Age Before Beauty
Bel, after spending the past 18 years as a homemaker, steps in to save the family business in a failing family run beauty salon in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. Family feuds and bitter rivalries, professional and personal, escalate in the salon amongst the Botox, fillers and facelifts.
Cast: Polly Walker, James Murray, Kelly Harrison
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Season 1
6 episodes
1. Episode 1When Bel and Wesley's kids go off to university, best mate Teddy - who is in love with Bel despite being married to her sister, Leanne - puts in motion a plan to break up their marriage.12CC55minJul 31, 2018
2. Episode 2Bel hopes Wes's infidelity will be short-lived and puts a plan in motion to win him back. She books a PT session with Lorelei and is horrified that her rival is young and gorgeous.12CC55minAug 7, 2018
3. Episode 3Bel plots to humiliate Wes and Lorelei in front of their friends and family. Meanwhile Leanne is trying to get one up on Bel and has organised a billboard to promote the salon. Bel and Chizzler have a heart to heart where Chizzler tries to get her to talk to Wes.12CC55minAug 14, 2018- 4. Episode 4Lorelei tries to win Wes's heart, and while he wants to end his affair with her, Bel's head is being turned by Teddy. Leanne has organised for MirrorBel salon to have a stand at an anti-ageing fair. When Bel, Tina and Heidi turn up, they're surprised to discover that Leanne is promoting herself as a guru for the genre. It's clear that beyond designing the packaging, she doesn't have a clue what she's doing. Later, Teddy tells Bel he'll invest in the business as long as they keep it secret from Wes and Leanne. Drama, starring Polly Walker and Robson Green.12CC55minAug 21, 2018
- 5. Episode 5Leanne is keen to launch her own beauty product range and is furious to discover Bel had the same idea years ago, but Shameen helps her identify a gap in the beauty market. Dante confesses a guilty secret to Tyler, who is so shocked that he finishes with him, while a fire breaks out in the salon, forcing Leanne to come up with a way to ensure that MirrorBel Beauty can continue to treat their clients - while trying to get to the bottom of who deliberately started it.12CC55minAug 28, 2018
- 6. Episode 6The drama about a dysfunctional family torn apart by an affair concludes. At Wes and Leanne's wedding a pregnant Lorelei turns up and gives birth to Wes's daughter. Meanwhile, Teddy's plan to win Bel is exposed, which makes Bel and Wes wish they were still together.12CC55minAug 29, 2018
Age Before Beauty
★ 2.8/1020181 season6 episodesEnded
Bel, after spending the past 18 years as a homemaker, steps in to save the family business in a failing family run beauty salon in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. Family feuds and bitter rivalries, professional and personal, escalate in the salon amongst the Botox, fillers and facelifts.
Creators and cast
- Directors
- Paul Walker
- Studio
- Mainstreet Pictures
