We all agree that lips are sexy! But what makes lips sexy? And the fear that most of my patients express: “Doc, please don’t make me look like a porn star!”
What makes the lips sexy is their round, full and elongated contour. As we age, we all tend to lose volume from our faces and our lips also become thinner. As they get thinner, fine wrinkles appear around the mouth and the lips look wrinkled and wrinkled. Most patients notice that there is a fine white line around the lips where it used to be pink or “lip color.” Women who wear lipstick also complain that their lipstick “bleeds” and no longer remains confined to the edge of the lips.
As the loss of volume continues, the corners of the mouth also become thinner and the mouth appears to be drooping. Patients often come in saying they look “stepped or sad.”
Fortunately, the problem has a simple solution. There are a variety of fillers that can be injected into the lip to restore the natural “roll” of the lip, eliminating fine lines and making that pretty lipstick stay on the lips as planned. The filler material is injected along the edge of the lip as one would apply lip liner until the anatomy of the lip is restored. This simple trick allows the lips to regain the look they did when the person was in their twenties! There is no added volume, hence no pornstar lips!
Sagging corners of the mouth can also be corrected using the above method with some application of the filler material to the surrounding support areas of the lip (around the lower lip / chin area) to push the corners up. Botox injections can also help relax the muscles that pull the corners of the mouth down. Together, the problem is addressed!
Now what if you really want a little extra volume? The good news is that most fillers are instant. By injecting the actual lip into various critical areas, one can create more volume, more of a “pout”, a broader smile (for those with small mouths), or any other desired effect. What you see, minus a little bloat, is what you get. You can control what and how much gets on the lips, thereby avoiding the ugly over-the-top fillers that create the “pornstar lips” or “fake cosmetic look” that so many women fear.
In short, aging lips can be corrected, the lipstick color can be limited to the lips, and the sad corners of the mouth can be transformed into the natural, healthy and youthful lips that they gave you earlier in life.