hi guys welcome back to the channel so this week we are talking about a
very hot topic in the industry at the moment which is the russian
lip technique what is it what's all about is it any good and what are the
risks so the russian lip technique seems to be very hot in the press at the moment i'm
not really sure why it's being called the russian lip technique because it's been around for quite
a while certainly since i've been injecting it seems to just be a trend at the moment people
also call it tenting or fencing and it basically involves doing perpendicular injections into the
lip so you go from the border down into the body of the lip multiple times making little columns
in the lip and that boosts the volume and flips the lip up and can give quite a nice shape to the
border as well do you prefer a more robust product for this or do you like something that's softer
you need to use a robust product for this technique so something like Belotero Intense
that's probably my favorite product to do the russian lip technique or tenting with it's soft
enough that it feels like natural lip tissue once it's integrated but it gives you that lift
if you use something that's a little bit softer it will probably still look nice but you just won't
get quite the same result i've used um Balance with tenting technique and it looked great but
it didn't last that long because that's why so a stronger product is going to last a bit longer as
well you get a nicer result so this is something that i personally would do if you were trying to
get more vertical height exactly exactly okay guys so to make it a little bit easier to understand
the technique i thought i'd just draw it out so basically this is the russian lip technique
so quite simply it is little struts of filler going from the border down into the lip like i
said before and on the bottom what i've tried to show you is that you can place some straps there
probably not as many as the top but you'll focus them on the tubercles of the lower lip
to give some nice kind of shape and projection so pitfalls what would the pitfalls be so yeah the
russian lip technique does come with some risks not significant risks if you're in the hands of a
good injector you need to know your anatomy as for any injections on the face but really importantly
in the lip you have two major arteries one on the top clip called the superior labial artery and
one on the lower lip called the inferior labial artery and they're branches of your facial artery
and the facial artery supplies all the blood supply to the external face if you block any
part of that you're at risk of necrosis as many of you are aware that's tissue death or embolism
where the filler can actually shoot off up another branch of the artery and ultimately that can cause
blindness so the depth of your injection is so important to avoid those arteries that if it's
done by a safe and qualified injector you should be able to reduce those risks significantly
should we show where the arteries are why not okay guys this is an anatomy lesson Kish is my
willing victim donating his body to medical science so i'm gonna show you the arterial
supply to the face and the lips in particular so i'm to keep it as simple as possible
we have our external carotid artery that comes up in our neck it branches to form the facial artery
at the angle of the jaw here it will then wiggle its way up the side of the face
and branches will move up but for the lips we have the superior labial artery that wiggles in and
out of the top lip and the inferior labial artery which wiggles its way in and out of the bottom lip
and it joins the vessel on the other side that's actually a permanent marker sorry Kish but the
importance of this is that with an artery that is so wiggly you can never really predict exactly
where it's going to be but it tends to be at a certain depth so you need to see an injector who
really understands the anatomy and make sure they don't inject too deep towards that artery because
once it's blocked you're in for some serious trouble and even if it does get blocked i think
the important thing is you go to someone who can basically reverse what they've done so that you're
out of the danger area exactly actually that's quite an interesting point though because it also
explains why you get bruising from having lip injections exactly so if you are unfortunate
enough to catch an artery you are going to get a significant bruise it's part and parcel of the
the risks i suppose of a lip treatment most lip injections will result in a minor bruise
but again if you're unlocking carotid artery that bruising can last for a couple of weeks
so what you probably want to know is how long does the treatment take and is it any different to our
other lip treatments at the clinic well the answer is it will probably take us about five to ten
minutes to do the lip augmentation and the cost is the same as the normal lip augmentation i would
normally not inject more than one ml in the lips per session so kish why don't you tell everybody
at home how long you'd expect a russian lip augmentation to last i think for this technique
and considering the type of product we're going to use we can expect it to last anywhere between six
to nine months and the good thing about it is that if you have the treatment repeated at that time
the results seem to last even longer and actually the results look better as well i actually really
like this technique because you can mix it in with other ways of doing lip augmentation so it doesn't
just have to be like exclusively this particular technique and this is something that i've had done
myself as well a few times i had this done the first time i had lip treatment and what was good
about it was that it's really quite quick so if you're maybe a little bit nervous about treatment
then it's a really nice quick way to have your lips done but don't expect no swelling because
you're having lots of needle pokes in those lips more than a normal lip augmentation so you've
got to be a bit brave and expect a bit of swelling and down time okay guys so that's it for this week
i hope you enjoyed the video if you've ever had this particular technique done please let us know
in the comment section below and we will see you again next week for another video see you later