Beverly Hills Beautiful Lip Augmentation Using Juvederm or Restylane

In both my Beverly Hills and Glendora offices other than the need for beautiful breasts and breast augmentation, a close second request is beautiful lips.  While there are a few ways to augment the lips using products ranging from AlloDerm to permanent implants, by far the safest and most natural approach is using hyaluronic acid.  This includes products such as Juvederm and Restylane.  However, the products alone are not magical unless you have a skilled technician injecting the product.  To get a natural result, the anatomy of the lips and proportions of the lips must be recognized and obeyed.  For instance, I cannot tell you how many women I see walking in the streets of Beverly Hills who clearly just have their upper lips injected.  Not only it is a telltale sign of a lip augmentation, it is a telltale sign of bad lip augmentation.  Many women feel the need to simply fill the upper lip (perhaps to save money) while ignoring the lower lip.  In truth, both the upper lip and lower lip should almost always be augmented together.  Proportions MUST remain natural.  Usually, the lower lip is 1.5 times larger than the size of the upper lip.  In addition, the curls of the lips under vermilion border must also look similar.  That is, when you inject the upper lip on the vermilion border and curl it, it looks awfully silly when the lower lip does not have a similar pout or curve.  In addition, the boundaries of lips are critical.  Anything injected within 1 to 2 cm of the corner of the mouth will give a fake, trout-pout look.  The main volume of the lip should be in the central third to the the central 50% in the upper lip.  In the bottom lip, there is a natural cleft which should not be violated.  In addition, when the volume is injected, it is to be layered such that more volume is given, the closer you go tothe philtral columns.  When these approaches are taken, a significant amount of volume (Juvederm) can be injected into the upper and lower lip while still maintaining a natural look.  I have injected up to 3 cc of Juvederm into lips and maintained a natural look such that people have no idea that they are augmented.  For more about lip aesthetics, please visit my article at LA2Day.