sun is finally out and my skin is paying for it

Honestly the first proper sunny week in Edinburgh and I immediately forgot everything I know. Spent most of Saturday outside without SPF — well, I had some on my face but nothing on my neck and chest, which is obviously where it shows first when you get to my age. Classic. I've been pretty consistent with collagen for about three years now and I do think it helps with how my skin holds up generally, but sun exposure just undoes things faster than anything else. So I've basically gone back to basics this week — SPF every single morning (on my neck, not just my face), keeping my routine lighter because the heavier stuff just sits wrong in this heat, and drinking more water than I normally bother with. The matcha helps too I think, just in terms of not feeling completely depleted by the end of the day. I mean I'm not making any big claims, it just... works for me. Summer skin is genuinely a different kind of maintenance and I always seem to need a week of messing it up before I remember that.