Hey girl, you ever stand in front of the mirror and wonder if your reflection is playing tricks on you?” That was me last month, nursing a cold latte at Starbucks, swiveling my head to catch every crevice of my neck and cheeks. I’d just binged another skin-care tutorial promising “glass-skin in 10 steps,” and my bathroom counter looked like a beauty lab explosion. Yet here I was—fine lines glaring back, and my jeans still digging into last night’s pizza bloat.

I sighed, swiped through my phone, and landed on PrimeBiome’s pitch: “Fix your gut, fix your skin.” Cue my internal eye roll—until I remembered the gut flair on Reddit: women swearing by probiotics for calmer skin and fewer wrinkles . Could this gummy really outdo my ten-product routine?