Be New Year Beautiful
Looking good and losing lines requires treatments and potions. Here they are....
Why let lip lines give away you age?
I’VE NEVER LIKED SUPERMARKETS, so I definitely didn’t want my own set of barcodes. Just the sound of the cashier’s scanner over my kneidel mix made me bite my lip. My old lips! Crows’ feet I can live with, and a dash of botox fixes my forehead line, but verticals on the upper lip – no thank you. I’m too young and do not have the necessary grandkids to be a gurning granny, so the first sign of lipstick seeping into my visible perioral lines required immediate action.
Aesthetician Deborah Forsyth has been holding back my years since we met and would be my Desert Island luxury. A trusted expert in facial rejuvenation, Deb has been smoothing the wrinkles of royalty, A-listers and myself for more than 25 years and bar codes – aka ‘smoker’s mouth’ (yuck) doesn’t faze her. “It’s genetic,” she sighs. “But from the age of 30 to 35, you lose 30 percent of your natural collagen and 10 percent of your natural elastin. By the time you hit 60, you’ll have 10 percent collagen left.”
A font of beauty wisdom, she never holds back on cheerless facts, so believe her when she says collagen supplements don’t make collagen. “Buy copper peptides instead. They are the amino acids that strengthen collagen fibres.” She also tells me that barcodes are caused by slackness in the puckering up muscle, shrinking gums, chewing, fluoride in the water (number one cause of low thyroid action ) low fat diets (starve the body of essential oils) and the menopause, which is her speciality.
On with the fix, which required a drizzle of dermal filler being injected into my upper lip to hold it in place. “With age it has lost volume and this will act as a thread to refresh and lift it. Like an underwired bra,” she says. “By straightening the vermilion border between the pink of your lip and the skin, lipstick won’t feather.”
With my lips numbed, Deb injected filler into the edges, Cupid’s bow and corners with a fine needle, then massaged it into place. Be assured this is not for plumping, so you won’t turn into a trout or Madonna (we will get tp her nude eyebrows another time) but within minutes the barcodes were swiped and have got fainter every week. They really have and with that smooth upper up I got a more youthful curl.
Thanks to Deb my lipstick stays on too, as she recommended Fenty Long Wear Fluid Lip Colour (£22) by Rihanna. Told you Deb knows everything.
Contact: deborah@dfclinics.com 0800 0887873
‘Pucker’ alternatives to losing lines:
Anti-Wrinkle Capsules
(£70). This works for lips
and also eyes, so it’s a double
whammy. The high potency
pure retinol concentrate
comes in capsule form and
applied 2-3 times per week
makes the skin feel silky
as it reduces the depth of
fine lines by up to 1 mm.
You’ll be delighted by the
natural radiance it restores.
www.debenhams.com
Body Verde Lip Perfect (£13.60)
is anti-ageing lip therapy for vertical ‘pucker’ lines. Perfect for New Year or anytime, it contains bees
wax, plus berries to hydrate, stop dryness, smooth and bring up the natural lip colour. www.beautynaturals.com
www.uk.pmdbeauty.com, www.feelunique.com, Selfridges and Harrods.
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