I just wanted to say thanks to those who’ve commented on my posts about sculptra & filler.
It’s a vulnerable thing, putting your face out there for comment! And everyone has provided such useful intel, and 99.9 percent of comments have been kind and onto it and cool. 😎
What a bunch!! Thanks ladies 💕
Ended up trusting the “aesthetician” (registered nurse as a plastic surgery clinic) and got 3ml of filler to start. Next up will be addressing my skin quality.
Still a bit of puffy swelling and bruising under my eyes and in my chin area which makes my jowls look a bit bigger. These will subside.
I’m pretty happy with the subtle but refreshed look! I still feel like me. Just a less dry and saggy me.
Tried to get some pics in different / comparable lighting to my before but it’s hard!
It was $2100 NZD and she used Teoxane.
EDIT: I've said "aesthetician" but the woman who I talked to is actually a nurse with 20 years of experience working in plastic surgery centres.
Heya. I’m 45 and been starting to really notice a bit of jowling and lower face laxity the last year or so. I’ve been saving up for ages and been super excited to get sculptra after alllll I’ve seen and heard about it. It seems to be so popular.
So I went to my appointment and the aesthetician said to me that I have a “beautiful delicate face” (I have a tiny head 😑) and that sculptra would puff me up and overwhelm my features and would not address my concerns. I’m super happy that she’s being my honest with me buuuut …. I really wanted something that would build collagen, not just a filler that I am sure my metabolism will burn through in a year. Feels like such a waste of money.
I’ve seen so much online, so many before and afters and women don’t appear to have crazy big faces as a result. They all seem to just look more rejuvenated and a bit more snatched.
My aesthetician has suggested conservative filler to address volume loss and then she reckons we should focus on skin tightness and quality with Secret RF & CO2 laser. It’s such a pivot from what I thought I’d be getting, and have spent so long “researching” that I’m a bit of a loss as to what now spend my money on!
It’s all so expensive so making the wrong choice feels pretty high stakes.
Thoughts? I’ve had a look at some sculptra posts here and they are pretty mixed but err on the side of loving sculptra.
I’ll unload a pic so you can see my face shape.
WWYD?!?
The recent press (albeit not really about Reta itself, but about disordered eating) has me feeling suddenly and surprisingly nervous about this shit I am sticking into my body!!
I’m usually pretty hardy when it comes to this kind of stuff. A risk taker to a degree. Pretty unafraid of medical stuff like surgery, vaccines, whatever.
But …. How stupid are we really being? What do we know about the long term effects of this stuff? What if we all fucking dead twenty years earlier than we should have?
Ok. Taking it down a notch. What can I look at / read / research that helps me understand that even though Reta is different from a GLP1 or terzepitide etc, it’s not thaaat much of a stretch and so is likely fine. Basically, how can I read some research that tells me what I want to hear 😂
Anyway. Even some good old anecdotal reassurance would be great.