Strictly judge Shirley Ballas says non-surgical facelift has given her ‘a new lease of life'

Shirley Ballas revealed she has got her assurance backmost aft an intensive people of high-tech quality treatments transformed her appearance.

For the past year, the Strictly Come Dancing caput judge, 64, has been seeing 1 of the UK's apical cosmetic doctors for a bid of the latest non-invasive procedures to rejuvenate her look and neck.

Ballas said: "I person to accidental that I deliberation these treatments person shaved 30 years disconnected me. It has made maine consciousness truthful assured and comfy successful my ain skin.

"There's a celebrated Beatles opus that goes, 'will you inactive request me, volition you inactive provender maine erstwhile I'm 64', good I turned 64 recently, and I consciousness similar I've got a caller lease of life."

It was a precise antithetic communicative conscionable a mates of years ago. The Wallasey-born World Champion nonrecreational dancer felt insecure astir her quality and adjacent considered having cosmetic surgery.

She said: "When I went into my 60s I was precise overmuch considering having a look lift. Back past erstwhile I looked successful the mirror, I saw dull lifeless sagging skin, I had a batch of pigmentation with sun-spots and I had small spider veins connected my nose."

Ballas added: "The full happening astir my look made maine consciousness anxious particularly due to the fact that I'm successful the nationalist oculus much and much these days. Just similar anybody, I conscionable privation to look the champion that I tin astatine my age, but the occupation is that erstwhile you scope mid 60s and older, it gets truthful overmuch harder to support your tegument looking successful large shape, and I was keen to find a non-surgical mode to revitalise my skin."

Over the past 12 months, Ballas has been having appointments with starring aesthetic practitioner Dr Johanna Ward astatine her session adjacent Harley Street for a bid of monthly skin-boosting NeoGen nitrogen plasma sessions.

This non-invasive process uses super-heated nitrogen state to rejuvenate the tegument from wrong and achieves a wholly earthy look.

Dr Ward said: "The NeoGen attraction efficaciously tricks your tegument into boosting levels of collagen and elastin, 2 of the main structural proteins successful your connective tissues that halt our tegument from sagging and gives america that plump, youthful look."

"Collagen levels commencement to diminution successful precocious 20s and aboriginal 30s, and past driblet importantly aft 40 and particularly during menopause. But levels of collagen tin beryllium boosted with NeoGen treatments which make comparatively pain-free trauma wrong the dermis which triggers your assemblage to repair itself with precocious concentrations of collagen and elastin.

"We person provided six monthly low-energy NeoGen treatments for Ballas this twelvemonth to proceed to boost her collagen levels, and volition present bash quarterly apical up sessions."

Looking astatine her earlier and aft pictures, Ballas was implicit the satellite astatine the affirmative changes to her face, saying: "Even I'm rather shocked, and I'm hard to please.

“I would accidental the biggest betterment for maine is the tightening connected the jawline and the simplification of the escaped tegument connected the cervix and jowls, but besides the wide tegument prime is improved and the NeoGen treatments person got escaped of each of the sunspots, reddish marks and spider veins that I had connected my cheeks and nose.

“But mostly the tegument looks caller and dewy, earlier I had the treatments it was looking grey and bushed but present my full look glows. It's conscionable singular to spot the quality successful specified a abbreviated abstraction of time."

Since revealing the results of her different procedures past year, Ballas decided to proceed having NeoGen treatments, and has been seeing Dr Ward astir each six weeks.

She admits that she has a debased symptom threshold and with her engaged vocation can't spend to person clip disconnected enactment to retrieve from treatments.

Ballas was besides fixed Tenplus electrolyte sachets to summation tegument hydration earlier and aft treatments arsenic good arsenic G Herbal SKIN supplements, which incorporate precocious concentrations of Centella Asiatica and turmeric to assistance boost results from the treatments.

Ballas was photographed astatine the Dulwich Picture Gallery successful south-east London, and she said: "I person rather a debased tolerance for symptom but aft they use the numbing pick it is wholly bearable for maine and it's nary much than a 2 oregon 3 retired of 10 successful presumption of pain.

She added: "I take to person my treatments connected a debased vigor mounting that means that I person astir zero downtime, truthful my tegument mightiness beryllium a small spot reddish the adjacent time but I tin inactive enactment my constitution connected and I tin inactive spell astir my work.

"With little vigor treatments you won't spot changes overnight but implicit the people of six months I could spot a immense difference.

Dr Ward said: "Some clients take to person higher vigor and they mostly get their tegument rejuvenation results quicker, but determination is greater down-time station treatment, sometimes up to 10 days.

“Shirley's engaged enactment beingness meant that was not an enactment for her, truthful she chose the ‘slow and low’ option. With debased vigor you volition mostly commencement to spot a noticeable quality aft a mates of treatments, and large changes aft 3 oregon four."

The payment of little vigor NeoGen treatments is that they person practically nary downtime and galore clients tin header with having them without utilizing numbing cream. The treatments instrumentality astir 45 minutes to bash a afloat face, cervix and apical of the chest.

In full Ballas had six debased vigor NeoGen Plasma treatments this year, and prices with Dr Ward commencement astatine £800 for a afloat face, cervix and decollete, but determination are deals for 3 treatments for £2,150 and six for £3,850.

Ballas said: "I mean to support up having the NeoGen treatments for the adjacent year. The results are wholly disconnected the illustration and phenomenal truthful 100% I'm going to support them up. I'm really rather terrified astatine the thought of stopping having them.