The UK's first anti-ageing fair: not all Botox and miracle fillers

Yes there was a barrage of waffle, loads of buzz-words and some 'miracle' treatments on offer – but good advice on offer tooDo you remember a time before anyone coined the term "anti-ageing"; a time when the most a beauty regime consisted of was slapping on some Pond's and a couple of cucumber slices? I don't like "anti-ageing". It's a wrong-headed term that manages to be both negative and misleading – as though the act of ageing represents some kind of personal failure. I appreciate it's catchy from a marketing point of view but can we not be a bit more honest, please? I love a new beauty treatment as much as the next person but to suggest it's going to stop me looking older is just cobblers, frankly. I'm not unhappy with the Invisible face. Admittedly, I wouldn't mind losing the slightly droopy jawline but y'know, that's what happens, in real life, when you're 57. I'm basically a pretty typical middle-ager with slightly complicated feelings about getting older and a healthy scepticism about the more extravagant claims beaming in from the Final Frontier of the age and beauty industry.To continue the topical Star Trek analogy, I "boldly went" to the Anti-Ageing, Health and Beauty Show and survived to bring you the news that snail slime is your path to a wrinkle-free future, allegedly. You call it "secretions" if you like but I'll stick with what it is – slime. Give snail slime a posh pot, a vaguely scientific name and a hefty price tag and Bob's your uncle: a new chemic...
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