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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Tori Crowther

People are using face tape to minimise wrinkles, but does it work? After asking a plastic surgeon, I tried it for myself

Face taping .

Everyday it feels like there’s a new product or device on the market promising to minimise fine lines and wrinkles. The latest trend sweeping the internet hoping to minimise wrinkles? Face taping. In fact, my social media pages are flooded with it.

Essentially, face taping uses a special kind of adhesive patch to, quite literally, restrict muscles contracting and wrinkles from 'worsening' overnight. In theory it sounds great, right? Forget retinol and other face serums, face taping is pitched as the simple quick-fix to skin ageing. But, trust me when I say it might not be the cure-all that it's made out to be. 

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