Dermatologist Shereene Idriss explains the lip flip, a Botox injection that everts the upper lip to reduce a gummy smile. Results take 10 to 14 days to show and peak at 2 to 4 weeks, but you'll lose the ability to purse your upper lip, making it hard to blow out candles. For the right person, it's a cheaper alternative to filler.
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2025-03-11
About 10–14 days to kick in.
Peak period about 2–4 weeks after injection.
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So I know that you're bored and you're thinking, like.
Maybe I should dye my hair, maybe I should get bangs, maybe I should get a lip flip. Don't fucking get a lip flip because it's so fucking weird.
This is something your dermatologist should tell you if you are considering getting a lip lip. I'm also a derm. And I didn't realize that lip lips could do this until I got it done myself. And I almost ruined my two year old's birthday. She's trying to blow out her candles and I try to save her, but I can't even save myself. I look at that. My mom had to save me. The lip flip is when you get Botox right around the edge of your lip because you smile like this and it rolls in so that when you smile next time it will not roll in the gummy smile like that. You put Botox here to lower it so that you don't show your gums as much and your lip can show. I did not need.
Neither.
Issue is Botox takes like a good 10 to 14 days to kick in. And when it's at that peak period of two to four weeks, it's very hard to move your upper lip. So, like, let's say this is a straw. You can't go. You have to go. Otherwise, yeah, it just doesn't work. And when you're blowing out candles, you can't go. You have to go. I mean, you saw the video. And if you're going on a first date.
We'Ll just end it there.
Let me know if you guys have any questions about lip flips, because although it has some weirdness to your movement, for the right candidate, it can make all the difference without any lip filler.
