Bunny lines around the nose can be treated with Botox. It is injected under the skin around the nose. Several places are treated to relax the muscles which create bunny lines.
You can have bunny lines treated as a single area. Or you can also treat two other related areas, frown lines and crow’s feet, to make it more effective. As well as more cost effective!
What causes bunny lines?
You’ll notice bunny lines appear when you smile, laugh, or squint your eyes. In your younger years, bunny lines are called ‘dynamic wrinkles’. They appear when you flex the muscles around your nose and disappear when you relax them.
They are wrinkles, just like the rest!
As you age, you lose collagen and elastin. These help your skin bounce back to a flatter surface without lines and wrinkles.
Bunny lines can appear early in life if you spend a lot of time in the sun. Sunshine has a lot of benefits for your wellbeing. But, too much sun, or intense sunshine will damage your skin over time.
Other factors, such as smoking, air pollution, and stress also affect the skin. Leading to permanent or deeper wrinkles and lines.
Too much stress speeds up the break down of collagen and elastin in your skin. When under stress, your body produces the hormone cortisol. This hormone is responsible for the break down of collagen and elastin.
How to prevent bunny lines
You can help to prevent or at least delay bunny lines from forming. I’m not going to tell you to stop smiling, laughing or squinting at things in the distance.
Being happy is good for your skin, body, and mind.
What you can do is regularly check your non expressive face. What I mean is to see if you have tension in parts of the face.
Sometimes, we develop a constant frown. Or slight, but constant, squint. It may not be pronouced, but it will cause muscles to tense and gather the skin into wrinkles or lines.
You may also find tension on other parts of your face. Around the eyes, cheeks, forehead, and the mouth.
Gently smooth the skin around these areas to release the tension. Do this daily. Several times a day would better..
Notice the difference as the muscles relax. Become conscious of when you are creating tension in your face and start to relax.
There are more things you can do to delay wrinkles and lines HERE
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