Balance and harmony in facial aesthetics requires an overall equilibrium of all features: the forehead, eyes, nose, lips, and chin. Achieving facial balance ensures that no single feature dominates the face, allowing for a proportional appearance.
Understandably, facial balancing and facial harmonization are two of the most sought-after beauty outcomes people seek through plastic surgery. But is it possible to achieve those results without surgery? Here’s what you need to know about noninvasive procedures.
The Facial Harmonization Effect
What is facial balancing?
Facial balancing and facial harmonization are a type of cosmetic procedure aimed at optimizing the overall proportions, symmetry, and balance of a patient’s facial features.
It involves noninvasive techniques, often using dermal fillers, to create harmony between facial components — such as the forehead, nose, lips, chin, jawline, and cheeks — to achieve a more aesthetically pleasing facial profile.
Why strive for facial harmonization?
There is no definition of beauty, but humans do have an innate preference for proportionate and harmonious faces. Facial balancing and facial harmonization procedures enhance overall attractiveness by optimizing the proportion of facial features. Facial balance can make individuals appear more approachable and confident, help them feel more satisfied with their appearance, and boost their self-esteem.
What are the principles of facial balancing?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and the definition sometimes changes based on trends. Still, experts often apply the theory of the golden ratio when assessing facial features to determine how in balance they are.
Achieving facial harmony often involves minimizing overemphasized features and increasing deficient features to achieve an overall balance and prevent any one feature from dominating. While beauty is subjective and varies among cultures and individuals, the golden ratio can serve as a guideline to help assess and achieve facial balance and harmony in cosmetic procedures.
A Noninvasive Approach to Facial Balancing
Though facial balancing and facial harmonization procedures can produce dramatic results for patients, it’s sometimes possible to achieve the desired results with noninvasive injectables. Skilled clinicians can improve symmetry and balance proportions with:
- Dermal fillers such as Juvéderm, Restylane, RHA, Radiesse, and other trusted brands to strategically add volume to specific areas of the face. By injecting fillers into areas such as cheeks, lips, noses, or chins, clinicians can restore symmetry or emphasize specific features to create more balance. The fillers can also enhance facial contours and proportions, creating a more harmonious appearance without the need for surgery.
- Sculptra, while technically filler, is a polylactic acid that restores volume by naturally increasing the patient’s collagen production.
- Neuromodulators like Botox and Dysport improve facial harmony by selectively weakening overactive muscles that create imbalance. While most commonly used for addressing facial wrinkles, these injectacles can also be used strategically to improve facial contours and profiles.
- Kybella™, an injectable designed to reduce submental fat (aka a double chin) with synthetic deoxycholic acid, which naturally occurs in the body and helps break down fats for digestion. Kybella works by destroying fat cells when injected beneath the skin, and the body’s immune system then removes them.
Achieving Facial Harmonization Without Surgery
Using noninvasive injectables helps patients achieve incredible aesthetic results with minimal downtime, allowing patients to quickly return to their daily lives. They can precisely target specific areas for subtle adjustments without the need for more extensive procedures, therefore reducing the risks involved with surgery. Injectables are also more accessible and affordable, making them an attractive option for patients seeking facial harmony without the commitment of surgical intervention.
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