The harm of cosmetic injections for young people is explained

Nowadays, everyone resorts to “beauty injections” at an earlier age, sometimes even at the age of 20, in an effort to “preserve oneself” as early as possible. Unscrupulous cosmetologists, whose profit obscures their eyes (and conscience), can only rejoice at this – the reach of their audience is becoming larger, but decent doctors will do their best to dissuade those who do not yet need it at all, even to the detriment of their income.

Excessive or unnecessary use of fillers at a young age can affect the natural development of the face, causing young patients to look older than they actually are, the British publication writes, citing Dr. Rush Rakhshani-Moghadam, a celebrity cosmetic doctor. Nowadays, you can often find teenagers with filler in their lips and permanent makeup on their eyebrows and lips. It may look aesthetically pleasing now, but in the future they will have to constantly update both fillers and long-term makeup. All together, this creates an early overload of facial procedures, after which it is difficult to return to complete naturalness.

“I injected Botox into the forehead twice, and also a lipolytic to resolve the double chin,” 25-year-old Muscovite Alina told us. Almost all of her friends the same age do the same. We’re not even talking about lip augmentation – this is generally an ordinary procedure for modern young girls. When asked if she was afraid that from now on she would have to constantly maintain the smoothness of her skin with injections, Alina replied: “No, I’m not afraid. If I have to, I agree. It’s better to inject than for your forehead to droop and create wrinkles. I pricked moderately, carefully, not completely.”

“MK” listened to the opinions of cosmetologists on this matter.

“If we talk about aesthetic medicine, botulinum toxin preparations (Botox is the name of one of the drugs) are used specifically to prevent the formation of wrinkles, but they cope worse with pronounced wrinkles,” explained cosmetologist Victoria Chestnykh. – Botulinum therapy is used strictly according to indications – when at rest there are creases on the forehead, between the eyebrows, near the eyes, etc. Botulinum toxin (Botox) can be used from the age of 18, but only for indications in the aesthetic field of medicine, and in the medical field it is also used in childhood, for example, for hyperkinesis in children with cerebral palsy.

The expert confirmed that in recent years there has been a trend towards “rejuvenation” of users of injection procedures. This is due, firstly, to their availability: previously the price tag was higher, and there were not so many specialists. And, secondly, girls are influenced by powerful “beauty propaganda,” when glamorous beauties with perfectly smooth skin (however, most often photoshopped and filtered) look at them from TV screens, social networks, and glossy magazines. But, by the way, there are also extremely repulsive photos on the Internet of identical puffy, filler-filled faces of celebrities who do not want to age…

“If you pump a large amount of fillers into yourself before the age of 30, by a certain age a person will look puffy, and this is unsightly,” warns the doctor. — It is important to follow a number of rules here. If by the age of 27-28 you have a small nasolabial fold, you can get filler, but after that you should forget about it for 4-5 years. Correctly placed filler at a young age lasts for a very, very long time, and a conscientious cosmetologist should explain this, and not put girls on such procedures.

“You shouldn’t lump all the “beauty injections” together (and this includes Botox, mesotherapy, and threads) and say that this is a total evil,” says Leila Mamedova, a dermatologist, cosmetologist, member of the Association of Doctors of Integral Preventive and Anti-Aging Medicine. — “Beauty injections” can be divided into two types: those that need to be done before visible problems appear: wrinkles, sagging, loss of tone (Botox), and the second type — those that need to be done after problems appear, these include threads , fillers. The second type is prescribed from about 35-40 years of age. I recommend starting botulinum therapy as soon as fine wrinkles appear (on the forehead, in the corners of the eyes or between the eyebrows). Botulinum toxins have no age restrictions. You can start them at the age of 18 if you already have wrinkles. If you wait, the wrinkles will become deeper and turn into creases, which will be more expensive to remove: in addition to Botox, you will also need the injection of fillers and a course of peelings.

— Do girls at the age of 18 already have wrinkles – unless it’s some kind of rare genetic disease?

— There are girls who have hyperactive facial expressions. Let’s take one example. A 20-year-old girl has active facial expressions in the area between her eyebrows; she doesn’t even notice how she constantly frowns. Because of this, she began to develop two creases. Thanks to the fact that Botox was injected on time, she weaned herself from the habit of constantly frowning and avoided wrinkles. I note that, for example, after 65 years, botulinum toxin often does not give a good result. The fact is that the body ages not only from the outside, but also from the inside, and the structure of tissues changes with age, so muscles at this age practically do not relax under the influence of botulinum toxin.

But the expert recommends using fillers after 35 years and according to indications.

— If we look at some of our stars, then we can see from them what the premature use of fillers leads to (when the fat packets on the face are still in place and nothing needs to be filled). In addition to the fact that fillers create excess volume, which young girls already have, they also attract water, and this results in swelling. Therefore, those who put fillers on themselves ahead of time look the same – I call it a “mask-like” face. For this purpose, cosmetologists study at a medical university for six years, then undergo an internship and residency in order to know the anatomy, physiology, mechanisms and types of aging, which allows them to competently approach the prescription of certain injection procedures. And there are cosmetologists who have just learned to “prick” and do not always understand who and when to do it.

Our experts emphasized: cosmetologists who perform injections with fillers and Botox and other invasive manipulations must have a higher medical education.