At About Face Aesthetics, we use filler to treat a number of issues, including fine lines, wrinkles, loss of facial volume, and more. However, you may not think of the skin around your eyes as a place that filler can offer solutions.
Here, we’ll talk about how aging can affect your eyes and how you can improve your appearance with under eye filler. Philadelphia is a location that offers great benefits such as historical sites, amazing restaurants, AND high-quality med spa treatments will leave you feeling rejuvenated and looking beautiful.
Common Eye Concerns
Common aesthetic eye concerns can include wrinkles, fine lines, dark circles, and deep grooves. The skin around the eyes is the most delicate and reactive on the face, and there are many reasons why the eyes might not look the way you would like. These are the most common causes:
Genetics
Your body naturally produces collagen and elastin—two proteins responsible for repairing and strengthening your skin’s cellular structure. However, your genetics determine how much of these proteins your body makes. Your genetics also predetermines how deep-set your eyes might be, or how prone you may be to allergies, eye hollowing, darkness, puffiness, etc.
Lifestyle Choices
Lifestyle choices like your sleep schedule, diet, exercise regimen, and smoking and drinking habits can all affect your skin, especially manifesting in the skin around your eyes. Poor lifestyle choices can cause and exacerbate dark circles, wrinkles, eye bags, and fine lines around your eyes.
Poor Skincare
Poor at-home skincare can also impact the appearance of the skin around your eyes. If your skincare routine isn’t optimized for your personal skin type, then the products you use can make skin conditions worse and cause premature signs of aging.
Aging
Our skin naturally starts lowering our production of collagen and elastin as we age. Typically, we begin to produce less and less collagen starting in our mid-20’s, and then lose about 1% of collagen production every year beginning around the age of 40.
How Fillers Can Help
Most dermal-fillers are created using hyaluronic acid, which is a substance your body naturally produces. It provides essential support for your skin’s ability to retain moisture, making your skin healthy, smooth, and flexible.
By injecting filler into specific areas of your face, our providers can help restore lost volume while also increasing your body’s natural collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid production. This not only delivers instant results, but gives your body everything it needs to maintain those results for a long time.
The additional collagen and elastin your body makes will repair any damage done to the cellular structure of your skin, and then strengthen that structure to maintain your skin’s smooth, healthy appearance.
We understand that you may be hesitant to have a needle anywhere close to your eyes. But our injectors have undergone extensive training for injections like under eye filler in Philadelphia. They understand exactly what areas of your face to target so they can address your specific needs.
But, dermal-filler injections under the eyes is not a helpful treatment for everyone, even though it’s such a common concern. Your provider will assess you and make the best recommendations, but the decision about whether or not under-eye filler will be helpful for you will be largely dependent on your anatomy.
Wrinkles
Fillers can target wrinkles and fine lines around the eyes, filling in hollow spaces and loose skin to create a more youthful and rested complexion. Once it’s in your skin, the hyaluronic acid then also increases collagen and elastin production to maintain your results and keep your bright appearance. (Neurotoxin injections like Botox can also help with this. Your provider will let you know!)
Dark Circles
Dark circles appear when the skin underneath your eyes becomes thin, making the blood vessels underneath more visible. Filler can increase the volume in the skin under your eyes, creating more space between the surface of your skin and the darker blood vessels. As a result, any dark circles you get are less frequent and less prominent. (Treatments like EZGel can also dramatically improve this concern, your provider will let you know when they see you.)
Deep Grooves
Under-eye hollows and deep grooves can also be improved with under eye filler in Philadelphia. Filler not only adds volume to create a more energetic appearance, but can also improve your skin texture and color by increasing collagen and elastin production. (This is another common under-eye concern that treatments like EZGel can dramatically improve, however your provider will be the best source of recommendations when they see you.)
How to Avoid Under Eye Wrinkles
We can provide under eye filler in Philadelphia to reverse wrinkles and other eye concerns, but how do you prevent undereye wrinkles from forming? You can take some steps in your daily life to slow down the progression of under eye wrinkles.
Maintain Good Skin Care
Having the proper skincare regimen can help your skin retain moisture. Everyone’s skin is different, so make sure you’re using the right products to help you fight off the signs of aging. At About Face, our team can examine your skin and help you determine your skin type to match the best products for your specific concerns.
Avoid Alcohol & Tobacco
Alcohol and tobacco products dehydrate your body, and dehydration causes your skin to show premature signs of aging. Limiting the amount of alcohol and tobacco products you consume will help maintain moisture within your skin.
