A vital argument rages among my skin-alert friends as we figure out how to get through the “grey months” and early-year faces look as tired as its owners feel. Do we go straight for the Botox bonanza or killer-filler approach? I noticed one recent dinner companion with a forehead so suddenly devoid of furrows that the effect was compelling, but too “ironed out” to be my choice. That left manual interventions — boosting the moisturising and facials budget from the money (sort-of) saved in a dry-ish January.
Alas, that is not quite enough to see off some ultra-expressive crows’ feet and my acquisition of one darkish under-eye circle (it would be bad enough if these ghastly appearances practised symmetry — one was somehow worse). So the brainwave struck: why not go for a mini-botox approach and match with one of the most effective of the muscle-tightening facialists? I combed back through years of reviewing good, bad and indifferent skin treatments and opted for two of the best: Frances Prenna Jones (FPJ is known to her fans as one of the most reliable dermatology veterans) for Botox and Su-Man, the dynamic Taiwan-born facialist who used the skin-palpating skills of her native south-east Asia to lift tired skin.
