Off The Record
Doctor Showcases Power Of Botox By Injecting Only One Side Of Her Face—The Results Are Striking
In a daring teaching effort, a California aesthetician used herself as a “lab rat” to illustrate the paralyzing consequences of injecting botox into your face.
Botox, a neurotoxic protein that is used in medicine, does much more than just reduce wrinkles; it also stops muscles from contracting by blocking nerve signals.
For those seeking an ageless glow, the prescription medication botulinum toxin usually results in smoother, more youthful-looking skin. However, these effects are just temporary, lasting three to six months, and require frequent maintenance.
Dr. Bita Farrell, a world-renowned aesthetic physician and clinical professor at UCLA, provides her followers—240,000 on Instagram and another 185,000 on Facebook—with visually stunning demonstrations “for the sake of science,” rather than merely informing them about the benefits of Botox.
Relaxed and stiff
To demonstrate the real-life effects of Botox injections, the doctor only injected the right side of her face’s lower face muscles two weeks prior to her sharing her widely shared social media video.
Explaining her Botox experiment in the caption of the clip, Dr Farrell writes, “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!”
“This can help reduce the appearance of marionette lines, jowls, frown (rbf [resting b**** face], or sad face), and the nasolabial folds. It also lifts the neck and can sharpen the jawline and make the cheeks appear a bit fuller and more lifted.”
“Any of the FDA approved Neuromodulators can be used,” she continues, adding that the effects endure for roughly three to four months.
Jaw-dropping lift
The board-certified doctor published the results with her social media followers after drawing a line down the middle of her face in the shocking reveal video.
“And now for you, two weeks later, I present my results as I try and contract my lower face muscles watch this,” Farrell said in the clip where she’s seen struggling to get movement out of the treated half.
“You can see that the platysma muscle on this [left] side is really contracting and pulling my jawline down, and so is my DAO, pulling the corner of my mouth down,” said Dr. Farrell.
“I’m really trying to pull this side!” she exclaimed in the clip, straining to move the injected muscles.
Pointing at the side of her face that she treated, she continues, “See that this cheek rides a bit higher, this nasal labial fold seems softer and so does my shadow at the marionette on this side.”
“Now I better go inject the other side to even things out!” she joked at the end of the video.
Limited movement
The distinction between Dr. Farrell’s two facial parts was extremely clear in the widely shared video. Her features displayed a range of natural expressions on the untreated (left) side. However, there was a significant decrease in movement on the side that received Botox (right).
Beyond the movement—or lack thereof—the Botoxed side of her face showed more subdued improvements: the nasolabial fold, which runs from the nose to the lips, softened; the shadows surrounding the marionette lines were less noticeable; and her cheek seemed slightly raised.
By restricting Botox to a single side, she produced a simple side-by-side comparison that demonstrated the potency of Botox in altering face dynamics without the need for a lengthy study.
What people say
Viewers marveled at the observable outcomes and praised the experiment’s clarity in the comments that poured in almost instantly. It was refreshing and captivating to see Botox’s true consequences so openly in a society that is fixated with youth and beauty.
“For the same sake—I will try that too, just on both sides,” shares one online user.
A second writes, “This is an amazing demonstration of the effects of Botox. It really is amazing! Thanks for doing this. I am actually shocked to see how big of a difference it makes.”
However, others remarked that her face appeared “better” on the untreated side.
“It’s funny because I think the side you didn’t inject looks better…Younger! You have less under eye wrinkles on your left side,” pens one user, while another asks, “So, at one side she looks paralyzed. is that good?”
And then there were the critics who offered their harsh opinions on Dr. Farrell’s self-experimentation: “After so many years of study and effort, what drives a doctor to masquerade as a clown to gain visibility? This trend is mortifying.”
Dr. Farrell provided us something unique in the world of beauty myths and Photoshopped advertising: education and authenticity combined into one captivating, flawlessly half-frozen face.
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