Crows’ feet are the wrinkles around your eyes, typically formed of fine lines. Some people refer to it as “elevens”, which is the horizontal wrinkle lines between the eyebrows and the outer corners of the eyes that fatten together when you smile. Botox® for crow’s feet is a cosmetic treatment which helps reduce or eliminate those crows feet wrinkles. There are no associated scars with botox for crow’s feet because your body naturally absorbed it once administered. Am I a Candidate?
Botulinum toxin type A (Botox) is a purified protein derived from bacteria that can temporarily block nerve impulses to muscles. As a result, certain muscles cannot contract and those that are already contracted become relaxed. The injection of Botox relaxes the muscles in the forehead, upper eyelids, and arches of the eyebrows that cause these lines when they contract. In addition to treating wrinkles, Botox can also treat muscle spasms caused by chronic migraine headaches or strabismus (misaligned eyes).
Read on to learn more about Is Botox For Crows Feet, What Are The Benefits of Botox For Crow’s Feet? and Possible Reasons Not To Get Botox
Is Botox For Crows Feet
Crow’s feet are wrinkles that appear around the eyes. Most commonly, these are the first visible signs of aging, and they tend to become more pronounced when you smile or squint. Crow’s feet radiate from the corners of the eyes, and they are so-called because they resemble the claws of a bird. Because you use the muscles that surround the eyes on a regular basis, and the skin here is very fragile and delicate, even young people can develop crow’s feet. As the skin is so thin here, it loses collagen faster than other parts of the face.
While crow’s feet can be a sign that you’ve laughed and smiled a lot in your lifetime, this may not provide a great deal of comfort when you look in the mirror, and all you can see is wrinkles stretching from your eyes up towards your temples. If your crow’s feet are getting you down, there is a solution, so don’t panic. Botox can be used to combat visible wrinkles, including crow’s feet and laughter and frown lines.
How Do Crow’s Feet Occur?
Your facial skin stretches like a rubber band due to its elasticity. When compressed or pulled, it returns back to its original form. But, as you age, your skin loses this elasticity which is why certain body parts start drooping and wrinkles begin forming. A primary reason for this are our bodies’ production of elastin and collagen (responsible for the elasticity in your skin) lessens with age.
Repeated muscle contractions from squinting, raising eyebrows or frowning cause your skin to fold and furrow, gradually leading to facial lines.
Although UV exposure and age play a key role in the formation of crow’s feet, crow’s feet, as mentioned, can occur at any age. Unlike other wrinkles, crow’s feet actually can show up in your mid-twenties; even earlier in some individuals who don’t engage in good skincare. But either way, they’re unavoidable.
The reason they can show up earlier in life when other types of wrinkles show up later on as you age is due to a thin skin layer and lack of oil glands surrounding your eyes. As your skin elasticity around this thin skin layer lessens, your skin can’t bounce back to its initial state like it once used to.
What Are The Benefits of Botox For Crow’s Feet?
Crow’s feet are often the first visible sign of aging, and most of us feel a little disappointed and anxious when we first spot those lines appearing. Crow’s feet tend to develop before other facial lines due to the delicacy of the skin around the eyes and the frequency with which we use the muscles that are located in this area. When you squint, smile, or laugh, it’s not just your mouth and your forehead that move. It’s also your eyes. Once crow’s feet become visible, they become more pronounced with time, and they can make you look and feel older even if the rest of your face is line-free.
Botox provides a host of benefits for those looking for an effective way to deal with wrinkles, including:
- Targeted treatment: Botox is a precision technique, which can target specific areas of the skin that are prone to lines and wrinkles. If you have crow’s feet, but the rest of your face is smooth and youthful, you can address this issue with Botox treatment.
- Non-surgical procedure: many people are apprehensive about having a surgical procedure due to the risks that invasive procedures carry. Botox is an attractive alternative to surgery because it delivers results without risks and it doesn’t require recovery time.
- Simple, stress-free treatment process: Botox treatment usually takes just 15-30 minutes, and the procedure is very simple. Your practitioner will use an ultra-fine needle to inject a small amount of Botox into the areas of the skin you wish to address, and once treatment is complete, you can head back to work without having to worry about needing downtime or taking a day off.
- Temporary results: some people are nervous about having cosmetic treatment because they don’t want to commit to long-term results that may not match their expectations. With Botox, the results last 4-6 months, so if for any reason, you’re not thrilled with your new look, you have peace of mind that in a few months’ time, the effects will fade.
- Painless procedure: we offer mild anesthetic and we use a very fine needle to minimize pain and ensure you feel comfortable throughout the procedure.
- Natural-looking results: at ProMD Health, we specialize in creating natural-looking results. We don’t want you to feel like you look fake or completely different, or that you have no movement in your face to show emotions and expressions.
Possible Reasons Not To Get Botox
1. It makes you look older
Botox and fillers give you a recognisable look: smooth forehead ala Kylie and Nic; trout pout ala Meg Ryan and Courtney Love. All these women are well past their fortieth birthdays. If you look like them and you’re only 32, people will peg you as a person much older.
2. It’s not fair to other women
I have a colleague who confided in me that she’s had work done, but denies it to everyone else. When a mutual friend expressed amazement that she hasn’t any smile lines around her eyes, she smiled serenely and thanked her good genes, making my friend feel like crap. Not fair.
3. It costs a lot of money
Thousands of dollars a year to maintain it! Increasing every year as you get older! Think about what else you could do with that money. Go to Scotland every year for Hogmanay. Do a part-time university course in fifteenth-century manuscript history. Hire a personal trainer. No, hire a native French speaker to teach you French immersion style. In Paris.
4. It gives that money to people who don’t deserve it
The companies and practitioners who sell you your injectibles want you to hate your smile lines. If you hate them, you’ll part with your money. So they manufacture self-hatred, through using horrid phrases like “crows feet” and “marionette lines”. In a relationship, if somebody undermined your self esteem to get your money, we’d call that abuse.
5. It makes your face look weird
Injectibles don’t make you look younger, they make you look smoother and puffier (a kind of pseudo-youth). A little too much or a little in the wrong place, and you’ll be too smooth or too puffy and it will look weird. Even celebrities occasionally have dodgy work done, and they have heaps of money and the best practitioers available: do you really think you can avoid it?
6. It makes you undersell yourself
You are more than your appearance. If you really think all you have to offer the world is a smooth face, then you are mistaken. Kindness, intelligence, warmth, humour, wisdom, patience, forgiveness, and so on and so on. Nobody’s value is limited to a smooth forehead.