Posts tagged wrinkles around the mouth
Upper lip lines (or) Smokers lines and I don’t even smoke!

I know, you've never smoked a cigarette in your life.

It’s so unfair to wrongly characterize ALL of us. Those pesky upper lip wrinkles that make us crazy. By simply living, laughing, eating and drinking we are developing upper lip lines. Well thankfully we’re not going to tell you to stop all that activity but there are some things you can do to mitigate and soften those upper lip wrinkles. History shows us the best results come from combination therapies.

Our best cases have been from clients who commit to several different treatments to really attack those upper lip wrinkles on several levels. These wrinkles develop from repeated use. The underlying muscles are dynamic, meaning they move. A LOT. When we treat upper lip wrinkles we may suggest several different treatments including fillers, microneedling and Botox. There isn’t one magic bullet! Here is an overview:


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Low face got ya down? (or) Marionette lines and sad face fillers:

Ok, we know the best shape for a healthy, youthful, looking face is an inverted triangle🔻 (read the last blog for more on that)

Day after day women want to know how to fix the lower third of the face: Marionette lines, jowls nasolabial folds and laugh lines. We pray for an easy fix, one thing that can fix it all. But often it's not actually treating that area first. When we do a facial assessment, we first need to consider the mid face in relation to the lower face. If there is volume loss in the midface and cheeks, we want to fill that first. The last thing we want to do is add filler to an already heavy lower face. It squares off the lower face in an unnatural and unflattering way.


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