Maybe it’s because her new Trinny London skincare boasts some seriously impressive age-defying results, but Trinny Woodall says she’ll never take the surgical route to an eternally youthful face.
“I would never do a neck lift. I would never do a face lift,” Trinny tells GH, in an exclusive chat. “I don't think the face is ever the same. I mean, there are some phenomenal face lifts in America, there's a guy who does it for $120,000 or something, and he puts it all in the ear."
“But there's something about a woman's face once she has a neck lift or a face lift when you look and think, ‘What is that?’ There's a sort of weird thickness by the ear. And that [natural facial] definition of in and out, that sort of goes. And a lower neck lift is one of the most challenging things. Doing that kind of operation is a huge deal.”
Making a visible difference to the neck without the scalpel is notoriously tricky too, but Trinny is confident her jowl-tightening The Elevator Neck Serum – which has just launched in a new, stackable mini size – is up to the challenge. “I’ve used this cream for six, seven months, and the difference I’ve found is the [reduction of] crepiness. I feel my skin has tightened now. My jawline is, I feel, good.”
It’s one thing to talk up skincare as the person selling it, but Trinny proudly points out that the anti-ageing results on wrinkles, sagging and pigmentation have been proven in a lab, too – and all on women aged 55-plus.
“I've got clinical trial results which are extraordinary,” she says. “We have a clinical claim for lifting a sagging jaw, which is impossible to get.” (And from an anecdotal GH point of view, friends who've used the neck serum have also been impressed by it.)
It’s not just a sharper jawline that’s making Trinny smile. Having recently celebrated her 60th birthday, she tells us she’s getting happier and happier with age. “Turning 50 for me, was when I stopped worrying what people think. It was so freeing. It was fantastic,” she says.
“Now I’m in my 60s, I know what I don't want. It could be in any context but if I see something and think, ‘I don’t want that in my life’, I won't bring it into my life where it might destabilise [me] or make me feel sad. If somebody is having a tough time I'll be there for them, but I won't bring negative people into my life."
She adds: "I won’t bring people into my life who would attack my self-worth because I have a love of myself in my 60s which maybe I didn't have in my 20s. I did in my 50s but it's matured. I'm very aware of what brings me joy, and to do what brings me joy.”
In other words, she’s found what works for her and now strengthens it through daily use. “Like muscle memory for happiness,” she says.
Trinny’s new rules for wellbeing include morning meditation, facial exercise, exploring meditative yoga (“it gives rest without sleep”) and giving herself permission to take some well-earned time off. “In the first four years of Trinny London I took only two weeks off a year, now I’ve thought, ‘actually let me have more balance here’. I’ve worked really hard!”
