A non-surgical brow lift is where threads are used to:

1. Create an elongated, almond shaped eye. This look involves placing lifting threads that are fully biodegradable under the skin, the tail of the eyebrow and outer eye can be repositioned.
2. Create brow lift – e.g., lift the brow to reduce hooded lids of heavy eyebrows which are often caused by aging. Treatment for this indication is suitable from age 30 onwards.
3. To correct asymmetry, where a thread is placed in one brow to lift one brow to create symmetry and balance with the other.

The treatment is very safe but as with any type of treatment, there are small risks. In this case, infection is a small risk, but you will be given advice on how to avoid this.

A topical or injected local anaesthetic is administered to the treatment area so you won’t feel the treatment – however, you will feel a small sting from the anaesthetic if it is injected.

It is advisable to have a day off, but you should be fine to return to work the day after treatment. You may have some swelling and bruising which will settle after 7 – 10 days and shouldn’t be too visible. You will also have small ‘folds’ in the hairline where the thread has been inserted – these will settle after a couple of weeks and are not really visible.

Unfortunately, the Fox Eye Lift is not achievable using anti-wrinkle injections alone. Dermal fillers alone cannot achieve the same result. However, combining threads with temple fillers and botulinum toxin injections at the same time will give superior results and results will tend to last longer. During your initial consultation, Doctor Isabella Sillar will explain which treatment or combination will be the best for you according to your age, skin type and aesthetic goals.

Following your initial consultation, a local anaesthetic will be injected with tiny needles at key locations on the face. The threads will be inserted under the skin using fine needles and are then pulled into position. The needles and extra lengths of thread are trimmed so that nothing shows outside of the skin. You are awake throughout the procedure.

It is highly unlikely that a laser treatment would affect the threads because laser treatments keep to the surface of the skin and don’t penetrate deep into the tissue where the PDO filaments have been threaded in.