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This week on Macro Beauty, we follow our host Carly Danner who will be getting glossy lips for the first time. The treatment will be performed by Dr. Russak based in Manhattan, New York. Carly will be trying this procedure out to see if her lips become glossy. Watch this episode to learn how this process works. 

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Transcript
00:00Hey it's Carly and today I'm heading to Dr. Rusak to get glossy lips. Will it be
00:04worth the time, the money, the pain? Would I recommend it to a friend? Would I try
00:08it again? I truly don't know, but let's go find out.
00:14I want to try getting glossy lips because I have very crusty dry lips
00:19embarrassingly and there's really no deeper meaning other than the fact that
00:23I don't want to go into fall and winter these colder months with dry crusty lips
00:28especially because I forget my lip gloss at home all the time so I feel like
00:31this could be a good solution to fix all that. Glossy lips means healthy nourished
00:36lips also looking sexy and cute. I have been looking into this for about a month
00:41I've actually been to Dr. Rusak before and was making a joke about how I would
00:45never get lip filler because I don't want the duck lips and she was actually the
00:49one that told me there's so much more to lip filler than just getting bigger lips
00:53I was very intrigued by the idea of just having more semi-permanent hydration the
00:58results I am hoping that I have very glossy lips she said it looks very much
01:04like putting lip gloss on I don't know how that technically works but I really
01:09hope that they are just nice and juicy and pink I'm excited to try it.
01:14Hi my name is Dr. Julie Rusak I'm a board certified dermatologist in New York City.
01:19Hi how are you nice to see you so you have beautiful beautiful lips but there's
01:25a lot of fun that we can have with them right that's what we talked about it and
01:28a lot of people are afraid because in their mind all they think that lip filler
01:32duck lips yeah for you we talked specifically about hydrating your lips
01:36and with this new fillers there's so many different things that we can do we're
01:39gonna inject the tiniest tiniest smallest particle of hyaluronic acid and
01:44hyaluronic acid is the most hydrated molecule we have in our body so we're
01:47gonna inject it to hydrate the pink of the lip the lip itself becomes drier you
01:52start noticing some creases in the lips you start noticing that they becoming a
01:55little bit whiter maybe not as pink and not as luscious and that's what we're
01:59changing today what about the cons of this are there any so it's small
02:03injections okay so you feel it a little bit but we numb you and I cannot
02:07tolerate any pain so we do a lot of things to really mitigate that yeah but
02:11bruising is definitely one of the things that you will be worried about okay they'll
02:14swell so it's probably not a procedure that you want to do before big event
02:17my wedding's tonight how long does it usually last so it's not about how long
02:22really the product itself lasts it's really what it does you'll see some
02:27improvement right away as it goes we hydrate your lips from the inside out I
02:31tell my patients because we use our lips a lot we talk we chew so around six
02:36months there's a lot of different costs and there's a lot of different fillers
02:39Chloe's gonna put some numbing on you okay gonna make the procedure much more
02:42comfortable my fear is getting this procedure is that I'll have a bad
02:46reaction I end up with duck lips I know I'm in good hands with dr. Rusac but
02:51definitely still nervous about injecting anything into my lips I'm gonna tip you
02:55back okay okay my lips are so numb just got the numbing cream on it was the
03:02weirdest sensation but at least it won't hurt as bad I feel like they're like three
03:06times the size I'll give you a squeezy ball okay and I'm just gonna wipe
03:10everything off okay you have beautiful lips in a beautiful shape so that's
03:14exactly what I want to make sure that we maintain the glassy lip procedure really
03:18comes from understanding what the need of the patient is but also from
03:21understanding of different fillers that we have right now it's the tiniest
03:25tiniest particles of hyaluronic acid the best benefits of this procedure is
03:29really providing hydration moisture and plumping the lips from the inside out but
03:34also giving this beautiful pink color so the procedure is really not that new
03:38the technique is slightly different we put hyaluronic acid very very
03:42superficially under the pink of the lip but also we're using a different filler
03:46this filler has the smallest size of the hyaluronic acid particle so it doesn't
03:51risk giving a big big volume it really all about hydration you see them not
03:56really with your eyes but how they feel so they probably feel much bigger but we
04:00didn't change the shape the size still the same do you see that the top lip is
04:04actually much smoother that we removed a lot of the ridging try not to put any
04:08lip gloss any chapstick any lipstick because a lot of it has bacteria in it
04:13that's the reason why we put a little bit of antibacterial oidment on them right
04:16don't drink a lot of red wine red wine is a blood thinner so aspirin or leave
04:20abuprafen their blood thinners again that's mostly for bruising yeah I don't see
04:24any bruising we use a tiny tiny small needle so that's avoid that but otherwise enjoy them
04:29thank you my pleasure see you I'm looking forward to seeing you when it all settled
04:33yes yes okay I'll be back soon my pleasure I definitely came in really nervous because
04:38I don't love needles and it seems like it would be painful but Dr. Rusek just totally like ease all
04:45my fears I don't see a huge difference right now it's just very numb you will see that I had
04:53some tears
04:54flowing out of my eyes and I just want to make it clear that I am tough and that is
04:58normal I'm not
04:59a wuss my mother should know that because she expected me to like faint doing this but I'm fine
05:06it was definitely painful and like I can't even imagine doing this without numbing cream she said
05:10that there was like some smoothness up here and I can see that it's not as like so many like
05:14ridges
05:14I'm excited again you know to see in like a week or so what it looks like I'm just so
05:20curious if it
05:21really does look glossy I have tried fillers before I got it in my chin and along my jaw that
05:27one was uncomfortable it was kind of like popping a pimple I'd say that this probably hurt more these
05:33points right here it was painful if it really you know hits all the marks and exceeds my expectations
05:40I'd probably come back I was just chilling here watching TV chilling in my hoodie doing nothing and
05:46then I was like oh I forgot that the lip filler happened today it's a little swollen but it's not
05:51too bad the bottom lip didn't hurt at all and I'm still not feeling anything it was really just the
05:56top
05:56lip that had some painful points but overall I expected way more pain right now gonna probably
06:05experience a little bit more swelling maybe some bruising but it'll be gone by like Monday I'm sure
06:13you can see some of the like swelling has really started it has been a week since I got the
06:21lip filler
06:22and my lips are by no means glossy however I am noticing like up here is getting shinier smoother
06:35healthier something's happening it has been two weeks since I got lip filler for glossy hydrated lips
06:42and I'm gonna say it my lips aren't glossy let's get that out of the way but I actually don't
06:47think
06:47that that was really the point of this treatment after speaking with Dr. Rusak learning more about
06:50the treatment because I didn't really know much going into it and just going through the entire
06:54experience I realized that glossy lips weren't the destination healthy nourish lips were and I feel like
07:00that's what I got so I'd mark this one a success they are definitely pinker another thing I've noticed
07:06is that they are so smooth it feels like I just did an exfoliating mask obviously anything with Botox
07:13filler it can get expensive and this is an expensive way to have healthy nourished lips thankfully there
07:19are so many amazing products on the market that can give you this result but I think that if you're
07:24someone
07:24that's willing to invest in a solution that helps you not wake up with crusty lips I think this is
07:31worth at least looking into and getting a consultation it was a breeze it was so easy like I'm smiling
07:37and
07:37they're not cracking
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