What is Facial Harmonization?

Facial Harmonization, or Facial Balancing, uses a range of non-invasive or minimally-invasive treatments to contour, volumize, and reshape certain areas of the face to maximize symmetry and enhance global facial beauty.

For instance, if your upper face is full but your chin and jaw lack definition, dermal fillers can create optimal facial balance by enhancing your chin and sculpting your jawline. Or if you have a prominent jaw that draws focus to your lower face, neurotoxins in the masseter can slim and soften your jaw while fillers can create more fullness in the cheeks.

Facial harmonization transcends standard cosmetic treatments, which often target isolated areas of the face. For this reason, it demands a high level of technical expertise and advanced artistic vision. By tailoring your care plan to include the treatments most suitable to your unique facial anatomy and aesthetic goals, Desiree approaches your face holistically.

Plus, facial harmonization allows us to engage systematically with the natural aging process, which includes things like weakening facial muscles, shifting fat pads, changes in bone density, and loss of skin elasticity. 

The result is an enhancement to your natural beauty that brings out your best features in a way that achieves impact without being overtly detectable—all with minimal discomfort and downtime.

Art Meets Medicine at FACE

At FACE, Nurse Desiree, RN, FNP-S leverages both her artistic talent and medical expertise to maximize your personal beauty with subtle enhancements that can be combined to create compelling results.  

With decades of experience as a visual artist and art professor, she takes in the line, volume, and form that make up your distinct facial beauty and considers that in relation to your desired outcome. 

Each facial harmonization appointment is a highly personalized process that includes a detailed evaluation and custom treatment plan created to address your concerns and amplify your look. 

At FACE, you are not just receiving a procedure—you are experiencing a transformative process guided by a professional who is uniquely equipped to deliver an experience that is medically safe, artistically crafted, precise, and tailored to reveal the most radiant version of yourself.

What Can Facial Harmonization Do? 

Each of the treatments below makes a distinct contribution to global facial balancing. When used in combination to address your unique facial anatomy, these facial harmonization treatments create powerful, natural-looking results. 

  • Add volume and contour to the cheekbones to reshape the face.

  • Restore volume loss in the temples for a rejuvenated look.

  • Increase fullness in the cheeks to provide greater forward projection.

  • Enhance the chin to create a more balanced profile or defined jawline.

  • Lift the brow to open up the face or create a more feminine arch. 

  • Address age-related changes in facial structure and balance.

  • Slim the jawline for a more V- or heart-shaped face.

  • Plump the lips by adding volume or elevating the upper lip with a lip flip.

  • Shape the jawline for a more defined and chiseled profile.

  • Tighten and slim the chin and jaw to diminish the appearance of a double chin. 

  • Minimize the nose bulb to downplay its prominence.

  • Revitalize overall skin health to improve elasticity, tone, and texture.

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Facial Harmonization Treatments

Traditionally, facial harmonization relies almost exclusively on dermal fillers. At FACE, Desiree offers a broader array of options to provide greater flexibility in treatment plans and best accommodate each patient's desires and preferences. Depending on your specific needs, your facial harmonization care plan may include the following non-invasive or minimally invasive treatments.

Dermal fillers can be used to shape the face, mimicking bone structure and fat volume. We use them to restore aging-related volume loss, enhance the fullness of cheeks, chin, and lips, and add structure and definition to facial contours.

Neurotoxins: Neurotoxins can be used sculpturally to slim, lift, or depress specific regions of the face for results that look very natural. Plus, neurotoxins work wonders in combination with the volume that dermal fillers add. 

Sculptra stimulates collagen production in areas like the cheeks, temples, and jawline to restore aging-related volume loss and improve skin texture, rejuvenating the face for incredibly natural-looking results.

Plasma fibroblast can be used to subtly lift and shape areas of the face and neck.  In addition to tightening facial skin for a lifted look, we can also use fibroblast to slim the nose bulb and achieve a non-invasive lip lift. 

Procell Microchanneling uses the skin’s natural healing process to boost collagen production, subtly volumizing and plumping the face for a refreshed look. In combination with other treatments, it helps create a harmonious facial contour.

Cryoskin Chin is a non-invasive treatment that enhances the separation between the jawline and neck for a tight, sculpted lower face. In addition to slimming the face, it creates a sharper, more angular jawline to improve facial harmony.

What Areas of the Face Can Be Treated?

