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How is your decolletage? And what do you do if it's less than lovely especially if you're over 40?

55 replies

WideWebWitch · 15/04/2008 21:05

When I was 30 I worked with a woman (who I thought at the time was ancient, she was 42!) with a wrinkly decolletage and remember thinking at the time 'my word, I won't be showing my chest area off like that when I'm her age if it looks like that' . Sadly that day is here and my cleavage has downward wrinkles due to old age, fat, sun damage and gravity. And I am NOT talking wearing low necklines here at all, I wear just normal v neck type necklines, but it looks awful.

Is there anything I can do about it? Can one have Botox on one's cleavage? Should I? Has anyone? Or shall I just keep hunting for tops with the highest possible necks? I don't feel the sight of my chest should be inflicted on anyone tbh and I am growing increasingly anxious about it.

Thanks for any advice.

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zippitippitoes · 15/04/2008 21:47

helen mirren that is

zippitippitoes · 15/04/2008 21:48

who is angel amerkel

WideWebWitch · 15/04/2008 21:48

Helen Mirren's chest looks fab though
Mine does not!

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WideWebWitch · 15/04/2008 21:49

I worrieda botu googling "home secretary cleavage" but thankfully moderate safe search is on

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zippitippitoes · 15/04/2008 21:49

mine looks so fab i even photgraphed it naked

Iota · 15/04/2008 21:49

angela merkel

fishie · 15/04/2008 21:49

jacqui is home secretary. i think maybe you are not large of bosom though zip?

is funny really, all these threads about what not to call your child and then mervyn is bank of england and jacqui runs half the country.

Iota · 15/04/2008 21:50

waht would Gok say? It's all in your head. Just get 'em out and flaunt 'em

marina · 15/04/2008 21:51

Bottom Butter will make your cleavage look like a baby's arse iota, which is supposedly where it is meant to be applied.
Imagine the morning-rush-to-work horror of blearily groping for Metanium instead...
WWW, try some Protect and Perfect, or some Madame Perky Seins from Clarins or whatever it is called
FallenMadonna's bra advice is good - a piece of underpinning that sends your bosoms outwards is a great idea

zippitippitoes · 15/04/2008 21:52

i thought she might be home secretary

i am afraid i dont watch tv dont read papers tho i did buy the guardian today and i only listen to radio one in the car so i am nicely ignorant

my chest has gone from 40c to 34 d so not ahuge amount left

iamdingdong · 15/04/2008 21:53

the clarins stuff is good I think, I used it a few years ago, when I used to have the time and money...

Iota · 15/04/2008 21:54

I have to admit that I've never been one to flaunt my cleavage, chiefly because I don't have one, just a big gap

TheFallenMadonna · 15/04/2008 21:54

Lift and separate - it works...

WideWebWitch · 15/04/2008 21:54

Well done Iota, THAT'S the photo I was trying to find!

What's the bottom stuff called, is it really bottom butter?

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zippitippitoes · 15/04/2008 21:55

i dont actual;y show the cleavage bit

well not to the general public

i use sanex

iamdingdong · 15/04/2008 21:56

clarins bust beauty gel is the one I used, 'bra in a jar' apparently - I wear low cut tops quite often but perhaps I shouldn't

marina · 15/04/2008 21:56

Gott in Himmel

It is literally Bottom Butter www and its all-purpose excellence has apparently led to it selling out in Waitroses all over the country

zippitippitoes · 15/04/2008 21:57

i think eating lots of olive oil helps your skin but it is very calorific

maybe swimming does

TillyScoutsmum · 15/04/2008 21:57

Have been using the Clarins one for a few weeks and can notice a difference

WideWebWitch · 15/04/2008 21:58

are you saying that about Merkel Marina? It is a bit isn't it?

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WideWebWitch · 15/04/2008 21:58

Right, may add some to my Ocado shop

Clarins, thanks, will look for that./

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zippitippitoes · 15/04/2008 22:00

im sure it doesnt look as bad as you think

if i take my clothes off and lean over a nirror my entire self from the top of my head downwards looks truly shite

like unbelievably awful

Iota · 15/04/2008 22:02

ha ha zippi

if I look down into a mirror my face looks like a spitting image puppet of myself

marina · 15/04/2008 22:03

Angela Merkel is famously childless which means her cleavage has been less subjected to the yo yo effects of pregnancy and milk coming in after birth etc
They are curiously smooth...

zippitippitoes · 15/04/2008 22:03

and people wonder why i try and avoid that psotion at all costs

in fact any position except upright