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the receipt your face keeps for every laugh, squint, and 3am you ever survived
means A small crease or fold in skin, fabric, or any surface — or, figuratively, a clever new twist or a snag that complicates things.
from From Old English, where a verb roughly meaning 'to wind' or 'turn' gave rise to gewrinclod, 'crooked, winding.' It belongs to the same family of words about twisting and bending that gives us 'wrench' and 'wriggle' — anything that won't lie flat. The 'new wrinkle' sense (a fresh idea or angle) is much later, an English play on the idea that a wrinkle is an unexpected fold in an otherwise smooth plan.
- first appearance
- forehead lines often show by your late twenties
- chemistry
- collagen drops roughly one percent yearly after twenty
- sun's role
- UV causes most visible facial aging, not time
- prune fingers
- wet skin wrinkles by deliberate nerve signal, not water
- sleep crease
- side-sleeping carves lasting lines into your face
wrinkle in time — 1962 science fiction novel by madeleine l'engle, also adapted as 2018 film
sleep wrinkles — facial creases caused by sleeping position, studied by dermatologists as preventable aging factor