ANOTHER INTERESTING CELEBRITY PHOTO: HEATHER MILLS

January 27, 2008 by dr. lam

I found another celebrity photo, this one of Heather Mills, with roughly similar lighting, pose and smile with a five-year difference in age between the two photos. Â As you can see, she looks more tired and slightly older but without signs of anything sagging or without any wrinkles. Â Look carefully at her upper and lower eyelid area: you can now see the bony orbital rim showing through the skin, that is indicating fat loss. Â Look at the diagonal line that is coming down the midcheek that is now sunken. Â That is a critical area to fill with fat grafting known as the malar septal depression. Â If you can see, the earlier photo looks much more feminine and younger and it has everything to do with the fuller brow, less hollow lower eyelid, and fuller anterior cheek. Â Also, note the hollowness in the “buccal” area, which is just below the cheek bone visible in the 2007 photo. Â She is now roughly 39 years old and if you look at her photo at 32-ish, she looks like what most women would think is their “best”. Â That is, she has a little bit of “buccal” hollow but not too much and a leaner face. Â Most women think their face is too round and full in their twenties and prefer their face the most in their early 30s. Â (Look at your own photos in your twenties, thirties, etc. to understand this phenomenon.) If you see, in the photo on the left she has a much softer, feminine, and rested look but is not round but instead triangular/heart-shaped. Â Now in just 7 years, she looks more tired and ever so slightly masculine. Â The mistake is to blame this slight aging on gravity, folds, and wrinkles, which is simply not what is going on for most people who age in their 30s and 40s. Â Oftentimes, childbirth can accelerate this volume loss. Â For a woman in her 40s versus 20s, check out Sharon Stone in a previous blog entry. Â You will see a much rounder face of the twenties and a much gaunter face in the 40s. Â Both of which may not be “ideal.”