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Injectable fillers: do they advance aging?

By droopi on 29 May 2012

Apart from the risks involved in getting injectables (wrong type, wrong location, wrong PS), I have this sneaking suspicion that once injected (even without immediate problems) skin or underlying tissue develops differently. Often resulting in an older looking appearance in the long run. I may very well be wrong and I hope to find people here that have experience with dermal fillers for a few years. Perheps they can shed some light on how the skin or underlying tissue develops after injection. (and put my mind at ease)   What I often see in Hollywood stars, is after they've filled up the cheekbone area for some time, it starts looking quite aged. And frankly, quite odd aswell. For the moment I'll take actress Rose Mcgowan as an example. After a few years of using fillers, the deposition of fat on her cheeks seems very odd.    I fear once I start injectables, a tragic transformation like the one below will be inevitable. Is this fear justified or not? I'd like to hear your experiences!     When she was Marilyn Manson's girlfriend, before her own fame and likely without fillers:     [img]http://www.wallpaperme.com/130496-2/rose-mcgowan-020.jpg[/img] Shortly after her role in Charmed, with fillers:   [img]http://charmed.download-tvshows.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Rose-McGowan.jpg[/img]   After she stopped acting. Mind you, there are only 4 years between picture 2 and 3: [img]http://cdn01.cdn.thesuperficial.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/16/the-crap-we-missed-1216-09-435x580.jpg[/img]     It seems unlikely to me that someone's cheek would simply collapse within a 4 yrs time frame. Such aging should not occur that rapidly.   Pictures like these feed my hesitation to start with fillers. But perhaps I'm overeacting?  I hope that people that have experienced fillers over the course of a few yrs will share their stories with us!     

Comments (6)

Carinajo 3 Mar 2013
Another thought, I just saw Shirley McLaine in last season's Downton Abbey and I was horrified. Her face is a distorted mess. I started thinking, I don't want to look like that when I'm 76!!! What did she have done???
Carinajo 3 Mar 2013
Hmm, I used fillers for about 6 years, maybe more quite honestly. At first I used them for the marionette lines and then for the librarian lips then more recently for cheeks. All looked great and friends would kid me about having a FL, which I've always been afraid of I loved it! . The cheeks are where things, I think, went wrong. In the past year or so I noticed in the bright light that my skin (cheeks) have an orange peel look, big pores, and I look jowly. I think the fillers stretched my skin. The marionette lines are still gone but the skin was pushed out and I think had to go somewhere. Sigh. It was good while it lasted.
The lady 21 Oct 2012
I've been using fillers for about 5 years and I love them... The problem is you keep wanting more and more and can go to far.
Megan P (Community Manager) 22 Oct 2012

I can definitely see where that would be the case. Do you have a certain way you keep things in check so to speak, for instance, are there certain areas you will not fill, or certain amounts of filler you won't go over?

smorosi 13 Aug 2012

if you overfill your face, you stretch the skin. I always tell the doctor to use a little bit to slow my aging ....not stop it and I love the stuff. Actresses also use more drugs and have less sleep and compensate with plastic surgery

Megan P (Community Manager) 30 May 2012

This is a great forum post - I'm going to be very interested to hear what people who have been getting fillers done for years have to say about this!

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