How to help jelly rolls under eyes? (photos)

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Thank you for your question and for providing photos. Treating this area with a conservative amount of Botox or Dysport may minimize the appearance of the rolls you’re referring to. Other treatments such as laser resurfacing and RF microneedling can also diminish under-eye lines and improve your skin’s elasticity. I recommend scheduling an in-person consultation with an experienced, board-certified facial plastic surgeon or expert injector. They will be able to review your treatment history, assess your concern, and determine the best treatment plan for you.

I have had great success in this area with microdosing botox to the jelly roll area to help smooth out the wrinkles. This area is commonly treated incorrectly with filler which will damage the very thin and privileged skin. Rather, the jelly roll is created from a hyperactive orbicular muscle which a small amount of botox will help relax.

In my opinion, the rolls under your eyes are from lower lid orbicularis muscle that heaps up. In our experience, Botox doesn’t work, and neither does surgery. I wish there was better news for the jelly rolls! Dr Joseph

This is a great question and yes botox or dysport would work well with the jelly rolls as well as the crows feet. This should not add any puffiness at all to the under eye. Good luck!

Hi @krick17. Thank you for sending your photos. The "jelly roll" you are noticing is due to orbicularis muscle hypertrophy. This can be softened with a neuromodulator like Botox, Dysport, or Xeomin. The fine lines can be addressed with a CO2 laser, Erbium laser, or microneediling. Best of luck, Dr. Nima!

Oftentimes, those rolls are due to hypertrophic orbicularis oculi muscles. Very small amounts of neurotoxin (e.g., Botox) can help that and is a good starting point for you. Just see an experienced injector as this is so close to the eye and you don't want to get double vision (very distressing but not permanent, if this occurs).

The eye area needs significant combinations to get improvement. Lasers like erbium, co2, halo, profractional/contour, or Fraxel can all be used to build collagen long term. Plasma pen is a newer less invasive option but will take many treatments and require proper skincare. Plasma Pen is focused electrical plasma energy to tighten skin, producing small columns of energy just above the skin, allowing the skin to tighten to help improve wrinkles. This area will have 3-5 days of small “dots” that will then scab and peel, then the skin will tighter and brighter after. Numerous treatments are needed over lasers where only one or two give a bigger result, but more downtime. After plasma pen you NEED peels 2 weeks like later Cosmelan, enlighten or aerify, see emeragecosmetics (link). At home derma rolling should be started weekly even after plasma pen or lasers to further increase collagen, see emeragecosmetics AERIFY x anteagemd stem cell ampules. To properly heal you need light Stim red LED, EmerageSkin refit face, refit eye; AnteageMD serum, silagen silicone gel, jan Marini bioshield, EmerageSkin enzymatic polish, and EmerageSkin hyla b and AOX, and Sente dermal repair. Otherwise there is EXTREME risk of pigmentation issues and “dots” in the treatment area. at home peels like cosmelan, enlighten and aerify along with dermarolling (AERIFY emerageskin roller with Anteage MD ampules) should be started now regardless for antiaging, sun damage, and wrinkle prevention. There are many things you can do to treat under eye hollows and dark circles. A surgical option to remove skin and/or fat will such as eyelid blepharoplasty with or without fat pad repositioning (if doing lower eyelid surgery) will be the best long term. There are many things you can do to treat under eye hollows and dark circles without surgery. Non invasive less downtime options such as fillers, lasers, microneedling/PRP, cosmelan peels, and microneedling RF like Fractora, PiXel8 or morpheus can all help give some improvement. Accutite can often be used or stronger lasers like erbium or co2 spot treatment can tighten the skin and give very quick improvement in wrinkles and texture. I suggest you get a formal consultation to see what is best for you and your goals. Best, Dr. Emer.

You have a few issues taking place. The "jelly roll" is due to orbicularis muscle hypertrophy and non surgically this can be addressed with about 5 units of Dysport to start. The fine lines and wrinkles are skin quality issues and does not appear to be skin quantity issues so non surgical interventions like CO2 or Erbium laser, chemical peel, and microneedling can be effective for that.

Neurotmodulators, like Botox, Dysport, and Xeomin have long been used to soften so-called "Jelly Rolls" under the eyes that become more prominent with smiling. The jelly roll is simply hypertrophy of the small infraorbital muscle and hence is amenable to the aforementioned neuromodulators that can soften the muscular contraction and make it less prominent. You would be wise to consult with an experienced, board certified cosmetic dermatologist.