Cheeks: Enhancing the volume and contour of the cheeks ensures they are evenly proportioned to amplify facial symmetry and create a more cohesive, youthful look.

Undereyes: Addressing unevenness or hollows beneath the eyes creates a smoother, more symmetric appearance, contributing to a well-rested, harmonious facial aesthetic.

Temples: Restoring fullness to the temples helps align them with the existing contours of the face for a proportionate facial structure that highlights overall facial equilibrium.

Brow: Refining the brow area for symmetry ensures that both brows have a uniform shape and alignment, which enhances total facial balance while emphasizing the impact of the eyes.

Lips: Enhancing the lips by refining their shape, size, and volume creates alignment both between the upper and lower lips and with the face as a whole. 

Chin: Enhancing the chin’s projection and shape helps create a harmonious lower face, contributing to a more balanced and aesthetically pleasing profile.

Jaw and Jawline: Achieving symmetry in the jaw and jawline involves refining the projection and definition of the angles of the jaw for a more structured and harmonious facial outline.

Facial Harmonization Pros & Cons

At FACE, your facial balancing treatment is custom-crafted for your unique proportions, personal anatomy, and aesthetic goals. Facial harmonization can deliver a range of compelling benefits, including:

PROS:

  • A holistic approach. Using a combination of nuanced enhancements, we can maximize facial beauty and harmony that align with the gorgeous face you already have.

  • Transformative results that still look like you. Experience natural-looking results that elevate your look for a significant yet subtle impact so everyone will notice but no one will know. 

  • Improvements that last. Facial harmonization creates long-lasting enhancements—between 9 months and 2 years—that can be maintained even longer with regular maintenance appointments.

  • Restore vitality and harmony. At FACE, we believe in well-aging, not anti-aging. Facial harmonization rejuvenates your look in balance with the natural aging process to help you feel good being right where you are.

  • Max impact with minimal downtime. Our facial harmonization treatments are minimally invasive and can be performed in-office with localized numbing.

  • Effective alternative to surgery. Compared to surgical interventions, facial balancing techniques allow us to achieve remarkable enhancements without invasive procedures.

  • Highly-personalized care. Desiree carefully evaluates your distinct features, facial anatomy, and bone structure to craft a fully customized treatment plan that lines up with your goals.

  • Boost skin health. Some of our facial balancing treatments trigger your skin’s natural healing processes, which means they also improve overall skin health, including radiance, texture, and tone.

CONS:

  • Multiple appointments. Because the FACE approach is all about creating the most natural-looking results, the facial harmonization process often requires more than one appointment.

  • Ongoing maintenance. Even though your results will be relatively long-lasting, they will not be permanent. Additional maintenance treatments will be necessary to maintain your look.

  • Risks and side effects. While the treatments we offer are minimally invasive, they still involve the possibility of risk and side effects. Though usually minimal, side effects can include bruising, swelling, and possible infection.

  • Subtle results. Because of our approach and the nature of the treatments we offer, your facial harmonization results will not be as transformative as invasive surgical procedures.

  • Limited scope. While we can address many issues with the wide range of treatments we use to harmonize and balance features, we cannot respond to all concerns.

Facial Harmonization Results

The facial balancing before and after results demonstrate the transformative power of Desiree’s holistic approach, artistic vision, and technical skill. Each facial harmonization journey below highlights subtle but impactful changes that boost confidence to help you feel as gorgeous as you are.

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Facial Harmonization Comparison

Check out the chart below for information on how long facial balancing treatments last, where we can perform them, and the unique benefits each offers.

Treatment Longevity Areas Unique Attributes
Dermal Fillers Up to 2 years + Face Restores volume, defines contours & corrects asymmetry.
Neurotoxins Requires regular treatment, typically every 3-4 months Everywhere Elevates & relaxes muscles to sculpt & harmonize facial contours.
Sculptra Up to 2 years Face & Body Reinforces your skin's natural collagen network while triggering collagen production.
Plasma Fibroblast Up to 3 years Everywhere Harnesses plasma energy to lift & sculpt the skin.
Procell Microchanelling Depends on many factors Everywhere Activates the skin's natural healing response to trigger collagen & elastin production.
Cryoskin Chin Fat loss is permanent, but fat cells increase with weight gain Chin & Jawline Uses hot & cold temperatures to permanently destroy fat cells & tighten skin.

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