Marilyn Monroe, who was a lot cleverer than she was given credit for once said 

“I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”

But she died in her 30s, well before Botox was anything other than a life-threatening disease carried by over-ripe sausages, and fillers were something you chose to put in a sandwich, so didn’t have the chance to try either. 

Would she have done? Who knows?

And should we take beauty advice from film stars anyway? So, what’s the best thing to do? That's what I'm regularly asked.

Make your own decision, I think. 

After some detailed research, of course.

If you want to try something like Botox, and feel it will improve your life, that’s up to you. It’s doubtful that it will improve your life, but it’s your face, after all. 

Never have been one to follow the herd, and really having a severe antipathy to needles, I’m going to stick to the old fashioned route of ageing, but as Dylan Thomas said I will

“…not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” 

(Or the incipient wrinkles, if you're a hit shallower - that would be me, then.) 

Not that I’m into rage, really, sensible action is more my preference. Which is why I’ll be eschewing needles and practicing Facial exercises. 

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