The spot on your face where you should NEVER get fillers – you’ll ‘look like an alien’, cosmetic expert warns women

Women were today warned against injecting filler into any part of the face over fears it would make them ‘look like a bizarre alien’.

The jabs – packed with medical-grade gels that sit under the skin – are believed to be anti-aging and are used to smooth lines and restore volume to the face.

But getting the injections just below the cheekbones can “distort your facial features,” a US cosmetic expert said.

According to Missouri-based aesthetic physician associate Molly Bailey, this is because the area doesn’t tend to lose much volume as we age, unlike the apples of our cheeks.

Filler here, medically known as the zygomatic arch, therefore becomes ‘more visible’, making the face look ‘wider’ and ‘more masculine’.

In one Instagram videoshe told her 87,000 followers: ‘There is one place where a woman should not get filler in her face unless you want to look bizarre stranger.

‘As everyone knows, we lose fat, collagen and bone as we age.

“But there are a few places where the bone doesn’t really recede or shrink much as we age, and one of those is the lateral cheekbones.”

She showed off older photos of the supermodel and pointed to her high, prominent cheekbones

Ms Bailey uses the example of supermodel Naomi Campbell, who is rumored to have had filler injected into the skin where her cheekbones are.

“When it’s placed in areas where there isn’t much natural volume loss, it can be the most visible and distort our facial features the most,” she said, referring to an image of Ms. Campbell sculpting extremely accentuated cheekbones.

Using filler to ‘contour’ the face, rather than restore volume in the apples, can leave you ‘ends up looking broader and more masculine,” she said, adding that Campbell “will remain that way for most of her life’.

“The other problem is that we lose volume under our cheeks, which can accentuate the filler even more,” she said.

‘Filler in the center of the face can be very supportive and invisible, but should be used to replace volume and not contour.

‘Contour with your makeup, don’t contour with your filler.’

Fillers – usually injections of collagen or hyaluronic acid – are offered in beauty clinics for as little as £75.

Although it is claimed to last around 18 months, MRI scans have shown that fillers can migrate and remain in areas of the face years after they have dissolved.

If you use filler to add volume to the arches and not the apples, it can make you look “wide and can make the face look more masculine,” she said. Pictured: Naomi Campbell in 2000 (left) and 2024 (right)

Fillers – usually injections of collagen or hyaluronic acid – are offered in beauty clinics for as little as £75

Dermatologists have also previously warned that too much facial filler in younger people can ‘often look unnatural’.

Speaking to MailOnline last month, a surgeon warned of the increase in the number of younger women needing facelift surgery because their appearance had been ‘ruined’ by years of filler injections.

Dr. Julian De Silva, a specialist in facial plastic surgery, said: ‘More and more women are coming to me about facial aging in their 30s. Often it is because they have had fillers.

‘Filler can build up; it does not always dissolve completely naturally and it can be very difficult to remove.

‘A patient I hadn’t seen in five years came back for facelift surgery and I almost didn’t recognize her because so much volume had been added to her cheeks, lips, chin and jawline.

“She had it added every six months and it just piled up.

‘We have solved as much as possible. But patients often need surgery because their skin stretches.’