Help! I hate the deep lines round my mouth

QI’M IN my mid-60s and have suddenly developed marionette lines from the corner of my mouth towards my chin. They really bother me. Is there anything I can do?

AIF YOU really do have two very deep lines, they are caused by a loss of the fat pad in that area (it happens with age).

Dr Frances Prenna Jones of the eponymous London clinic says: ‘The best treatment is volume replacement, i.e. a dermal filler. A slightly viscous hyaluronic acid gel is injected, not in the lines themselves, but below them, to lift the area, smoothing it out.’ She would charge about £450, but prices vary. Fillers last for about nine months.

For the most dramatic results ‘a tiny bit of Botox in the base of the lines, costing about £50 and lasting three months, can also help, as it stops the facial muscles pulling them down’.

If your lines aren’t super-deep, the Botox alone can help. As will a good retinoid cream, if you don’t want to go down the injectables route — I love Medik8 R-Retinoate, (£135, medik8.com).

Team it with an at-home micro-needling roller such as GloPro (£199, harrods.com) which punctures the skin for deep delivery of your cream’s active ingredients (no, it doesn’t hurt) for visible results.

Ingeborg van LotrIngen is beauty director at Cosmopolitan. email questions to ingevan lotringen@dailymail.co.uk.