The Future of Lip Augmentation
Beauty fads, by definition, come and go, slipping in and out of style over time, in a blur of nostalgia and regret. While our bodies shouldn’t be subject to the same whims as our hair or eyeliner or jeans, culture’s influence over anatomy is undeniably strong. Lips are a prime example, collectively waxing and waning in accordance with societal moods.
As a “trend,” lip filler charts a distinctly dynamic course. The highs and lows are dramatic and the transitions between are often instantaneous, making rich fodder for TikTok, where a growing number of lips are suddenly shrinking before our eyes. Among the most-watched lip filler videos are those hashtagged #lipdissolving (with 245.3 million views), #lipfillerdissolved (40.6 million), and #lipfillerdissolving (37.2 million). What these snippets typically fail to show, however, is what comes next—after the excess, lumpy, or migrated filler has been melted. After the lips have been reduced to half their former size.
The doctors we spoke to for this story confirm they are dissolving more filler than ever—validating the viral videos and Hollywood headlines we’ve been seeing of late—but they also stress that getting back to baseline rarely marks the end of a patient’s lip journey.
According to Dan Belkin, a board-certified dermatologist in New York City, many people who dissolve their lips “are often willing to do more filler, in good taste, once the problem they were having is corrected.” He attributes the rise in filler reversals to the leveling-up of patients’ standards and expectations. “People are no longer willing to tolerate signs of bad lip filler, like the migration that causes duckiness or the loss of natural contours leading to sausage lips,” he explains. “I think, in the past, people would accept those things for the sake of volume.”
Beauty fads, by definition, come and go, slipping in and out of style over time, in a blur of nostalgia and regret. While our bodies shouldn’t be subject to the same whims as our hair or eyeliner or jeans, culture’s influence over anatomy is undeniably strong. Lips are a prime example, collectively waxing and waning in accordance with societal moods.
As a “trend,” lip filler charts a distinctly dynamic course. The highs and lows are dramatic and the transitions between are often instantaneous, making rich fodder for TikTok, where a growing number of lips are suddenly shrinking before our eyes. Among the most-watched lip filler videos are those hashtagged #lipdissolving (with 245.3 million views), #lipfillerdissolved (40.6 million), and #lipfillerdissolving (37.2 million). What these snippets typically fail to show, however, is what comes next—after the excess, lumpy, or migrated filler has been melted. After the lips have been reduced to half their former size.
The doctors we spoke to for this story confirm they are dissolving more filler than ever—validating the viral videos and Hollywood headlines we’ve been seeing of late—but they also stress that getting back to baseline rarely marks the end of a patient’s lip journey.
According to Dan Belkin, a board-certified dermatologist in New York City, many people who dissolve their lips “are often willing to do more filler, in good taste, once the problem they were having is corrected.” He attributes the rise in filler reversals to the leveling-up of patients’ standards and expectations. “People are no longer willing to tolerate signs of bad lip filler, like the migration that causes duckiness or the loss of natural contours leading to sausage lips,” he explains. “I think, in the past, people would accept those things for the sake of volume.”
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