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Hi, I'm Dr. Terry Labberton
from The Victorian Cosmetic Institute,
and today I'm going to talk to you
about non-surgical facial rejuvenation.
Very often, we get people coming into us
saying that they just want to freshen up with their look,
they're not exactly sure what it is
that they're not happy about with their face,
but maybe they feel that they look tired,
or they look cranky, or their skin
is not behaving how they'd like.
So, we tend to just take a holistic approach to the face,
and look at all the different components
that we can do a little bit of work
that will help to freshen up the whole overall appearance.
Today we have Yvonne with us
and we're going to take a look
at the whole of her face, and look at different aspects
that we may be able to work on,
either with anti-wrinkle injections, dermal fillers,
laser treatment, or perhaps even
radio frequency removal of lumps and moles.
So when I'm looking at somebody's face,
I like to break it down into different components.
First of all I have a look at lines of expression,
so that we can perhaps work with anti-wrinkle injections.
And first of all, just having a look at Yvonne's face,
there's not a whole lot there in terms
of strong wrinkles, but I am drawn to these little wrinkles
across the top forehead, and I would like to consider
using some anti-wrinkle injections in there,
just raising your eyebrows up for me,
as you can see they're quite strong,
that muscle pull up there, and I'd like
to just soften that a little bit.
I don't really want to completely
knock out the movement in the forehead,
we like to see some expression and a little bit
of elevation of the eyebrows,
but just to soften so that those lines are much softer.
And frown for me.
Yvonne's had some anti-wrinkle injections
before in her frown, but you can see
there's a little bit of movement coming back
so I'd perhaps like to soften that as well.
And a nice cheesy smile for me.
And we've certainly got some lines coming in
around the crow's feet area,
again I don't like to wipe these out completely,
but I think we can soften those
so that she's still got a lovely smile
and her eyes still sparkle when she smiles,
but the lines are just a little bit softer.
And in the lower half of the face,
we can use anti-wrinkle injections just to soften the pull
of these muscles here, which can tend to cause
that little fold that we get
in the corner of the mouth, and also in the chin.
Just you can see that Yvonne's just starting
to get a little bit of a fold in, just above the chin,
so we can actually use a little bit
of anti-wrinkle injection there
which relaxes the muscle, and that actually softens
and opens out the face,
and it has a younger, fresher look as well.
And then next of all, I like to look at facial volume.
As we age, we all lose weight from the face,
it often happens probably from about mid-30s onwards,
and it doesn't matter what's happening
with the weight in the rest of your body,
I've got a theory sometimes it goes south and multiplies.
When we start to lose the fat in the face,
what happens is we start to get the appearance
of these lines that are coming down,
like diagonal stripes coming down the face.
What that tends to do is it draws your eye to those lines.
It's like your mum used to say,
you don't wear diagonal striped skirts,
that accentuates the hips.
So same sort of thing, you don't want to draw the eye
down the face, you want to actually bring the eye
back up when you're looking at a face,
you want to bring the attention up to the eyes,
to the personality,
rather than seeing these lines that are drawing down.
So what we need to do, or what we can look at doing,
is replacing volume so that we're
just disguising these lines very subtly,
and bringing a bit more volume back to the cheek,
so that the light hits the face and bounces up,
so that we're drawn to that part of the face.
Taking a look at Yvonne's skin,
there's a few things that I would like to work on,
in terms of improving first the tonal variation.
She's got a little bit of redness and splotchiness,
they're fine little capillaries that are dilated,
and she's also got a few little freckles
and a little bit of sun damage,
which we can also work on with the laser.
Are you feeling alright after that little rundown?
- Thanks.
- Now, it sounds a lot when we mention
all of these things together, and now you can
actually do all of them in a very short space of time,
and get a total sort of rejuvenation
in a short period of time,
or you can actually pick which little bits
that you want to focus on, and just do them
a few weeks at a time and actually improve
the appearance over a period of several months.
It's the slow and steady approach,
so it's really very much based on
what you want to achieve, what sort of time frame,
how much downtime you want,
all of those factors are part
of what we take into consideration.
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