Stop feeding the cosmetic injectable industry. But

I do not agree with 20-year-olds having their lips

filled. I know the Jenners and the Kardashians, they're all

about fillers and Botox. They've had incredible loss

of laxity and they have to have to go for surgery after that. Clients

that are in their 60s and 70s who have already left it too long and have neglected

their skin, those are the people that need it. Your 20-year-olds, you

don't need it, okay? 30-year-olds, you don't need it. Even 40-year-olds,

you do not need Botox or

filler. Welcome to the Holistic Skin Guru, where what's

on the surface is just as important as what's underneath. I'm

your host, Aamena. Let's dive deep into the world of

holistic skincare. Welcome

back to another episode. Today, we're

going to be talking about fillers. Fillers are

not your friend. What the filler is,

is a gel-like substance that is made from

hyaluronic acid and it's different consistency

are used in different areas of the face. And there are also different

brands on the market, some with good reputations and others

not so good. So hyaluronic acid naturally occurs

in the skin. Like the skin makes its own hyaluronic acid.

Hyaluronic acid is used in a filler to

be able to plump the skin up or give

the skin a more full or rounded look.

So for example, for women who get filler under their eye,

they would be injected with a

gel-like substance in this area. And the

idea is that where there are wrinkles or where

there is sagging, it fills that area up. But what can actually happen

is that if the injector overfills

or uses the gel in such a way that doesn't complement

the contours of the face, the client can

actually end up looking puffy. It gives the illusion of

the eyes being smaller than what they were normally.

And that's where we coin the term pillow face,

unfortunately. These are things to consider when you're thinking

about having filler. I'm not against it. I think there is a

space for filler and Botox in

our industry, and it's more for you know, an older demographic

who have left it a very long time to do

anything to really fix their skin.

And so they may need a series of a

little bit of filler, a little bit of Botox, a little bit of a good

skincare diet change. But, you know, for

your for your clients that are in their 60s and 70s who have already left it

too long and have neglected their skin, that's the those are the people that need

it. Your 20 year olds. you don't need it. Okay, 30 year

olds, you don't need it. Even 40 year olds, you do not

need Botox or filler. What

you need is good professional advice around healthy

skincare to get your skin looking radiant,

glowing with health, because that's what makes you

beautiful, your glow. You know, what's happening on

the inside, is going to reflect through your

face, through your skin. If you're a happy person, that's also

going to reflect through your skin. It's going to give you that glow and that

beauty that everyone's looking for. So that's part

of the equation of getting really, really good, beautiful skin.

Just injecting something in your skin is not the answer. Most

of the time it creates other issues and I'm going to talk about that later

on in the video. But what it's mainly doing and what

is of concern for people like myself and what we're seeing in clinic

is that it's changing the shape of people's faces. it's

forcing your face to stretch in certain areas and depending on

your injector they may over inject filler

in certain areas of your face and that changes the

contours and the natural shape of your face. It ends

up making you look in some instances puffy and

you know that's where the term pillow face came from like I said before and

a lot of people just tend to have a very different look.

It's almost like an injectable look and you can

spot it, we can spot it straight away. They don't look like themselves and

it's kind of alien looking as well. It looks unnatural.

Some doctors and surgeons are now speaking up about

fillers and I'm so glad they finally are speaking up about it

and they're going online and they're telling real stories about

fillers Kind of like a warning to those who are

overdoing it because where I don't have an

issue with those people who are doing a little bit here and there, there are

too many people overfilling. And there's two

reasons for that. One is the industry is

pushing for that. So, you know, you'll go in for your

first filler appointment and you'd have that done and

they'll tell you you need to come back in three months or you need to come back in six months.

