“Olivier Amar is a fan of needling with PRP, the so-called vampire facial, derived from a patient’s own blood.
“It regenerates skin and is completely natural”.
An increasingly popular way of improving the texture of your skin is with injections of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) — plasma taken from your own blood.
You may have heard this called a Dracula Facial or the Vampire Facelift.
Verdict: Impressive. A month later, the treated area looks softer, clearer and smoother.
Treatment Review: Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Treatment
Verdict: Impressive. A month later, the treated area of skin looks softer, clearer, and smoother. You are meant to do two or three sessions, six seeks apart, for best results
Olivier Amar says
“Woman who take HRT mainly want fillers and light rejuvenation procedures, menopausal woman are more inclined to request a facelift.”
At the age of 32, after rigorous diet and exercise regimes achieved a 2-stone weight loss but not the desired six-pack, Matthew was told by his trainer that the only way he would be able to get rid of the loose skin around his stomach was with cosmetic surgery.
‘It was, in every sense, an astonishingly slick operation.
This is why you pay for a proper surgeon practising at a proper clinic with a proper team behind them. Believe me, I did my research and not everyone’s experience was as smooth as mine.’
The most significant results are gained with surgery, as beauty journalist Kate Shapland found:
‘My eyelids had got very droopy, to the point where it was impossible to wear make-up and it was really ageing me.
So I opted for surgery with Olivier Amar at his Sloane Street Clinic. I was in for a morning and had a general anaesthetic (although sedation is an option). The initial swelling was shocking I won’t lie, the there was no bruising or pain. It took eight months to feel completely normal again, but it transformed my face and confidence’.
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Improving skin quality :
“Platelet-Rich Plasma treatment (PRP), also known as the vampire facial, is growing in popularity. This involves plasma taken from a vial of your own blood being injected back into your face.”
“It sounds gruesome, but the growth factors in it make older skin act like younger skin and look better too.”
Olivier Amar has a deep suntan from kitesurfing, offsetting his brilliant white teeth, and he fits Macron-neat in his dark blue suit. He is, like his father before him, a cosmetic surgeon at the top of his game. Amar treats actors, artists, footballers, financiers and – quelle surprise – politicians. (He won’t tell me of which persuasion – “confidentiality”) And they come for Botox, fat transfers, dermal fillers, blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery), “CoolSculpting” (cryolipolysis or fat freezing), liposuction, laser removal of thread veins, rhinoplasty (nose jobs) and gynecomastia (removal of “moobs”).
“For a long-term solution Mr Amar says blepharoplasty, an eye-lift operation, is one of the most popular rejuvenation procedures for men and women.
It’s for people who want to look refreshed, as if they enjoy good sleep every night and are just back from a summer holiday.”
Olivier Amar is one of the UK’s leading consultant plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgeons with more than 15 years’ experience. Here he discusses taking a natural approach to aesthetics.
We all age but it is how we age that is most important to me. Ageing does not happen evenly across the years, it can creep up on us. Perhaps you have been through life challenges, a bereavement or even sudden weight loss – and when it does happen, it can affect even the most beautiful person.
For a smooth complexion add on Platelet Rich Plasma, also known as PRP or the vampire facial.
A small amount of blood is drawn and then the platelet-rich plasma, which contains growth factors (the proteins and hormones that tell your skin to heal), is separated out in a centrifuge.After microneedling, this is injected back into your skin to promote collagen production and faster healing. You’ll be red for about a day.
‘Many men have a second life at around 50/60. They are starting a new life with a younger wife or they are having kids at an older age and they want to look after themselves.’
‘I wish I could speak to more men and make them less anxious about the cosmetic world as there are lots of different procedures.’
The facelift has transformed, through evolution and revolution, from the wind-tunnel effect of the early days to something that is barely detectable to the trained eye.
‘Eye bags are an inevitable part of the aging process for all of us unfortunately,’ says Olivier Amar, a leading cosmetic surgeon who specialises in facial rejuvenation.
‘The muscles atrophy with age and don’t hold the tension as they used to so the fat bulges.’
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Dr Amar, whose patience and skill have been great, advised minimal tension, so abdominal exercises are limited to crunches with bent knees, but that six-pack is beginning to emerge.
In the FAMI technique, stem cells are collected from fat tissue and then injected into the face under local anaesthetic.
One of the pioneers of the treatment, and the surgeon who performed my procedure, Dr Olivier Amar from London’s Sloan Street Clinic, told HuffPost UK Style: “This is a minimally invasive procedure and much more effective and natural than using fillers.”
Surgery is in Mr Amar’s blood – both his father and grandfather were well-respected surgeons. His father is the creator of the Fat Autograft Muscle Injection (FAMI) technique, a non-surgical facelift that uses stem cells harvested from the patient’s own fat.
Passionate and French (from sunny Marseille rather than frosty Paris), he’s suave yet serious, and has a very forward-thinking approach to tired eyes: he looks at the position of your eyebrows, the fullness of your temples and situation of your cheekbones to tighten muscles and restore volume.
The effect is subtle but so profound that my entire face appears lifted. I can’t quite believe it, so have to keep checking it’s true in mirrors and shop windows.
After watching a TV programme about botched surgery (fat transfer was initially developed to correct cosmetic surgery mistakes), she booked in to see Dr Olivier Amar at his Sloan Street Clinic.
Before performing the neck and eyelid lift, Dr Amar made a fine incision into Sandra’s stomach to take the fat cells that were then purified and injected into her chin, neck and her eyes to contour and reshape her face. He estimates 100ml of fat was transferred – the size of a large perfume bottle.
‘Over ten years I might spend thousands of pounds on face creams that wouldn’t have nearly the same effect,’ says Sandra.
The Tatler Guide describes Dr Olivier Amar as “the French body sculptor”.
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