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Dr Darren McKeown claims the idea that Botox could halt the development of wrinkles is a myth, and could actually have the opposite effect.

Don’t know your baby Botox from your lip fillers? Top cosmetic surgeon Dr Darren McKeown answers your most common beauty questions.

A government-backed register for providers of injectable cosmetic treatments such as botox and dermal fillers has been launched. Those who meet the standards set down for the Independent Heathcare Advisory Services’ voluntary register, will receive a quality assurance mark. The IHAS hopes people will be steered away from “botox parties” or treatments offered in inappropriate locations.

Fillers are designed to plump wrinkles, fill in hollowness and enhance lips. New kinds — including synthetic and permanent, stem cell and blood-based fillers — have recently debuted.

Humorist and author Mark Twain once said, “Age is an issue of mind over matter.

In the Royal Society in London hangs a portrait by Henry Moore of the Nobel prize-winning scientist Dorothy Hodgkin. Instead of her face, Moore decided to draw just her gnarled and knobbly hands, worn by 68 years of work, motherhood and life, saying that “after the head and the face, hands are the most expressive part of the human body”. Three decades on, a passing cosmetic surgeon may glance at the picture and say: “Boy, does that lady need a hand lift.” For modern culture too, revels in depicting the weathered hands of maturing women, but not in a good way