And they kind of creating a habit where this

industry wasn't supposed to be like that. It was just supposed to be

a one off or maybe once every couple of

years. It wasn't supposed to be there for people to go in every few months

to have these injectables done. And

so for these doctors and these surgeons, kudos to them for

actually speaking up about this. Um, they have come out

and said that they found that over time that these fillers

have not metabolized in the body like we've been told they would, and

they've been sitting there and they've now migrated. So

for example, if you've had filler, say in this area of

your face, and three or four years have passed by and

your face is kind of looking a bit wonky and you're wondering what's going

on and you go back to your doctor and he does

an MRI. Guess what he's finding? those fillers

have traveled. And the reason they have traveled, they've

moved, so they've gone to other areas of the face and settled there. And

the reason that's happened is because hyaluronic acid naturally

holds or attracts a thousand times

its weight in water. So when it's been sitting there

for months and years on end, and your skin is

dehydrated or your body's dehydrated, you're not drinking enough water and you're not

putting enough, um, hydration into yourself, that

filler goes looking for water and that's, it starts to

travel. So it's not metabolizing like they've told us it would. It

actually starts moving. And so these poor patients are

going to their client, to their doctors and they're saying, my face looks

strange. I don't know why. Um, and

when the doctors have done further investigations, they

found that, They've sent their clients for scans and they've found

that these fillers have travelled and they've had to dissolve them

and get rid of them and immediately the clients look like themselves

after they've been dissolved. Now dissolving fillers are not cheap. and

they're also quite painful. So these are

two things that you guys need to consider, especially if you've been overfilling

over the years, you might want to stop for a while, give yourself a

break. Maybe you want to go back to your doctor and ask for an

MRI and get a scan done and check to see where your fillers are sitting

to make sure that they haven't moved. But the fact that doctors are

now openly talking about it that these

instances are presenting after five, six and seven years after

clients have had their filler done in

their faces. And in most cases, that

seven year filler that's migrated is actually making people look

older than they are. So it's creating other

issues in their face. Now, how do we get out

of the cycle of fillers and breaking our habit,

our addiction to fillers? The steps that you can do now

to help you slowly wean off them is to stop feeding

the cosmetic injectable industry. It is an industry

and it's churning out people. It's what's encouraging

younger people from going in and having these injectables done.

Like I said, I'm not totally against it, but I do not agree

with 20-year-olds having their lips filled. I do not agree

with 30-year-olds having their faces filled. It's

not necessary. You end up not

looking natural. Now I know the Jenners and

the Kardashians and they're all all about fillers and

they're all about Botox and And

you can tell from their skin, they've had incredible loss

of laxity in their skin. And they have to have

to go for surgery after that, because there's no other way. Once you've stretched

that skin, you have to do either more filler, which

ends up more of a pillow face, or you

reduce the filler and then you've got to look at other skin

lifting treatments. So even the people with

the best injectors in the world, like the Kardashians, still

end up with these kind of mistakes. You only have to

Google Kylie Jenner, who was recently pictured

at the Paris Fashion Week, I think it was, and

the photograph that was taken, obviously she's just in natural lighting

and there's no big, you know, professional photographers

around with their big lamps and things. So

when the photo was taken she was looking down and when you look down

automatically the filler starts to sag and so that

photo exposed her filler. Can you imagine being

the injector that did that to her? Like the internet went berserk

and I bet you the next day he was cancelled. So you

know very very easy to get this happen to

you and even millionaires and multi-millionaires have

the same issues as we do. So make sure

that whoever's injecting you, first of all, don't get injectors.

They're not your friend. But if you are going to go that route, make sure

you only do a little bit at a time. There are so many other

things you can do before you look at fillers. And

if you really want to go with injectables, I would be

steering you towards products or

There are things on the market that actually help to

increase the health of

your skin. They are injectables, but they're not fillers. So

you can get these products. One of them is Profilo. It's

a really good product to rejuvenate the skin and it's

injected into the skin. It actually makes the skin healthy, but

it's not a filler. So there are other options for you, but people

are not talking about it because Profilo, you'd probably have one done every

few years. You wouldn't need to have one done every three months. And

that just doesn't make business sense. So they don't talk

about it as much. So fillers are not your friend. Thank

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