{"id":18187,"date":"2021-01-28T09:06:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T17:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https://www.realself.com\/news\/?p=18187"},"modified":"2024-01-18T14:33:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T22:33:54","slug":"reasons-to-get-lip-filler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https://www.realself.com\/news\/reasons-to-get-lip-filler","title":{"rendered":"4 Reasons to Get Lip Filler\u2014Even If You Don\u2019t Want Big Lips"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our annual Most Worth It list<\/a> recognizes the most-loved aesthetic procedures—from noninvasive tweaks to the gold standard in surgery—as chosen by RealSelf community members like you. This story highlights one or more of the 44 Most Worth It honorees for 2022; you can see the full list and learn more about patients’ favorite procedures here<\/a>.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>

There’s an intriguing trend emerging across top injectors’ Instagram accounts: lip augmentations<\/a> that, at first glance, appear utterly…un<\/em>augmented. The absence of a striking size shift actually stops us mid-scroll, compelling us to take a closer look. That’s when we see it—the lip line is crisper in the “after”; the Cupid’s bow, sharply defined. The upper lip is more outturned and pouty but almost imperceptibly so. The left and right halves suddenly seem a more perfect match. A supple smoothness has replaced preexisting cragginess.<\/p>

The common thread linking these lips is a sort of undone quality. They look youthful and healthy, cared for but not obsessed over. Call it the lip-aug equivalent of beach hair or no-makeup makeup, if such a thing were to exist.<\/p>

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“There are so many lips that you see every day in life that you don’t even realize have been treated, because they are just that good,” Dr. Corey Hartman<\/a>, a board-certified dermatologist in Homewood, Alabama, wrote in a recent IG post describing the uptick in demand for what he calls “a more subtle lip enhancement … that focuses on contour, hydration, and shape.”<\/p>

While “subtle is the new dramatic” has become a ubiquitous slogan among aesthetics doctors—one that could certainly apply to injectables of all types—the tagline perhaps most aptly fits the lips. “Patients are gravitating toward a more natural fullness,” says Dr. Sarmela Sunder<\/a>, a board-certified facial plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, California. “Ten years ago, lip fillers<\/a> were about subtlety. Then the pendulum swung all the way to the overdone ‘Instagram’ lips. Now I feel like we’ve settled into a happy medium, where there’s more interest in shape, border definition, soft hydration—the subconscious cues of healthy, youthful lips.”<\/p>

In Dr. Hartman’s corner of the world, patients have always favored a more conservative lip look, he says. Recently though he’s seen this understated aesthetic reflected in a widespread way across social media—which he speculates may have something to do with the current mood of our country. Amid a pandemic and social unrest, flash feels not only irrelevant but inappropriate. “There’s this desire to get back to something natural-looking,” Dr. Hartman reiterates. Lip injections, in his opinion, have become more “about making someone whole—restoring what they’ve lost rather than changing them in a big way.”<\/p>

Even in Miami, where modesty is hardly the rule, “I don’t want to look fake” is typically the first thing board-certified dermatologist Dr. Janelle Vega<\/a> hears from potential lip filler patients. Happily, “lip fillers have so many benefits beyond sheer augmentation,” she notes. Ahead, leading injectors reveal how they can subtly fine-tune the lips with filler. <\/p>

Crisp contours and improved projection<\/h2>

Young lips stand at attention, all pert and flush. But over time, their borders tend to flatten and slouch. This lack of crispness, our experts say, frequently drives patients to lip injections. <\/p>

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