so eva mendes
just admitted and showed pictures of her
having a treatment in the submental area
and she said it was mono threads we talk
a lot about threads on this channel
i'm going to go through today what she
had done
what it is what it's supposed to do why
would she have it
done with a jawline of perfection she's
about 46
47 years old i think why would someone
like that
have it done what does it mean for you
what can you take away
and what should you do based on what the
stars are doing
how long does it last and how much would
that cost
we're going to go through it all today
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going to dive right into it along with
a facial analysis at the end because she
made my
top five lip fillers of celebrity stars
and we did that video i'll tag it on to
the end so you can watch
what is it about her now that makes her
so beautiful
and perfect with golden ratios and what
we can learn from that
okay so from this picture you can see
the threads being placed
she said they were mono threads and that
they didn't hurt that much
and someone else had this done yours
truly
remember my video from a while back i
showed you my treatment
i didn't use any numbing it doesn't hurt
that much
she's absolutely telling the truth and
good on her for coming out and seeing
what she had done and admitting it and
even posting pictures
pretty cool at celebrities some of them
say
what they had done so we can follow and
learn from them
because it's who a lot of us looked up
up to
and look at the pictures watch them age
very carefully
and determine what they may or may not
have had done so when they admit to it
it really helps the general public and
it
creates a sense of trust with the people
that we follow so closely
so these are mono threads and i'm
guessing they're likely pdo
there's also pcl and plla type of
threads
and i go through each one of those in my
other videos
so pdo or polydioxanone are going to be
placed
you can also mesh them sideways but they
dissolve at
roughly one to four months depending on
the thickness
and my guess is these are 29 27 gauge
something like that and as they go away
they build collagen around them and you
can see from this diagram here
how there's there's the thread placed
and a few months down the road
you see with the staining there's
increased collagen production around the
thread
when the thread goes after a few months
that collagen stays
now why did she want to do that
obviously she has a perfect jawline
but we lose collagen as we age collagen
and elastin break down we know that the
machinery of the body
isn't what it once was so we're trying
to replace it
things like biostimulators like sculptra
they build collagen so we know that very
well but pdo
can polydioxanone can be put in as a
thread
a mono thread as she mentioned or it can
in some countries be found as a liquid
which is a biostimulator so in any case
a thread or liquid
we're stimulating collagen because
collagenases what we call mmps
matrix metalloproteins all work to get
rid of that collagen
and we get sag so what she's doing is
preventing and she's preventing a sag
and the technique when people look down
or look right the left particularly
you'll see the skin gets loose even if
there's no fat
and it's one of the reasons why we like
to keep some fat in the neck
because fat of course is stem cells it's
youthful
we don't want a fullness but it helps
with tightening
not everyone has a lot of fat so you
need great
collagen so threads can be used with
rf microneedling with our f bfr so
more of a topical rf or bulk heating
like
ulthera high frequency ultrasound as
well so they can be used with all those
and i show videos of that being done
together
in my other videos you can watch those
so how long will it last
and how much does it cost all great
questions
aging rate being reasonable and
no big hormonal changes and some general
skin maintenance with topicals retinoids
and so on
most people will repeat this in my
practice what i do
repeat it about six to eight weeks
and then they're good for a year and
then maintenance really depends on how
perfect people want it to be and if
their aging rate increases if they're
out
in the sun if their hormones are
changing
loss of estrogen is what i mean by that
they're not using skin care or retinoids
then you can repeat them sooner but for
most people
once a year is a good rule of thumb and
ancillary services like high frequency
ultrasound
or radio frequency in many forms can be
used
along with the threads in between
sessions so how much does it cost
so a lot of times we talk about lifting
because in america everyone's
lifting threads that's 2500
plus for at one session when you're
talking an area like this with
mono threads 500 to a thousand dollars
per session would be normal
i would include two sessions in the
package because i know i want to get
that
second session into the patient because
that's going to give
the best result sometimes just doing it
one time
especially if there's relaxed skin to
begin with
it's not going to give them the result
they need you need to stack them
but once you get what you want
oftentimes repeating it once a year
it's very cost effective to do and if it
lasts two or three years
it's a win-win okay so let's look at a
facial analysis with attention to her
lips
and see what's creating her beauty in
the first place
