Tweakments with Alice Hart-Davis

When your face starts losing its youthful volume, it’s such a slow and steady process that you tend not to notice until someone else remarks on it, or you look in the mirror and have what one friend described as ‘a horror moment’ of realising that everything seems to have changed. Like many other aspects of ageing, this one creeps up on you gradually as the fat pads that have been filling out your face start shrinking – usually in your early forties.

Why losing your fat pads ages your face

Even if you don’t have a particularly plump face, you have around 20 of these useful fat pads in the cheeks, under the eyes, around the temples and down to the chin. The ones under the eyes are the first to go, which makes the eyes a bit sunken;