I've always wanted under eye fillers done, but was hesitant to pursue them because of the cost. After saving up money I did a lot of research and decided to go with Monroe MedSpa. After getting one syringe of Restylane injected by Dr. Ben, I was immediately let down because I saw absolutely no change in the way my under eyes looked. This was odd to me because I know that results are immediate. I decided to wait things out to see if I noticed any changes within the next week. Around 24 hours after the fillers were injected, I realized my eye bags looked worse than ever so I sent pictures to Dr. Ben and he told me the fillers "settled" too low and I just needed to massage them up to where I wanted them. This was weird to me because I follow many advanced injectors and they always say to refrain from touching your fillers for a couple days after they're injected; however, the fillers looked so bad it was my only option. I pushed the fillers up until my eyes physically hurt and they looked much better and I was happy with the result. A few days later once the swelling went down the fillers had a strong green hue and they were not spread out all across my undereye, but rather as thick boluses. I assumed that the green was just bruising and the fillers were not looking natural because they were still a little swollen, so I tried not to worry. A month passed and nothing changed, my under eyes still looked botched and not even makeup could cover up the green hue. I contacted Dr. Ben to share my frustration and he explained that he could slightly dissolve the under eye that had too much filler at no cost so I scheduled an appointment to get that done. At the appointment he injected hyaluronidase to one of my under eyes, and I also mentioned to him that I still had green bruising where the fillers are. He casually told me that this was not bruising and it was a result of the way the light hits the filler or something. He acted like this was normal, but everyone I knew who had fillers never had green hues like I did. Once I got home I did some research on this issue and found out that it was known as the "Tyndall Effect", which occurs "if HA (filler) is placed too superficially or in large boluses" (from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3560162/ ). Additionally, he ended up dissolving nearly all of the filler in the under eye even though he told me he would just dissolve a really small amount, which left me with the eye bag I had before I got any filler at all. I became extremely frustrated and reached out to Dr. Ben once again. He said he would not refund me, but he would dissolve the other eye and then re-inject both eyes with less filler to prevent the Tyndall Effect from occurring again (the amount of filler he used was never the problem, rather it was how he injected the surface of my undereye into one area rather than spreading the filler and injecting deeper in). I already spent a large sum of money for this, so I figured I had nothing to lose. At my appointment for the fillers I made sure to let him know that my left eye still had some filler in it, whereas my right eye barely had any and that that eye would definitely need more filler injected than my left. This time he only used 1/2 of a syringe of Restylane. After my appointment I made sure not to touch the fillers this time because I was worried that all along this was my fault from massaging them. I got the Tyndall Effect again because the fillers were injected superficially and in concentrated masses. Additionally, he injected way more filler into my left eye (even though I made sure to specify that I needed more in my right than my left, now I have eye bags again). Since he started with my left eye he used nearly all the filler so then there wasn't even enough to add into my right. The filler added to my right eye left a small bolus/mass and wasn't added smoothly/spread out. I now have botched under eyes (can't see the bolus in the pic I posted, can see in person) and I chose not to try again because I am confident the same process would repeat for the third time. I genuinely did not want to write a review, but I lost $650 that I won't get back and I wouldn't want others to have to experience this. All I wanted was a refund, I would've been happy with a partial refund where I was refunded the difference between $650 and the actual cost to purchase the filler (which is around $200/syringe). I thought Dr. Ben was a great/advanced injector because he had impressive before and after pictures on his Instagram and so many followers and experience. After following him for a while, I realized that I was deceived because whenever I'm on my activity feed I see that he spends hours a day following random strangers so then they follow him, but then he'll just unfollow them to grow his page. I would like to be clear and state that this is MY experience and that he only filled my under eyes. read more