Strictly Come Dancing 's head judge Shirley Ballas has undergone a facelift - but not the surgical kind. Shirley expressed feeling like she had a "new lease of life" following the anti-ageing treatment. The new high-tech non-surgical facelift procedure was carried out by a leading aesthetic doctor.
The before and after photos reveal lifted skin, elevated jawline and cheekbones and tightened loose skin around the neck. It also appeared to significantly reduce redness and spider veins, and vanished sunspots. Over the past year, the 64-year-old has been visiting one of the UK's top cosmetic doctors for a series of the latest non-invasive procedures to rejuvenate her face and neck, reports the Mirror .
Shirley commented : "I have to say that I think these treatments have shaved 30 years off me. It has made me feel so confident and comfortable in my own skin. "There's a famous Beatles song that goes, 'will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm 64', well I turned 64 last week, and I feel like I've got a new lease of life.
" Prior to the work by Dr Johanna Ward, Shirley admitted feeling insecure about her appearance and had even contemplated undergoing cosmetic surgery. She recounted: "When I went into my 60s I was very much considering having a face lift. Back then when I looked in the mirror, I saw dull lifeless sagging skin, I had a lot of pigmentation with sun-spots and I had little spider veins on my nose.
" The results were achieved through a series of monthly NeoGen nitrogen plasma treatments, which were relatively pain-free. This 100% natural and completely non-ablative procedure creates thermal trauma within the dermis, tricking the body into generating collagen and elastin. Join the Daily Record' s WhatsApp community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages.
Shirley confessed: "The whole thing about my face made me feel anxious especially because I'm in the public eye more and more these days. Just like anybody, I just want to look the best that I can at my age, but the problem is that when you reach mid 60s and older, it gets so much harder to keep your skin looking in great shape, and I was keen to find a non-surgical way to revitalise my skin." The procedure, which isn't surgical, heats up nitrogen gas to rejuvenate skin from the inside out for a totally natural result.
Dr Ward explained: "The NeoGen treatment effectively tricks your skin into boosting levels of collagen and elastin, two of the main structural proteins in your connective tissues that stop our skin from sagging and gives us that plump, youthful look. The decline of collagen levels usually kickstarts in the late 20s and early 30s, then significantly drops after the age of 40 and notably during menopause." Looking at her before and after pictures, Shirley said she was astonished at the changes, noting: "Even I'm quite shocked, and I'm hard to please.
I would say the biggest improvement for me is the tightening on the jawline and the reduction of the loose skin on the neck and jowls, but also the general skin quality is improved and the NeoGen treatments have got rid of all of the sunspots, red marks and spider veins that I had on my cheeks and nose." She added: "But generally the skin looks fresh and dewy, before I had the treatments it was looking grey and tired but now my whole face glows. It's just remarkable to see the difference in such a short space of time.
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