The beauty and aesthetics industry has moved on from treating the face one feature at a time. These days, there’s a growing appreciation for looking at the face as a whole and understanding how each feature works together to create balance and harmony as opposed to focusing purely on the lips or cheeks. This approach is called facial balancing, and it has quickly become one of the most requested facial harmony aesthetics philosophies in modern treatment.
If you’re new to facial balancing and want to know more about exactly what a facial balancing treatment involves and how it differs from having a single treatment, we have everything you need to know.
What Is Facial Balancing?
Facial balancing is not one treatment but an approach built around facial proportions. Practitioners typically look at the face in thirds (forehead, mid-face and lower face) and assess how each area relates to the others rather than judging a single feature like the lips in isolation.
For example, adding volume to the lips alone can look out of place if the chin is recessed or the mid-face lacks volume. Facial balancing addresses this by treating the face as a connected whole so that any enhancement looks proportionate rather than isolated.
What Treatments Are Involved in Facial Balancing?
A facial balancing treatment plan usually draws on a combination of options, and each choice will be tailored to the client’s proportions. You might find that this treatment plan includes facial balancing fillers to restore volume in the cheeks, jaw or chin. You might require anti-wrinkle injections to soften expression lines or polynucleotide treatments to improve overall skin quality and support the results of other treatments.
Which treatments are combined and in what order depends entirely on your individual facial structure and goals. This is why a proper consultation is essential before any treatment begins.
Is Facial Balancing Right for Me?
Facial balancing typically tends to suit clients with mild to moderate volume loss, subtle asymmetry or early signs of ageing who want natural-looking non-surgical results rather than a dramatic change to any single feature.
It isn’t the right fit for everyone; that’s worth knowing. Significant skin laxity or more pronounced sagging typically needs a surgical solution rather than injectables. A thorough consultation will help establish whether facial balancing is likely to give you the result you’re hoping for.
How Long Does Facial Balancing Take and How Long Do Results Last?
Facial balancing isn’t always achieved in a single appointment. Depending on how many areas are being treated, some clients complete their plan in one session; others find it takes two or three appointments to build results naturally and gradually.
Results from dermal fillers typically last between 6 and 12 months, depending on the treatment areas and products used, with maintenance sessions needed to sustain the effect.
What Are the Risks of Facial Balancing?
As with any injectable treatment, facial balancing carries some risks, including temporary swelling, bruising, infection or in rare cases, lumps or asymmetry if not carried out by an experienced practitioner. This is why choosing a qualified practitioner for your consultation and treatment is so important.
If you’re considering face balancing in London, book a consultation with us today and let’s build a personalised facial balancing plan around your features.
