Rachel Example.
Thank you to my lovely client Rachel, who has allowed me to discuss her glow up with you. So, Rachel is 31 years old gorgeous woman, who, before treatment, was feeling like the early signs of ageing were creeping in. As a high-level athlete, she had lost some degree of facial fat and felt like her face looked a little hard.
If we examine Rachel carefully, we see that she is slightly longer in her overall face shape and she has lost some volume and projection in her cheeks, which are a little flat here, and her tear troughs or under eye area is slightly hollow. As a consequence, her midface has dropped slightly, which is contributing to her nasolabial folds, the lines between her nose and mouth.
We can also see volume loss around her mouth, both above her lip and below her lip in her marionette hollows here. In particular, she has lost projection in her chin, which is slightly retruded or sitting too far back, causing her chin muscle, mentalis, to be hyperactive, which is why you see this dimpling. Overall, this area is lacking the normal soft curves and contours we might see in a slightly more feminine face.
To address these issues, I staged Rachel’s treatments to make them more manageable, plus we are all works in progress. Overall, she had a total of 5mls of dermal filler, which sounds like a lot, but is really no more than a teaspoon over a large area. As you can see, I softened her under eye hollows, created more definition in her outer cheek and fullness in her inner cheek, which has lifted her nasolabial folds, although I also directly filled these lines to soften them further. Treating her midface has given her more width and made her overall face shape look more oval and less long.
I projected her chin forward, taking care not to lengthen her face, and made it slightly rounder looking. This has stopped her chin muscle from working so hard and improved her chin dimpling, as well as her chin shape. I also restored the volume loss around her mouth and gave her lips some very subtle fullness.
The end result, she still looks like herself, just fresher, with a softer more feminine look. The most important part is that she is loving her new face and her friends and family keep telling her how well she is looking, which is exactly what I want for all of my clients.