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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Katie Rosseinsky

Is filler over? The era of the ‘quiet’ facelift is definitely in

Glow up: why is the facelift enjoying such a rise in popularity, including among younger patients? - (Getty Images)

Your favourite celebrity has just arrived on the red carpet, and there’s something ever so slightly different about their face. Their cheekbones are lifted and their jawline is sleeker than ever. They look youthful, but not uncannily so. It’s not so much a dramatic “before and after” transformation; instead, they still appear like themselves, but a minimally tweaked, glown-up version. Still, their makeover is almost certainly more than just some different blush placement and a fresh hairstyle.

It’s a scene that seems to have played out time and time again over the past year or so. And although the stars in question tend to keep schtum about any rumoured procedures (as is their prerogative), that only spurs on the social media sleuths to speculate over what exactly it is they might have “had done”. In many cases, those sleuths reach the same conclusion: it’s a facelift, right?

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