In an effort to cut costs, women are using DIY injectables to plump their pout at home. Online, TikTokers have touted their self-injections of hyaluronic acid, a commonly used filler, to the dismay of ...

You could call it the seedy underbelly of aesthetic medicine—unknown brands selling god knows what in syringes to any old customer online. It’s something Dr. Kontis got wind of last fall, after a ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning people against using a certain type of at-home lip fillers due to the risk for serious side effects and potentially irreversible complications.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “There are patients out there who are self-injecting DIY, or do-it-yourself, cosmeceuticals,” Weng said. “It is ...

So you shelled out for lip filler hoping for a perfectly pouty look, but you wound up absolutely hating the results. What the hell can you do about it—besides, well, cry and complain? Lip injections ...

A week before my 30th birthday, I got an email asking if I’d like to try a topical product called Lip Filler from a somewhat new skin-care company called Ourself, which is selling an “in-home ...

Botox, fillers, lasers and cosmetic surgery have evolved in the past years. Leaps and bounds have also been made to help individuals counter signs of aging. When fillers and Botox were first ...

Beauty products, cosmetic procedures, and plastic surgery seemingly advance a single goal: to change your appearance. Yet physical alterations are often promoted by celebrities, doctors, and patients ...

When facial fillers first came into use in the 1980s, they offered a rather crude way to rejuvenate one’s appearance. Made of bovine collagen, early injections didn’t do much but add volume to the ...