Like all these reviews say, Amy is an incredible injector. That said, do not volunteer to be a model for training purposes. It's not worth it. I didn't even go specifically for the small price reduction, but it was a bonus. I thought, nothing can go too wrong. Amy is literally 1 foot away from the trainee. If they aren't doing it correctly, she will correct them. And she's so talented, I'll be fine! Well, I was wrong.
Amy injected the left side of my face to demonstrate to the trainee. It was painless and the final results were exactly what I hoped for. A bit of additional volume where I had hollowed out from weight loss & having two kids. Then the trainee injected my right side and something felt off from the start. There was a ton of tugging and pulling, which I thought might be normal since this person was learning, but then she said "doesn't look like I got any filler there" (my upper temple) and she didn't. Amy then massaged my face and said the prp added to the filler makes the solution more forgiving and it should help the filler go where it needs to.
After this, Amy said if things didn't look perfect after the swelling went down to come back because she wanted it to be perfect for my 40th birthday. That was comforting & worrisome seeing as I'd never had an injector offer a retouching before the treatment was even completed.
After swelling went down, the right side of my face was a lumpy mess and overfilled near my eye. I can still see a line in my cheek where the cannula was inserted. All the filler was placed near my eye socket, not my temples, with a marble of filler deposited into my lower right cheek. This filler was supposed to be fanned out in my lower cheek to help with volume loss but I just ended up with a floating marble of filler.
When I sent my pictures and concerns in, I was told that I needed more filler. I didn't/don't want more filler. I want the amount of filler they initially put into my face injected correctly in the right areas. So we agreed that I would come into for an appointment to evaluate. I did and it was decided that dissolving solution would be used to see if the filler would break-up and go into the correct areas. As you can see in the text conversation, after the swelling went down from the dissolving appointment, my lower face wasn't even, but the marble had spread out enough that I was okay with the results. I also didn't wish to mess with that area further for fear of making it worse.
However, the dissolving solution used for the overfill near my eye also hollowed out my temple completely and left me with dent that I didn't have previously. I asked if they could fix that and they said of course if I paid another $450. If I didn't want to pay they wished me well because the HIGH COST OF FILLER was just too much to fix my face without additional payment. Are you kidding me? Yah. I know how much it costs. I just paid you $650 (per side) to inject a floating marble & make the right side of my head look like I got kicked by some livestock.
This whole exchange has been incredibly saddening for me. Like most women, I came to them with the goal of addressing an insecurity and they not only made it worse, they also wouldn't accept responsibility for their actions after the fact. I don't want anything additional. I just want both sides of my head to look the same and no lumps in my cheeks. In my last correspondence with them, I just wanted my temple fixed. I don't think that's too much to ask, but since they do I'll gladly go to another establishment and pay way more than $450 to have my face fixed. Unfortunately, the pics won't go in order, but the information is there. read more