Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. Kay, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, and it's time for a five-minute Friday.

If you don't know who I am, I am Dr. K. DeRay Raj.

I'm a facial plastic surgeon based in Los Angeles, and you can find me on Instagram at Beauty

by Dr. K. I do surgery for the face, as well as injectables, and I really love doing lips so today let's talk

about lip filler and the things you need to know to get a great result with your lip injection

so first of all remember we want to see an injector who has a ton of experience everybody out

there is advertising lip filler. Not everybody does it the

same. Remember that it takes extreme precision, a very delicate eye in good artistry to get the best

results with lip filler. We don't want to see injectors who are giving us a pouty, overblown

look where fillers bleeding outside the margins of

the lip. One of the biggest problems I'm seeing in my practice from patients who've had filler done

elsewhere is that they're having filler migration outside the borders of the lip. Now, why does that

happen? That happens when injectors place filler too close to the vermilion border of the lip. Now, why does that happen? That happens when injectors place filler too close to the

vermilium border of the lip, the pink border of the lip, where they violate that white line,

which is a nice embryologic structure that traverses the border of the lip. And filler is placed

in the cutaneous or the skin portion of the lip. And filler is placed in the cutaneous

or the skin portion of the lip.

Sometimes different trends cause these kind of problems to happen.

The Russian lip trend is one of these trends

where people are over injecting to create a top shelf

of projection where the lip seems to come up and out

from the face. And it looks interesting and pretty in photography, but in real life,

...