Exercise Regularly
Exercise helps every aspect of your health—including your skin! Exercising increases circulation and blood flow to the skin. This delivers more oxygen and nutrients to your skin cells, keeping them healthy and ensuring you can enjoy smoother, younger-looking skin for years to come.
Maintain a Healthy Diet
Eating a healthy, balanced diet is also vital for maintaining healthy skin. Our food is our main source of nutrients, and the only way to get the right nutrients is to eat the right foods. To maintain healthy skin, you need to limit overly processed, modified, sugary foods and focus on eating the best balance of vegetables, grains, protein, and dairy that you can.
Get Plenty of Sleep
Did you know that getting less sleep means you’re hurting your skin’s ability to heal and regenerate itself? After about 6 days of sleep deprivation, our skin begins to rapidly lose elasticity, creating wrinkles and sagging skin that age your appearance.
Stay Hydrated
Staying hydrated is key to maintaining healthy, youthful skin. Your body needs water to operate at its best, and a healthy body encourages healthy skin. When your skin has everything it needs, including the proper amount of hydration, it will make the effects of any treatments or products you use that much better.
(A quick hydration-trick: you should drink half your weight, in ounces. So for the sake of easy math, someone who weighs 140-pounds should drink 70-ounces of water a day.)
The Importance of Skincare
Getting under eye filler in Philadelphia will help with your aesthetics concerns for your undereyes, but skincare may be just as important for maintaining your results. Think of skincare like caring for your teeth—you go to the dentist every 6 months for a checkup and a deep cleaning, then you brush and floss every day to maintain your teeth and gum health.
When caring for your skin, the same logic applies. You might visit an aesthetician occasionally for an assessment and treatments, but you need to maintain your skin’s health everyday by using the appropriate skincare.
At About Face Aesthetics, we offer ColoreScience, SkinBetter, Plated by Rion, SkinMedica, Latisse, Upneeq, Alastin and private-label products to help enhance and maintain your skin and aesthetic goals. During your consultation, your provider can talk with you specifically about skincare and help you determine the right products for your skin type and concerns.
Frequently Asked Questions
We understand if you have a lot of questions about getting under eye filler in Philadelphia. Here are the most common questions we receive about filler—along with our answers.
What is the difference between filler and Botox?
Fillers and Botox are both injectables that treat wrinkles, but they do so differently. Fillers treat static wrinkles, or wrinkles that are caused by skin laxity. They do this with hyaluronic-acid based gel that you can inject under the skin. This gel replaces volume loss, and lifts sagging skin to create a smoother, younger-looking complexion.
Botox treats dynamic wrinkles, which are wrinkles that are caused by repeated muscle movements creating indents in the skin over time. During Botox treatment, a provider injects a small and refined dose of the neurotoxin Botulinum A into the small muscles in your face that cause dynamic wrinkles.
The neurotoxin temporarily pauses muscle movement to stop and reverse those wrinkles without taking away your ability to make your natural facial expressions.
How long do dermal-fillers last?
The longevity of your filler depends on what type of filler you receive, but many of our patients find that their fillers will last anywhere between 6 and 12 months. Creating an at-home routine with medical-grade skincare products will help make your results last longer.
Are dermal-fillers painful?
No, dermal-fillers are not painful. You may feel a slight pinch when your injector inserts the needle into the treatment site, but otherwise you should be relatively comfortable when you get under eye filler in Philadelphia.
(Most dermal-fillers are premixed with a little bit of lidocaine to add comfortability, and our Philadelphia dermal-filler injectors have a lot of tricks up their sleeves to make the treatment process as easy on you as possible.)
Am I a good candidate for fillers?
Not everyone is a good candidate for under eye filler. Philadelphia has a lot of med spas offering filler, but your About Face provider will discuss your medical history, assess your current anatomy and concerns, review your desired goals, timeline, and budget, and perform all due diligence to make sure that under eye filler is the best option for you. Your provider might recommend other under eye treatment options for treatment if you have certain situations / conditions like:
Are pregnant or breastfeeding
Have a bleeding disorder
Have an infection or illness
Have certain skin diseases
Have open sores or active acne
Have a history of cold sores
Do you offer options for fillers?
Yes, there are different brands of fillers, each specifically designed to target a unique concern. You and your provider can discuss your options during your consultation, and they can help you determine which of our offered fillers would work best for you.
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