Dr. Cara McDonald

Yeah, right.

So it really depends.

The brow position is dependent on the forehead muscle, which lifts it.

And the depressor muscles, which are partly your frown muscles and partly your crow's feet muscles, so the orbicularis muscle, which is around your eyes, and they all pull the brow down.

So to get that brow lift with neurotoxin, you need to very specifically target the muscles that are pulling down without over-treating the muscle that pulls up.

Okay, because otherwise, yeah, Dr. Spock, yeah.

That is the only muscle in your face that lifts your brows is your forehead.

Yes, exactly, yeah.

And you may not, you've got naturally fairly high brows, but anyone with naturally low brows will tell you they have at some point had toxin done and they feel like they can't lift their eyebrows and can't put their mascara on.

Yeah, that's happened to me before.

And that is a brow drop, right, rather than brow elevation.

It also kind of gets a bit achy and can give you a bit of a headache.

Yeah, it's because you're trying, you can't see properly.

Yeah.

And you're trying to lift them the whole time.

Yeah.

So you're overworking the muscle.

It's like an anti-wrinkle headache, a tox headache.

Yeah.

But I haven't answered the question, which was how does it compare to surgery?