We’ve been wearing gold as jewellery for centuries, but now the beauty industry has found an unusual use for the precious metal by putting it inside our bodies in the pursuit of youth.
Gold thread rejuvenation is a technique that inhabits the territory between a pot of cream and a facelift.
Under local anaesthetic, ultrafine 24-carat gold filaments are sown into the upper layers of the skin, causing a reaction that stimulates a new network of collagen and elastin fibres to form around it. This, in turn, makes the skin thicker, plumper and, ultimately, “lifted”.
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