Do you dream of having voluminous lips that are smooth, shapely, and well-defined? You’re not alone: In 2024, over 3 million people opted to plump up their lips with fillers.
Whether your lips are naturally thin, have narrowed with age, or you simply desire a more pillowy pucker, enhancing them with the right dermal filler can help you create the perfect pout, soften the lines around your mouth, and subtly redefine your appearance.
This February, our team at Manhattan Dermatology is here to explain how advanced hyaluronic acid (HA) fillers can give you fuller lips and redefine the contours of your Cupid’s bow just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Smooth, voluminous lips are a hallmark of feminine youth and beauty. Unfortunately, not everyone is blessed with perfectly proportioned lips, and even women who are gifted with full, shapely lips frequently find that they deflate, thin out, and become creased with age.
Minimally invasive and fully customizable, lip augmentation can correct asymmetry, create more balanced proportions, and reverse signs of aging. It’s an ideal solution if you have:
Whether you don’t like how aging has affected your lips, or you simply feel that fuller, more contoured lips would create a more aesthetic facial balance, lip augmentation can give you the gorgeously subtle results you’re after — in an instant.
As one of the simplest and most effective beauty enhancements for women of all ages, lip augmentation aims to create or restore improved lip volume, definition, and line-smoothing texture through the skillful injection of a hyaluronic acid filler.
HA is a slippery, syrupy substance that occurs naturally in many bodily tissues, particularly in your eyes, joints, and skin. Able to hold over 4,000 times its weight in water — one quarter teaspoon of HA can retain 1.5 gallons of water — HA is wonderfully hydrating.
Because it also fosters plump, smooth, and resiliently flexible skin, HA is also the main ingredient in many FDA-approved dermal fillers — including various top-tier lip-volumizing fillers. At Manhattan Dermatology, we can create the perfect plumped pout with:
When injected in just the right spots, this smooth, crystal-clear synthetic gel adds volume to your lips, refines their shape, and minimizes the appearance of linear perioral lines — or the so-called “smoker’s wrinkles” that appear at the edges of your mouth.
The Revance RHA 3 filler, in particular, takes lip augmentation to the next level with resilient hyaluronic acid, or RHA, an advanced form of HA that’s a closer match to natural HA.
Compared with standard synthetic HA, gently processed RHA fillers offer greater flexibility (i.e., less density and stiffness) for a more natural look and feel from the outset.
The HA lip filler process is simple: After the aesthetic consultation and planning portion of your appointment, we apply a topical anesthetic lotion to the area to minimize discomfort.
Then, using a very fine needle, we inject the chosen HA filler into the predetermined areas (i.e., vermilion border, body of the lip, Cupid’s bow) to create the results you’re after. We may gently massage the treatment area to ensure proper filler distribution and lip shape.
Lip filler results are immediate, although your perfect new pout may be slightly masked by minor swelling for 24-48 hours after your treatment (and possibly lasting for up to a week). You can ease any mild swelling with cold therapy (periodic icing).
HA lip fillers typically last six to 12 months, at which point you’ll need a quick touch-up appointment to maintain your smooth, shapely lips. Because they tend to last longer, RHA fillers often require less frequent touch-up treatments.
Are you ready to perfect your pout? We’re here to help. Schedule a visit at Manhattan Dermatology today. We have two New York City offices: one in Murray Hill, Manhattan, and another in the borough’s Midtown East neighborhood.
