they’re not sure exactly what it is, wondering if it’s for African American people or if it is something we should be doing. Is it safe? Are we going to look weird? Are we going to look frozen?
The list of possible concerns could go on and on. So, I love talking about that with my patients, and I loved conversing with Teyana because she’s beautiful; she has great facial features. If you know Teyana Taylor, she is very animated with her facial expressions, which, over time, can lead to etched-in lines between the eyebrows or somewhere else. I think she’s someone we all have fallen in love with, but we all definitely want to age the best version of ourselves.
What’s nice is that you can do an anesthetic treatment like a Xeomin, which can be tastefully done. You can do it as young as your early thirties. I started in my late twenties, and that’s just because I didn’t want to potentially get any wrinkles down the line. We talked about it being a little rejuvenation where you just start and do small amounts every few months. Just enough to keep everything looking nice and beautiful. You do not look altered or different; you don’t feel different, any of that. You’re just adding it to your anti-aging regimen that already includes skincare, sunscreen, and things of the light.
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Continuous Use Of Xeomin
There’s a continuation of using Xeomin because the aging process will continue. If you stop, a year passes, or a couple of years pass, you can definitely pick up and start the process again. But it’s really nice when you just kind of keep yourself on a maintenance schedule so that way you’re just always staying a little bit ahead of the curve. Sometimes if you wait, let’s say, the course of 10 years or something, then when you come back, we may have to do a little bit more than just a small injection if we have started to have deep etched-in lines or wrinkles appear on the skin. So, again, I tell my patients we do a little bit every three to four months—just enough to keep everything exactly how we like it.
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Recommended Age To Start Xeomin
I think that it’s a great treatment to start in your late twenties to early thirties; it’s a great time to just do small amounts. I think teenagers definitely should not. I use Xeomin; I love it. I learned how to do it in residency, and my co-residents and I learned and injected each other. It’s a treatment that I love recommending for patients. What’s really interesting is that during Covid, when I was in the office and saw patients, many of them would say, oh my gosh, your skin looks so good. And of course, I would say, well, a little bit of that is my skincare regimen, but think about it, in Covid, I always wore a mask. So they could only see my forehead and my frown lines. So even after hearing that a few times, it dawned on me they were looking at my forehead and between my eyebrows, noticing the smoothness. And that definitely between the eyebrows with my frown lines is my Xeomin treatment. So that’s when I had to start actually telling my patients it’s my skincare regimen, but I also do a little bit of Xeomin just to help to keep everything nice and smooth.
Patients seemed to be in disbelief of my using the product myself. Patients were like, you do it? And I would say, of course. The procedure takes less than five minutes to do. It’s very tiny, small injections. You can go right back to work, have your office meetings, etc. I do usually recommend patients not work out immediately after the treatment. But other than that, it’s super easy, with no downtime.
Recommended To Patients Not To Go Workout Right After Treatment
When we inject Xeomin, it is a small solution, and what can happen, not always, with a little bit of sweat; there could be a concern that it might start to diffuse because of spreading. And we really want to ensure that we’re doing those injections right at the injection point where those muscles contract, so they’re targeted. With competitors, this may happen more often because, with Xeomin, we’re really just injecting that active component, which also helps it stay right where we put it.
Side Effects
Clinically what I see in practice has been no side effects with how I do my injections on my patients. Usually, though, I recommend that if patients have a particular neuromuscular condition, which they would have to be diagnosed with, they are not an ideal candidate for Xeomin. And so, I would usually go through my medical questionnaire before I even do the injections. I always tell patients it’s a 50-50 chance of a possible tiny little bruise just because it is a needle and I have to poke them. It’s pretty small, I do my best not to potentially hit any of those little vessels, but it does happen from time to time.
Teyana Taylor Is Just Like The Rest Of Us When It Comes To Wanting To Look & Feel Our Best
I love that Teyana Taylor is one of the brand ambassadors for Xeomin. We know it’s time for us to start having these conversations in our African American community. It’s not just for women; men can do it too. Men also want to age gracefully. So for male readers, we can treat your frown lines as well. It’s a safe and effective treatment that has a lot of science behind it. And that’s why I do it and recommend it to my patients. I think it is nice knowing that a celebrity like Teyana Taylor needs stuff like this, too, if she chooses. And that it’s okay to do it.
There are a lot of great celebrities, but I think that what draws Teyana, what really connects with her fans, is her authenticity. I feel like her fans know that she really only talks about things that she believes in or things that she’s a fan of. So I think being able to talk with her and make sure she feels even more comfortable about doing the treatment was amazing. She absolutely loved her results, and she still looks like Teyana Taylor. I want to make that point. She does not look any different than her beautiful self. I think it’s just great for everyone to see.
And to be clear, we work with Teyana; she works with the brand and not necessarily for the brand. She’s a great proponent and supporter, and we truly appreciate that.