‘For the first time ever, I look younger than my husband’

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Once a beauty minimalist, the TV presenter reveals how sobriety, lasers and low effort have transformed her skin – and mindset

By Sonia Haria, Beauty Director - The Telegraph

Once a beauty minimalist, the TV presenter reveals how sobriety, lasers and low effort have transformed her skin – and mindsetThe writer and former television presenter Susannah Constantine is sitting at a table in the garden of our home in West Sussex, her hair scraped back into a bun. She’s got sunglasses on - the chunky type, covering half her face - but takes them off for the purposes of our conversation. 

“I’m wearing absolutely no make-up” she tells me, eyes widening whilst stretching her skin left and right, to give me a closer look “Not bad eh?”

As a self-confessed ‘beauty treatment virgin’ we are here to discuss the first “proper” treatment she’s had. No, it’s not Botox which she did try “a long long time ago” - 17 years to be exact - on the advice of her long-time Friend Trinny Woodall, but “I’m needle phobic and absolutely hated it”, she admits.

In the past six months she has had three sessions of the Harmony Bio-Boost and no downtime and non-invasive laser treatment that boosts the skin’s own ability to produce more collagen (one treatment starts at £350.)

Indeed her skin, without a scratch of make-up on, looks undeniably bright and healthy. Certainly not line-free, because that’s not the point of these sorts of laser treatments, but she tells me how it revived her post-menopausal skin.

“There were a lot of things that coincided around the Menopause for me. When I stopped drinking and started my journey of recovery from alcoholism…

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