Investing in yourself isn’t vain. Confidence is a powerful thing—it impacts your personal and professional relationships, but most importantly, your relationship with yourself.
If you’ve always longed for fuller lips or struggled with an asymmetric or “gummy” smile, overcoming those internal battles can help you recognize your true beauty. At Success by Design, we’re giving you the power to enhance your lips however you see fit—all without committing to the cost, risks, and downtime of surgery.
Here, you’re in control, so how do you decide between dermal fillers and a lip flip with Botox? How many units should you get? How long will your lip enhancements last? Our team of medical professionals is answering all of your questions about lip filler in St. Petersburg—right here, right now.
How Lip Fillers Work
Dermal fillers use hyaluronic acid (HA)—a gel-like substance your body produces naturally—to immediately add volume to specific areas, from your lips and cheeks to your jawline and hands. Some of us have thinner lips from genetics, while others lose their youthful volume with age.
Your body naturally produces less and less collagen and elastin over the years, causing your lips—and other areas like your cheeks—to lose volume. Similar to when a balloon deflates, this can cause sagging, as your skin can’t “bounce” back to accommodate less volume. Restoring lost volume also smoothes out lines, especially vertical lines on your lips.
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The Benefits of Lip Fillers
We’ve spent years mastering the art and science behind natural-looking transformations, focusing on enhancing—not overpowering—your beauty with dermal filler in St. Petersburg.
See Results Immediately
There’s no need to wait to see your results from lip filler in St. Petersburg—you’ll notice more volume immediately after your injection! Keep in mind that your lips will be swollen for a few days, so you can expect to see your final results within a week of your appointment (lasting up to a year without maintenance).
Correct Asymmetry
Studies show that about a third of people have some sort of facial asymmetry. While completely natural, we recognize that uneven lips can create insecurities or make you only take photos from your “good side.” Fillers allow you to even out your lips to make sure that every side becomes your best angle!
Smooth Fine Lines
By restoring lost volume, fillers smooth lip wrinkles—taking years off of your appearance. Plus, HA-based formulas help your lips retain moisture, preventing them from looking and feeling cracked.
How Lip Flips Work
Unlike lip fillers, lip flips use Botox. Rather than adding volume, a lip flip uses Botox’s powers to rewire specific muscles around your mouth, making them appear more full. If you’re looking to minimize a “gummy” smile or only want to enhance the size of your upper lip to balance your features, we may recommend a lip flip instead of lip filler in St. Petersburg.
Neither choice is necessarily better than the other. However, one may be more suitable for your specific situation. Some patients even opt to combine a lip flip with fillers, enhancing their pout from multiple angles!
Keep in mind that Botox doesn’t work immediately like fillers—it takes up to 14 days for the full effects to appear. Because Botox is a neurotoxin, we can only inject it in small amounts to avoid limiting your expressions, so your results can last between 3 and 4 months. After your lip flip, you may have to adjust how you drink out of a straw as your muscle movements change. While this doesn’t bother most patients, you may opt for fillers if you want to avoid those additional effects.
The Benefits of Lip Flips
Lip flips have taken over the aesthetics world for good reason! They’re a convenient, customizable way to subtly enhance your lips, plus, they tend to cost less than fillers. That being said, they don’t last as long as fillers, so it’s important to weigh all of the benefits of each method.
Reduce a “Gummy” Smile
You deserve to smile and laugh freely, so don’t let a “gummy” smile hold you back from living. Using Botox to reposition your lips can reduce how much your gum line shows when you smile, so you can embrace every happy moment with confidence.
Balance Your Pout
Many patients struggle with their bottom lip overpowering their top lip, throwing off their facial balance. A lip flip seamlessly restores harmony to your features by evening out your top lip, naturally.
Enjoy Natural-Looking Results
We recognize that most people don’t want to look like they’ve had “work” done. Lip flips offer natural-looking results, as we aren’t adding volume to your lips themselves, but simply repositioning them to alter their appearance—creating undetectable enhancements.
How to Achieve Natural Results From a Lip Flip or Lip Filler
In St. Petersburg, the Success by Design team has mastered the art of facial balancing. Here’s how to achieve your goals on your terms.
Choosing the Right Provider
We can’t emphasize enough that where you go determines your results. Beyond giving you satisfaction with your lip enhancements, your provider is also responsible for ensuring your safety and comfort throughout the process.
Choosing the Right Formula
Both dermal fillers and neurotoxins like Botox have many formula options, and each works a bit differently. Your provider should educate you on the key differences and help you find the right one for you.
Choosing the Right Amount and Placement
To avoid an “overfilled” look, we typically use between 1 and 2 syringes—which equal about a teaspoon each—when administering lip filler in St. Petersburg.
What to Expect From Your Lip Injections
Remember, every practice approaches lip enhancements differently. Here’s what you can expect from Success by Design’s 5-star team.
Consultation
Before you get a lip flip or lip filler in St. Petersburg, it’s important to sit down with your provider one-on-one. Your situation is unique, so here, we’ll get to know you and your goals first. Then, we can help you decide between a flip and filler and determine the exact amount and placement to bring your vision to life.
Keep in mind that beyond injections, we also offer Exion to boost your lips’ hyaluronic acid levels (naturally perking them) and our HydraFacial for non-invasive results.
Injections
On the day of your appointment, your injections themselves will only take about 20 minutes. Plus, you’re free to return to your day immediately!
Don’t be alarmed if some swelling and bruising occurs—after Botox or filler injections—as this is a natural, temporary reaction. We recommend applying a cool compress after injections and using Alastin’s Post-Injection Serum to hydrate and cool your lips, speeding up the healing process and keeping you as comfortable as possible!
Maintenance
While neither fillers nor Botox are permanent, you can maintain your results indefinitely with “touch-up” injections. Typically, fillers last about a year and lip flips last about 4 months, but this can vary depending on the formula, amount, placement, and your unique anatomy.
We recognize that your features and vision can change over the years, so we can always add to or dissolve your lip enhancements.
We’re Invested in Your Success Story
When you come to Success by Design for lip filler in St. Petersburg, you should expect nothing less than personalized, compassionate, educational care. Our team doesn’t just see our role at a job—it’s our calling. When you look your best, you feel your best. And when you feel your best, you live your best.
Here, you can have it all.
Meet Dr. Tami Horner
Our co-owner, Dr. Tami Horner, truly does it all. She’s constantly balancing traveling the world to share her hormone therapy discoveries as a Biote Legacy Partner and transforming the lives of her patients in our office with keeping up with her two active boys.
After becoming a mother in her 30s, Dr. Horner’s personal goal to maintain her well-being grew. She didn’t just want to watch her children grow up, but also her grandchildren—playing an active role in all of their lives.
As one of her favorite quotes from Dr. Francis Peabody says, “The treatment of a disease may be entirely impersonal, but the care of a patient must be completely personal.” After receiving numerous awards and recognitions and acquiring several degrees and certifications, Dr. Horner’s #1 goal remains connection. She truly understands the importance of looking and feeling your best when it comes to living your best, and she’s here to help you have it all.
Ready to love your lips from every angle?
Whether you’re interested in lip filler in St. Petersburg or want to explore our other state-of-the-art aesthetics and wellness solutions, including hair restoration in St. Petersburg, we’re here to help! Contact us today to start your journey towards the most confident version of you.
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