A brow lift with Botox involves injecting Botox directly between the brows to relax the muscles underneath. This lets the upper forehead muscles “pull” the eyebrows back up and into their original place, allowing the skin to smooth out.
Careful injection of botox into certain areas of the brow, relaxes the muscles and allows the frontalis have a greater pull, achieving a higher eyebrow arch. In addition, the forehead wrinkle lines are erased and a more youthful and radiant look is achieved.
Blake recommends starting on either side of the face just under the orbital rim as this is the key injection site for a brow lift. As with any aesthetic medical procedure, in order to perform a brow lift, it is necessary to understand the intricate anatomy of the muscles below the skin to achieve the desired outcome.
Sometimes people get a peaked eyebrow after a Botox treatment. This can make you look surprised and it's sometimes called a Spock, Mephisto, or Jack Nicholson look. This can occur for a number of reasons. For example, sometimes a peaked eyebrow is seen when only the glabella area is treated with Botox.
When Botox is applied to problem areas around the eyebrows, the muscles relax and the skin on top of them becomes smoother. The muscles around the eyebrows are pulled upwards, elevating the eyebrows and making a patient's eyes appear more open. Patients are thrilled to find they look alert, peppy, and rested.
Botox is the go-to treatment for eyebrow raising. A Botox brow lift can raise sagging eyebrows, remove forehead lines, and reduce upper eyelid hooding. Only a tiny amount of Botox is needed to lift the brows, and will be injected directly into the area, which will be your forehead and glabella.
Most of us are familiar with the benefits of BOTOX for smoothing forehead lines and wrinkles, but you may be surprised to learn that BOTOX can also help to lift drooping brows and correct hooded eyes in some patients.
The downside with this surgery is the scarring, downtime and that results are permanent. However, the Botox Brow Lift is non-surgical, so there is no scarring and results can last up to 6 months.
Anyone with moderate signs of frown lines and horizontal forehead wrinkles can benefit from the Botox brow lift treatment. The cosmetic procedure can provide a quick fix to your tired and heavy-looking brows and droopy eyelids. It also helps correct the uneven position of the eyebrows for a more symmetrical appearance.
For most patients, between 4-8 units is common for the outer brow and 20-30 units on average for the area between the eyebrows. Additional units may be used if there are other areas of your face you want to focus on.
Botox is a great tool for lifting heavy upper lids and sagging eyebrows. I see many patients in their 20's, 30's and 40's that are bothered by a slight drop of the brow and heaviness on the upper eyelids. When strategically placed, Botox lifts the brow and improves heavy upper eyelids.
Injectors can use Botox or other botulinum toxin injections to create a temporary brow lift. The Botox brow lift is less invasive than a surgical brow lift, which requires incisions and a week or more of downtime, according to the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery.
Over time, repeated contraction of the frontalis can cause horizontal wrinkles on your upper forehead. Botox treats these wrinkles by relaxing your frontalis muscle; this can make it difficult to raise your eyebrows.
However, brow ptosis can result when too many units of Botox are injected or when the injection site is too low on the forehead. Too high a dose or incorrect placement can over-relax the frontalis muscle, causing the eyebrow to lower, or droop.
The key is to balance the forces between the forehead elevators and depressors. Typically, a “Spock Brow” is due to overtreating depressors and/or undertreating elevators in the outer half of the forehead. It can be corrected by placing a small amount of Botox into the elevators in the outer forehead.
Actual cases of droopy upper eyelid after Botox injections are rare. Most issues of upper eyelid heaviness after Botox injections in the forehead area are due to over paralysis of the forehead muscle, causing drooping of the eyebrow.
While brow lift can achieve more dramatic changes, Botox is preferable for making slighter, more subtle improvements. The timeline for each procedure is also much different. Botox results last about three to four months in this area, whereas brow lift changes are generally visible for a decade.
The Botox Treatment for Hooded Eyelids
Treating hooded eyelids with Botox is a relatively simple process. The treatment involves injecting Botox into your lower forehead and the outer ends of your eyebrows. When injected, it will paralyze the muscle by effectively preventing nerve receptors that prompt muscle movement.
Since certain types of hooded eyes are due to low eyebrow position, Botox can help lift the outer tail of the eyebrow. Here's how it would work: Your doctor would inject small amounts of Botox into your lower forehead and outer tails of your eyebrows.
Again, rather than submit to invasive surgery with a long recovery time, Botox for sagging eyelids performed by a board certified cosmetic dermatologist can easily help rectify the issue. An in-office procedure, the Botox injections work to relax that muscle and thereby tighten up the sagging skin of the eyelid.
Botox and the other neuromodulators work by causing temporary paralysis of the muscle into which they are injected for approximately 3-4 months. If the muscle cannot contract, then it cannot cause wrinkles that bother the patient.
So does Botox make your forehead bigger? Botulinum toxin injection makes the forehead appear bigger. Botox cosmetic procedure functions well at creating an extended forehead and brow lift because it calms the forehead muscle. The skin is no longer pulled down by the relaxed muscles.