Thank you for your question.
You’ve submitted a photo of both your eyes and you describe in your question that you’re
18.
You have hooded eyes, you’re insecure about those hooded eyes, and you’re asking whether
or not Botox would be appropriate for you.
Well, I certainly will give you my perspective.
I’ve been practicing cosmetic and reconstructive surgery with a background specialty in oculofacial
plastic surgery for over 20 years in Manhattan and Long Island.
So, improving hooded eyes is something I do everyday in my practice.
To begin with, I would say that I think when you were doing your research, you learned
about something called the Botox Brow Lift, where the eyebrows are lifted to help relieve
small amounts of hooding over the eyes, based on the relaxation of certain muscles which
are called “eyebrow depressors”.
I would certainly discourage that—at 18 this is not something that makes a lot of
sense.
It would cause a raising of your eyebrows which probably would make you look strange,
and it would require maintenance, which is also something that we don’t encourage in
someone so young.
When it comes to upper eyelid hooding, I think you’ve probably done some research and learned
about eyelid surgery.
Cosmetic eyelid surgery is done routinely to address upper eyelid hooding.
When I look at your photos, it doesn’t look like you have that much eyelid hooding.
I think that when you are being so critical of your eyes, you may be looking from a very
critical lens at your self, and maybe this is something that you need to discuss with
someone you trust, about these issues.
But I would certainly not encourage you to pursue Botox.
Botox is is number one non-surgical cosmetic product used for a variety of procedures,
but I think it would not be appropriate for you.
We use Botox in our practice for everything from Crow’s Feet lines, forehead lines,
frown lines, lip lifts, improvement of underarm sweating—there’s a lot of uses for Botox
and related products such as Dysport and and Xeomin, but it is concerning when someone
as young as yourself submits this photo and talks about these insecurities.
I can tell you as we all get older, we always look back on our younger years and wonder
why we were so critical of ourselves.
So, I think it’s worthwhile for you to speak to someone you trust about these issues and
learn more before you decide to have any type of cosmetic procedure.
I hope that was helpful and I wish you the best of luck.
Thank you for your question.