My face has been unrecognisable to me for the past few months. Patchy, grey, mottled even. Sagging. I know that post 40 your face basically starts dripping off and we all have to make peace with it somehow but this was not my face. I don’t feel judgmental about botox but I can’t bring myself to do it. Yet. I know many of you swear by it and I know my friends are at it, too, because they look exactly the same as they did ten years ago.
But I needed to do something. In my mid-20s I had a course of microdermabrasion, which ended a severe bout of acne and saved my sanity, but in the course of looking up that treatment, I came across the laser facial.
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