Lip augmentation, duck lips, and Lip lifts

What makes a Lip pretty? While beauty is in the eye of the beholder, two characteristics are found to be common to beautiful lips. Whether fleshy or thin, beautiful lips are often defined by a nice cupid’s bow and by having the perfect amount of space between the base of the nose and the top of the upper lip.

In this video, I illustrate the characteristics on several photos and discuss how patients interested in a Lip augmentation are sometimes better suited for a Lip lift to achieve the desired results. There are lots of well-known Hollywood actresses who get filler hoping to recapture a youthful expression, or create a more beautiful upper lip, only to end up with “duck lips.”

Find out why augmenting the lip can sometimes cause duck lips and learn a very simple test you can do right in front of the mirror to help determine which procedure is likely to give you the look you’re after. You can learn more about Lip augmentation, duck lips, and Lip lifts in this blog post here. See real patient before and after photos in our Lip lift photo gallery and our Lip augmentation photo gallery.