Wrinkles

... Telegraph Make us your homepage Search Our site Web Search Our site Web Monday 30 January 2006 telegraph.co.uk Fashion home Style Beauty Trendspotting Retail therapy Catwalk diaries Hilary Alexander Picture galleries Stella magazine SPECIAL REPORTSEnergy Saving TrustClimate change: BPBusiness Travel Site Index About us Contact us Beauty basics(Filed: 30/01/2006)Wrinkle correctionLip definitionSkin lifting Kate Shapland reviews developments in 'soft' cosmetic surgeryCosmetic surgery is taking a growing share of the British beauty business.Non-invasive 'soft' techniques mean surgery is a growing business We still lag behind America, France, Spain and Germany in the number of surgical procedures we have every year, but our interest in and use of cosmetic surgeries - especially minimally or non-invasive 'soft' techniques such as Botox and facial augmentation - develops apace.

This is not to say we no longer have any fears about surgery.

It seems to me, from talking to friends, that we are pretty evenly divided over whether or not we would have it.

There is, however, less reason to be alarmed by it, because although it's still a gamble as to how your face will respond to surgery, the chances of a botch job are decreasing.

First (and to my mind the UK's greatest step forward for cosmetic surgery in years), regulation guidelines were introduced by the Government last April which re...

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