Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a UK female hairstyle which pulls the hair back tightly from the face, supposedly giving the effect of a facelift; stereotyped as that of working-class young women.

2003		Urban Dict. 🌐 Croydon facelift: Type of hairstyle where garage loving council estate females pull they’re [sic] hair up into a pony tail so tight it lifts their face.
2005		barrenalbion.blogspot.com 32 Jan. 🌐 I avoid going into town because I cannot tolerate one more girl with a Croydon facelift shouting for little Jade or little Ebony to, ‘Get the fuckin’ ’ell over ’ere before you get fuckin’ ’it!’.
2008		A. Wheatle Dirty South 32: White trash girls [...] carried on like they were black anyway with their Croydon facelift hairstyles and their cheap gold.
2008		Observer 22 June 🌐 [headline] So that’s what they mean by a ‘Croydon facelift’...
2013		Erotic Rev. 18 Mar. 🌐 Shortly after I placed the notice at the door, two breeding females with bad dye jobs and Croydon Facelifts happened by.
2022		J. Meades in LRB 9 June 🌐 [M]any young, ill-educated women were breeding indiscriminately, so ‘weakening the race’. This was not restricted to sump-estate CDs with Croydon facelifts.