Ageing gracefully in the 21st century

THE history of beauty is as ancient as time itself. Throughout mankind's history, people have tried to improve their attractiveness and beauty, while maintaining youth for as long as their methods of treatments could afford them.

Our appearance is the most public part of ourselves - it is only natural that we desire to improve our apparent imperfections or maintain our perceived youthful beauty. Beauty is often perceived with a spectrum of narcissism, but history and modern-day practices have taught us that being good-looking does contribute to a person's success.

In his book Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful, Professor Daniel Hamermesh, a prominent economist and professor of economics in the University of London, points out: "...The attractive are more likely to be employed, work more productively and profitably, receive …