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How Can You Get Natural-Looking Results from Lip Fillers?
The last thing most patients want when they’re having lip enhancement procedures is an overdone, puffy, or “duck-like” appearance that’s caused by overfilling and makes it obvious that they have had something “done” to their face. Can lip fillers be subtle? Our New Jersey-based team at Burnett Plastic Surgery believes they can be. A person’s lips …
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How Does Hyaluronic Acid Help Your Skin?
What does hyaluronic acid do for your face? From Jersey City, NJ, to the West Coast, patients often ask this question in their efforts to find ways to enhance their skin’s appearance. At Burnett Plastic Surgery in Westfield, we, too, hear “hyaluronic acid” tossed around as a buzzword in the beauty industry. So what is …
How to Get an Ideal Snatched Waist
For generations, women have considered a tiny waist and hourglass figure to be highly attractive. However, since everyone’s body fat is stored differently, we all have different body shapes with some people carrying more of their weight on their lower body while others have a proportionately larger waistline, even if the rest of their body …
Is There a Way to Soften Frown Lines?
Frown lines—also known as glabellar lines, worry lines, or “elevens”—are vertical wrinkles that form between the eyebrows. People sometimes feel like these lines make them look angry or serious even when they don’t feel that way. Our faces change as we age, and wrinkles often develop in the areas where muscles frequently move, such as …
How Can You Correct a Crooked Nose?
One of the most common insecurities patients discuss with plastic surgeons is a crooked nose, which is a nose that doesn’t form a straight, vertical line down the center of the face. The nose can be bent or twisted out of shape and angled toward the right or left side of the face. This issue …
How Do You Choose the Most Effective Filler for Your Area of Concern?
What filler should I get for my face? Westfield, NJ-area patients often ask us this when they’re thinking about having injectables to enhance their appearance. This is an important question, because facial fillers aren’t all the same. Though all fillers available at Burnett Plastic Surgery are injectables that can make a person’s face appear more …
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Can an Eyelid Lift Give You More Refreshed-Looking Eyes?
Bags, sags, drooping, wrinkles, and dark circles around the eyes are all examples of age-related changes that occur to the skin. We can decide to accept these changes or do something about them. The skin on the eyelids is very delicate and thin. In fact, it’s the thinnest skin on the entire body, so it’s …
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3 Rhinoplasty Aftercare Tips
Since the nose is such a central and noticeable feature on the face, even the smallest irregularity can make a person’s entire facial appearance somehow seem unbalanced. With that in mind, patients get rhinoplasty surgery for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes it may be a way of repairing their nose after an injury, or a …
What Are the Best Ingredients to Rejuvenate Winter Skin?
In the winter, our skin often gets drier than normal, as well as irritated and cracked as it’s damaged by the very low temperatures and lack of humidity combined with the effects of indoor heating. For most people, this is the harshest season for our skin. The reason why there’s a lack of moisture is …
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What Are the Benefits of Combining Injectable Treatments?
While you might notice only minor changes to your skin in your 20s—such as the first appearance of expression wrinkles—you can expect more dramatic changes once you reach your 30s and 40s. Collagen and elastin levels drop, skin cell turnover slows down, and the skin can’t recover from inflammation as easily as it once did. …
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