How much do you end up spending on Botox and fillers per year

[Jodiewa]

I am 45 and beginning to look like hell. I know the price of Botox per thing but don’t know how much it ends up costing per year. How much do you end up sending year in year out? I am a Londoner. Thanks.

46 years old £250 for Botox 2 x per year since age 33 when I looked a lot older than I do now.

36 and I pay £200 twice a year for my frown lines, I absolutely love it.

I love this one... was reading the thread out of interest, never thought about botox despite being a bit/lot wrinkly but feel ok with myself.

2bazookas Wed 16-Sep-20 13:15:10
Haven't needed any Botox or fillers yet, I'm only 73.

I wonder if I’m the only person in the world who’s never had Botox but is constantly asked if they have? I’m in my seventh decade and have no lines on my forehead - my lower face is another story. Some of my friends flatly refuse to believe that my forehead isn’t full of Botox.

I am 50. I started with my 11’s about 4 years ago. I get an absolute minimal amount maybe twice a year, sometimes once.

I have wrinkles at the side of my eyes from laughing and I love them. I have never had a shiny forehead.
I do have some very light lines on my face, and I love them. They’re me, and I have been alive for 5 decades (lucky me!)

This year after tons of research I decided to do a treatment that stimulates natural collagen growth under the skin.

Not filler. Not a quick result in fact it takes 6 months to see the end result, but it should last for about 3 years.

I have a narrow oval face with high cheekbones, this treatment was perfect for me - and it’s my own face - not a substance filling it in and it’s absolutely subtle and gradual.

That cost 1500e for 3 treatments with the top guy in this country. Botox spend per annum averages 120e.
I don’t smoke, never sunbathed/SPF always, makeup off always yada yada yawn

I do get a lot compliments from other women on my complexion.

I miss the lips I had when I was young wan because I’d have given Angelina a run for her money... It’s so tempting- but I won’t go there, ever. They still look good.

Well, you did ask OP

£200 three times a year. I'm 48 and I used to be one of those people who said "I'll never do that". I'm not vain, tried expensive face creams and facials, but after a bad few years of pain from an accident it showed on my face. Toxin has made me look like my old self again, and no one but me and my therapist knows, it's very subtle.

@CilantroChili

is that PRP Needling - a friend had it done and it looks natural.

Well, I can look in the mirror and if I thought I looked like shite I wouldn't go back for more

I do sometimes wonder though about people who overdo things, when they look in the mirror what do they see? Is it they actually like sharpied on slug eyebrows, or obvious lips drawn 3x larger than their already filled ones?

Or is it a gradual thing where it creeps up on them? I had a friend in the 80’s who at 14 started backcombing and hairspraying her fringe. By 16 it had taken on a life of it’s own- it was huge, took cans of hairspray, and she still aimed for bigger.

Do people start just plucking a few hairs, or drawing eyebrows/lips a little bigger, then increasing slightly as it loses the impact they see in the mirror? Until they lose almost all sight of what they actually look like?

Same with botox- if you’re always aiming at a slight improvement or a slightly bigger effect, however subtle or small, eventually over the years it will build up until it is hugely different to natural, but you don’t see it?

People don’t notice very small changes to themselves over years perhaps.

£200 twice a year. I make sure I get proper Botox not dyasport and it seems to last me longer. Well worth it

Late 40s. I do facial yoga so no major problem areas yet,

@TheLastStarfighter Can I ask when you started to do facial yoga? I was thinking of starting but not sure if it is too late. I am late 40s too.( I have quite pronounced 11 lines!)

@bluebluezoo

Well, I can look in the mirror and if I thought I looked like shite I wouldn't go back for more

I do sometimes wonder though about people who overdo things, when they look in the mirror what do they see? Is it they actually like sharpied on slug eyebrows, or obvious lips drawn 3x larger than their already filled ones?

Or is it a gradual thing where it creeps up on them? I had a friend in the 80’s who at 14 started backcombing and hairspraying her fringe. By 16 it had taken on a life of it’s own- it was huge, took cans of hairspray, and she still aimed for bigger.

Do people start just plucking a few hairs, or drawing eyebrows/lips a little bigger, then increasing slightly as it loses the impact they see in the mirror? Until they lose almost all sight of what they actually look like?

