FIVE-ANGLE FACE LIFT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19412, 21 August 1926, Page 6 (Supplement)

FIVE-ANGLE FACE LIFT.

The question of " lifting " the face lias been a much discused one during the last few months. Whether the operation can do what it claims, and will take twenty years off a woman's apparent age, how long the results can last, and whether the operation is sure to be successful, are all questions that have been eagerly asked bv the woman who is anxious to renew her youth, says Jeannette in a London paper. Now, to all the questions there is but one answer, " no."

In the first place a" lift " seldom lasts more than two years; often six months sees the face in a slightly worse state than it was before the (operation. Everything naturally depends upon the type of skin. Some skins stretch more quickly than others (these are the women who are usually most anxious for the operation), and in the caso of a skin of this type the results of the operation have disappeared before the year. Gradually, from a few weeks after the operation, the skin begins to stretch until it is in the same state as before. Of course, the operation can be repeated, but only three times. After that nothing can bo done. What those who go in for a " face lift " do not realise is that the loss of facial contour is not the result of a stretched skin, but of sagging muscles. Now, when "lifting" the face, the beauty surgeon

pulls the skin tightly under the jaws, and up from the corners of the mouth.. making slight cuts, taking out a piece of the skin, and sewing up the slit. In this way he gets the skin very tight, but what the client does not realise is that the sagging muscles are not raised by the process, and the tightened skin merely gives.the face a drawn and unnatural appearance. The only way to restore the contour of the face is to raise, the muscles, and this face "lifting" does not attempt to do.