The trend for ‘duck lips’ is over and many people are seeking to reverse their cosmetic treatments – often with painful and disfiguring results
You do not need to be a medical professional to administer fillers in the UK, nor do you need a prescription to acquire filler. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian
“There is a push towards a more natural beauty, with many people wanting to reverse that kind of overfilled look that was popular five, six, seven years ago,” says Ravindran, who has clinics in Cheshire, Manchester and London and a client list that reads like the programme for a Love Island arena tour. “People now understand that you need to do things in a much more harmonised and gentle manner.”Composite: People Picture/Raymond; Marc Patrick/BFA.
Dr Sophie Shotter, an aesthetics doctor based in Harley Street, London, says: “It really is a wild west.” Although administering filler to under-18s, no such ban exists in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland – and children in England are free to travel elsewhere in the country for treatments. “It’s not even just beauty therapists doing filler courses any more – it’s personal trainers, teachers, whoever.
“We do know now, from clinical experience, that the filler can stay present for a much longer period of time,” says Griffiths. Cosmetic surgeons have reported that, when performing facelifts on people who have been having fillers for a while, “when they cut the skin and look at the soft tissue, there is some residual product, even though it’s been years since the last injection. So there is evidence to suggest that it’s not completely dissolvable naturally, as we thought initially.
After a practitioner convinced Ashley, a 25-year-old from London, to undergo what the aesthetics industry calls “facial balancing”, she quickly sought reversal. Ashley had been getting lip filler since she was 19 and had been mostly happy with the results. But when her practitioner injected her chin, cheeks and smile lines, she no longer recognised her face. “I asked for something natural,” she says. “I told her to do whatever she wanted. I was too trusting.
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