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Succumbing to the Needle...

Published on Monday 22nd June 2009

In the pursuit of good journalism (or perhaps vanity), I have, dear readers, succumbed to the needle... You see from a young age I’ve been more than aware that my top lip is, well, really rather lacking.

Couple that with an offer to improve it with Restylane (apparently THE safest non permanent filler) from a woman that’s so good at cosmetic procedures that she teaches them and you’ve got a trip to Harley Street before you can even utter the words, ‘needle, pain and self-inflicted.’

As I lay on the bed last Wednesday, I felt compelled to tell Deborah (Deboarh Forsythe ) that aged twelve to eighteen, I made mother write a letter to the school nurse every year so that I didn’t have to have the flu jab.

Deborah told me she thought I’d be pleasantly surprised (yeah right), to relax my shoulders (oh so easy), take a big deep breath in and hold it...

All I felt was a little scratch.... ‘and slowly breathe out.' Was that it?!

‘And again’ she said. Ok perhaps the needle hadn’t actually gone in yet, this time it was going to hurt....

That was it!

Four needles in my top lip later (less is more and I’ve left the bottom well alone) and bit of massaging to ensure there were no lumps and bumps (ok that bit was a little tender) and I was all done.

Afterwards Deborah told me that she often applies a numbing cream to the lip for half an hour to forty minutes before hand but in my case, she hadn’t felt I needed it! Either I’m suddenly seriously brave (and will be flying my own plane / voluntarily queuing up for the flu jab / getting a pet snake before I know it) or it really didn’t hurt.

(It seems it was the latter – I’d been given a new product that has anaesthetic in it so the minute it hits your lip, the anaesthetic starts to work, hence the lack of pain.)

I headed back to the office, did a days work, felt a bit bruised and lay low for about twenty four hours. The results are really very very good. So good, that disapproving girl friends (who had clearly been expecting Lesley Ash to walk through the door) have already asked for her number.

All I can say is, if that’s how the lip felt (apparently, ‘your lips and your downstairs department are your most sensitive areas’), then bring on the botox!

All in moderation of course....

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