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.
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.
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.
Where Do They Inject Botox To Fix Hooded Eyes? There are three injection areas to help hooded eyes and lift the brows. One is on the edge of the brows, the other one is right between your brows, and the other one is just a little bit above that one. These are the areas involved.
One option of how to fix hooded eyes is through a non-invasive treatment such as fillers. Hyaluronic acid-based fillers for hooded eyes can be strategically injected into the hollows in the upper lids, temples, and brows to restore lost volume.
How to fix droopy eyelids without surgery. Nonsurgical treatments — including hyaluronic acid fillers, or injections like Botox® or Dysport® — can help you look more youthful. These treatments can smooth out wrinkles around your eyes, fill in hollows or tighten sagging eyelids.
As a surgical procedure, an eyelid lift is the most effective treatment to correct hooded eyelids because the results will be permanent. Injections like dermal fillers and Botox® require regular maintenance to maintain results and are a less effective option for severe conditions.
Botox is an effective way to smooth out those lines without surgery. 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.
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. This, in turn, pushes the upper eyelid down.
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.
Specifically, injections on the forehead or between the eyes may spread into the eyebrows and cause the brow to lower, causing a droopy eyelid. In most cases, droopy eyelid occurs between one and three weeks after treatment, and patients typically experience this adverse effect for just a few weeks.
When doctors inject into the forehead and sides of the eyes (near crow's feet), patients can start getting a droopy eyelid or a droopy eyebrow. In general, you can put about ten to fifteen units in the crow's feet. Another ten to fifteen units in the forehead.
The combination of microneedling and customizable radio frequency (RF) improves the efficacy and makes it suitable for hooded eyes as well.
The next option for correction, which surprises many patients, is that you can treat an eyelid ptosis, even one caused by botulinum toxin injections, with MORE botulinum toxin! The eyelid, like most moving structures in the body has muscles which oppose each other.
There are fewer fibrous attachments between the levator aponeurosis, the orbicularis, and skin of the eyelid, which leads to less contracture and a decrease in venous drainage function. More perioribital fat is noted. These features cause the characteristic puffiness and increase the possibility of venous stasis.
The levator is the muscle that is responsible for maintaining the eyelids in their normal position. However, in some instances, Botox migrates from the injected treatment area and ends up in the levator muscle. When this occurs, it causes drooping eyelids or droopy eyebrow.
In most cases, brow lift injections cost $150 to $250.
Sometimes Botox can help with hooded eyes, but not always. If you have significant sagging and drooping upper lid skin that affects the vision, you need something else. The bottom line is no injectable will tighten drooping and sagging skin permanently. The only option in this situation is upper eyelid surgery.
Where to inject Botox for brow lift. Eyebrow lift Botox injection sites are located between the eyebrows in the procerus and at the ends of the eyebrows in the orbicularis oculi. The reason that these are the Botox sites for eyebrow lifts is because they are the muscles that pull the eyebrows down.
To make your eyes look bigger (and to add some pop), tightline your lower waterline with a white liner. When it comes to hooded eyes, avoid tightlining your lower waterline with dark colors. While this trick can be helpful for other eye shapes, it tends to make hooded eyes look smaller and more droopy.
Hooded eyes are often an inherited feature which gets worse with age. With age, the skin on the upper lid loses its elasticity, and becomes baggy. Fat that naturally sits in the rim of the eye socket to cushion the eye starts to bulge forward as the tissue that previously held it in place weakens with age.
Hooded Eyes vs.
Hooded eyes are not necessarily droopy eyes, though some hooded eyes may appear droopy. Most hooded eyes are deeply set, meaning the eyelid has a larger crease, and the brow bone is more prominent. Hooded eyes are a natural eye shape. Droopy eyes are a result of aging and skin sagging.
What causes hooded eyes? Hooded eyes or droopy eyelids happen when excess skin folds down from the brow bone to the lash line, which makes the eyes look smaller and gives you a tired or aged appearance. Hooded eyes can appear due to a genetic predisposition or due to natural ageing changing our face.