Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Let’s do this together
You can have lunch-break Botox these days to get your face pumped up – and be back at your desk in less than an hour looking “fresher”.
Or you can be like me, and go for excruciating thread vein removal – and drag yourself back to your desk looking like you’ve just fried your face in hot fat.
It’s my own fault for getting sunburned on my chin – of all places – last summer. I always wear a hat in the heat as my translucent Irish skin can barely cope with daylight, let alone the sun’s rays.
But the excitement of being out of lockdown, mixed with lady petrol at lunchtime on our seaside holiday last July, left me with a glowing red chin that was hotter than the Earth’s core.
I didn’t think anything about it again until a month ago, when I took my mask off in the bright sunlight, and noticed in my car rear-view mirror that my chin looked like the roadmap out of lockdown.
So I rang a local clinic and had myself booked in at lunchtime yesterday to have the tiny broken red veins removed by a nice lady wielding a laser machine. She’d advised me to take painkillers first and use some anaesthetic cream, but I poohpoohed it, telling her: “Oh I’ll be fine, I’m tough.”
“OK, if you’re sure? Anyway, as I always say, no pain, no gain,” she trilled, before zapping my face with a thousand volts.
After 20 minutes’ of sheer torture – like having millions of elastic bands snapped in my face –
I’d have admitted to the Brink’s-mat robbery if someone had asked me. Which is funny, because when I finally stumbled out of there, I swore to myself that this summer, I will be wearing a total sun block – otherwise known as a balaclava!
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