How you can avoid celebrity 'pillow face': Aesthetician lifts the lid on filler phenomenon that leaves people looking unrecognizable

An aesthetician has shed immoderate ray connected alleged 'pillow face' among celebrities that make them look puffy.

Filler doesn't dissolve but tin migrate, which is why immoderate A-listers tin acquisition nan phenomenon, which is not conscionable caused by cosmetic tweaks gone wrong but by excessively overmuch filler that moves nether nan skin. 

It's nan other of narrow Ozempic face; alternatively a person's cheeks and lips tin look highly overblown, puffy, and unnatural. 

'So, we now person an mentation of nan pillow look phenomenon, which is that filler does not conscionable dissolve aliases metabolize complete time,' aesthetician Jayme B. announced to her followers successful a now viral TikTok video pinch much than 3,500 comments.  

Instead of simply dissolving naturally, filler 'migrates aliases spreads to different areas of your look and continues to origin insubstantial description ,' she warned.

Jayme said 'the group who make a wont of getting filler regularly' extremity up pinch much bloated faces, which makes consciousness arsenic there's much gel-like constituent successful their body. 

She flashed up caller pictures of Madonna and Chrissy Teigen, some of whom person shocked their fans pinch their changing appearances. 

The photos of Madonna were from her quality astatine nan Grammys, an arena that sparked furious integrative room speculation from stunned onlookers. 

At nan clip of nan awards show successful February, viewers flooded societal media pinch confused comments, pinch 1 personification writing: 'Madonna doesn't rather look for illustration Madonna to me.'

Another said: 'Madonna needs to extremity pinch nan integrative room and clasp nan aging process. She's astir unrecognizable astatine this point.'

Weeks later, Madonna responded to nan societal media firestorm successful a tongue-in-cheek post.

'Look really tiny one americium now that swelling from room has gone down. Lol,' she wrote with a photograph of her kicking backmost successful ripped jeans and a 'Spiritually Hungry' hat.

Meanwhile Chrissy received akin feedback aft a beauty Instagram relationship accused her of ruining her look pinch fillers past summer. 

Commenters astatine nan clip said: 'She was beautiful before. Not judge why she destroyed her look for illustration that,' arsenic different added, 'Why do these celebrities want puffy cheeks?'

But nan mom of 4 wasn't acrophobic to deed back. Chrissy unopen it down by replying, 'No mean intentions? But saying this could beryllium your look if you do it wrong? You're a portion of sh**. I gained weight.' 

Back successful September 2021, Chrissy revealed connected her Instagram Stories that she underwent buccal fat removal surgery, a process to region fat from her cheeks to specify her jawline.

In her video, Jayme further explained that while she hasn't worked successful a med spa successful adjacent to 3 years, she ever knew location was a anticipation of nan filler seeping into different areas of nan look and successful fact, it 'almost seems for illustration a guarantee.'

She believes 'the speech astir really agelong it lasts' has changed, because group utilized to beryllium assured filler lasted six to 12 months, but now it seemed to beryllium moreover longer. 

Jayme asked different injectors if nan protocol now was to do a information of dissolvent earlier putting successful much filler and what group were telling their patients astir really agelong nan curen would last. 

'What's your sentiment connected filler extracurricular of nan lips messing pinch your lymph system?' she asked, motioning to her cheekbones.

She besides questioned if it was a dying trend, to which 1 personification successful her comments conception said it was because it 'becomes semi-permanent' truthful there's nary request to do regular upkeep. 

'I've ne'er been truthful happy that I've ne'er had filler,' different commenter responded aft learning astir nan pillow look effect, arsenic personification other said they were thrilled that they were 'too collapsed for this stuff.' 

One personification brought up that MRIs beryllium that filler tin spread, which made them recognize 'they never want to touch filler.'

Another warned, 'Dissolver doesn't ever activity either' - and it tin besides lead to utmost allergic reactions. 

Plenty of group successful nan comments shared that their filler did not dissolve aft a year. 

One personification explained they sewage filler only erstwhile almost 3 years agone and still spot it, and different said they sewage their lips done successful 2021 and they're still full. 

'I mislaid 2 friends to filler. They didn't walk aliases anything, conscionable couldn't look astatine them immoderate longer. Really sad,' 1 commenter quipped. 

According to New York City-based integrative surgeon Dr. Amiya Presad's website, nan 'pillow face' look is caused erstwhile 'filler migrates and creates a doughy look,' starring to cheeks that look 'large and disproportionate.'

However, not everyone thought it was owed to filler migrating.

Some believed it was because group were simply getting excessively overmuch filler, arsenic 1 wrote, 'That is not filler migration. That is overfilling. Filler migration is lumpy and moves to a different location.' 

One personification summed it up by saying, 'Shortened answer: different rheology/technique/anatomy/metabolism each play unsocial roles pinch respect to migration, longevity, & results. Filler usage for maine is up, conscionable amended products now-a-days.' 

An knowledgeable injector explained: 'The problem pinch filler is utilizing it for group that don't request it. For group who person measurement nonaccomplishment it's very effective. I still person tons of filler clients but I won't capable if it's not needed.' 

Some group thought filler was complete forever, pinch 1 saying, 'I heard filler is dying out. Apparently treatments for illustration needling and specialty facials are nan go.' 

There’s only 1 FDA-approved dermal filler that is not absorbed by nan body. It is made pinch polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) beads suspended successful a solution that contains bovine (cow) collagen.