Illustration: Kieran Blakey

The Nuance

What Are These Spots on My Face?

How skin ages and what you can do about it

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
5 min readJan 16, 2020

ItIt happens to everyone sooner or later. A casual glance in a mirror turns into a lengthy self-examination. Is that a new mole? Old photographs and the internet are consulted. Visions of skin biopsies dance in one’s head.

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a long-time contributor at TIME and other media orgs. I write mostly about health. I grew up in Michigan, but these days I live in southwest Germany.