Is a beauty laser the answer to everything?: Is the Wellay Hair Laser capable of regrowing hair...

Is a beauty laser the answer to everything?: Is the Wellay Hair Laser capable of regrowing hair...: "Both men and women tend to lose hair due to hormonal changes in the body. It is mainly the alterations in the metabolism of androgen in the ..."

Botox: Perennially perky, even when sad

After having Botox, Rebecca Newman finds herself longing to frown again.

"Just a few injections around your eyebrows,” recommends Dr Nick Lowe. Botox. It’s a bit like being offered drugs. The excitement. The fear. The shame. Increasingly, the ubiquity: about 500,000 people have botulinum toxin syringed into their dermis each year in Britain, in the pursuit of beauty, if not truth.

Yet despite its popularity, Botox is not regulated in this country and, should you come across a shoddy practitioner, you could end up with a petrified, lopsided face. But Dr Lowe, aka Dr Botox, is one of the country’s most celebrated dermatologists. So when he tells me that my wrinkles are nothing to worry about, and that he can relax the muscles I use when I frown (which I do as I type, over the years leading to droopy, basset-hound eyelids) I am powerless to resist.

A few small pricks later, my eyes open beautifully wide, just as they used to.

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Why I refuse to get Botox, by Julia Roberts

Eat Pray Love star Julia Roberts refuses to get Botox because she wants her face to 'tell a story'.

The 42-year-old wants to embrace her natural looks for her children.

Julia told US Elle magazine: 'I want my kids to know when I'm p***ed, when I'm happy and when I'm confounded.

'Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.'

The actress, who is the new face of Lancome, cannot understand the obsession with looking young.

She said: 'It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons.

'I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.'

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LIZ JONES MOANS Forget the gym, let's just bring back the girdle

I hate growing old. Every day, you wake up and something else has changed. This morning, I noticed my eyes are now disappearing into their sockets. When did that happen?

More importantly, why is it happening? And where are the beauty features in the glossies telling me how to deal with this?

Most annoying fashion tip gleaned from the September issues, (from InStyle magazine): 'Don't want your hair blowing in your face? Do the hair tuck.' This involves 'tucking your hair into your coat, a la the Margaret Howell catwalk show'.

Are these women insane? I wish that instead, over the years they'd told me I wouldn't always be young. That instead of worrying about stuff I should have enjoyed life, done things.

Equally laughable is the headline accompanying the interview with Louise Redknapp, in Red magazine: 'This is me at 35 and I like it.'

She is 35, not 90! She has money, a husband, children, but she is apologising for the fact she is still alive.

Thinking about my upcoming birthday, I pulled out a copy of Vogue from the month I was born: September 1958. Not one feature on dieting, exercise or plastic surgery. Not a single ad for hair colour.

The models are in their 40s and 50s. There are, though, lots of ads for girdles. That's more like it: cheaper and less bother than gym membership, and far less wear and tear on the face...

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Immupure - Milking It

FROM VOGUE beauty news:

New York socialites are snapping up Immupure, a new anti-ageing skincare line that uses the colostrum (or first milk) produced by cows nursing their newborns.

Colostrum is full of essential vitamins and nutrients, and Immupure have combined the nutritious milk with aloe vera to create a range of anti-ageing serums and moisturisers.

Used daily, the Immupure line aims to boost the skin's natural production of collagen and elastin, helping to smooth out fine lines and wrinkles, repair sun damage and generally perk up the skin no end.

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The British Beauty Blogger Trials the Tanda Skincare System

The British Beauty Blogger is just about to start trialling the Tanda Skincare System that uses red LED light to provide anti-ageing and skin-improving benefits and is the latest to enter the hugely lucrative 'beauty gadget' market.

Here's the promise:

75% of Tanda Regenerate users reported an immediate benefit in hydration;
92% of users reported softer, smoother and more radiant looking skin, and
88% of users saw an improvement in the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles (after 30 days).

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Freeze off that fat instead of melting away your flab with a laser

The hottest craze from America is to chill it to death!

Treatments based on the concept of melting away fat cells with heat based lasers have become commonplace. But the hottest new weight-loss procedure to arrive in the UK does the complete opposite - it freezes hard-to-shift flab to death.

Fresh from the U.S., this innovative machine goes by the name of Zeltiq, and uses a cooling method called cryolipolysis to target, chill and break down fat cells.

Developed by boffins at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital, Zeltiq has proved a massive hit across the pond since being introduced a year ago - and now it's coming to the UK.

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More women try the Botox way to stay young

Over one million treatments carried out each year for the first time.

The number of women resorting to Botox, lip-plumping and similar treatments in an attempt to stay young has jumped by 15 per cent in a year.

More than one million treatments are now being carried out each year for the first time, confirming a desire to copy the beauty secrets of the rich and famous.

There are well known concerns that Botox injections into the face produce a number of undesired effects, not least creating a mask-like expression devoid of normal movement and expression.

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Wellay Personal Skin Laser Review by Style Apothecary

METSV says:  I remember in the not-so-distant past when I used to watch Extreme Makeover (the people edition, not the home one) and often times the doctors would use lasers to rejuvenate the skin of the patients, taking years off their looks and just adding to the "wow" factor in their final reveal.  I became fascinated with these lasers and started to mentally calculate the money I'd have to save if I ever wanted to laser my skin at a doctor's office.... Well, times have changed, that's for sure.  Now I can perform my own skin lasering right in the privacy of my own home with this sleek and lightweight tool from Wellay.

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Botox makes you happier because it stops you frowning

Frowning when sad actually makes you feel more unhappy, research into the beauty treatment Botox suggests.


The anti-wrinkle drug can make people feel better because it stops them frowning when they are unhappy which feeds back to the brain reducing the intensity of the feeling.

The theory is that if they cannot physically frown then the brain feels there may be less to frown about, scientists claim.


They said it is the psychological equivalent of the old song "when you're smiling, the whole world smiles with you" – or when you don't frown, then the world is less sad.

It applies even if the reason for seeming happy is an injection of chemicals into the forehead to stop wrinkles, said the study by the US Association for Psychological Science.

Many celebrities have the shiny forehead and startled rabbit look that suggests they have had Botox treatments, though not all admit it.

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