Patient Consult: Calm Down, Karen. You Don’t Need More Filler.

Use This Line When Clients Want 'Just a Bit More':

“We’re not here to gild the lily, we’re here to respect it. Your cheekbones don’t need one more ml—they need me to tell you when to stop.”

What It Does:

- Smacks them (gently) with honesty.

- Makes you sound like the expert they should be listening to.

- Reframes less as luxury. It’s minimalism with a syringe.

Let me just light this dumpster fire of a belief real quick.

If you’re still doing that dramatic plunger pullback ritual like it’s going to part the Red Sea and save your patient's arterial flow—you’re not practicing safely. You’re performing aesthetic theatre. And the audience? Probably a Complications WhatsApp thread, where injectors go to emotionally process after they’ve turned someone’s lip into beef jerky.

Let’s stop pretending aspiration is the golden ticket to complication-free injecting. It’s not. The data proves it. Clinical outcomes prove it. And let’s be honest—you probably already know it, deep down, but it’s more comforting to believe the lie than confront the fact that your needle might be the problem.

Right. So here’s the myth:  

Ageing is this slow, linear process—little by little, wrinkle by wrinkle, bit of sag, bit of stiffness… nothing a serum or tweakment can’t fix, right?

WRONG.

Here’s the truth, courtesy of a brutal little study out of Stanford that didn’t ask patients how “young they feel,” but looked at actual blood, spit, snot, skin, stool (yes, really), and dissected over 135,000 biological features across 10 datasets in 108 humans tracked for years.

Which is best?

Now or Not Now

Correlation or Cause

Change your environment for success

CNE's

Why its essential

Why you're not standing out