Under-eye filler has earned a curious reputation for being both a top shot in injectors’ offices and, we’re told, the most problematic of procedures. In
Juvéderm, Volbella, and Restylane Silk are much thinner, so they are used more superficially and can make the lip look a little bit puffier. For her older patients, Dr. Idriss prefers to use Restylane to reshape and redefine the border or “scaffolding” of the lips that fades over time. And in younger patients with thinner lips, she likes to use Juvéderm Volbella for volume and oomph.
“You were the most beautiful baby,” my mother once said to me. “But I was worried that your lips were going to be too thin.”
After headlines linking COVID-19 vaccines to filler swelling shook the beauty world, dermatologists and plastic surgeons flooded social media with a resounding message: The risk is rare; get vaccinated.
It’s become a ubiquitous site during the coronavirus pandemic — the processions of vehicles stretched bumper-to-bumper; the PPE-clad figures, veritable carhops with clipboards, tending to
I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume I’m not getting injectables any time soon. The taut skin that graces my forehead
“I think that facial anatomy is so complicated when it comes to structure. There is no miracle product, like in skin care. I don’t think it would be good to have a filler that could address all of your problems, because when you think of the face, you want everything to work a little differently. You want it to be sturdier around the jawline to hold the face up, or along your cheekbones. You want it to be malleable along the cheeks or where you smile, so your face can move. It doesn’t make sense to have a miracle filler, in my mind.”
Every artist has their medium. Caravaggio found light in oil on canvas. Dürer celebrated details in watercolors. Bourgeois brought humanity to marble and bronze. Alexiades,
If you were to have told me a few years ago that at 26 I’d be injecting my face with filler, I would’ve first said
“People need to be very educated about getting [anti-wrinkle injections] done and should not take it lightly,” said New York dermatologist Dr. Shereene Idriss. She said that while the Instagram advertisements she has seen for Botox have been educational, such posts can make the treatment seem more simple than it is. “[Influencers who are not doctors] are talking about it almost like it’s a haircut,” she said. “Not everybody is a good candidate.”
Lip fillers aren’t forever. Most injections are temporary and disappear on their own within a year. However, you don’t have to wait that long to
As Botox, lip fillers and other cosmetic procedures hit the mainstream, start-ups and entrepreneurial doctors are offering in-home services and opening salons that portray injecting wrinkle-smoothing neurotoxins as no different than a blowout or manicure.
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