Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Style and beauty

Looking for style advice? Chat all about it here. For the latest discounts on fashion and beauty, sign up for Mumsnet Moneysaver emails.

Original poster

Face care at 50 to Botox or not to botox that is the question....

95 replies

user1483699375 · 24/04/2017 13:18

Hello girls
What to do?? Having looked pretty good on minimum input all these years I am now finding myself more than a little fed up with bloody annoying lines on my face. The ones from my nose to my mouth are the worst, very aging (having just seen some awful photos recently taken - very depressing). Also, I spend a lot of time working outside which I love, but feel I am now looking less sun-kissed and more weather beaten. I have no idea where to start when faced with a menu of choices at the vanity parlour, I'm open minded to anything right up to a full sandpaper and face lift but would love some advice from those of a similar age who have already tried these things (ps I'll post on Gransnet as well to capture the right age group Wink TIA

OP posts:
bananafish81 · 27/04/2017 18:21

I find it amusing that someone who thinks beauty is a waste of time thinks spending time on a beauty forum is a better use of their time.

I don't like cricket, although I recognise others do

I wouldn't spend my time going onto cricket forums to tell everyone on there what a waste of time cricket was and expressing my total disdain for their particular interest. That would seem to be a far more wasteful use of anyone's time than any given interest of choice!

Delatron · 27/04/2017 18:58

I'm definitely seeing an improvement from Caci in terms of muscle tone and lifting. Had 6 sessions of 10 now. Expensive and time consuming though initially. I hope it does last and I can get away with the once a month maintenance.

buggerthebotox · 28/04/2017 07:31

Glad it's working, delatron. These things are always a bit of an experiment! I've got a slendertone machine I've never used because I'm afraid of itBlushGrin.

Saw Joanna Lumley briefly on some prog last night-she looks great-very natural. (I thought). Not sure what she's had done, though.

Newtssuitcase · 28/04/2017 09:43

My lips are completely unpuffy this morning. I'm pleased with them. Ive gone from having no top lip at all to having two full natural looking lips. I only had half a vial and the other half has been stored for a top up in a few months' time.

They're still slightly bruised to the extent that I can't feel anything from talking or normal lip movement but a full on passionate snogging session would probably hurt a little.

buggerthebotox · 28/04/2017 11:33

newt were your lips thinning with age or were they naturally thin?

I'm drawing mine on at the moment. I've always had really full lips. No more.

I was thinking of getting them tattoo'd.

Perhaps filler is the way to go then? Hmm

ginorwine · 28/04/2017 11:55

I've had lips done too
My upper lip had thinned and now it's back .

buggerthebotox · 28/04/2017 13:24

For those of you who've had your lips done, does it look natural? I'm afraid mine would look weird with the rest of my fallen face......Sad

Delatron · 28/04/2017 16:21

I'm fascinated by celebrities who look amazing for their age but it's unclear what they have had done. So not Kylie, Coutney Cox, Madonna etc.
I'm thinking Jennifer Anniston, Reese Witherspoon, January Jones. Gwyneth Pathrow insists she doesn't have Botox but looks pretty good. I know they must have had some 'subtle' work done but would love to know what.
For anyone who doesn't want to go down the lip filler route I have had really good results with NIOD bio lipid lip thing. I have decent lips again!!

Newtssuitcase · 28/04/2017 16:29

I have never had a top lip but it was also starting to get thinner (I'm mid 40s). My top lip was also wonky. I now have a top lip and its less wonky. They are going to correct the wonkiness gradually.

Pic attached

Face care at 50 to Botox or not to botox that is the question....
Newtssuitcase · 28/04/2017 16:30

You can see the wonkiness on the RHS. Its due to my top lip being hollow where it meets my bottom lip and they didn't want to put too much filler in there on the first go. I'm pleased with them though.

Newtssuitcase · 28/04/2017 16:31

Hmm just seen that the photo makes it look like I'm sprouting very long dark hairs from my chin. I'm not, that's just my hair getting in the way!

MitzyLeFrouf · 28/04/2017 16:37

'I'm fascinated by celebrities who look amazing for their age but it's unclear what they have had done.'

Jane Seymour!

Other celebrities who go down the cosmetic intervention route should take a lesson from her book. I'm sure she's probably had things done but she just looks like a great version of herself without trying to look like a really young version of herself.

MitzyLeFrouf · 28/04/2017 16:52

'I'm thinking Jennifer Anniston, Reese Witherspoon, January Jones. Gwyneth Pathrow insists she doesn't have Botox but looks pretty good. I know they must have had some 'subtle' work done but would love to know what.'

Reese W and January Jones are only about 40 so I wouldn't necessarily assume they've had anything done. Gwyneth Paltrow can look her age in more candid shots. Jennifer Aniston I'd say has had the works done but subtly.

buggerthebotox · 28/04/2017 16:58

Jane Seymour was always gorgeous though. Exceptionally so, imho.

Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston? Not in the same class. They may well look younger, but they were not great-looking anyway. (imho).

I think there's more to looking "good" than merely looking young.

I bet an unretouched Jane Seymour will always look better than most, whether they've had work or not. Joanna Lumley too. She'll always have something extra; Honor Blackman has it too.

I think of people in their forties are soooo young! It's in the 50s that the rot starts to set in.......Grin. It gets so much harder....Sad.

buggerthebotox · 28/04/2017 17:01

newt if you didn't have a top lip, where has the "lip" come from? I don't just mean the plumpness, but the colour and texture? It looks very natural.

Delatron · 28/04/2017 17:18

Agree Jane Seymour looks amazing. I think I (wrongly) pitch myself against people who are the same age as me (41) with their line free foreheads and wonder if it is natural/genes or they have gone down the Botox route.

Also fully agree there is more to looking good than looking young!

Newtssuitcase · 28/04/2017 17:27

The filler sort of pushes out the lip. I will try to find a picture of them before but I think the only one I have is when they were smothered with the numbing cream and so you can't see them very well.

That's 0.5ml of restylane. They've kept the other half for me to use later and to try to fill in that gap. Lots of people have a whole vial (which I didn't want since I still wanted to look like me - just a slightly better version)

MitzyLeFrouf · 28/04/2017 17:34

I think upper lip fillers are often a mistake. Especially when they think 'oh I'll just go a bit bigger this time'. It's so easy to go from 'slightly bee' to 'clearly got fillers in her lips'. It can distort the natural lip line. I've always though Posh Spice was wise not to go down that route, she has a thin upper lip but it looks nice. Much nicer than an artificially plumped one would.

MitzyLeFrouf · 28/04/2017 17:35

'slightly bee stung' that should say.

bananafish81 · 05/05/2017 19:20

Saw the dermatologist on Weds

Going back for botox around my crows feet in a couple of weeks

Am so bloody excited at the prospect of not looking like a shrivelled peach at the age of 35!!

New posts on this thread. Refresh page