Botox addicts getting younger and younger | 60 Minutes Australia

Well girls, we've done it when our international champions rank Botox among the world's biggest users. In fact, Australians spend around $300 million a year on what they call non-invasive treatments, what you and I would call new faces. without plastic surgery and it's not just women of a certain age who turn to the needle to help eliminate those little lines and blemishes. Botox fans are

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, even wrinkle-free twenty-somethings are interested in how the idea of ​​letting nature take its course of aging gracefully is going It may soon be a thing of the past Kate Hockley has a perfect place.

I have it on my forehead, but at 21 she thinks she looks old, so, believe it or not, she has had a modern facelift without going. not even close to a scalpel I don't think it's anything medical at all, it's not invasive surgery, it's just Botox every five or six weeks Kate has a beginner's version of what they call a liquid facelift, in her case dozens of injections of Botox. to prevent the wrinkles she doesn't have yet beautiful, college student and part-time model Katie is a normal, sensible girl who, like most of her friends, thinks anyone over 40 is old, so she's 21 years 21 years Ideal age would probably be around 18 or 19.

So 18 or 19, it's all downhill from there. Oh, I feel like that. You know, 18 or 19 is just a constant. I'm exactly twice your age. Can? I advocate giving up the battle to look young. It's great, life is about balance and I hope to reach the age where I don't care about these things anymore. What age would it be? I can only guess, but I'm going to try maybe mid-30s if 21 is old at 50 Madonna should look old, but instead of having that surgical look produced by an old-fashioned facelift, thousands of women who are trendsetters in everything The world is saying no. to the knife and yes to the needle, she looks a lot like Madonna and these other women have had their wrinkles frozen with Botox and their sunken cheeks swollen with injectable gels, producing the soft and moist face of an adult child.

Meet the man behind Madonna the incomparable Dr. Frederick Brandt It won't hurt one bit if you inject Madonna. I can't tell you what I do to him. He may only come for a little skin treatment and advised me on creams, but I never tell you what I do, like you come. in my chair no one would know what I've done to you you would never say it I would never say it the rhythms of Botox got me moving everyone who gets injected the brand has a slightly Hollywood aura about it it's because not only does it use more collagen and Botox than anyone else in the world, he uses a lot of himself Yes, I'm coming back for the hundredth time.

The 59-year-old's face is an extreme version of this new look. He has been described as a soft Frozen mask. Show me that again Frank, I can't frown, show me you can't do it, oh you're trying, can you look mad? What if you are surprised? I convey it with my personality, let's put the creams on our faces and your age. we will delete today his patient is Susie Isaacs Fifth Avenue she works in the fashion industry and at 50 something she is a little older than Material Girl herself you are such a talented artist I am putty in his hands anything he wants to do I trust him implicitly, so take my advice and it's no wonder Dr.

Brandt can retouch a human face as confidently as any magazine editor before your very eyes. Small amounts of Botox, a deadly nerve agent, flatten wrinkles and lift eyebrows, then fill in sagging cheeks. with synthetic gels but he's putting things on your face it's like blowing your face off a little bit, can you feel it? You know, these TV people love drama. True, half a dozen more Jabs and Susie undergo a Botox neck lift. A Dr. Brat special. So can you get rid of that turkey thing that people gobble down, gobble down, yeah, yeah, some bruises later?

Susie had a facelift without the stitches and post-op recovery. You look good, Miss Susie Titan. The only problem is that the ten thousand dollar treatment disappears. after about three months that wasn't so bad, but look at this, this is Susie, you can see what a change, she had a lot of joy in her neck and her jaw was uneven, that's what Susie used to look like seven years ago, it's just starting. to grow old here, but now she's young again 20

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and I'm ready to go back to work, most people can't tell what I've done, even if I work a lot on someone, most people's friends tell them They'll say, you know You look good, you changed your hair but they won't notice exactly what it is, you know, just softer, prettier and a little more serene, serene, serene, show me your serene face, I'm a Botox virgin, oh actually , what are you doing here?

Your face doesn't have a line, well it does when I frown, but in Australia, at this cosmetic clinic in Sydney, a group of young women testify that receiving injections in the face is as normal for them as dyeing their hair or do your nails. We'll see when you look

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at an age where their mothers might have gone to Tupperware parties, their daughters are at a Botox party and it's poison in your face. Yeah, I mean, do you ever stop and think about that? You can really frown, go on, no, don't make me mad at you, you can't frown, you can't go on, try hard, she looks like something out of Days of Our Lives, she used to be like that, so when you look at me.

