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Dear Clinic · Botox by Area · Brow Lift
Elevators Against Depressors

Brow Lift Botox in Cheongdam, Gangnam, Seoul

Where your eyebrow sits is a standing balance between one muscle pulling it up and several pulling it down. A toxin brow lift works by taking strength off the downward side. It is a small, temporary shift in that balance, and the size of it is read from your own face. Priced as a wrinkle area from ₩30,000.

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The Ledger

Brow height is a running argument between one elevator and several depressors

Only one muscle raises the eyebrow: the broad sheet across the forehead. Pulling the other way are the small muscles that draw the brows together and down when you concentrate, the pair tugging each brow head toward the nose, and the upper fibres of the ring muscle around the eye socket, which pull the brow down along its length. Your resting brow position is where that tug of war has settled, and a toxin brow lift changes the outcome by taking strength off the losing side.

That is why the treatment is possible at all, and also why it has a firm ceiling. Nothing is added, nothing is tightened and no tissue is moved. All that changes is how hard the downward pullers can pull, and the elevator then does what it was already doing against less resistance. A brow being actively dragged by strong depressors has room in that ledger. A brow sitting low because of bone, fat distribution or skin redundancy has none, since none of those answers to a signal at a nerve ending.

The examination therefore starts with a measurement: the distance between the brow and the lid margin, what it does when you frown hard, and what it does when your upper face is fully relaxed. A brow that climbs the moment you stop frowning has depressor tone to release. A brow that sits in the same place whatever you do with it is telling you the answer already. Every application of this molecule offered at the clinic is set out under botox in Cheongdam, and the way zones are counted for injection work is on the wrinkle botox page.

The Mechanism

How releasing the brow tail produces a toxin brow lift

Two placements do the work, and they answer different halves of the brow.

THE OUTER HALF

Upper fibres of the ring, under the brow tail

A small quantity placed into the ring muscle beneath the outer end of the brow removes its downward pull there. The elevator works over that segment unopposed, and the brow tail settles a little higher.

THE INNER HALF

The muscles that knit and drag the brow head

The group between the brows pulls the inner ends together and down. Softening it lets the brow head sit more openly and takes the scowl out of a resting face, which reads as an opened eye even where height barely changes.

THE ELEVATOR

The forehead sheet is protected, never softened

Treating the sheet that lifts the brow works against the whole point. Where a forehead is treated in the same plan, the band nearest the brow is handled with restraint so the elevator keeps the strength the lift depends on.

Both placements are small, precise and superficial, marked on your own face while the relevant muscle is engaged. You are asked to frown hard, to squeeze your eyes shut and to hold a neutral face, because the points sit differently on a brow whose tone is at the head and one whose tone is under the tail.

The Ceiling

Why no millimetre figure is printed for a toxin brow lift

A toxin brow lift is a subtle change, and the scale of it is small enough that patients often see it first as a shape or an expression instead of as a height. What any individual gets depends on the depressor tone available to release, the strength of the elevator, where the brow was sitting to begin with and how the map was drawn. Dear Clinic prints no figure for it, because a figure on a public page is a promise made to a face nobody has examined. Your director gives you the range your own measurement supports, with the capture on the screen.

Managing expectation is most of the consultation. Patients who have seen a surgical brow result and expect an injection to reproduce it are told plainly that the two work on different scales, that the injection is temporary, and that it lifts by releasing a pull instead of by repositioning tissue. Those who simply want a resting face that looks less severe often get the most out of it, since that change comes from the inner group and does not depend on height.

Two things also change without any lift occurring. Taking the scowl out of the brow head alters the expression a resting face broadcasts, which people notice more reliably than height. Releasing the tail can also restore a brow shape the depressors had flattened, so the arch reads better even where the measurement barely moves.

Who Is Turned Away

When we do not recommend attempting a brow lift with toxin

This is one of the requests most often declined here, and the reason is always the same: the finding on the day is not a depressor problem. Saying so costs nothing, because the treatments that do answer those findings sit on the same floor and the same list.

  • A brow already resting on the orbital rim. With no gap to open, releasing the depressors produces a change too small to justify the appointment.
  • A hooded upper lid carrying redundant skin. The fold sitting on the lash line is skin and not muscle tone. Releasing a depressor does not lift a fold, and where the lid is hooded the conversation turns surgical.
  • A forehead quietly recruited to keep the view clear. Some people hold the brow up all day without knowing it, and this is read by asking you to close your eyes and let the face go slack.
  • Deep asymmetry between the two sides. A marked difference in brow height is assessed first, since an injection can make an existing asymmetry more obvious as easily as it can even one out.
  • Pregnancy, breastfeeding, active infection at the site or a reported neuromuscular disorder. Any of these ends the conversation about injection entirely.
Skin analysis device used at Dear Clinic to capture the face before a treatment plan is written
The brow-to-lid measurement is taken from the capture, at a hard frown and with the upper face fully relaxed.
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Muscle that raises the eyebrow
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Captures: neutral, hard frown, eyes squeezed
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Unit counts quoted before examination
Limits And Risks

