The Great Lip Technique Rip Off

If you are starting out in aesthetics it’s essential to provide lip restoration and augmentation for your clients.

This treatment is both an entry point for many younger clients and a common request for older clients hoping to restore themselves.

The effect of lip augmentation is fascinating from an aesthetic and a psychological point of view.

In my experience with a good consultation, you will find lips come up even in older people as a key desire – but they are of course terrified of overtreatment.

Lips are not just another part of the face that can be restored – they are a visible secondary sexual characteristic.   They can actually change in colour and fullness during ovulation, increasing in contrast to the skin and playing a key role in beauty, sexual attractiveness and youth.

This is why the lips have a special place in aesthetics- one of the easiest and most effective ways to increase the beauty and create a positive aura in someone of almost any age is to increase or restore the dominance of their lips.

But what makes a beautiful lip?

The beauty of lips is much more interesting than just size. Factors that control beauty include:

• Contrast
• Definition
• Proportion
• Geometry
• Volume
• Detail

And this is where the great technique rip off becomes clear to me. I have now numerous times sat with frustrated clinicians asking for more techniques to add to their repertoire. In search of some perfect solution they can roll out to all their patients.

Don’t be fooled.

Lip Tenting, 4mm, 4 Entry, lip pop, and any of the others are not a solution. It’s a bit like selling people different types of bricks and then watching them frustratedly trying to build a beautiful home with no plans.

The secret is not in the technique – the secret is in your vision for the shape of the lips you want to create.

From this point you can select or iterate on whatever techniques you have to edge you close to the aesthetic goal.   But it all starts with the vision you want to create.  Stop looking for the answer in the needle – it’s like an artist focusing on the type of pencils he has – we all know a great artist can create with almost any material.

That’s why our lip course starts with the outcomes you are trying to achieve and then pulls together the right technique to achieve each outcome.

Each injection forms part of a tool kind that will achieve one of the key aesthetic outcomes:

1. Volume
2. Proportion
3. Detail
4. Geometry
5. Projection
6. Restoration

This is the idea our course is based upon:

Aesthetic Vision → Right Technique → Great Outcome ✔

This idea is a con:

Technique → Outcome ✘

by Dr Tim Pearce MB ChB BSc (Hons) MRCGP