DoggieDash84

DoggieDash84 & jiffer72, call/Google Bernard Krupp and/or Darab Hormozi, both located in Towson.

 

I personally know nothing about them, but have heard good things from others. Good luck. ;)

Thanks!! This really is a big help!

Thx for your input!

I live in MD also and have looked into this procedure in the past and I cant seem to find a dr I am happy with. If you find some you can receommend please pm me. Thanks

I don't know how to PM you. Do I have to add you as a contact first?

Someone recommended this doc @ Monarch Med Spa, but I'm pretty sure that place is towards DC. I really would rather not have my lips done at all vs. driving that far for injections (and possibly not being happy w/the result).

I think that I'm going to end up going to this place in Owings Mills, near me. There's a doc there named James Vogel. I will try to ask for him and give them more notice, as opposed to just being able to walk-in the same week and get the nurse.

The injections feel like a bee sting, without the "after pain"... it can be uncomfortable while it's happening, but it's not "painful". Afterward, you may have some redness and swelling, but it goes away after a few hours and a cool compress. They will generally just use a topical numbing cream on the area to be injected.

 

Do choose your "injector" carefully. If they don't know what they're doing, or don't have alot of experience, they can do a terrible job. No, it's not permanent, but you could have "clown lips' for many months to come!

 

It's expensive (in my book)... and like I said, it only lasts about 6-8 months, and then you're back to where you were before.

Ahh, I've never been stung by a bee!! Good to hear that it's not painful. I can deal w/uncomfortable lol.

It's so hard for me to find a good injector in MD :-/ I called around and asked just about everyone if people have before and after shots of lip injections (in their offices or on their websites), and none of them do!! I mean, some do, but it's just the general "restylane" pic that the specific nurse or doctor didn't do...it's just to show what restylane can do to the lips. There are pics of the bigger procedures, like BA, rhinoplasty, etc...but nothing of just the lips. Actually...wait, there are lips, but those are lip implants like advanta...which I don't want. Also, when I call these places, they say that a nurse gives the shots bc the doctor only injects those who are getting another procedure done, as well. They all swear that the nurse injects on a daily basis and that's she's so great. I'm really debating just walking in and seeing a staff member that a nurse has injected...but I figure that they could lie about that just to get my money. It'd be easy to say that the nurse did it, when the doctor did it or when the person was actually just born w/the pout.

Yeah I definitely am not trying to get a bargain. When it comes to things like that...and my eyes, especially...I will take the better quality route vs. the more bang for my buck one.

See, the thing w/me is that I don't mind a "done" look when it comes to the lips. Besides those who were injected w/silicone (which I don't plan on doing), I haven't seen any "bad" lip jobs...they all look good to me...even the ones that people state are bad. Granted, sometimes the top lip can look too much larger than the bottom, but it's nothing that can't be fixed with slightly overlining the bottom lip.

Has anyone here had lip injections? What were your experiences like? Amount of pain, price/syringe, results, how long results lasted, did you use nerve block or just topical numbing cream, would you do it again?

I haven't been keeping up w/this thread, but I thought I'd share:

my bf just purchased wii fit resort...the sword fighting really makes me break out into a sweat, while still being fun/challenging!

My hair is a good length of to my shoulders, a little bit past. I havent had a relaxer for over a year and even if I got one when it gets wet I would have to wash it every day and blow dry and curl it and I dont know if using heat every day would be good.

 

I was debating getting braids or tracks, but I was not sure how tracks would last and look getting wet almost everyday.

 

thanks.

Whatever you do...DON'T GET TRACKS! Been there, done that...I have a different texture hair bc I'm asian, but still...if you're getting your hair wet, the wet will pull and the braid that the hair's attached to will become looser and looser and the hair will get more matted each day...unless you're talking about a different type of track that I'm not used to.

I've been waiting for this!!!! (Even though I haven't even been on here long ;0). Thanks :)