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  • Why Are Celebrities Over-Injecting With Botox and Fillers?
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Some people really go to their doctor and say, "I want this, and I see lines in my forehead. And I want them all gone." The forehead is an area where, I think, a lot of people get that frozen look. When they have a waxy forehead, it really shows, and I think that that's something that's become striking with Nicole Kidman. It's too much in that muscle area. It gives a frozen look, and it can sometimes make your brows drop a little bit. So I always go really light in that area.

The celebrities are people who can typically come in and tell a doctor what to do. And a lot of times, I think, in Hollywood and Beverly Hills there's pressure to do what they want and do a little bit more. I think it's important to educate everyone, celebrity or not, that what works for them may be just a conservative amount, that it's important to preserve expression and soften rather than eliminate expression and be frozen.

The other sign is when they're too much around the eyes, the cheeks can look a little chipmunky. When they smile, their cheeks don't lift up all the way, and instead they kind of stay down or even protrude forward. And that's sometimes when there's too much Botox around the eyes and even to the upper part of the cheek. Definitely too much in the forehead gives a heavy eyebrow effect. Sometime not enough in the forehead and being too light can create sort of a Spock eyebrow, and I think we'll all seen, if you ever come across C-Span and see the Congressmen and some women who have lines either too high up near their scalp line and nothing else is moving, and there's some stacking of lines. I call it a stacking effect that can happen close to the hairline, and sometimes the middle of the forehead is treated but the edge of the forehead is not. And it creates this unnatural ripple effect near the hairline. So those are a couple of other telltale signs of too much or too little.

The Botox is something that just takes time to dissipate, and usually in small muscle group areas it starts to wane after six weeks. Certainly by three months the effect has worn off. If someone has a heavy brow or droopy eyelid as a complication from a Botox treatment, then there are some eye drops called Iopidine eye drops which helps stimulate the muscle that has been relaxed, and that has to be applied a few times a day. And usually helps people get through that phase where they're feeling droopy around the eyes. But otherwise, if they have a chipmunk cheek or something else, it just takes a tincture of time and some patience and a learning lesson that they'll have to use a little bit less or have better placement next time.

Why Are Celebrities Over-Injecting With Botox and Fillers?

In the world of a celebrity, it seems as though more is always better, but with a skilled doctor on their side, why would celebrities still over-inject?