Thin Lips
Some lips were always on the fine side. Others were full in every photograph until the thirties quietly flattened them. Either way, a little hyaluronic acid placed with care at our Berkhamsted clinic gives you back a lip that looks entirely like yours.
At a glance
- Causes Genetic, or age-related volume loss
- Clinic Regents Park Aesthetics Berkhamsted
- Results Immediate, settled at 2 weeks
- Lasts 6 to 12 months
What it is and why it happens
Two very different people sit down in the treatment room at our Berkhamsted clinic and ask about their lips. The first has always had a thin upper lip, often with a long stretch between nose and mouth, and has been thinking about doing something for years. The second had a perfectly good lip until it started to flatten. From the thirties the lip loses volume, the border softens, the upper lip lengthens and rolls gently inward, and the shape in old photographs stops matching the mirror.
The treatment overlaps and the conversation differs. Restoring a lip you used to have is wonderfully straightforward. Building a lip you never had calls for a lighter hand and a good eye for proportion, because the lip that flatters one face sits differently on another. In Berkhamsted lips are placed by prescribing clinicians, Kay Greveson or Dr Grace Adamson, with a dissolving agent kept on site, so every result stays adjustable and every result stays yours.
Treatments that address it
| Lip Filler Hyaluronic acid placed in small increments, with you sat up between passes to check the shape. Can be dissolved if needed. From £280 for 0.5ml, enough for most first-time patients. | Lip Flip A small amount at the upper lip border rolls the lip gently outward to show more of what you already have. No volume added, assessed at consultation by a prescriber, £180. | Skinvive Microdroplet hydration for the skin around the mouth rather than the lip itself. Lovely where the surrounding skin has thinned and fine lines are forming. £350. | |
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| Explore Lip Filler | Explore Lip Flip | Explore Skinvive |
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Compared side by side
How we assess and treat
Your clinician looks at your lips at rest and smiling, then at the whole lower face, because a lip is read against the chin and jaw around it. Bring photographs of results you love, and a few you would rather avoid, since the second set often tells us more than the first. We measure the distance between nose and lip too, because a long upper lip is a question of length rather than volume and points towards a lip flip rather than filler.
Product goes in small increments with you sat up between passes to check the shape. Where a lip already carries a fair amount of filler, we may suggest letting it settle, or occasionally dissolving and starting fresh, so the finished lip looks like a lovely version of you rather than a lip that has been done. Prescription-only medicines are only considered after a face-to-face consultation with a prescriber. Your clinician covers suitability, timing and aftercare at your consultation, and the team is a phone call away afterwards.
Can you treat it at home?
Nothing at home adds volume, though a few habits make a real difference to how your lips look and feel. Lip plumpers tingle the lip with cinnamon, menthol or capsaicin, which brings an hour or two of swelling that is irritation rather than volume, and repeated use leaves the lip dry. Gentle exfoliation and a good balm improve texture and the way lipstick sits, which is worth doing in its own right.
Sunscreen on the lips is the step almost everyone forgets, and it matters, because ultraviolet thins the lip and draws the fine vertical lines around it. Steering clear of cigarettes helps both volume and the pursing lines around the mouth. And makeup technique genuinely works: a touch of overlining and a lighter shade through the centre creates the impression of more lip without anything injected.
Related concerns
Meet our team of experts
Lips at our Berkhamsted clinic are assessed and treated by Kay Greveson, our founder and advanced nurse prescriber, or Dr Grace Adamson, who is in Berkhamsted every Thursday.
Frequently Asked Questions
£280 for 0.5ml and £350 for 1ml at our Berkhamsted clinic. Most first-time patients need 0.5ml to 1ml, and your clinician tells you which before anything is opened.
Not at sensible volume, placed well. Overdone lips come from too much product, the wrong placement or repeat treatment before the last round has settled, and our clinicians work in small increments with you sat up to check the shape as they go.
Six to twelve months. Lips move constantly, which breaks the gel down faster than anywhere else on the face, so most patients plan a top-up once or twice a year.
A small anti-wrinkle treatment at the upper lip border, rolling the lip gently outward to show more of what you already have. No volume added, assessed at consultation by a prescriber, £180.
Yes. A long upper lip is a question of length rather than volume, so a lip flip, which rolls the lip outward, is the treatment that shows more lip. Your clinician measures the distance between nose and lip at your consultation and plans from there.
Yes, hyaluronic acid filler can be dissolved if needed. We use hyaluronic acid only and keep a dissolving agent on site at our Berkhamsted clinic, so every result stays adjustable.
They tingle the lip with cinnamon, menthol or capsaicin to bring an hour or two of swelling, which is irritation rather than volume. A good balm and sunscreen do far more for the lip over time.
Your clinician looks at how the existing product is sitting before adding anything. Sometimes a little more is exactly right, sometimes letting it settle first gives a prettier result, and occasionally dissolving and starting fresh is the way to a lip that looks like yours again.
Topical anaesthetic goes on for twenty minutes and the product itself contains a local anaesthetic. Most patients describe pressure rather than pain.
It peaks at twenty four to forty eight hours and can look dramatic for a day. Judge the result at two weeks, and leave at least three weeks before a big event.
Skip strenuous exercise, alcohol and very hot drinks for the first day, keep lipstick for the next morning, and sleep on your back if you can. Your clinician covers suitability, timing and aftercare at your consultation, and the team is a phone call away afterwards.
Kay Greveson, our founder and advanced nurse prescriber, or Dr Grace Adamson, who is in Berkhamsted every Thursday. Assessment and treatment by the same clinician, at the same appointment.
113 High Street, Berkhamsted HP4 2DJ, a short walk from the station and a short drive from Tring, Hemel Hempstead, Chesham and Amersham.
