A chiseled oval of the face, lush hair, well-groomed eyebrows, a thin nose and plump sensual lips - such is the idea in the modern world of ideal female beauty. But even some two centuries ago, fashionable standards of beauty were completely different.
A bit of history. In ancient Egypt, for example, women did everything to ensure that their lips were small and graceful, but very noticeable at the same time. In the Middle Ages, Europe, permeated with a rigorous religious spirit, revered strict, thin, tightly compressed lips. The ideal of beauty varied from era to era, but more often even in the direction of the fashionable "lack" of lips.
Even in the 1920s, neat thin sponges were at the height of fashion, dyed along the inner contour or even less, like Louise Brooks and Claudette Colbert. Or a little later - thin, tense lips, like Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich.
Marilyn Monroe wanted to change stereotypes and abandoned dark small lips in favor of a sensual, large and bright mouth. And in the 90s of the last century, when the sexy African-American supermodel Naomi Campbell burst onto the pages of glossy magazines, European women, looking at this dark-skinned beauty, wanted to try on her image for themselves. Fortunately, by that time their consciousness had already become accustomed to exotic beauty, and aesthetic medicine was ready to provide them with the required services in the field of face and body plastics.
And so a new direction in cosmetic surgery appeared - cheiloplasty (correction of the shape of the lips surgically either with the help of injections or implants). Today we will talk about lip augmentation with the help of injections of various drugs.
What are these drugs? (according to Wikipedia).
1. Synthetic drugs. Their disadvantage is that they sometimes cause an allergic reaction, they can be rejected by the body, but there is a plus - the effect of such injections lasts longer.
2. Collagen preparations (collagen - a special protein that provides strength and elasticity to the body's connective tissues - can be extracted from another part of the patient's body, from animals, rarely from the body of a deceased person). Such drugs are hypoallergenic, but the cosmetic effect of their use is short.
3. Preparations based on the patient's own fat (lipofilling). Intolerance is excluded and a long-term cosmetic effect is provided (from several months to several years).
4. Biogels containing hyaluronic acid - a natural component of the intercellular space of our body. Allergic reactions are rare, the duration of the cosmetic effect is 6 months.
Materials that are injected into the skin and are intended, among other things, to model the shape of the lips, are called fillers (fillers). Therefore, you can often hear the expression - filler injections.
Hyaluronic acid fillers are the most common option today. After all, it not only is not rejected by the body, but also has a beneficial effect on the condition of the lips, attracting and holding water molecules and giving the lips elasticity. Its advantage is also that it is evenly distributed in the tissues without affecting the sensitivity of the skin.
This is a temporary filler, i.e. in six months, it breaks down into absolutely safe components - water and carbon dioxide, and is excreted from the body, therefore, to maintain the aesthetic effect, it will be necessary to carry out repeated procedures. Unlike permanent synthetic fillers, which are not broken down by the body and are installed "once and for all". It is they who often cause inflammatory reactions, can be rejected, scarred, etc. And, by the way, they are not amenable to complete removal in case God forbid something.
How to choose a salon for a lip augmentation procedure?
Important: in order to carry out injection procedures, a salon or clinic must have an official medical license from the Moscow Department of Health. After you have chosen a plastic surgery clinic , be sure to consult a doctor, because the choice of a filler is made individually for each patient, depending on his age, wishes and other conditions.
The durability of the result also depends on the chosen preparation and the condition of your lips (on average, the effect lasts from 6 months to a year and a half). Also note that lip augmentation is a virtually painless procedure, local anesthesia can be used according to the indications and desire of the patient. It is also not superfluous to ask for a skin test before injections.
Also check with the surgeon about contraindications to cheiloplasty. The main ones are: - herpes in the acute stage, some common diseases (lupus, diabetes), unhealed lip damage, problems with blood clotting, pregnancy, breastfeeding.
But remember that you will not see the result of plastic surgery instantly, you will be able to finally evaluate it within a day or two, when the swelling, injection marks and redness disappear, and the gel is evenly distributed in the thickness of the lips. There is no rehabilitation period as such, but refrain during the first days from visiting the pool, gym, solarium, sauna and applying cosmetics.
These injections allow everyone to find sexy and plump lips a la Angelina Jolie. But the main thing is the sense of proportion and the taste of the patient. Remember how many stars pounced on these injections and lip augmentation by half the face, having achieved just the opposite result, they became the object of ridicule, not desire.
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