No, Botox will not change the shape of your eyes. Botox can be used to reduce the visibility of wrinkles around the eyes, but it will not alter the shape or size of your eyes.
The most common negative reaction to injections to your face is a droopy eyelid, also called ptosis or blepharoptosis. Most people don't have this problem. Around 5% of people who get Botox will have problems with eyelid droop. This number falls to less than 1% if a skilled doctor does the injection.
After the Botox is injected, the eyes can become very irritated and dry, and can go quite bloodshot and red. This irritation can then increase into blurred vision and the inability to see correctly.
The injected muscles can't contract or have the same influence on your facial features. Targeting your upper face with BOTOX® injections will elevate your brows and give you the illusion of bigger eyes.
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.
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.
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.
Botox can reduce vertical lines between the brows as well as the horizontal lines on the forehead. This procedure can gently smooth the brow region to offer a more youthful, rejuvenated eye appearance.
Botox is approved for patients who are 18 years and older and most experts agree that patients in their mid to late 20s and early 30s are at a good age for preventative Botox treatment.
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 people see lines forming after BOTOX wears off, they assume treatment made their wrinkles worse. Actually, your face simply returns back to its natural state. No new wrinkles or lines are ever caused by these injections.
Spread of Botox can cause changes in vision. This can include double vision, blurred vision, dry eyes, excessive tearing and drooping of the eyelid. If experiencing these symptoms, consult your doctor.
Another trick: making the eyes look bigger by injecting a baby dose of neurotoxin just underneath the eye. "If you just put one unit of Botox there," Engelman says, "it drops the lower eyelid about one or two millimeters and opens up the aperture of the eye.
Having heavy Botox from a young age is likely to make you look older over time. An early start and heavy-handed approach can leave a face looking frozen and over-treated.
Opt for a lighter eyeshadow rather than a dark, smoky shade on your eyelids and around the eyes, like Jenna Dewan Tatum. "Highlighting the corners makes eyes look brighter and fresh," says Ahnert. "Use a light color shadow in matte or shimmer to inner corner, lower lash line in outer corner, and the inner lid."
There's a common misconception that Botox makes you look older when it wears off. On the contrary, regular Botox treatments make you look younger even after the neurotoxin wears off.
What is the “spock brow”? After treatment with botulinum toxin (Botox, Dysport, Xeomin, etc.) the tail of the eyebrow appears to be over-elevated with a “pulled” appearance. The heightened arch can appear sinister or “spock-like”.
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.
The eyebrows can start rising even before the full effect of Botox on the forehead wears off. It might take 4-6 weeks, but the eyebrow will be back to it's normal position for sure. Sometimes, we can help the eyebrow to lift by giving Botox to the muscle that pulls it down, Orbicularis Oculii.
BOTOX can treat multiple different aesthetic issues, including hooded eyes. If your hooded eyes are caused by the position of your eyebrows or eyebrow drooping, BOTOX may be a good treatment option for you. BOTOX is a safe, effective, and reliable treatment option that can be used to meet a variety of aesthetic goals.
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.
It is true that Botox and Dysport can contribute to the development of eye bags. Certain patients who are more susceptible to fluid accumulation may experience these issues. This includes individuals with sinusitis, allergies, or oculi muscle disorder.
According to Dr Gavin Chan, one of the most important things practitioners can do is to, “inject the lateral tail of the corrugator which is the muscle which causes the bunching (6.35) of the frown. Superficially injecting the lateral tail of the frown (corrugator) muscle can help avoid ptosis”.