The lip and what surrounds it, met with restraint and treated in proportion to the face.
The lips and perioral region are among the most expressive parts of the face. The lip itself, the colored vermillion, the surrounding skin, and the cupid's bow at the upper lip's crest all change visibly with the decades, both in structure and in surface.
It is also among the areas where the temptation to overcorrect is most pronounced. The work asks for restraint above all, an understanding of the face the lip belongs to, and a willingness to plan across visits rather than to seek a single dramatic change. Done well, the result reads as the lip the patient might have always had.
The lip begins to thin gradually in the late thirties for most patients, with the upper lip thinning more visibly than the lower. The cupid's bow softens, the border between colored lip and surrounding skin grows less defined, and the lip overall reads narrower than it once did. The lines around the mouth, drawn by the orbicularis oris's repeated motion, begin to linger and to deepen with the decades that follow.
The arc steepens with smoking and with chronic sun exposure, both of which thin the lip particularly. Hormonal shifts at menopause accelerate the change. Genetics decides the timing and degree of the visible thinning, and faces with naturally fuller lips tend to enter the change later and less prominently.
The lip begins to thin gradually in the late thirties for most patients, with the upper lip thinning more visibly than the lower. The cupid's bow softens, the border between colored lip and surrounding skin grows less defined, and the lip overall reads narrower than it once did. The lines around the mouth, drawn by the orbicularis oris's repeated motion, begin to linger and to deepen with the decades that follow.
The arc steepens with smoking and with chronic sun exposure, both of which thin the lip particularly. Hormonal shifts at menopause accelerate the change. Genetics decides the timing and degree of the visible thinning, and faces with naturally fuller lips tend to enter the change later and less prominently.
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