Upper Lip Wrinkles

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Which Wrinkles and lines bother you the most? Are these lines and wrinkles the type that are best eliminated using Botox?

If you choose to eliminate only the wrinkles that can be treated with Botox, will any of the remaining ones still leave you unsatisfied with your appearance? For example, if you want both your frown lines and marionette lines removed, you will likely need a different cosmetic procedure to have the marionette lines eliminated.

It should point out that Botox injections work best on crow’s-feet (wrinkles radiating from the outside corners of the eyes), worry lines (horizontal forehead lines), and frown lines (vertical lines, also called glabellar lines, that appear be­tween the eyebrows). These are wrinkles that are typically caused by chronic contractions of the muscles under or adjacent to these areas of the face. Laughing, smiling, frowning, and squinting are some of the common facial expressions that can cause these lines. If you have lines and wrinkles on other parts of your face that concern you, you may need other types of cosmetic procedures to eliminate them. With that in mind, consider these questions:

Which wrinkles and lines bother you the most? Are these lines and wrinkles the type that are best eliminated using Botox?

The followings are the types of lines and wrinkles:

From the top of your face down, bothersome facial wrinkles have the following names and locations. Notice that Botox is not the best choice for all types of wrinkles and lines.

Forehead lines: horizontal lines, often called worry lines. These lines form mainly because the underlying frontalis muscle, which stretches across the forehead, moves when you make facial expressions. When you lift your browsometimes referred to as the “aha” or surprised lookthe muscle contracts, which causes the skin that is covering the muscle to pull, wrinkle, and then return to its original position when you relax the muscle. Now consider the countless number of times you’ve used these muscles. As you age, your skin be­gins to lose its elasticity, it suffers from sun damage, and the constant contracting and relaxing of the muscle results in forehead lines. These can be eliminated using Botox or filler injections such as collagen or fat.

Frown lines: vertical lines, also known as glabellar lines, that appear between the eyebrows. These linescan make you appear serious, angry, or stressed even when you’re not. It is for the removal of these lines that the Food and Drug Administration gave approval for Botox in April 2002. These lines are best removed with Botox. If you’ve frowned a lot over the years and the lines are very deeply etched, you may also need wrinkle fillers (e.g., collagen, fat) to eliminate these lines. Your doctor will discuss your options with you.

Crow’s-feet: lines that radiate from the outside corners of the eyes. They’re also known as periorbital lines. If you have these lines, they’re most likely the result of smiling and squinting. If you look in the mirror ands mile or squint, notice how your muscles contract and cause your eyelids to nearly cover your eyes and how the muscles contract at the corners of your eyes where the lines appear. Crow’s-feet are best eliminated with Botox, plus adjunctive treatment such as collagen, chemical peels, or laser resurfacing.

Laugh lines: also known as smile lines or nasolabial lines, they are the two vertical lines that run from the outside corners of the nose down to the top of the outside of the upper lip. Even though they are called laugh lines, gravity and aging are also factors in their development. They can best be eliminated using wrinkle fillers (e.g., collagen, fat, AlloDerm, Cymetra, Gore-Tex, or SoftForm).

Lipstick or smoker’s lines: the tiny radiating lines that appear above the upper lip and below the lower one. It seems as though everyone has a different name for these annoying wrinkles, which are best removed using laser resurfacing, chemical peel, microdermabrasion, or wrinkle fillers tissue augmentation (e.g., collagen in­jections, AlloDerm, fat)in addition to Botox.

Marionette lines: the often deep lines that run down from the outside corners of the mouth toward the chin. These lines develop from a combination of factors, including gravity (the cheeks tend to sag from the force of gravity) and thinning of the supporting tissue that comes with age. These wrinkles are best eliminated using wrinkle fillers or laser resurfacing. Another option is a face-lift, a complex surgical procedure.

If you’ll still be bothered by the remaining lines and wrinkles, are you willing to have other cosmetic procedures done to correct them? Naturally, you will need to discuss all your options and prices with your doctor, but you should be aware that other procedures may be needed for you to get the look you desire. You also should know that while Botox injections don’t involve any recovery time, some other cosmetic procedures do.

Nothing beats being pampered from head to toe at a weekend spa get away, but you don’t have to wait until you have the time or the money to reap some of the benefits. You can quickly throw together ingredients you have in your kitchen for a luxurious mini-treatment or to maintain your skin in between spa visits.

Coffee grounds

Drinking too much coffee can have disastrous effects on your body, including encouraging the formation of cellulite. Used topically, however, caffeine can actually reduce cellulite by increasing the blood flow, breaking up the cellulite cells, and drying them up to be absorbed by your body. It also acts as a vascorestrictor, minimizing varicose veins and firming the skin. The coffee grounds themselves are an exfoliants.

Honey

Cleopatra, Madame du Barry, and other famous beauties throughout history, knew about the youth replenishing benefits of honey and made it a part of their beauty regime.

Raw honey is antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, contains antioxidants and moisturizes. You can use it directly on your skin to treat acne and blemishes. It can also be used on burns and sunburns, relieving pain, speeding healing, and minimizing scarring.