Same with botox- if you’re always aiming at a slight improvement or a slightly bigger effect, however subtle or small, eventually over the years it will build up until it is hugely different to natural, but you don’t see it?

People don’t notice very small changes to themselves over years perhaps.

Well like a PP said, some people are actively going for a fake look. For me, I get the exact same dose of Botox each time and given I've never been one for extreme makeup or fashions, I'm pretty sure that I haven't morphed into a ping pong ball with hair. Well, maybe I have, but that's lockdown weight.

There are some people on here who are determined to believe that Botox always looks awful and we can't possibly look genuinely better with it. They won't be dissuaded but they've never seen me so what do they know?

Like I said...once you actually have experience of Botox, which the naysayers rarely have, you realise how very small it is and how hard you would actually have to work to get the spoon look. It just isn't this extreme facelift thing that so many people think it is.

Is it they actually like sharpied on slug eyebrows, or obvious lips drawn 3x larger than their already filled ones?

Yes of course they do!

Same way some people like really red lipstick and tattoos, and some people like a really blunt fringe and oversized glasses.

Fashions always looks ridiculous to people outside that set of people.

£0

I'm pushing 60 & even when I was a high earner I hated the trend, especially with women, for trying to fight the clock. It's a losing battle & you look way more ridiculous with frozen faces etc than you ever would if you allow yourself to age naturally & gracefully.

WTF is wrong with being the best version of yourself as the age you are, instead of looking like desperate performing seal trying to fight time

There's some really nasty, sexist and classist overtones to some of these anti Botox comments.

Personally I think the need for women to feel such pressure to look younger than their actual age, is born out of sexism. Not quite sure how speaking against that can be perceived as sexist

Haven’t rtft - but OMG all of these judgy people and their “ooooh I would never” “£0” “I don’t want a frozen face”

It’s very obvious the OP wanted to know how much people paid for it that actually have Botox/fillers. I assume being sanctimonious keeps your skin looking nice and fresh

£0 and I think that it's f-ing awful that women need to do this to give them 'confidence'.

Really?

You can't see why calling a woman who has Botox a 'performing seal' is sexist?

Yes there are more pressures on women to look good than men, no one is denying that. However that's the world we live in and you can't really blame women for internalising that.

I am very short sited and wasn't blessed with good genes. Botox is a safe, relatively cheap, quick and reversible thing I can do that stops me looking like I'm in a bad mood all the time.

I only live once I'm not going to walk around looking miserable when I can do something about it just to prove a point.
Same way I colour my hair and wear face cream.

Desperate performing seal
Where do you draw the line though, is it ok to dye your hair when you go grey?
Is it ok to use moisturiser so that your skin is more supple than it would be if you didn't?

@newsyoucanuse

£0 and I think that it's f-ing awful that women need to do this to give them 'confidence'.

Why do you care? Why so defensive... sarcastic and swearing at women for having Botox and fillers?

£0 but seriously considering it.

Not quite sure how speaking against that can be perceived as sexist

Could it possibly be calling other women desperate performing seals I wonder 🤔

Giving in to the expectations that you, as a woman have to look younger than you are, is IMHO buying into & perpetuating that sexism.

Each to their own, but it's not for me & I really do not get the need at all. If you feel the need to conform with this, then your issues are internal, not external & that's what you need to work on, your confidence, not trying to stop time & risk looking like a clown

I embrace my inner crone.
47, fat and furious.

Fuck fillers!!!

I'm 33 and have three areas of Botox about 2-3 times a year. I love it. I started going as I had one small wrinkle and then found it helped with my headaches. No one has ever guessed. I am autistic and don't really use much facial expression anyway.

I have had my lips done for 4.5 years now. Admittedly I went too big and I had them removed. Then I realised I had no lips at all and that I actually enjoyed having something to put my lipstick on so I have had a small amount.

Trends are now pulling away from fillers and going into skincare, there are a lot of treatments where they can improve issues with "putting stuff" in your face nowadays.

Ignore all the ignorant comments, the naysayers 99% of the time have never had it. And a lot of them could use it, from in person conversations I have had. 😂