You’ve had blepharoplasty, Alice. Can I ask what age you were when you had your first treatment? How long did the results last? I know you had it done recently again. Can I ask who your practitioner was please?

Hello, yes I had blepharoplasty 10 years ago with Mr Naresh Joshi who was and remains the go-to-expert in this speciality. I was 49 then and would have benefitted from having done it a bit earlier, to be honest; I’ve got those sort of eyelids. In terms of how long the results last, it depends on your face/ genes/ lifestyle. Surgery like this resets the clock in terms of how your eyelids are ageing, but it doesn’t stop ageing in its tracks forever. Last year I had another upper blepharoplasty, done in conjunction with with a ptosis correction to correct the drooping in my left eyelid (which was something I’d been aware of for 15 years, but it hadn’t bothered me hugely until I started spending so much of my life in front of a camera). That was done by Miss Elizabeth Hawkes and Professor Richard Collin (her mentor and one of the pioneers of blepharoplasty). I was astonished to find they had excised another 7mm of surplus skin from my eyelids (same as the previous time); obviously, that’s just the way my eyelids age. Will I be a candidate for another bleph in due course? Probably. Will I have the inclination to have it done again in a few years’ time? Who can say. Watch this space.