All About Advanced Botox Procedure For Lip Enhancement

I have always had a thin top lip, which has been more obviously thinner when I smile with an open smile. So when a friend told me about a relatively new advanced Botox procedure she'd recently tried to enhance her lips, I was so sold on seeing her results I decided to make an appointment to have the procedure done myself!

When I attended the appointment I was advised that Botox can be painful when it's injected into the lip area, however pain releif wasn't offered. Luckily I did not find the procedure painful. My lips were cleaned and injections made along my top lip (each side of the Cupid's Bow and further along my top lip). It was a very quick procedure. I could feel a sting as the needle went into my skin, however it was bearable and the needle seemed to be removed quickly with no after-pain at the injection sites at all.

The way that I understood it when it was explained to me by the Practitioner was that Botox would make my top lip appear fuller by contracting some of the muscles in the upper lip area, it would slightly pull my top lip up. I was also told that after the procedure I would probably not be able to 'whistle' or drink through a straw until the effects of the procedure work off (in several months time).

At home after the appointment I could notice the difference in the mirror immediately. My top lip was fuller - particularly when smiling. I no longer had a thin top lip when I smiled, however it was so natural looking that it wasn't obvious that I'd actually had anything done at all. My lips did not look 'plumped up' (like with cosmetic 'fillers') just slightly fuller. It looked like a very pleasing result.

Although there was no pain or bruising after having the procedure, in the hours afterwards I encountered a down-side to having it done. White It didn't bother me that I couldn't whistle, and I had been warned that I may not be able to drink from a straw, I soon realised that it was actually difficult for me now to drink from a cup! It felt like I had no control over the middle portion of my upper lip and the area above it. Though it didn't actually FEEL paralized when I was trying to drink from a cup, I just couldn't use all of the usual muscles I must normally use to have a drink. The same thing also occurred after brushing my teeth when I went to rinse my mouth out after brushing, some liquid would dribble from my mouth or onto the front of my clothes! Hardly attractive! In the months following this procedure these problems persisted and I would have to really 'concentrate' not to spill any fluids when I was drinking or brushing my teeth!

I also initially noticed that my lips sometimes felt more comfortable in some 'unusual' positions when I wasn't smiling. For at least the first week, with a normally closed mouth, it felt comfortable for my top lip to hang rested completely over the top of my bottom lip, not a normal or natural look. I got used to holding my lips together more normally in the next few days and this problem subsided. I also noticed that I was now able to easily pucker up my lips enough that my top lip could now easily join up to my nose, and that I could make an unusual pointy "V" shape with my top lip - Great if you're into pulling faces but not attractive and - I prefer my pre-Botox 'pucker' more as the top lip is more naturally rounded than the Botox pucker.

I definately found the Botox Lip Enhancement procedure an inexpensive quick-fix for my thin smile, however the down sides to it (which hopefully no-one ever noticed) - especially not finding it easy to drink from a cup, may actually make me think twice before having the procudure done again. I'm undecided, I guess it depends on how much I end up missing my fuller smile!

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