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Makeup creasing · Tried & tested
The mistake I made in my forties that cost me ten years of good makeup.
I'm 57, and my problem wasn't really the lines — it was that no foundation on earth would sit on my skin anymore. Twelve weeks on the salmon DNA everyone's posting about, including the month where I nearly quit.
Tracy G.
August 2026 · Contributing Beauty Reviewer
Week 0
Week 12
My own photos. Unretouched. I'm not a dermatologist and this is one person's experience — yours may differ.
My makeup stopped working before I understood why. Concealer went on smooth at eight and by eleven it had gathered into little vertical lines under my eyes. Foundation sat in the creases beside my mouth instead of on my skin.
Did Salmon DNA actually work?
Then I did the boring thing and took a photo every Sunday in the same light.
Week 1–2
Nothing to see — my patience is being tested
No stinging, no puffiness, no milia — my real fear with anything used that close to the eye. It sank in fast and didn't creep. I did wonder what I'd bought.
Week 4–8
My makeup stopped clinging, and the lines started smoothing out.
Foundation stopped grabbing at dry patches and settling into the lines around my mouth by lunchtime. My skin also stopped looking so papery and flat. It was starting to glow and I got my plumpness back.
Week 4
Week 8
Week 8–12
Plump, Smooth & Glowing!
The bit I didn't expect: my skin was getting so smooth and radiant. No crepey texture and plumpness that actually lasted. Three people asked me what procedure I got done.
Week 8
Week 12
Why I tried Salmon DNA anyway
I'd been through the obvious answers, in both directions. Every makeup workaround going: blurring primers, silicone fillers, setting sprays, less powder, more powder, a lighter concealer, a heavier one. And on the skincare side, plumping creams, peptide serums, and moisturizers.
◆ What sold me on the idea
Everything I'd been using worked on the surface
Everything else I tried only coats the top layer, pull in water, and make skin look plumper and calmer ONLY for a few hours.
Salmon DNA goes one level deeper. From what I understand, it doesn't sit on the surface at all — it works at the cellular level. So it helps your skin to repair itself and build more collagen, so the skin can actually improve, not just have a temporary glow.
What I liked, and what I didn't
No product review is honest without the second column, so here's mine.
Genuinely liked
Concealer stopped breaking up into lines by mid-morning.
Zero irritation. No purge, no peeling, no downtime.
The papery, crepey quality under my eyes genuinely thickened up.
It's four seconds. Lightweight, silky and fragrance free.
Didn't love
That first month tests your patience. There is nothing crazy to see.
I wish it came in a larger bottle
How much effort is it, honestly
Four seconds, morning or night. It's an ampoule, so it's thin and it sinks straight in.
What I actually did
1
Cleanse as normal.
2
Apply to all target areas — forehead, under eyes, cheeks, nose and neck.
3
My normal routine after; serums, vitamin c, moisturizer and SPF.
4
That's it. No ten-step ritual, it actually eliminated some products in my routine.
Is Salmon DNA worth your money?
It isn't magic, and I'd rather you hear that from me. My deeper lines are still deeper lines. It hasn't touched those, and I don't think anything in a bottle will.
For a month it did nothing at all, and I felt stupid for buying it. But here I am, still using it and in love with it, which is the most honest endorsement I can give.
Most of us quietly stop expecting smooth skin and start working around it instead. Give it the twelve weeks I gave it — three months is nothing set against the decade I spent settling. If your face tells you I'm right, you won't want to stop at twelve weeks. I'm six months in now and the bottle has a permanent spot in my routine.
The one I used
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Comments
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Taylor R.
Verified buyer
2 days ago
I have spent so much money on "hydrating" foundations and blurring primers trying to solve what was actually a skin problem. Nobody frames it this way — you assume the makeup is failing you. Week 7 here and I am actually using less makeup.
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Bethany K.
4 days ago
Thank you for saying the first month is boring. I quit two products at day 12 convinced they were duds. What kept me going this time was that by week 5 I'd stopped doing my 2pm bathroom touch-up without noticing I'd stopped.
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Amanda J.
Verified buyer
1 week ago
56, eleven weeks on this and no flaking once. I've gone from full coverage to tinted moisturiser and I genuinely prefer how I look. Skin is smoother and naturally glowing now.
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This review was produced in partnership with YURSLF. The writer tested the product over twelve weeks; photos are self-supplied and unretouched. Statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Individual results vary. © 2026 The Skin Files. Privacy · Terms · Advertising disclosure
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