When I meet someone I’m immediately drawn to the eyes. It’s not just out of politeness, but because the eyes can give a much better read on a person’s current state. Blood-shot eyes may hint at fatigue, or one to many glasses of wine. Bags under the eyes show one too many late nights and dehydration. And a furrowed brow shows possible anger or frustration.

As well as these indicators there are others that are tell – tales of age, like crow’s feet, sagging eyelids and drooping eyebrows. It’s the last one, dropping eyebrows, which I really don’t like on myself. For anyone afflicted by them, it gives a constant look of worry, mild anger and annoyance – not characteristics that you want to be displaying if you’re not feeling them.

I also have a habit of raising my eyebrows a lot. When I do relax my brows again I get a really heavy feeling over my eyes. I looked into lots of options to fix the issue. With so many treatment options available I really had to define what I needed from the whole experience and what my priorities were.

The items I came up with, in order of importance were: effectiveness of procedure, minimum recovery time, pain level, and cost and procedure time. I think for everyone weighing up such a decision the effectiveness would always be the priority. As a business owner the next most important item was downtime. I can’t afford more than a few days off in a row. When I looked at the more invasive procedures the recoveries were anywhere up to a month, not realistic for me to undertake.

My research kept pointing to Botox. I saw plenty of the results online of people treating their dropping brows with Botox, and the results looked amazing. The only small disadvantage was that Botox isn’t a permanent treatment and needs a few visits a year to maintain the effects. However, once I weighed that against the zero downtime and relative cheapness, compared to a more permanent solution, I was convinced.