My First Juvederm / Botox! - Lips and Lines! - Dallas, TX

Hello, RS friends!

I haven't been on here since my TT in 2015, but I go in for what is likely to be my first juvaderm/botox treatment tomorrow morning and figured I would blog it so other women have one more story to compare.

I found Dr Daniel Beck throughly friend/hairstylist who apparently has been getting "Dysport" treatments for almost two years... COULDN'T TELL!

The fact that she looks great makes me hopeful that Dr Back will do a good job on me. I am not a huge fan of Botox. I personally would prefer to go the Fat Transfer route, and still hope to in the next few years if I can get Dr Stiles office to call me back :)

...I digress, My point in mentioning that I am not comfortable with botox is to say that I may chicken out of that part of the procedure tomorrow. What I do know if that I WILL be doing the Juvaderm to the lips, and we will see how the rest goes. I will attach a few photos of my natural lips resting and smiling for a comparison. - Please excuse the lack of make-up :)

My goal for my lips is to have the top lip made symmetrical with much fuller sides of the lip nd an overall increase to my poute while maintaining a natural look.

I did it!

So First... After discussing everything with Dr. Beck I chose to give the Botox a go. I did only the forehead, and I did a small amount. I wont have before and after pictures of that procedure, but I will give my full opinions once it has taken affect in a few days. I was really on the fence with the botox so I will be able to give a very non biased view of the results.

Now on to my lips... I do have lots of photos of those!

I arrived at Dr Beck's office in the Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute around 8:30am - 9am appt. I had asked to come early to be numbed as I was in a time crunch.

Ashlei in the office was a true help in getting a time nailed down and for letting me come in early. She numbed me up and Dr Beck arrived right on time to get started.

He asked what type of look I was going for and talked about his method. He likes to start conservative. You pay for the syringe and whatever you don't use in the initial setting you can always come back in and use in the following weeks, once the swelling has worn down, if you don't like the outcome. I used half a syringe and although I think I will want a little more up top I like taking it slow, and I do really like my lips so far.

I personally did not feel anything until we got to my cupids bow on the left side. There was a very sharp sudden pain. Other than that one stop however I could honestly not tell the difference from Dr. Beck massaging the product around to him putting the product in.

I went straight to work after the injections and made it through most of the day before the swelling started to kick in.

I am 12 hrs in now and the swelling is VERY noticeable. I feel like I have major duck face! I also have one big bruise on the left side. Other wise everything looks good. I am excited to see how it settles.

I was in the office today and although I felt a little self-conscious because of the swelling above/below my lips it wasn't anywhere near as bad as it was last night. I also took an ice pack with me (given to me by Dr Beck) and between clients I would run to the kitchen and hold it on my lips for a minute or two (really seemed to help!). My colleagues all say my lips look great! I am still trying to get familiar with the new size. I love the size/shape on the right and I think once the extra swelling goes on the left I will love that side as well. I still think I may want to go back in a few weeks and add a little more volume not eh bottom of the upper lip... if that makes sense.

Enjoy the photos!