Nah. This is just Tess having terrible Middle Aged White Lady skin and never taking care of it for years. She might have started using sunscreen a few years ago

— but I’m pretty sure for a lot of white people, the damage starts early and is irreversible. It starts popping up around this age. (Someone correct me if I’m wrong about Caucasian skin that skews pink/red!)
CA fire season sucks, but it won’t completely destroy your skin like this. Note that Tess has terrible skin year round!!
The best thing you can do for yourself, no matter what your skin color is, is to start using good sunscreen every ducking day as early as possible.
No, definitely not illegal in the US.
White skin
absolutely gets damaged early on in life and gets progressively worse. By the time you’re 25, you’ve got developng sun damage on your face that you can’t see with the naked eye, but
can see under special lighting, even if your skin seems “healthy and glowing” on the surface.
Years of baking in the sun caught up with this beauty editor, who was shocked when she saw a UV image of her sun damaged skin.
www.byrdie.com
Skin damage is like a mold infestation: by the time you notice it, it’s already been there for a while in the background and is getting worse fast. And for every one spot of hyperpigmentation you see, four more are lurking under the surface.
It’s why preventative care early on in life, like having a good everyday strong SPF habit in place by the time you enter your 20’s and sticking to it
every day after, can keep years off your face and make you look a decade younger than you are. Conversely, letting your skin tan or go without SPF all through your 20’s and
then trying to wear SPF when you start to notice wrinkles is a fool’s errand. By the time you’ve started showing the visible signs of photoaging, it’s been growing for years and is going to quickly go downhill.
source: i fucking know about skin, bruh
When it comes to skin, prevention and suncare while you’re still young is
the best way to keep your skin nice when you’re older. Every single dermatologist and beautician will tell you that. Sun cream every day, even in winter, and remember to reapply. But dimwits like Tess have the “screw my old age, everyone gets old eventually, I wanna live my best fun life nowww!” attitude, skipping sun cream cuz it’s harrrrrd and whatever. Then they hit 35 and realize that 35 was not the decrepit advanced age they
thought wrinkles and spots would appear during, and they panic and glop creams and lasers onto their face in a futile attempt to undo all their mistakes.
Grasshopper and the ant fable, really. Play all summer without a thought to when winter will come and when winter does come, you’re fucked.