“Because the effect fades so quickly, patients might be compelled to head back to their derm every other month, but that’s a very dangerous road,” she says. Idriss is afraid of for patients chasing the Instagram aesthetic. And that repeat doctor’s appointment is exactly what Dr. The only (major) catch? You need to continually get them done to build a noticeable collagen response. “ As your body absorbs the thread, it creates new collagen around the area, helping to slightly maintain the lifted effect over time,” says Dr. “ You’re only going to see a nice ‘lift’ for the first 2 to 3 weeks, and then your body starts to absorb the threads and the lift goes down.” So if your ultimate dream is to look like an Instagram model (why! You’re perfect! Stop!), thread lifts will only give you the effects for a few weeks, max.īut-BUT!-thread lifts do, on some level, have some lasting impact on your face structure.
“These pics look like they were taken immediately before and after the threads were inserted, which is a little unfair, because that pulled-back effect is actually only temporary,” says Dr. Which brings us to… Those photos are a bit misleading. The comments, for what it’s worth, are mixed, with some people absolutely despising the look, others claiming that thread lifts are actually dangerous, and some earnestly asking if the results are accurate.
#Pdo thread lift complications series#
In fact, Celeb Face (the very popular, very ruthless Instagram account dedicated to calling out questionable celebrity photos) recently posted a series of images and info dedicated to thread lifts, showing the before-and-after results of real patients who underwent the procedure-getting them one step closer to the Instagram aesthetic that’s basically dominating our culture right now.
K, but why now?Īlthough thread lifts aren’t exactly new (the treatment has been quietly talked about in the beauty community for years), they’ve only recently gained some mainstream popularity, thanks to their (alleged) ability to give mere ~mortals~ the cat-eye look of celebrities like Bella Hadid, Kendall Jenner, Emily Ratajkowski, etc. Idriss says she’s seen an increase in patients requesting the temple and eyebrow area in recent years in an attempt to get that pulled-back, smizing look. Although you can technically insert them anywhere, Dr. “The dissolvable threads are covered in microscopic barbs that anchor into the tissue, pull it up, and tack it in place,” says Shereene Idriss, MD, dermatologist at Union Square Laser Dermatology in NYC.