TIRED OF LOOKING, WELL, TIRED, OUR COLUMNIST, LOOSE WOMEN STAR JANE MOORE, LIFTS THE LID ON HER RECENT EYE SURGERY
‘Ooh, you look tired. Long day?’ enquired a shop assistant recently when, actually, I was feeling fairly energetic.
Clearly, she needs to be trained better in customer relations, but her comment played in to a narrative that had being going around my head for a long time. That my ‘resting face’ made me look a lot more clapped out and disinterested in life than I actually felt.
It wasn’t ‘resting bitch,’ as the famed description goes. At best, I look bored, at worst, utterly exhausted. And I know that the main culprit was my increasingly saggy – or hooded, as it’s usually described – eyelids.
As a regular on ITV’s Loose Women, I’m lucky enough to get my make-up applied by a professional before each appearance and, every time, they would apply beautifully artistic eyeshadow, only for most of it to disappear out of sight the second they let my lids drop back in to place.
On top of that, I had two deep furrows between my eyes that made me look permanently cross.
‘Ooh, I could tell that Jane wasn’t pleased by what so and so was saying today,’ was a common, post-show remark on social media when, in fact, I had simply been listening intently to someone’s viewpoint.
But, of course, rectifying these facial characteristics was going to involve far more than a non-invasive ‘tweakment.’ It would mean going under the knife and, therefore, required a lot of thought.
Blepharoplasty – as the surgical procedure is known – can be performed on the NHS if the problem is so pronounced that it seriously impacts your vision. But mine didn’t. It was purely cosmetic and, therefore, would have to be done privately.
As a journalist, I know the importance of good research. And never more so than when it comes to our highly delicate eyes, where one mistake could prove life-altering. And my concern was not just for the procedure itself, but the result. I wanted to look like a refreshed version of myself, rather than someone who looked like they’d had work done.
So, after much deliberation and the recommendation of a friend who’d been to him and was thrilled with the outcome, I ended up at the door of Daniel Ezra, a specialist ophthalmic and oculoplastic consultant.
After measuring my face and discussing my expectations, we agreed that I would have just upper lid blepharoplasty. Some have a brow lift at the same time, but I decided to just stick with the eyelids and a smidgen of Botox in each frown line to smooth them out.
