Yes, you can be too old for Botox in your 40s! These are the signs tweakments won't work and you need a facelift

Yes, you can be too old for Botox in your 40s! These are the signs tweakments won't work and you need a facelift By Inge Van Lotringen Published: 13:26, 25 August 2024 | Updated: 13:26, 25 August 2024 e-mail View comments Being told 'you're better off getting surgery' is definitely not what you want to hear when, fed up with the signs of facial sag that appear in midlife, you've finally plucked up the courage to dabble in some of those minimally invasive 'tweakments'. Tweakments that are now so popular that the UK market is worth £3.6 billion annually.

The use of injectables (such as Botox and filler) has increased 7000 per cent in two decades. And with ever more 'miraculous' non-surgical cosmetic solutions hitting the market you'd be forgiven for thinking that there is now a scalpel-free treatment to prevent and correct every aesthetic niggle you might have. You may even, not unreasonably, think this class of procedure will do away with the 'need' for more traditional plastic surgery.

Certainly, this was suggested widely in the early days of minimally invasive treatments. Alas, this isn't always the case and for some people surgery - whether a face or eye-lift - will be the only effective solution. Inge van Lotringen explains why sometimes 'tweakments' aren't enough, and to get the result you want you may have to go under the knife It may be the reason why upper eyelid blepharoplasty is one of the most in-demand surgical treatments ( Jennifer Coolidge , 62, Matt Damon , 53,.