The Russian lip technique is the art of injecting the lips vertically versus horizontally. This technique is done using a bunch of tiny injections that creates a heart-shaped lip where the areas near the philtrum columns and Cupid’s bow are very augmented and the rest of the lip remains almost the same. This gives a …
It feels different for every patient who gets filler, but for most, they feel nothing or a little bit of pressure, but no pain. Everyone is different. Some are more pain-sensitive or skin-sensitive than others, but most of my patients tell me that they don’t feel anything. Do filler injections hurt? As a general rule, …
You should massage after having injectable filler in areas where the skin is thinner, such as the lips or lower eyelids, but massaging too much and in other areas could actually break down the filler, resulting in less volume. Or it may cause filler migration. Until the filler incorporates with your soft tissue, it may …
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It is perfectly normal to have a lump or bump after getting filler. Here’s a quick guide. Typically, within a day or two, you might feel an irregularity in some areas where the skin is thinner, such as the lips or the lower eyelids. Lumps or bumps in the lips are more common because we …
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There are basically two ways to get rid of a bump on the nose. One way is called an injection rhinoplasty where we camouflage the bump with fillers placed above and below the bump which creates a straight profile. The alternate way is to remove the bump with traditional rhinoplasty surgery where we take down …
Filler is a great option to fill out the apples of your cheeks, which can become gaunt with weight loss or overtime with aging. Flatness in that area can also be a genetic trait, but we all agree that volume makes us look younger. The apples of your cheeks are located between the cheekbone and …
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Filler is a great non-invasive way to smooth out a pointy chin. It works quite well to augment the chin and give you a more attractive profile. A well-projected chin shows strength in a male face and gives a woman that much-coveted snatched jawline as depicted on many Instagram posts. I often say, in my …
Lip fillers should be injected into the red part of the lip, which includes the vermillion border. This is the border around our lips between the white skin and red lips. Injecting there perks up the lips and defines them. Properly placed filler should not migrate to outside this border and should not create an …
A Bellafill nose job is simply an injection rhinoplasty using Bellafill which is a permanent filler that is injected under the skin to change the shape and contour of the nose. With surgical rhinoplasty we change the infrastructure of the nose by moving cartilage, removing bone, and suturing. After it heals, we see the new …
When we talk about getting rid of nasolabial folds we are talking about the line from the cheek to the mouth. Some people want this fold filled, but I find that’s like a dog chasing their tail, because it will never get filled. However, if we fill all the areas around it, the fold looks …