'My skin is smoother and the deep creases have disappeared'.

Sue Perpperell, from Scawby, Lincolnshire, loves to bask in the sun, and holidays abroad to catch the rays. Now, at 46, she says she is paying the price, with sun-damaged skin that doesn't look as smooth and young as it used to. She's become self-conscious about the long creases which lead down to her cleavage line. So when she heard of a new treatment to get rid of them, she jumped at the chance of trying it out.

"I'd already had Botox for in my forehead, and was very pleased with the results. I imagined the procedure in my chest might be painful, but once the nurse started the injecting, I was pleasantly surprised. I hardly felt the dozens of tiny pin pricks."

Sue was warned there might be some redness and swelling, but she didn't expect the raised, red welts she was left with straight after the procedure. "I looked like I'd been scratched by a randy tiger and wished I'd brought a scarf with me," she says.

She was told it should all settle down within days, so she was disappointed when it took nine days for all the redness to disappear and for the results to look natural.

"I know they have to overfill the area to start with, but it took a week longer than I expected to get a good result. But now I'm chuffed. The lines are smoothed out, the deep creases have disappeared, and my skin looks smoother. I'm going to a ball on Saturday and I've bought a new low-cut dress which I'm really looking forward to wearing as I feel a lot better about how I look."

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