Four years of Botox: “It’s not the signs of aging, it’s how you use your facial muscles”

The nurse’s words stopped me cold. The concerns I had come to her with wouldn’t be fixed by fat removal, device treatments or fillers, but by the treatment people love to fear, botulinum toxin.

A journalist’s beauty journey with the world’s most popular non-surgical aesthetic treatment. Did it go too far, would face yoga have done the job after all, and what should anyone who trains at the gym know?
How the journalist’s face has changed over four years of botulinum toxin treatments
About the author

A journalist tries things out and tells you how it went

Hi,

I’m Paula Harmaala, a journalist. I try out all sorts of things, especially the ones that promise to make life better in some way. Then I tell you how it went.

Like most journalists, I’m curious about pretty much everything, and once I pick a topic, I go deep.

Beauty, health, good food, an easier everyday life, relationships worth having, personal growth, tech, money and wellbeing in every form.

If it makes life better, it’s my thing. Sometimes that’s a fix for a problem, sometimes it’s something entirely new.

Paula Harmaala
Paula Harmaala lentokentällä passi kädessä matkalla Cannes Lions -festivaaleille Ranskan Rivieralle.

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