Over the last few years, the popularity of dermal fillers including lip fillers, cheek fillers, sculpted jawlines and nose jobs have soared. Courses are popping up all over the place producing a slew of ‘Advanced Aesthetics Practitioners’ who are ‘qualified’ in these medical techniques. Local Facebook groups are positively bursting at the seams with before …
After receiving Botox injections, it’s essential to understand what happens next and what potential effects you may experience. Botox, short for Botulinum toxin, is a neurotoxic protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. In medical aesthetics, Botox is commonly used to reduce the appearance of facial wrinkles by temporarily paralyzing specific muscles. Immediately after Botox …
Is botox the only answer? As a Registered Nurse, i often get people coming to ask for ‘botox’. however I often realise that many of them don’t really know what it is that they are asking for. Often they are asking to look younger – to soften lines and wrinkles, – to lift and tighten, …
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We get lots of questions at Sally Wagstaff Aesthetics in Lichfield about whether different treatments are safe during pregnancy. ‘Are anti-wrinkle injections safe during pregnancy?’ ‘Can you get anti-wrinkle injections while pregnant?’ ‘Can you get anti-wrinkle injections while breastfeeding?’ It is natural to want to look and feel your best when pregnant – god knows …
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What is Aesthetics? What does Aesthetics mean to you? What is an Aesthetics Nurse? I decided to look up the dictionary definition – because while I know what it means to me, that clinically it means a practitioner who works in the area of beauty, clinical treatments and injectables to give individuals confidence, improve their …
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I have realised recently that the term ‘fillers’ and ‘botox’ are often used interchangeably. I’ve heard the phrase ‘She had so much botox in her lips!’ more than once! I have even had people ask for fillers in their forehead, when actually they mean botox, and vice versa. As with any subject, if it’s not …
The short answer is… yes! Doing lip fillers on men is a slightly different process, in as much as it is usually, in my experience, to purely replace volume or correct symmetry issues than add fullness or treat to ‘trends’. (I’ve not seen a man with Russian lips – although I bet they exist! Cheek …
After overhearing this more than once on my travels, I realised I should probably address it! – I’ve noticed that people often use the term ‘botox’ as a cover-all term for injectables including lip fillers. For example ‘how much botox has she got in those lips?!’ and similar comments. Not everyone does know the difference …
