What Will I Learn?
Facial Reshaping and the Nonsurgical Lip Lift (NLL), with
an emphasis on anatomy, safety, subtlety, and natural outcomes.
This course teaches my anatomy-led approach to facial aesthetics and reflects the evolution of my clinical practice over time.
The first group of presentations (1-8) were recorded approximately five years ago and represent the foundational thinking behind my work at that stage. These are followed by a growing series of updated presentations, showing how my approach has developed with deeper anatomical understanding, emerging evidence, and the integration of ultrasound into practice.
The technique originally taught as the Nonsurgical Lip Lift (NLL) later evolved into the Nonsurgical Lip Tubercle (NLT) technique, as understanding of lip tubercles, muscular interaction, and filler behaviour improved. This progression is intentional and forms an important part of the learning experience.
In addition to assessment and treatment planning, newer sessions include practical ultrasound for anatomical evaluation, ultrasound-guided technique, and its role in improving safety and managing complications.
The course is designed to be followed sequentially, allowing you to see how clinical thinking, terminology, and technique evolve as evidence and anatomical insight deepen.
You will learn
Presentation 1: Meet the Models
In this presentation, you are asked to assess each model and create a treatment plan using the specified number of syringes. This reflects how I approached assessment and planning at that stage of my practice.
In Session 3, I revisit the same models and share my own assessments and treatments, allowing you to compare approaches. This comparison highlights how clinical thinking evolves over time with experience and deeper anatomical understanding.
The aim is not replication, but reflection, helping you refine your own decision-making in practice.
Presentation 2: The Art of Aesthetic Medicine
This presentation reflects how I was thinking about aesthetics at that stage of my practice, moving away from rigid formulas and fixed measurements toward a more intuitive, anatomy-led approach.
The focus is on understanding facial harmony, proportion, and how different areas of the face relate to one another, rather than treating features in isolation. It represents an early step in developing an artistic framework grounded in anatomy rather than numbers.
Presentation 3: Facial Reshaping
This presentation reflects a shift in my thinking toward facial reshaping as a primary driver of natural-looking aesthetic outcomes, rather than focusing on isolated features.
It explores how restoring or enhancing facial shape can influence light, proportion, and expression, supported by anatomical principles and the evidence available at the time. This session represents a transitional stage in my practice, where anatomy, emerging literature, and clinical observation began to shape a more holistic approach to treatment planning.
Presentation 4: The Nonsurgical Lip Lift (NLL) - Part 1
This presentation marks the early development of what was then termed the Nonsurgical Lip Lift (NLL), reflecting my initial attempt to address lip shape, support, and proportion in a more structured way.
It reviews existing lip techniques alongside my early classifications of filler spread (migration) and lip types, with a strong emphasis on lip anatomy, injection depth, and safety. Looking back, this session represents a foundational stage that later evolved as anatomical understanding deepened and the limitations of terminology and technique became clearer.
Presentation 5: The Nonsurgical Lip Lift (NLL) - Part 2
This presentation builds on the earlier NLL framework and reflects a deeper attempt to systematise lip assessment and decision-making at that stage of my practice.
It introduces the P’s and S’s of lip assessment, including preferences, psychology, proportions, position, shape, symmetry, size, sharpness, and smile, alongside early proportion tools such as the H-lines, H-curves, A-line, and LL-line. In retrospect, this session represents an important step toward a more structured, anatomy-led approach that later evolved with improved anatomical insight and refinement of technique.
Presentation 6: Facial Reshaping in Practice
This presentation revisits the models introduced earlier and demonstrates how I assessed and treated them in real clinical settings at that point in my practice.
Through narrated treatment videos, I walk through decision-making, sequencing, and technique selection, showing how facial reshaping principles are applied safely and pragmatically. Viewed in hindsight, this session captures the transition from conceptual frameworks to structured clinical execution, forming the foundation on which later refinements and ultrasound-guided practice were built.
Presentation 7: The Nonsurgical Lip Lift (NLL) in action
This presentation focuses on the practical application of the NLL technique, with an emphasis on filler selection, rheology, and tubercle movement in dynamic lips.
Through close-up treatment demonstrations, I outline step-by-step technique, followed by a visit to my Dissolving Clinic, where I demonstrate the use of hyaluronidase in the management of unwanted or abnormal lip outcomes. In retrospect, this session reflects an increasing focus on safety, reversibility, and understanding filler behaviour, principles that later became central to ultrasound-guided practice.
Presentation 8 - Summary with Q&A
This final two-hour session brings together the key principles from the course, revisiting Facial Reshaping and the Nonsurgical Lip Lift (NLL) with a focus on real-world application and clinical decision-making.
I address common questions, reflect on how the concepts fit into everyday practice, and discuss how this approach has continued to evolve. This session is intended to help consolidate learning and provide clarity on how to take these principles forward in your own work.