5 Things You Didn’t Know You Could do With Dermal Fillers
Dermal fillers … they can’t do your homework or wash your dishes, but they are far more versatile than you may have known! One of the main reasons that dermal fillers have taken off flying in the cosmetic popularity stakes is their flexibility and wide range of applications. These fast, safe, non-invasive cosmetic treatment tools aren’t just for filling in crow’s feet and correcting dropping mouths – today we check out 5 things that you may not have known dermal fillers could do.
1. Give you a nose job
If you’ve been putting up with a crooked, deeply scarred or generally lumpy/bumpy nose for years because you aren’t enthused about the prospect of ‘going under the knife’, you should ask your cosmetic technician about non-surgical nose jobs with dermal fillers. Of course, dermal fillers won’t be able to reduce the size of your nose, but they can:
• Help crooked areas appear straighter
• Smooth out bumps and valleys
• Correct a hook-shaped nose
• Help balance a wide nose
• Improve the appearance of a nose that looks strange after being broken
• Refine the results of a surgical ‘nose job’
2. ’Plump out’ your face
One of the main changes that occur in our faces as we age is a general loss of volume. Our hips may be happily widening, but we all tend to lose fat from our faces, and as a result wrinkles form. Facelifts aren’t the ideal correction for loss of facial volume because they tighten the skin without restoring that fullness – you’ll be wrinkle-free, but also a little skeletal. Dermal fillers are a great all-round solution – safe and natural-looking. The most popular areas where dermal fillers are used to fill out your face and create a younger look are:
• Cheekbones or cheeks
• The tear troughs
• Nasolabial folds (smile lines)
• The chin – we lose a disproportionately large amount of bone mass from our jaw as we age. Dermal fillers can’t replace the bone (!), but they can replace the appearance of volume.
3. Give you fuller lips
Dermal fillers based on hyaluronic acid have well and truly replaced collagen for lip re-shaping. Very specific shaping is possible with dermal fillers – most people choose to enhance the ‘vermilion border’, the line between the red and white parts – to create a ‘natural lipliner’ effect.
4. Fill in acne scars
Any large, depressed acne scars can be filled to soften their appearance with hyaluronic acid-based substances. Filling in acne scars with dermal fillers is also usually quite a cost effective exercise – pricing is usually based on the number of vials used, and you can have many acne scars filled in while using only a small volume of filler.
5. Create younger looking necks and hands
When it comes to cosmetic treatments, we often focus on our faces to the detriment of other parts of the body … and this can create a very spooky effect whereby your face looks 30 years old, but your hands remain at 45. Dermal fillers can safely be used in the neck and the hands to turn back the clock a decade or so!