Thin and Uneven Lips Treatment in London
Treatment for thin or uneven lips in London enhances the shape you already have, using small amounts of hyaluronic acid placed in proportion with the rest of the face.
Overview
Understanding thin lips
Lips thin with age. The vermilion border loses definition, the upper lip lengthens and rolls inward, and fine vertical lines appear around the mouth. Some patients have simply always had a thin or asymmetric lip and want more balance.
Both are treatable, and both go wrong in the same way: by adding volume without regard to proportion. Dr Harriet's position is that lip fillers should be a subtle enhancement of your own shape and never look done.
Asymmetry is worth mentioning separately, because near enough everybody has some. The goal is improvement rather than perfect symmetry, and an injector chasing exact symmetry usually ends up overfilling one side. As part of lip treatment Dr Harriet assesses the profile, since the balance between the lips and the chin often matters more than the volume itself.
Why it happens
What causes thin lips?
- Age-related loss of volume and collagen from the lip body and border
- Lengthening and inward rolling of the upper lip over time
- Genetically thin or asymmetric lip anatomy
- Cumulative ultraviolet exposure degrading the vermilion border
- Smoking, which both accelerates volume loss and causes perioral lines
- Previous filler placed without regard to facial proportion
Treatment approach
How does Dr Harriet treat thin or uneven lips?
Lip Enhancement
From £350The core treatment. Teoxane hyaluronic acid placed to enhance your own lip shape, with the profile assessed alongside so the result stays in proportion. Built gradually across appointments where that gives a better outcome. From £350 and fully reversible.
See treatment detail →Anti-Wrinkle Injections
From £250Treating upper lip lines and downturned corners of the mouth addresses the perioral changes that accompany lip volume loss. A small amount here often does more for the overall look of the mouth than adding further volume to the lips.
See treatment detail →Dissolving Dermal Filler
£250Where previous filler has migrated above the lip border or produced an overfilled result, dissolving comes first. Dr Harriet treats patients unhappy with work done elsewhere without judgement, and will want the area settled before planning anything new.
See treatment detail →FAQ
Common
questions
Will my lips look obviously filled?
Not with a conservative approach. Dr Harriet works to enhance your own lip shape in proportion with your face and builds gradually where that gives a better result. The overfilled look comes from repeatedly adding volume without reference to facial proportion, not from the treatment itself.
Can uneven lips be made perfectly symmetrical?
Improved, yes. Perfect, no, and chasing it is how injectors end up overfilling one side. Almost everyone has some natural lip asymmetry and it is part of a normal face. Dr Harriet aims for better balance rather than exact symmetry, which reads as more natural.
How much filler will I need?
Less than most patients expect, particularly for a first treatment. Dr Harriet often recommends a conservative first appointment followed by a review, which lets the lips adapt, lets swelling settle so you are judging a real result, and avoids an abrupt change that other people notice.
What if I have had filler elsewhere that I do not like?
Dr Harriet offers dissolving as a treatment in its own right and treats patients unhappy with previous work without judgement, including migrated or overfilled lips. The area needs to settle after dissolving before anything new is planned, so this is usually staged across appointments.
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Dr Harriet Clinics • 1 Orchard Street, UNTIL Marylebone, London W1H 6HJ
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