‘Age-shaming' ads covered in graffiti at Brisbane Westfield

AN AD offering women a bunch of specials on plastic surgery has been targeted by Australia’s most heroic graffiti artist.

AUSTRALIA’S most heartwarming vandal has been discovered — taking a blue marker to a bunch of Botox posters in Queensland.

Posters attached to the back of the bathroom doors at a Westfield shopping centre in Brisbane has been covered in uplifting quotes, encouraging women to spend the money on something else.

“You are perfect just the way you are!” the vandal’s scrawl reads.

Instead of spending close to $500 on three different Botox treatments, the graffiti artist instead encourages women to “spend it on a holiday instead”.

The artist calls crow’s-feet “happiness marks” and frown lines “life experience”.

On the deal offering women “kissable lips” for $389, the woman writes, “Newsflash, they are already kissable, that’s what lips do”.

The photo was taken by Twitter user Juliet Puff at Westfield Garden City and was later posted by Eric Veland.

The poster was covered in uplifting images.

It’s already attracted a number of supportive comments with plenty of people praising the anonymous vandal.

“Saw and thought the same thing at Westfield Knox City, Melbourne this week! Age shaming,” one woman wrote.

Another commented: “I support the whole graffiti, and especially the part ‘spend on a holiday instead’.”

Botox celebrated its 16th birthday last month and Australians have always been among the biggest spenders on the injectable.

HOW BOTOX BEGAN

Although the product’s use in the cosmetic world is still in its infancy, Botox has a long history that stretches all the way back to the 1820s when a German scientist discovered the first strains of the toxin in off sausages, while trying to ascertain how the rotten pork product was making people sick.

Seventy years later, another doctor — also investigating food poisoning — expanded on these findings, discovering seven strains of botulinum toxin, four of which were harmful to humans.

In the 1950s researchers discovered that injecting small amounts of one of the strains (Botulinum toxin type A) into hyperactive muscles relaxed them. Fast-forward to the 80s, the toxin was approved as a treatment for everything from facial spasms and eyelid twitching, to cerebral palsy.

It was also around this time the toxin it got its more user-friendly name: Botox. However, the real breakthrough for the injectable as a cosmetic came in 1987 by two married Canadian doctors.

The couple accidentally discovered the wrinkle-fighting properties of the toxin after noticing that patients who were receiving injections for facial spasms were also losing their frown lines.