A woman on r/over60 told it straight:
“A classmate from college who I don't see often posted a picture of herself in a community theater production. I thought: Wow, they have a talented make-up artist. She really looks like an old woman. Her neck is crepey. The next time I'm in front of a mirror, I check out my neck. Uh-oh. That's not make-up. Time is catching up with both of us.”
Sooner or later, most women get a version of that moment. Yours might have been a shop window, or a fitting-room mirror. It shows up there first — hands, neck, chest — for a reason, and the years around menopause speed it all up.
The whole thing is one page. The biology, what a cream can honestly do, and what no cream will ever do. Then you can decide.