What can go wrong around an eyebrow that has been injected

The specific risk of working under a brow tail is that product spreads into the sheet lifting the brow, producing the opposite of what was intended and leaving the brow lower than it started. Working close to the orbit risks reaching the muscle that raises the upper lid, which leaves a lid heavy and a lash line lower on one side. An uneven map creates or exaggerates asymmetry between the two brows, and treating part of the elevator while its edges keep working can pull the outer brow into a peak patients describe as startled. All are temporary, all wear off on the product’s schedule instead of yours, and that wait is the argument for a light first plan.

The ordinary reactions are those of any injection in this region. Bruising is common around the brow because the tissue is well supplied with small vessels, and pinpoint redness, small swellings at the entry points and a headache in the first day or two happen. Tell your director about blood-thinning medication or supplements, and report a heavy lid, a dropped brow or two sides behaving differently as soon as you notice it. Results vary between individuals and are assessed on your own examination.

Where the reading says the brow cannot be improved by releasing a pull, the conversation moves to skin and support. The lifting treatments page sets out what tightening reaches, and the lifting guide explains how those instruments are chosen. Where the concern at the outer eye is lines instead of height, the wrinkle botox page covers that mapping.

Listed Rates

What brow lift toxin is listed at in Cheongdam

A brow lift is charged on the published wrinkle line and never as a named procedure of its own. The zone treated for it counts as one area, listed at ₩30,000 (≈ $20) on the Korean tier and ₩150,000 (≈ $105) on the imported tier, with intermediate tiers on the price list. A second zone is its own area and its own line.
TierWhat one treated area covers herePer area
KoreanA domestically manufactured botulinum toxin type A, placed in the depressor zone marked on your own face in one sitting₩30,000 (≈ $20)
ImportedAn imported premium-tier type A product, the same marking and the same sitting, for patients who prefer it₩150,000 (≈ $105)

Korean pharmaceutical advertising rules keep prescription toxin product names off public pages, so tiers appear here in place of manufacturers; your director names the product and shows you the vial before it is drawn. The quantity inside an area follows what the examination shows your depressors doing. Rates are identical for residents and for visitors, every published wrinkle tier sits on the price list, and the wider injection ladder is on the botox price page.

Dear, Knowhow

How a brow is measured before a lift is attempted at Dear

01 — THE FULL ARSENAL

A hooded lid gets named as a hooded lid

Tightening, resurfacing and injectables share one floor and one list here, so a brow that needs something other than an injection is simply told so.

02 — DIAGNOSIS FIRST

EVE Muse 3D + AI measures brow-to-lid before dosing

Three-dimensional imaging under five light sources with AI analysis captures the upper face neutral, at a hard frown and with the eyes squeezed shut. How far the brow travels between those frames is the depressor tone available to release, and the brow-to-lid gap is the room available to use it in. Those two numbers decide whether a lift is offered at all.

03 — DIRECTOR-PERFORMED

Points marked under a brow that is actively frowning

The map is drawn on your own contracting face, kept clear of the sheet that lifts the brow, and the injections are director-performed. The same director compares both sides against the capture at your review and evens up whatever needs it.

In the clinic

The devices and hands behind this treatment

BOTOX (onabotulinumtoxinA) 50-unit carton
BOTOX (onabotulinumtoxinA) 50-unit carton
BOTOX (onabotulinumtoxinA) 50-unit carton, shown at an angle
BOTOX (onabotulinumtoxinA) 50-unit carton, shown at an angle
Medical Team

Five doctors, one standard

Director-performed treatment is a Dear promise — your procedure is planned and performed by the doctors below.

Dr. Jemin Kim — Medical Director and Founder, Dear Clinic
Dr. Jemin Kim
Yonsei University College of Medicine
Medical Director · Founder
Dr. Sanghyun Lee — Director, Dear Clinic
Dr. Sanghyun Lee
Seoul National University College of Medicine
Director
Board-certified · Family Medicine
Dr. Seonhaeng Lee — Director of Aesthetic Medicine, Dear Clinic
Dr. Seonhaeng Lee
Chosun University College of Medicine · Residency, Samsung Medical Center
Director, Aesthetic Medicine
Dr. Daeun Jung — Director, Dear Clinic
Dr. Daeun Jung
Ajou University College of Medicine
Director
Board-certified · Family Medicine
Dr. Woojae Jung — Director of Aesthetic Medicine, Dear Clinic
Dr. Woojae Jung
Seoul National University — B.S. in Medicine
Director, Aesthetic Medicine
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FAQ

