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Plump Lips Skinny Heart

How cosmetic fillers drain your empathy

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Marc Arginteanu
Jul 02, 2025
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Fillers aren’t just for pouty lips anymore. Cosmeticians have become quite inventive in their targeting of injection sites. Nowadays, syringes full of hyaluronic acid (Juvederm, Restylane), calcium hydroxylapatite (Radiesse) and poly-L-lactic acid (Sculptra) are jabbed into lots of places. Sure, plumping lips is still the go-to. But countless throngs al…

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