The alarming boom in 'under-40 facelifts’ – and the expert warning you must hear

The Mirror's Zoe Cripps looks into the steep rise in ‘under-40 facelifts’, and what can be done before turning to surgery

There was a time when the word ‘facelift’ sat firmly in the 60-plus category, bundled somewhere between retirement plans and reading glasses. But the new wave of aesthetic trends doesn’t care much for age brackets, and surgeons say younger patients are now leading the charge.

Yes, the ‘under-40s facelift’ is officially a thing, and it’s growing fast. It’s a shift driven by everything from high-resolution phone cameras to the fact that we’re all spending a suspicious amount of time looking at filtered faces on Instagram . According to Dr Apul Parikh, plastic surgeon and founder of the Dr Apul Parikh Clinic , and a trainer on behalf of Allergan Aesthetics, facelif