Women were today warned not to inject filler into an area of their face for fear it could leave them “looking like a weird alien”.
The injections, filled with medical-grade gels placed under the skin, are supposedly age-defying and used to smooth lines and restore volume to the face.
But receiving injections just below the cheekbones can “distort features,” an American cosmetics expert said.
According to Molly Bailey, a Missouri-based associate aesthetic physician, this is because the area doesn’t tend to lose much volume as we age, unlike the apples of our cheeks.
The filler here, known medically as the zygomatic arch, becomes “more visible”, making the face “appear wider” and “more masculine”.
in a Instagram videoHe told his 87,000 followers: ‘There is one place where a woman should not put filler in her face unless she wants to look like a strange person. foreign.
‘As we all know, we lose fat, we lose collagen and we lose bone as we age.
“But there are some places where the bone doesn’t really recede much or get smaller as we age, and one of them is the lateral arch of the cheeks.”
Applying filler to the lateral ridges of your cheeks, or cheekbones, can “distort your features,” said associate aesthetic physician Molly Bailey.
Showing old photos of the supermodel, he pointed out her high, prominent cheekbones.
Bailey uses the example of supermodel Naomi Campbell, who is rumored to have had filler injected into the skin where her cheekbones sit.
“When it’s placed in areas that don’t experience a lot of natural volume loss, that’s when it can be most visible and distort our features the most,” he said, referencing an image of Ms. Campbell modeling extremely accentuated cheekbones.
Using filler to ‘contour’ your face, rather than restoring volume to your apples, can make you ‘will end up looking wider and more masculine,” he said, adding that Campbell “It will remain that way for most of your life.”
“The other problem is that we lose volume under the cheeks, which can accentuate the filler even more,” she said.
‘Mid-face filler can be very supportive and invisible, but it should be used to replace volume and not contour.
‘Contour with your makeup, don’t contour with your filler.’
Fillers (usually collagen or hyaluronic acid injections) are offered in beauty clinics for as little as £75.
While it is supposed to last about 18 months, MRIs have shown that the filler can migrate and remain in areas of the face years after it dissolves.
Using filler to add volume to your arches and not your apples can make you “end up looking wide and can make your face look more masculine,” she said. In the photo, Naomi Campbell in 2000 (left) and 2024 (right)
Fillers (usually collagen or hyaluronic acid injections) are offered in beauty clinics for as little as £75.
Dermatologists have also previously warned that excess facial filler in younger people “can often look unnatural.”
Last month, a surgeon who spoke to MailOnline warned of a rise in younger women needing facelift surgery, because their appearance had been “ruined” by years of receiving filler injections.
Dr Julián De Silva, a specialist in facial plastic surgery, said: “More and more women are coming to me about facial aging in their 30s. It is often because they have had fillers.
‘Filling can build up; It does not always dissolve completely naturally and can be very difficult to remove.
‘A patient I hadn’t seen in five years came back for facelift surgery and I almost didn’t recognize her because she had so much added volume to her cheeks, lips, chin and jaw.
‘She added it every six months and it just added up.
‘We dissolved everything we could. But patients often require surgery because their skin ends up stretched.’
