Is 29 too young to start with Botox and filler

[ThePerkyCoralPoet]

As above. Please provide opinions

Tried it aged 37 (post children, would never do it before). It did have an effect on my forehead and has made the muscles there a bit more sluggish long term even without top ups, but I stopped after a treatment. I didn't like the lack of movement and actually it started to exacerbate my eye bags - turns out, you do need some movement for lymphatic circulation! The wrinkles look better than the eye bags for me.

It's a bit like whackamole treating one or two areas (the one exception is if you have 11 lines that are very pronounced, as you can look like you are permanently frowning - I'd do that short term to help with retraining the muscles if I was a big frowned) and expecting to stay youthful. Diet, sleep and good skincare is really the best way of ageing well (not stopping ageing) and looking your best at any age.

do you think you will ever stop?

I have Botox for migraines and I hate the plasticky shiny feeling on the bits of skin affected. I can’t believe people want this!

I’ll probably go down the minor surgical route ( like upper blephts) when things start to properly sag or introduce a bit of filler so probably won’t have as much Botox as I do now which at the moment is three areas. Martha Stewart is really good example of tweakments over a long period rather than drastic alterations

LOVE this, really inspiring

If you have pronounced 11s etc its a bit young but understandable for the botox, I started around 36 and have in 8 years probably had 6/7 sessions and it has reduced the frown lines I didn't like. I think filler often looks much worse and wouldn't do it, it doesn't wear off like botox does if you leave long enough between sessions. People often look worse after filler regardless of age so I would avoid that in general unless you have a very specific issue.

The effects of botox, a video speaks a thousand words. All of these women fall into the uncanny valley. You can see with famous actresses that they start off being beautiful but as the tweakments build up they get stranger and stranger looking. Those that resist look much better because they look natural.

You are very young and there is a lot of pressure on young women now to look a certain way but if you want to look good as you get older then the best way is not to inject toxins into your skin but concentrate instead on keeping yourself physically and mentally healthy.

I believe that botox or fillers are a bad idea at any age!

It saddens me that women think they have to inject chemicals into their face to look 'good'.

I also don't think the botoxed, trout mouth look makes anyone look better.

It just looks weird, fake and plastic.

Oh god yes. I watch something with Nicole Kidman and Isabelle Adjani in recently. Two previously beautiful women who seem to have turned themselves in to strange, motion restricted, ageless haunted dolls. All through society's fear of older women.

The best actress and to be honst most attractic elerson in tne programme was the woman who played a fumpy, slightly over weight middle aged cop. She was natural, vibrant, sympathetic and funny.

I watched that too: Perfect Strangers. Pretty awful. It was like watching two shop floor mannequins come to life.
Meanwhile Liev Schreiber playing the "sexy dad" couldnt even be bothered to shave or go to the gym.

The women with hamstery cheeks and therefore smaller eyes (because their cheeks are bigger) .... is that filler?

Yes!

Goodness. I saw a group of women with the hamstery cheeks and little eyes on fb- with my fb friend who has a beauticians who does the Russian lashes and injectables.
Each to their own but I bet they would have looked nicer before. They all had the same face. I'm easily led! So I know I would have been on this bandwagon a few years ago if it were popular. I'm nearly 50 now so really cba with it all.

Sorry to digress the thread but how often do you need this? I had some in August and trying to work out when ill need again.

Crikey they look so odd.

They should tell you. The Botox only lasts for two months in terms of therapeutic effect for migraines, but it is thought to be risky to give it more frequently. So they recommend it every three months.