A doctor injected half of her face with Botox to show viewers exactly what it does.
In the viral video, Dr. Bita Farrell explained that she made herself into her own “lab rat” by drawing a line down the middle of her face and only adding filler into the right side of her visage.
“I injected the lower face muscles, namely the DAO [Depressor Anguli Oris] and platysma muscle in the jawline, and now two weeks later, I present my results as I try and contract my lower face muscles,” the aesthetics physician said in the 2024 video.
She then attempted to move her mouth around and wiggle the bottom of her face.
The left side moved naturally as she made funny faces — but the right side barely twitched.
“Muscles of the face either pull up or pull down. When the muscles that pull the lower face down [platysma and DAO] are injected and relaxed with a neuromodulator such as Botox, the muscle that pulls the mid face up [zygomaticus or cheek muscle] dominates and pulls the face up!” Farrell explained.
She added that this can help reduce the appearance of marionette lines, jowls, frown, so-called “rresting bitch face,” or sad face, and the nasolabial folds. It can also lift the neck, sharpen the jawline and make the cheeks appear a bit fuller and more raised.
Results typically last around three to four months.
Some commenters thanked her for the “amazing” and “informative” reveal, with one declaring, “That cannot be safe … why would women do this to themselves? I would never.”
Another called her “arrogant and also irresponsible,” suggesting it could lead to people “self-injecting” as she demonstrated.
While generally considered safe, these types of jabs could lead to side effects such as bruising and pain, flu-like symptoms, headache, nausea, redness, and temporary facial weakness or drooping.
Some have even become immune to the shots.
That’s a real annoyance when you’re spending $662.20 on average for a treatment — adding up to a whopping $52,976.24 in a lifetime — in Manhattan.
