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Explore skin
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Explore options for contour, muscle and firmness.
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You catch it in a photo from a friend’s birthday: the fan of lines when you laugh, the little furrow when you concentrate. Lines that come with movement soften quickly, lines that linger at rest smooth with skin treatment alongside, and a few minutes on Wimpole Street tells you which yours are.
Expression lines come from doing the same thing with your face several million times. Frown lines from concentrating, crow’s feet from smiling and squinting, forehead lines from raising your brows.
The distinction that matters is dynamic versus static. A dynamic line appears when the muscle contracts and disappears when it relaxes. A static line is visible at rest, because the skin has been folded so often that the crease has become permanent.
Dynamic lines respond well to muscle relaxation. Static lines improve beautifully when the skin is treated as well, because the crease is now in the tissue as well as the movement.
That is also the argument for treating earlier rather than waiting. Relaxing a muscle before its line has etched in can help keep it from settling, so starting early keeps treatment simple.
Regents Park Aesthetics treats these at our Wimpole Street clinic, a short walk from Oxford Circus. Your clinician shows you which category each line falls into, and pairs muscle relaxation with skin treatment wherever a deep static crease needs both.
Vertical lines between the brows
The lines that make a resting face look cross or worried, and the most commonly treated area for exactly that reason. They respond well and predictably, and they etch in earlier than most because the muscles involved are strong and used constantly.
Fan of lines at the outer eye
From smiling and squinting. The skin here is thin so lines appear early, and they often respond most visibly of all the areas because the skin creases readily. Treated conservatively so smiling still reaches the eyes.
Horizontal lines across the forehead
From raising the brows. Treated together with the frown complex, so the brow stays lifted and the forehead looks fresh and open.
Visible at rest, not only on movement
Where the crease has become permanent. Muscle relaxation softens them, and treatment combines relaxation with skin boosters, microneedling or resurfacing to rebuild the creased tissue.
Assessment is done watching your face move rather than at rest. Your clinician will ask you to frown, raise your brows, smile and squint. The muscles doing the work are what gets treated, and they differ between faces more than most people expect.
We look at whether each line disappears fully when the muscle relaxes. Lines that vanish are dynamic and tend to respond well. Lines still visible at rest are static and improve with skin treatment alongside, and you will know which you have before anything is booked.
Brow position is assessed carefully. The forehead muscle is the only one that lifts the brow. Treating the forehead and frown complex together keeps the brow beautifully balanced, which is the detail that makes a result look natural.
We also treat conservatively at a first appointment and review at two weeks, when adding a little more is quick and simple.
As a guide, this is how we typically match each type to a treatment. Your own plan is always confirmed at consultation, and where a type is best seen by a specialist, your clinician points you to the right door.
| Anti-Wrinkle Injections The treatment for dynamic lines, placed into the specific muscles creating the lines you want softened. Visible from day three, full effect at fourteen days, lasting three to four months. | Skin Boosters and Polynucleotides For static lines and the thin crepey skin they sit in. They add no volume and improve the quality of the tissue, which is what a permanently creased line needs alongside muscle relaxation. | SkinPen Microneedling Rebuilds collagen through creased skin, improving static lines across a course. Safe on all skin tones and with a day or two of downtime. From £250 full face. | CO2 Laser Resurfacing For deeply etched lines, particularly around the mouth and eyes, and the strongest option we have. Five to seven days of downtime and results measured in years. From £300. | |
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| £180 | £320 | £250 | £300 | |
| Dynamic lines | Static lines, skin quality | Static lines, texture | Deep etched lines | |
| Yes | No | No | No | |
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| Day 3 to 14 | 4 to 6 weeks | 4 weeks | 4 weeks to 6 months | |
| None | None | 24 to 48 hours | 5 to 7 days | |
| Explore Anti-Wrinkle Injections | Explore Skin Boosters and Polynucleotides | Explore SkinPen Microneedling | Explore CO2 Laser Resurfacing |
Etched lines softening where skin quality improves. Clinical image supplied by InMode. Individual results may vary.
Lift through the brow and outer eye without injection. Clinical image supplied by BTL. Individual results may vary.
Sun protection is the largest single controllable factor. Ultraviolet degrades the collagen and elastin that let skin recover from folding, and it is why sun-exposed skin lines earlier and more deeply.
Retinoids used consistently over years genuinely improve static lines by thickening the skin and increasing collagen. The effect is real and slow, and it works on the crease rather than the movement.
Being smoke-free helps, both for collagen and because repeated pursing etches lines around the mouth.
Sleeping on your back reduces the compression creasing that accumulates over decades, and a silk pillowcase makes it easier.
Home care improves the quality of the skin a line sits in, and muscle relaxation softens the folding that creates it, which is why the two work so well together.
A dynamic line appears when the muscle contracts and disappears at rest. A static line is visible at rest because the crease has become permanent. Dynamic lines respond well to muscle relaxation, and static lines improve with skin treatment alongside.
When lines begin to linger after the expression has gone. Treating a dynamic line before it etches in can help keep it from settling, which is why starting earlier means needing less over time.
From £180 for one area, £250 for two and £300 for three at our Wimpole Street clinic. Skin treatments for static lines are priced separately and quoted as a plan.
Movement softens from day three with the full effect at day fourteen. Book three weeks or more before an event, so you arrive looking your freshest.
Three to four months. Forehead lines tend to be at the shorter end, and crow’s feet at the longer end. The muscles differ in size and in how constantly they are used.
Yes. We treat the muscles creating the lines you want softened and leave the rest working, so every expression stays yours. If you prefer a lighter touch, say so and the dose is planned around it.
The frontalis is a large muscle in constant use, so it recovers faster than the smaller muscles around the eyes. This is perfectly normal and your plan is timed around it.
We usually treat it alongside the frown complex, which keeps the brow lifted and the whole upper face balanced.
Injections soften them, and a line etched at rest is a crease in the tissue as well as a movement, so skin boosters, microneedling or resurfacing alongside smooth it further.
Movement gradually returns as the effect wears off. A lovely bonus is that skin which has been folded less for several years often looks a little better than it otherwise would.
Yes. EmFace lifts and tightens without needles, working by a different mechanism for a gentler result through the brow and outer eye. Frown lines respond best to injections.
A medically led clinic where every plan starts with an assessment and every injectable is placed by a medical professional, so the result looks like you on your best day.
Tell us what you’d like to achieve. Regents Park Aesthetics will be in touch within one working day to arrange your consultation.