Brow lift toxin, asked and answered

How does botox lift eyebrows?
By taking strength off the muscles that pull the brow down, so the one muscle that pulls it up meets less resistance. Small quantities go into the ring muscle just beneath the outer end of the brow and into the group between the brows that knits them together. Nothing is added and nothing is repositioned; only the balance changes, and it changes for as long as the effect lasts.
Can botox alone lift droopy eyebrows?
Only where the droop is caused by depressor tone. A brow being actively dragged down by muscles that will not switch off has room to rise. A brow sitting low because of its bony position, because upper-face volume has changed or because skin has become redundant has none, and an injection will not find any. Which of those you have is settled by measuring the brow-to-lid gap and watching what it does when you stop frowning.
How long does a botox brow lift last?
It is temporary in every case, and this clinic prints no figure for it on a public page. The span differs with the quantity placed, with how strong your depressors are, with the map drawn and with your own metabolism. Your director tells you the pattern to expect for your plan at the consultation, with your measurements on the screen, and the brow is measured again before any repeat.
How much of a lift will I actually get?
A subtle one, and small enough that most people register it as a change of shape or expression before they register it as height. What any individual gets depends on the depressor tone available to release and the brow-to-lid room available to use it in. We publish no figure, because a figure on a page is a promise to a face nobody has examined. You are given a range in the room, against your own capture.
Is this the same as a surgical brow lift?
No. A surgical procedure repositions tissue and is not temporary; this releases a downward pull and wears off. The two work on completely different scales, and anyone arriving with a surgical result in mind is told so at the consultation instead of being sold an injection that will disappoint. Where surgery is what the finding calls for, that is what you are told.
Can this open a hooded upper eyelid?
Where hooding comes from a brow being dragged down, releasing the depressors helps. Where the hood is a fold of skin resting on the lash line, it does not, because skin redundancy is not muscle tone. That distinction is the commonest reason a brow lift request is declined here, and your measurement is shown to you when it is.
Can my brow end up lower after this?
It can, and it is the specific risk of working under the brow tail. If product spreads into the sheet that raises the brow, the elevator weakens and the brow settles lower than it started. It is temporary, it wears off on the product’s schedule instead of yours, and it is why a first plan here is light and the points are kept clear of that sheet.
Can I have my forehead lines treated at the same time?
They can share a sitting, with a priority decided first. Softening the horizontal lines means reducing the contraction of the only muscle holding your brow up, so the two aims pull against each other. Where brow height matters more to you, the forehead is treated lightly or the band above the brow is left alone; where the lines matter more, the brow expectation is adjusted and you are told by how much.
Will this make my brows arch in an unnatural way?
Peaking comes from an uneven map. Releasing the tail while the rest of the brow keeps its downward pull, or softening the middle of the forehead while its outer edges keep working, are the two patterns that produce it. It is temporary and it is settled at the review by treating whatever was left behind.
My two brows sit at different heights. Can this even them up?
Sometimes, where the difference comes from uneven depressor tone. Where it comes from bone, previous surgery or a nerve issue, an injection can make it more obvious. Your director measures both sides separately and tells you which category yours falls into, because the answer changes whether treatment is recommended at all.
How much does it cost, and can I have it the day I come in?
It is charged on the published wrinkle line, from ₩30,000 (≈ $20) on the Korean tier to ₩150,000 (≈ $105) on the imported tier, with a second zone quoted as a second area. Treatment can follow the consultation in the same visit once the brow has been measured and you have approved the figure, and Dear Clinic is open 365 days a year including Sundays and public holidays. Visitors pay what residents pay.
Consultation

Ask whether your brow has room to be released

Send one photograph with a neutral face and one frowning hard — answered in English as soon as possible.

Scientific Evidence

Peer-reviewed sources for the molecule used at the brow

Three references cover the clinical use of botulinum toxin type A on the muscles of the upper face: the first published report of treating the group between the brows with it, an international consensus education initiative on its aesthetic application, and a laboratory account of how the licensed type A products differ from one another.

They establish the mechanism and the product science. They do not measure your brow, they set no dose for it and they attach no height to it; that comes from the capture taken at your own examination.

  1. CARRUTHERS J et al. Treatment of Glabellar Frown Lines with C. Botulinum‐A Exotoxin. The Journal of Dermatologic Surgery and Oncology. 1992. doi:10.1111/j.1524-4725.1992.tb03295.x
  2. Carruthers J et al. The Convergence of Medicine and Neurotoxins: A Focus on Botulinum Toxin Type A and Its Application in Aesthetic Medicine—A Global, Evidence-Based Botulinum Toxin Consensus Education Initiative. Dermatologic Surgery. 2013. doi:10.1111/dsu.12148
  3. Frevert J. Pharmaceutical, Biological, and Clinical Properties of Botulinum Neurotoxin Type A Products. Drugs in R&D. 2015. doi:10.1007/s40268-014-0077-1

References are provided for information — outcomes vary by individual and are assessed at your diagnosis.

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