When you do that, you frown, you think, yuck. I think you look angry at this generation. Looking your age means looking scared, so in the best possible way you never want to look like me. I know, just for me. I don't want to get Brown's angry look, you're too polite. I think it's an angry mother look. Actually, three stages, well, it's better to bugger yourself and it gets to the point where you can go too far and you can't get your gaze back, and I think there's a Sometimes there's a danger that people go too far without realizing it.

Roberta Honigman is the author of Live with Your Looks. She says Australian women have enthusiastically embraced the new non-surgical facelift. More Botox is used per capita in this country than anywhere else in the world. They make us feel like losers if you don't choose that option it's easy for your friends to do it your daughter wants to do it someone else is doing it someone is talking to you about it go on, do it you do it Am I missing out? something because I keep hearing over and over again that everyone is doing well, where have you been?

Yes, I just had dinner on Saturday night, clearly I've been living under a rock because, at 49, Sydney hairdresser Deb delalana counts these days. Looking older is completely optional, you're tired of the face you can't help but see in the mirror day after day, so you want a complete facelift without surgery, Botox and fillers, which in Australia costs a few thousand dollars, how about aging with funny? about that anyone is welcome I won't do it if I don't have to I've done it for the last 10 years I choose not to When will you be ready to grow old?

I hope never 80 How? about 80. old enough to get old no, I don't think we have two how do you want to look when they put you in the grave the best you can absolutely absolutely addictive looking good in this city oh, I think so a lot? Making the decision to change your appearance can be complicated, so perhaps it's not surprising that in New York there is now someone you can call to help you. Meet Wendy Lewis, the must-have accessory that will help you navigate your way to the Fountain of Youth. I will make sure the client doesn't end up with a Michael Jackson nose or a Joan Rivers facelift.

Those are two very good examples. I can't guarantee anything, but I can certainly try to guide you in the right direction. The author of the plastic is perfect she calls herself not a life coach but a knife trainer do people actually look younger with the liquid facelift or is it just that you can't tell anymore that's a big question. I've seen people walking down Park Avenue with big lips. and big cheeks that I think end up looking older and end up looking older because you know they've had something done to them, so you assume they must be 102.

The woman looks great and you know she's contemporary. Your chances are that you've had a little help along the way, but Wendy says that as more and more women opt for this new look, the women who are content to look their age are the ones who will stand out if you're in a circle. of women you know. We are all contemporaries and you are the only one and nothing has been done to you and all your friends have dyed their hair gray and are

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Botox, you are going to start feeling like the older sister and that is what I mean, as far as Peer pressure is inevitable.

Can you make me look 25? Well, we're not going to throw it away, so okay, let's hypothetically say he was interested. Your cheeks are fine, but you need a little filler under your eyes, where you have that little circle. smile and then we would lift your cheek a little bit here how would you do that is a little bit of filler and then I would inject you here with a you're starting to lose a little bit of volume there so that the mouth doesn't go down right? lower the first signs a little to avoid biting him in the butt So eventually I'll be frowning even though I'm not exactly frowning and then of course

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can eliminate a lot of these lines and lift your raising your eyebrows a little is that bad Not now, it's not bad now but we want to cut those lines on the butt, can you get rid of those lines?

Yeah, because they're starting to take root a little bit into the skin rooted rooted rooted at the end. I left New York unconvinced that my 41-year-old face really needed Dr. Brandt's Botox—here we go, okay, so we'll sit down now—but at home I realized that I might eventually end up in the minority amid hordes of women with baby faces from Frozen. oh, that's great, that's good, thank you, I'm convinced you've found the Holy Grail of cosmetic procedures, thank you, I'm sorry, and that's wonderful, I never have to grow old again and I don't want to and I'm not going to, and Kate.

She believes that she has discovered the Fountain of Youth right at the end of a small hypodermic needle. I enjoy it because I know that it is giving me long-term results. Well, you hope it is. Hi, I'm Tom Steinfeld, thanks for watching 60 Minutes. Australia Subscribe to our channel now for new stories and exclusive clips every week and don't miss our bonus minute segments and full 60 minute episodes found on 9now.com and the nine Now app.