If you're one of the 360,000 people on Instagram who follow Simon Ourian, MD, the founder of the Epione clinic in Beverly Hills, California, and the man behind Kylie Jenner's pout, then you know that he's one of the go-to cosmetic dermatologists around — and that one of his specialties is the non-surgical nose job.
Joanna Della-Ragione, a 27-year-old from London, didn't just follow Dr. Ourian on Instagram, she made an appointment with him. Joanna had disliked her retroussé, or turned-up, nose for years, and called up Dr. Ourian to see what could be done, an experience she wrote about for the Daily Mail.
"I first spoke to Joanna on the phone so that I could make sure I could deliver before she came all the way from London," Dr. Ourian told Cosmopolitan.com. "She was concerned that her nose was scooped up, had a indented curve, and showed her nostrils too much, and that the tip of her nose was bulbous, which I told her was all probably fixable with fillers." After hearing that, Joanna made the trek west with high hopes.
Unlike most doctors, who use what's known as the threading technique, Dr. Ourian used what he calls the micro-droplet technique. This process "requires a very tiny needle and I put the product right where I want it to be," he said. "This gives a more predictable and natural result."
Watch Dr. Ourian insert filler into Della-Ragione's nose:
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Della-Ragione's results are expected to last two to four years and required no downtime. "There might be a little swelling involved, which could last for a few hours to a day or two, but the needle is so small that there is never any bruising," he says. And while her $3,000 procedure didn't cost as much as a normal nose job (which will run you anywhere from $7,000 to $15,000), it wasn't cheap. But you get what you pay for: Della-Ragione's nose job was subtle enough that people had no idea she'd had work done. When they found out, she writes, they were "amazed by the difference."
Here are more of Dr. Ourian's successful non-surgical nose jobs for your viewing pleasure:
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