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"  &amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;strong&amp;amp;gt;Mrs Trefusis is the nom de keyboard of Helen Brocklebank. She lives in West London with her husband, her two children and spends all the housekeeping money on novels and shoes. Here, Mrs Trefusis talks about&amp;amp;lt;/strong&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;strong&amp;amp;gt;\u00A0natural beauty, agelessness and Botox&amp;amp;lt;/strong&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;gt;\u2018Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.\u2019 &amp;amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://www.harpersbazaar.co.uk/search-results/?q=coco+chanel&amp;quot; target=&amp;quot;_blank&amp;quot;&amp;amp;gt;Coco Chanel&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt; (pictured)&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;gt;\u2018Why you never let me do anything to your face?\u2019 asks an eminent cosmetic doctor of my acquaintance, over a drink in the opulent yet stygian gloom of one of Mayfair\u2019s newer and even more extravagantly priced restaurants.&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;gt;Dr Buonarroti, as we shall call him, is the genius behind many a famous face. People in the public eye - so renowned for their beauty you\u2019d never dream they had need of his services \u2013 regularly knock on his discreet Harley Street door. So, really, I should be leaping at his generous offer to jab needles in my forehead and shine lasers onto my face, particularly as I shan\u2019t see forty again.&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;gt;It\u2019s not that I haven\u2019t tried &amp;amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://www.harpersbazaar.co.uk/search-results/?q=botox&amp;quot; target=&amp;quot;_blank&amp;quot;&amp;amp;gt;Botox&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt; \u2013 shortly before the Great Trefusis Economic Crisis, in the days when spare cash was about treats and frittering rather than school fees and bills, I had a couple of goes and liked it rather a lot. No one could describe me as naturally poker-faced, which makes me pretty hopeless in senior meetings because if I disagree with the party line, it\u2019s writ large in every wrinkle and expression-line. An inability to dissemble is rather awkward in the workplace, so I enjoyed the serene expressionlessness made possible by my short-lived dabble with Botox. Actually, I swear my career capital even increased when my face didn\u2019t conspire against me to reveal any off-message thoughts but since I hadn\u2019t the readies I had to suck it up and get used to it.&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;gt;However, Dr Buonarroti would de-age me for free, so it can\u2019t be economic considerations that make me refuse his kind offer. It\u2019s not until a few days later that I put my finger on what\u2019s really behind my hesitation: it\u2019s the killing degree of effort required in the relentless pursuit of youth. A few weeks ago, I had been at a very grand reception with a guest list of well-off, working women: chic, elegant, ultra-worked-out, beautifully coiffed, and without exception they could have been any age between thirty-five and sixty. They looked uniformly marvellous, yet all I could think of was how utterly exhausting it must be to maintain. If I let Dr Buonarroti get me started down that route, I\u2019d make a rod for my own back \u2013 I\u2019d never be able to keep up the good work.&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;gt;So it dawns on me that I\u2019m simply too lazy to achieve an illusion of agelessness. Which is why, when I reach fifty, I won\u2019t deserve to have anything other than the face I deserve.&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;em&amp;amp;gt;Read more from Helen on her personal blog\u00A0&amp;amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://www.mrstrefusis.blogspot.co.uk/&amp;quot; target=&amp;quot;_blank&amp;quot;&amp;amp;gt;Mrs Trefusis Takes a Taxi&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;, and follow her on Twitter\u00A0&amp;amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;https://twitter.com/mrstrefusis&amp;quot; target=&amp;quot;_blank&amp;quot;&amp;amp;gt;@MrsTrefusis&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;/em&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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