Tips for Making Sure Your Injectable Treatments Look Natural

Fine lines, wrinkles, and increased skin laxity may be an inescapable part of getting older, but age-related skin changes are more than just a surface issue. 

As the years go by, your face gradually loses some of its subcutaneous fat, resulting in soft tissue volume loss that typically becomes apparent around middle age.  

That’s where cosmetic injectables come in. 

Injectable dermal fillers offer a versatile, long-lasting way to restore lost soft tissue volume, stimulate deep collagen renewal, and reverse the most common signs of aging. Done well, this minimally invasive treatment can leave you looking younger and naturally refreshed.    

Here, injectable specialist Nawo K. Fiamo, ARNP, of Fiamo Aesthetics explains how fillers work to turn back the hands of time — and how you can ensure flawless results.    

A short tutorial on dermal fillers

When it comes to minimizing common signs of skin aging, you have a range of nonsurgical treatments to choose from, including laser resurfacing and microneedling with PRP. 

But of all the anti-aging options that are available, dermal fillers are the only solution that restores lost facial volume as it smooths out deep wrinkles, erases fine lines, boosts your collagen stores, and revitalizes your skin. 

Made from hyaluronic acid (HA), collagen, and other pure substances, these FDA-approved injectables rejuvenate your appearance from the inside out. With instant results that last for many months at a time, dermal fillers carry few potential risks or side effects and come with little to no post-treatment downtime. 

Ensuring flawless injectable results 

Age-related facial deflation helps set the stage for a myriad of common middle-aged facial changes, ranging from skin sag and prominent creases to thin lips and sunken cheeks. 

Whether you’re looking to address just one of these concerns or you’d like to correct them all at once, fillers can get the job done beautifully. To ensure your results look flawless — not frozen, fake, plastic, or overdone — follow these guidelines:    

Steer clear of filler bargains   

Dermal fillers are an economical way to rejuvenate your appearance, without the hefty price tag of cosmetic surgery. But that doesn’t mean high-quality filler treatments are cheap. 

Injectables offered at bargain basement prices that seem too good to be true probably are. They also probably aren’t being administered by a highly trained licensed professional.  

Whether they’re available at your local medical spa or an at-home injectable party with friends, cheap dermal fillers could be counterfeit injectables that aren’t regulated by the FDA. Besides the dangers they pose to your health, such products can cause scarring and tissue damage — as well as poor aesthetic results.  

Seek a trained injectable expert

The best way to attain flawless dermal filler results? Trusting only a highly skilled and fully licensed provider to administer your injectables. As an anti-aging expert who specializes in cosmetic injectables, Fiamo applies his in-depth knowledge of facial anatomy, skin health, and wrinkle types to give you the subtle, natural look you’re after. 

 When you receive fillers from a trained specialist, you can expect an injectable treatment that’s customized to match your specific aesthetic needs. You can also expect top-line filler products — we use Juvéderm® dermal fillers at Fiamo Aesthetics — that we carefully inject in just the right spots and amounts to deliver gorgeously fresh results.   

Follow your aftercare instructions

Dermal fillers begin restoring lost tissue volume and stimulating collagen renewal right away. Supporting this process in its early stages helps ensure optimal, long-lasting results, and that means adhering to your aftercare instructions. In the first 48 hours, we may advise you to:

• Avoid rubbing or applying pressure to the treatment area
• Sleep on your back to avoid placing pressure on your face
• Stay well hydrated; fillers use water molecules to volumize
• Refrain from wearing makeup or applying retinol products 
• Refrain from intense physical activity (light exercise is fine)

For the first week post-treatment, limit your exposure to both sun and heat, and continue with a gentle skin care regimen that doesn’t apply too much pressure.   

Support and protect your skin

Injectable fillers deliver near-immediate results that improve over time and can last for many months. If you want your results to look gorgeously natural for the duration of the filler’s lifespan, protecting your skin and supporting its health are a must.     

In other words, maximizing the effects of hyaluronic acid (or any other dermal filler) means taking good care of your skin from the outside in as well as from the inside out.