Aesthetic nurse told me my lip filler was 'too perfect' - made me rethink everything

So I went in for a touch-up last month at a clinic in Austin, and the nurse straight up said my lips looked 'too perfect.' I was actually kind of offended at first because isn't that the whole point? But she explained that when filler looks completely symmetrical and sculpted, it can come off fake and artificial. She convinced me to leave a little asymmetry and not fill the vermillion border so sharply on one side. Honestly after three weeks healing I can't believe the difference. It looks way more natural and I get compliments on it constantly now. Has anyone else had a professional give you criticism that forced you to totally change your approach to a procedure?

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jessica_dixon2d ago

Started noticing this same thing in other parts of my life too. Like makeup trends where everyone's contouring to look exactly the same face, or even how people edit their photos to erase every pore and freckle. We're so obsessed with perfection that we're losing what makes us look human. That little asymmetry the nurse left in your lips is probably what makes people do a double take and think "wow that looks good" instead of "looks like filler." It's like that concept in Japanese aesthetics called wabi-sabi where beauty comes from imperfection, you know? Sometimes the "flaw" is actually the thing that makes it work.

wendyc531d ago

Oh my gosh YES, this is exactly what I went through with my eyebrows of all things! I used to get them waxed into these perfectly symmetrical arches and everyone kept telling me they looked 'done' and it drove me crazy. Then my esthetician told me to leave a little natural variation and not pluck them into identical twins because nobody's face is perfectly even on both sides anyway. It felt so wrong at first because I wanted that Instagram brow look so bad. But once I stopped obsessing over making them match exactly, my whole face just looked softer and more like me. And now people say my brows look natural even though I'm still getting them shaped, it's just that little bit of imperfection that makes all the difference.