Can £300 of Botox really save my saggy eyelids?

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Q I HAVE saggy eyelids and have been told Botox can give them a lift. Is that really true?

A THAT’S what I was told by numerous colleagues, and even aesthetic practitioners as well — to my detriment.

The truth is that it completely depends on your personal anatomy, so don’t go by other people’s experiences!

The idea is to paralyse the muscles in your face that push downward, such as those in the upper forehead and those between your brows. In theory, says dr Sarah Tonks ( thelovelyclinic.co.uk), this makes the upward- moving frontalis muscles above your eyebrows overactive and causes them to go up, lifting the brow. But if these muscles naturally sit low on your forehead, or aren’t particularly strong, this lift simply won’t happen. And if your practitioner has been too enthusiastic injecting your brow, your lids could even sag further (as has happened to me).

You need an honest doctor who has ample experience assessing facial anatomy to tell you what will work for you.

If a simple Botox lift (from about £300) won’t cut it, filler injections ( expect another £300) that replace lost volume in the forehead and/or around the tail of the eyebrows, can give the brow a 2mm to 3mm lift, which, says Sarah, ‘can make all the difference’.

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