Honey can also reduce the symptoms of eczema and psoriasis, replacing harmful medications.

Milk

Another beauty aide made famous by Cleopatra, milk helps restore your skin’s youthful appearance by acting as a natural exfoliant. The lactic acid softens your skin and gets rid of dead skin cells. Vitamin A, protein, and amino acids nourish the skin.

Yogurt

The Grecian secret to staying young and beautiful is yogurt. The lactic acid and enzymes in yogurt can exfoliate, clean, and hydrate your skin. It will sooth a sunburn while reducing the redness, and minimizing sun damage. Yogurt can also relieve an itchy scalp and dandruff.

Cucumbers

Hydrating, nourishing and astringent cucumbers will cool and soothe your skin, restore its natural ph balance, and can be used to reduce puffiness around your eyes.

Cucumber is also great for reducing redness!

Sea Salt

Sea salt is detoxifying, soothing, and relaxes the muscles. When used as a scrub it increases the circulation.

Avocados

Possibly the world’s most perfect food, avocados have been used by the Mayans, Aztecs, and Incans for centuries, on their skin and hair to stay beautiful and healthy.

Avocado is moisturizing, can reduce age spots and heal sun damage. The oil penetrates into deep tissues and increases collagen and regenerates connective tissue, keeping your skin young and elastic, and preventing Wrinkles. It will keep your skin soft and can psoriasis and eczema.

Avocado slices can be used to reduce puffiness around your eyes.

Coconut oil

Virgin coconut oil can be used all over your body, face, and hair as a moisturizer which will absorb nicely and doesn’t leave you skin greasy. It has a light, pleasant coconut smell, but is not overpowering.

Coconut oil contains antioxidants, and can reverse sun damage, including persistent redness. Used immediately after a sunburn it is soothing, speeds healing, and can help prevent age spots.

A natural antioxidant, the oil will soothe a sunburn, speed healing, and help repair the long-term damage. It can protect your skin from wrinkling and age spots.

Women in the Philippines attribute their beautiful, glossy hair to the use of coconut oil as a natural conditioner.

Coffee Scrub

½ cup coffee grounds

¼ cup sea salt

¼ cup avocado oil

Mix together well. Use after your shower or bath, while the pores are open from the heat. Massage into a circular motion all over your body (except your face). Rinse off in the shower, wiping off grounds with a soft sponge. Use before, not after shaving.

Milk and Honey Bath

Add 3 cups milk and ¼ cup honey to hot bath water.

Yogurt mask

Smooth plain yogurt over your face, neck, and chest. Leave on for fifteen minutes. Rinse well. Moisturize.

Moisturizing Avocado Mask

Mash up ½ avocado and spread over face, neck, and chest. Leave on for 15 minutes. Rinse.

Leave-On Avocado

Rub the inside of the peel of an avocado on your face using gentle, upward strokes.

Cucumber Redness Buster

Grate cucumber. Lie down and place grated cucumber all over your face. Wait 15 minutes. Remove and rinse with cool green tea. Moisturize.

Coconut oil

Warm coconut oil in your hand for a few seconds to liquefy. Use on your face and body just like any other moisturizer or as a massage oil. Apply a small amount to the tips of your hair as a leave-in conditioner.

Acne & acne scarring can result in confidence issues for people of all ages, and whilst temporary solutions may help there are effective ways to treat acne and reduce or remove acne scarring.

No one wants to have Acne scarring. It can last an entire life and many people are very sensitive about their acne scars. They will hide them and hope no one notices. If you have acne scars, you can have laser surgery and other types of procedures that can remove the scars.

Acne scarring can be caused by several different factors. When acne is created, it is because of sebum and the body’s effort to attack the pimple with white blood cells. Once the pimple disappears, the tissue where the pimple was has not fully healed. Sometimes, scar tissue can show as a result. Within few months, most of these scars disappear although some stay around for up to two years.

Laser therapy for acne scarring involves a trained dermatologist zapping dead skin and scar cells off of your face. It is a fairly quick treatment and most patients report being satisfied with how their face looks and how quick they able to recover after the treatment; full recovery generally takes at least one week.

At Nottingham Laser Clinic our preferred method of acne scarring treatment is Fraxel® laser therapy. This laser resurfacing technique achieves excellent results with minimal downtime and is regarded as one of the best treatments for acne scarring. Fraxel® is approved for acne scarring by the FDA. The treatment works by punching out very fine columns of tissue (less than 0.1mm thick) in order to stimulate healing and therefore develop smooth, soft skin. The fraxel laser device fires pulses a few nanometers wide into the skin, and creates zones of healing separated by healthy tissue. We aim to treat 20% of the skin per treatment, with most people having 3-5 treatments.

The treated area is red for around 24-48 hours, depending on the depth of the treatment. A few days after treatment skin will feel very soft and smooth, and over the next 6 months the skin will start to remodel to lift out scars and minor imperfections, leaving smoother, fresher, better quality skin.

For more information on Acne Scarring treatments visit http://www.nottinghamlaserclinic.com/acne.php