Lips Concerns Melbourne

How Do Your Lips Age?

Just like other parts of your face, your lips age.

Your lip cushions become less full, your Cupid’s bow becomes flatter, your lip border becomes less defined, and the corners of your mouth start to droop downwards. Your lip ratio also becomes disrupted as you grow older, with a more youthful mouth typically having a smaller top lip, constituting one third, and a larger bottom lip, comprising the remaining two thirds. Your lips are sometimes called your ‘red vermillion’ or ‘red lip’ to differentiate them from other areas of your lower face.

The area around your lips also ages. As you mature, the area between your nose and mouth, called your ‘upper cutaneous lip’ or ‘white vermillion’ or ‘white lip’, lengthens, while the area between your mouth and the bottom of your chin shortens. This distorts the proportions of your lower face. In a more youthful face, ideal proportions support a ratio where one third of your lower face is above the line of lip closure and two thirds is below. The quality of skin around your mouth, as well as the structure and volume around your mouth, are also important considerations when assessing an aged lip.

Women of all ages want to address their changing lips. In more recent years, men too are increasingly enquiring about ageing lips. At the Dr. Jodie clinic, like with most things in the aesthetic realm, we believe that less is more.

How Can Melbourne’s Dr. Jodie Clinic Help With Your Lip Concerns?

At the Dr. Jodie clinic, we offer comprehensive consultations for all your lip concerns, whether addressing your red lip or white lip!

Treatments typically involve a range of options, including medical treatments, skin care, skin peels, LED therapy, mono threads, Laser Genesis, and the Scarlet S Radio Frequency Microneedling.

Please note that any treatment that includes the use of schedule 4 medications cannot legally be advertised online, as directed by our governing body the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), so it is not a feature of our discussion here.

Your first step is always consultation for treatment planning.

What Happens At Your Dr. Jodie Consultation For Lip Concerns?

Your Dr. Jodie clinician will listen to your lip concerns and assess your face to prioritise your treatment areas. Younger women tend to focus on their red lip, while older women tend to focus on their red and white lips. Regardless, it is important to understand that your lips do not exist in isolation on your face and that a ‘whole face’ approach to assessment and all that follows is needed for facial harmony and balance.

Once your treatment plan has been established based on your assessment, your Dr. Jodie clinician will meticulously outline your treatment process, the risks and benefits involved, your expected recovery time, your maintenance requirements, and your financial obligations.

We encourage you to actively engage in this process and ask as many questions as you need to be comfortable with the proposed plan. At the Dr. Jodie clinic, we absolutely want to understand your aesthetic goals and deliver what best suits your face.

Your journey will also be documented with standardised clinical photography.

Tailored Approach To Your Lip Concerns At The Dr. Jodie Clinic In Melbourne

Your Dr. Jodie clinician will takes the time to personalise your plan to enhance what you already have and to restore what you may have lost over time through ageing. With longer appointment times, she will carefully assess and analyse your lips and the area around your mouth before proceeding, taking note of the detailed ‘tweaks' required to address your concerns. Your Dr. Jodie clinician will never take a ‘one size fits all’ or ‘cookie cutter’ approach to your lip concerns, because all lips are unique and should be treated as such. All solutions will be tailored to suit your face, with consideration made to your individual lip shape, your other facial features, and your overall face shape. It is imperative that your lips are in balance with the rest of your face, or the result will distract from your natural attractiveness rather than enhance it. At the Dr. Jodie clinic, we understand the need for a subtle, normal looking outcome and will never simply follow trends.

Refreshed Focus For Lip Concerns In Melbourne’s Dr. Jodie Clinic

There are so many factors that demand deliberation when addressing lip concerns to provide a refreshed look.

The natural shape of your unique lips is the obvious heavy weight when it comes directing your lip treatments. It is never a good idea to grossly distort the natural architecture of your lips. While small ‘tweaks’ can be made to enhance your lip height, your lip fullness, your lip structure, your lip border, and your Cupid's bow, trying to re-invent the wheel with significant changes will likely lead to an unnatural look and treatment complications over time. Whatever combination of treatments you undertake, it is imperative that your lips move naturally when you communicate with those around you. Always remember that what looks good in a still frame photo may not look good in real life, because lips are dynamic structures and play an important role in how we express ourselves.

Age is another consideration; full perky lips will look out of place on a mature woman (as they may on some younger women). More often than not, mature women require rejuvenation of the area around the lips as well for a more natural looking outcome.

Ethnicity may also guide your treatment plan.  Those with Asian or African American heritage best suit an upper and lower lip that are similar in size. Whereas those with Caucasian heritage best suit an upper lip that is smaller than the lower lip.

Gender too will influence our approach. Masculine lips tend to be smaller and straighter in appearance with less definition, while feminine lips are fuller and more curvaceous with greater definition. Your Dr. Jodie clinician can deliver gender-sensitive outcomes.

The most important message is that facial balance and harmony are key. The whole face is connected, and your lips are not islands on your face. Your lips must complement the size and shape of your eyes and your nose, the height and width of your lower face, and your overall face shape. Your Dr. Jodie clinician will create a treatment guide for your lip concerns that best suits your face and aims for a refreshed look that is never fake.

Melbourne Residents Trust The Dr. Jodie Clinic For All Their Lip Concerns

With over 15 years of experience as a cosmetic doctor, Dr. Jodie takes a holistic approach to all your lip concerns. Dr. Jodie has trained extensively with some of Melbourne’s leading cosmetic dermatologists and is a national clinical trainer for a leading pharmaceutical company, educating other doctors and nurses in the nuances of treating lips.  She has personally mentored all her Dr. Jodie clinicians to consistently provide a high level of care and to value your health as much as your aesthetic outcome. You can feel confident you are always in good hands at the Dr. Jodie clinic. As a trusted name in Melbourne, Dr. Jodie’s ‘less is more’ approach is always considered and careful when it comes to all your lip concerns.