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It’s a great product. I’d stick with that and give it a few months to assess what improvements you are seeing from it. The vitamin C products that I have chosen for the TTG shop are listed here.

Hi, yes, your practitioner should advise you that you should leave off using the NuFace for a couple of weeks after any procedure, including Profhilo.

Hi, I don’t know the product so I’m afraid I can’t comment, but I do know that Totally Derma and other hydrolysed collagen supplements support collagen production in the skin in a very direct way – by supplying collagen fragments in a form the body can use. There are several articles and videos on the TTG website explaining why I think Totally Derma is the Rolls-Royce of collagen supplements.

No, I don’t know the Nira so can’t recommend it. I see it has a 60-day money-back guarantee on it so I guess if you use it consistently and don’t see results with it, your money is fairly safe.

It’s the lovely Liz Earle’s daughter who has brought the Cellreturn mask into the UK, and Liz tells me it’s very good. If you’re considering spending that kind of money on an LED mask though, we love the Dermalux Flex – it’s 3 times more powerful than any other portable LED device and has been proven to make real improvements to all manner of skin concerns. Read more about it at that link, and there are also a couple of videos.

Hiya, TTG editor Georgia here. A vitamin C eye cream would help brighten up the area and restore some ‘springiness’ to the skin, thanks to its collagen and elastin-boosting properties. But if the wrinkles are ‘bad’, as you say, and more of a concern than any pigmentation you might have in the area, you’d be better off with an eye product that contains retinol instead, like this one, to directly target them. Go slowly when introducing retinol into your skincare regime, especially around your eyes, using it just twice a week at first, and ‘sandwich’ it with a hydrating serum or moisturiser before and afterward while your skin is getting used to it, and if your skin gets at all red and itchy, slow down, and use less of it.

Hello, yes, bovine collagen is derived from cows. I like the brand that I’ve brought into the TTG shop, Totally Derma and yes, that is bovine collagen. Either marine or bovine collagen should help your skin and hair and nails, as well as your joints. Will it help your smile lines? Hard to say, because smile lines show up more as a result of your particular facial physiology and the kinds of expressions you make (nothing wrong with smiling, we could all do with more smiling in our lives). Smile lines often become more noticeable as we age because our faces lose volume, so the skin sags forwards and down, hence the smile lines.

Unfortunately we don’t have any plans to restock this product at the moment, sorry about that. Yes, it’s a brilliant product but they have company guidelines around the sale of their products which alas make it complicated for us to sell, even the sunscreen. You can find it elsewhere online though, either through retailers or clinics – try Skin Pharmacy or do a search to find clinics that stock it.

Hi there, this is a great one – lots of info on that link as to why I like it so much (I put some of my favourite products in the shop on The Tweakments Guide). It’s a step-up system, so if your skin is fine with this, you can move onto this one. It will help with all of your skin including smoker’s lines, though tweakments, if you were up for them/ had the budget for them, would help more – here’s a link to the info on the site on smoker’s/ ‘barcode’ lip lines.

Hiya, TTG editor Georgia here. There aren’t really any devices as such for treating texture at home. Aside from DIY microneedling with a roller – which Alice and I rarely advise – your best bet will be a home peel and active skincare, something with smoothing AHAs (alpha-hydroxy acids) to regulate textural issues. This will also help address wrinkles at the same time, as will a retinol product – which you should absolutely be using in your daily routine. If you did want to invest in a device for your wrinkles alone, you could try the NuFace Line Fix Smoothing Device, which is particularly good around the eyes and mouth, but it’s not designed to treat skin texture. Have a read of this article on which tweakments you can and can’t do at home.