so eva mendes so if we look at her face
and particularly today we're looking at
lips but of course the whole face has to
fit in harmony
a slight canthal tilt upwards in the
eyes
nice straight nose the bigonial width
is a little bit less than the
bi-zygomatic
so a little bit of a v-shaped base which
we
look for although square can be in
and again a narrow chin as we age of
course this becomes square
so before we even do lip fillers we're
looking at all these angles why
people come in at 40 and 50 this is
already square
so we have to address by lifting up the
face
before we can do lip filler because it
will look unusual
or if the chin is square sometimes we
make it a little narrower by doing chin
filler at the same time
now if we look at her lip shape we draw
a line
right through the center right below the
nose
into the chin we would expect this to be
one to 1.61
a golden ratio now you see she runs a
narrow ergotrid okay so that area is
narrow
you don't notice it as much because the
beauty of the eyes
and the beauty of the shape of the lip
now motor muscle
makes a muscle movement makes a big
difference in how
we accept the look and we're going to
look at a picture of her smiling however
also notice there's an asymmetry she's a
slight smirk as evidenced by these lines
laterally and only one
on her right so if you look here that
motor movement here might lead to
this asymmetry in the left upper lip
i'm telling you this because i don't
want you to be focused on
the asymmetry of your face we're all
asymmetric in many different ways and
when we do fillers we're always working
towards symmetry
however a degree of asymmetry is normal
this is likely
motor movement and at rest she would be
uh
symmetric okay so symmetry and i know
you guys want a whole video
on symmetry and let's see what we can do
i'll i'll keep it on the radar
but the ergo trid is short relative
to the chin distance but she runs it
because of
the beautiful eye and beautiful lip
volume
of which she's right about 50
50. my whole video on the 50 50 lip many
years ago
people were like 50 50 lip now in
fairness
where is her family from so genetics
play a role
she was a descent of cuban
okay descent so as you see
different ethnicities have different
ratios okay
we have to take this into consideration
at this point in time
people can have what they want no matter
where you're from
a lot of times we can create it with
fillers or surgery
she was i believe born in new york
brought
up in l.a something like that so
ancestry is important
let's look at one more picture of her
smiling
okay so here she is smiling motor
movement
plays a big role this is her youthful
state of course prior and this is a more
recent photo
and you can see a lot of similarities
some things that look a little different
or may have changed
not the reason of this video but of
course i get distracted
but look at the size of her teeth
whether she grew into them
or it's not uncommon to have them
adjusted for shape it's
very easy to remove a little bit of the
inferior teeth especially people do it
in the front
but some changes you might see but
definitely had some volume in the lip
here
now do you see an asymmetry okay
again she's smiling we see again there's
more lines on this side so that bits
i'm not worried about those those can be
treated one of many many
ways minimalistic there's nothing needs
to be done there
but you want to be preventive because
they will become accordion lines
what's that have to do with lip again
the lip is really all about the whole
lower face i do want to show
a little bit of asymmetry here so for
those of you who are
absolutely fanatical about symmetry
notice that this is larger
this is smaller in the spiral smile we
don't
really notice that unless she might
but no one's going to notice that and
you can see even here laterally
there's a what i mean it even looks like
could be anything old scar tissue
it could be natural it could be a little
bit of lip filler who knows
bottom line when she smiles it's a nice
symmetric smile okay
and that's a lot of times it's motor
movement that we're looking at
okay so the motor movement as opposed to
the
actual symmetry of the lip but if there
was an untoward symmetry we would know
and we would look and it would be
distracting and you don't hardly even
see the mole that's right here
because what are you looking at the
beauty of the teeth i'm going to do a
whole video on the teeth and the smile
and
the beauty of the eyes and brows it
takes over
even in this picture right here there's
not a lot because it's a fuzzy picture
there's not a lot of skin glow but you
just notice that big beautiful smile
if we draw the line down from the
lateral limbus
lateral colored part of the eye when she
smiles see a lot of people would say
the lips should go from the inner limbus
or even the center of the eye
okay i always in my videos you'll see me
talk about the lateral
colored part of the eye which is right
on along
this line here because models stars of
the world
have generally a wider mouth not always
with the k-pop stars
but in the american culture it's a
common denominator
so i created a whole playlist on threads
for you here
you can watch that get educated on the
threads hats off to eva for
showing us what she's doing to stay
absolutely
gorgeous stay tuned here to keep your
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