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This guide includes a step by step process of how I maintain my "hollow cheeks" for years now while creating a higher set cheekbone effect as an added benefit.
Note: I want to clarify that for legal reasons, this is purely educational and I am not condoning these activities despite having them myself, but simply sharing what I've found through extensive research on the topic and the steps necessary to proceed.We will be targeting the malar/submalar regions above or lateral to the nasolabial fold, as shown below within my illustration, in order to push the tissue out and upward. If done correctly, this will give your cheek enough lift, to give your buccal fat pads more "hollowing" in return.
Where do I get filler?
You can feel free to dm me for my source, completely free of all charges.
Can I benefit from this?
If you have cheekbones which aren't completely collapsed or recessed, you will most definitely benefit.
What do I do if this goes wrong? (overfilling, highly unlikely with only 1 syringe)
Hyaluronidase is an enzyme that breaks down hyaluronic acid, commonly used in filler to dissolve the gel locally within minutes to hours, at most an hour or two in this case. It's easy to use and does not require anything more than to inject the enzyme locally and allow it to spread on its own.
Supplies:
-Disposable gloves
-Alcohol pads or any other disinfectant of your choice
-1 syringe of filler, use a high g-prime filler for this as the low g-prime ones do tend to migrate from lacking firmness ($20-$35 at most depending on which brand you choose)
-Eyeliner or marker that washes easy for landmark mapping purposes
-Room temperature IQ
The process:
1. Assessment:
Finding your zygomatic arch or the cheekbone, submalar area, and buccal space. (make sure to do some more research on your own in order to ensure outcome)
2. Mapping (use any marker of your choice, preferably a white eyeliner for easy clean up)
Using the color coded illustration provided below, mark the upper/mid cheek (located over the malar bone, lateral to the most projected part of the cheekbone), avoid the buccal hollow itself and make sure to never fill this area as we want to avoid doing so in order to exaggerate it. Your buccal pads begin at the bottom of the lower plane of the zygo marked orange, and is the one region you do not want to touch for the purpose of this.
3. Preparation:
Clean the skin and numb it unless ordering a filler with lidocaine mixed into the gel (based on preference).
4. Injection:
Your technique should consist of entering the zygo plane laterally, beginning from the end closest to your ear and inserting the needle laterally to the bone. Deposit no more than 0.0.5-0.1ml at a time, spacing each deposit roughly 1/2 inches (1.27cm) away from the previous one. Make sure to not inject into the markings you've created with your marker, preferable washing it off prior to injection.
Lifting the skin to insert the needle is normal for people like myself who are naturally deficient in facial fat in order to not scrape the bone, which of course you want to place the filler on top of as deep. Avoid any other depths as this can result in bulges or migration due to how active the muscles in these regions are.
Following the plane of the red arrow, move along the lateral plane and around the curve into your anterior (front facing) zygomatic plane, before stopping at the blue vertical lines positioned perpendicularly to the center of the iris. (Going any further becomes a midface filler procedure, which this guide does not cover in terms of precautions to take when it comes to certain arteries you want to avoid, and other things of that nature.)
5. Sculpting:
Using minimal pressure to massage by making circular rubbing motions with one finger to flatten the gel deposit, followed by blending the deposit with "soft" swiping gestures using the same finger to get the projection of the gel positioned the way you'd like along the red arrow.
Aftercare:
-Avoid any intense physical activities for at least 2-3 days
-No intense expressions throughout this period
-Do not chew aggressively
-Try not to get into a fight
-Following these steps results in a beneficial outcome : ]
Conclusion: If done right, you will now appear more angular, look better in photos, and normies might notice that you look a bit more masculine or intense. The worst case scenario? Looking more developed, with the process able to be repeated for
YELLOW = Upper cheekbone shelf
ORANGE = Bottom cheekbone shelf
RED Arrow = Filler gel placement trajectory (middle of the zygo bone leading into the anterior zygo and ending at the blue vertical lines)
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