By now you probably know that we use Wrinkle Relaxer for so much more than just those lines between your brows or those furrows in your forehead. One of the most common requests I get regarding Wrinkle Relaxer is for a ‘brow lift’. And Wrinkle Relaxer can do just that. But sometimes a patient will come back ask for a little bit more Wrinkle Relaxer, so the brows will go even higher. And that’s the myth!

Wrinkle Relaxer doesn’t actually lift the eyebrows.

I know, I seem to be contradicting what I just wrote in the paragraph before this one. Yes, we use Wrinkle Relaxer to do brow lifts. But Wrinkle Relaxer doesn’t actually lift the brows. Follow me here:

Wrinkle Relaxer works by stopping muscle movement.

Some muscles pull the eyebrows down (the orbicularis oculi and the corrugator muscles). Other muscles pull the eyebrows up (the frontalis muscles). These muscle groups work against each other. Wrinkle Relaxer can’t make a muscle stronger, right? It can only make it (temporarily) weaker. So when we do a Wrinkle Relaxer brow lift, we put the Wrinkle Relaxer in the muscles that pull the eyebrows down. That lets the upward-pulling muscles do their job unopposed.

The Potential Problem

Wrinkle Relaxer, then, will weaken the brow depressors, which allows the brow lifters to do their job without having to work against those depressors. But what if you don’t have a strong lifter muscle (frontalis)–what if you frontalis muscles just aren’t very powerful and can’t pull your brows up much, even when unopposed?

Or what if your eyebrow position is so low that your lifter muscles (frontalis) just can’t work hard enough to get them up where you want them?