microneedling, which remodels the skin, and injectable moisturisers, which sit inside the skin and hydrate, smooth and strengthen it from the inside. The most effective thing is laser treatment which burns away the top layers of the skin, but that is as hardcore as it sounds, and recovery time is several weeks, depending on how deep the laser goes. Find a great practitioner in your area and discuss with them what they could do for you.