As you get older, your skin loses its elasticity, meaning your facial muscles loosen, creating lines and wrinkles - making the skin sag. Face Lift surgery is the way to go for many who aren't happy with their ageing appearance and a full facelift can lift your whole face making it look radiant and more youthful.
If you don't want a full facelift, but just parts of your face such as the brow area, lower face or neck to be more youthful in appearance, then that too is possible. The effects of a facelift will last for seven to 10 years with many celebrities and television personalities getting them to keep up with their busy careers. The best results can be achieved if you maintain a stable body weight, have good bone structure, and cut out cigarettes and alcohol completely.
Before under-going a facelift, you should make sure you have found a reputable surgeon. Once you have found a surgeon you are happy with after a face-to face meeting and research, you should discuss what you are hoping to get out of the operation. The surgeon can than inform you of the results you should expect from the procedure. There are other treatments to go alongside, or separate from a facelift, which may be more suited to you. Resurfacing techniques reduce surface wrinkles and can smooth the skin by removing damaged outer layers. Options include chemical peels and laser resurfacing.
Pulsed light therapy stimulates the middle layer of the skin to produce more collagen, which plumps out fine lines and wrinkles. Tissue augmentation plumps out deep wrinkles with injections of collagen or other types of filler. Botulinum toxin injections can flatten out wrinkles that appear in your skin when you smile or frown. This is particularly suitable for forehead lines and wrinkles around your eyes.
Creams, gels and beauty treatments may help tighten your skin. However, there is no scientific proof that these work.
