An Allergan hyaluronic-acid booster placed as a field of tiny droplets inside the skin itself — aimed at how your skin surface looks and feels, and at nothing about the shape of your face.
Hyaluronic acid is the same family of material used in facial fillers, but the family is wide. Gels engineered for structure are firm, cross-linked and placed deep; a booster preparation is intended to sit in the skin and work on quality. A 2019 paper on the rheologic and physicochemical properties that differentiate injectable hyaluronic acid products describes exactly why those two jobs cannot be done by the same syringe, and it is one of the references listed at the foot of this page.
In practice, the patients who ask us about Skinvive are usually describing a surface problem in different words: skin that feels tight by mid-afternoon, make-up that clings to texture, a complexion that photographs flat under a phone camera. None of those are volume complaints, and treating them with volume is how faces end up looking heavier without ever looking better.
Because the product is delivered as a field instead of a single deposit, the craft sits in the mapping. Two directors given the same syringe and the same cheek can produce quite different outcomes depending on how evenly the deposits are spaced and how consistently the depth is held. That is unglamorous work, and it is also the whole difference between skin that looks uniformly better and skin that looks treated in patches.
A booster has a narrow job. Knowing where that job starts and stops is what keeps expectations and results in the same room.
The standard mapped field, and the area most patients are describing when they say their skin looks tired without looking older. Droplets are spaced across the whole cheek so that nothing pools at one point.
Skin that drinks moisturiser and still feels drawn by the afternoon. This is a hydration complaint, and it is the complaint a hyaluronic-acid booster is built around.
The shallow, papery quality that catches light badly in photographs. It is a surface issue, so it is treated in the skin — not underneath it.
Any field beyond the cheeks is decided at your scan and never promised in advance. Some skin is better served by a different booster entirely, and we will tell you when that is the case.
Suitability, treated field and dose are confirmed in person. Skinvive does not lift, does not fill, and is not proposed as a substitute for either.
Both are hyaluronic acid. After that, almost nothing about them is the same — and mixing the two up is the most common misunderstanding we correct at consultation.
A structural filler goes into the deeper planes, where it can support an outline. This goes into the skin, as small deposits across a mapped field. A millimetre or two too deep and the product spends itself somewhere nobody will ever see it.
Nobody returns from filler work asking whether their cheek holds water better; they ask whether it is even. A booster review asks the opposite question — smoothness, hydration, the way light falls across a cheek — and that is why the follow-up for the two looks nothing alike.
A filler plan is drawn in ratios. A booster plan is drawn as coverage: the spacing between deposits and the evenness of the field decide whether the result looks like better skin or like a patchwork.
This is also why we do not let a booster be sold as a shortcut. If your diagnosis shows that what you dislike is volume loss along the cheek or a heaviness at the jaw, a well-mapped field of hydration will not fix it, and adding sessions will not change that. Dear carries the hyaluronic-acid filler range, the collagen-stimulating boosters and every lifting platform in the building, so the recommendation costs us nothing either way.
Short, methodical and unglamorous — a good booster appointment is mostly mapping.
We do not print an average duration or a fixed session count on this page, because both depend on your skin, your climate and how you live. You will be given a range for your own skin in person, and it will be a conservative one.
Skinvive sits on a shelf beside every other booster we run, the full hyaluronic-acid filler range and the complete lifting line. Because all of it is in-house, we prescribe what fits your diagnosis — including nothing, when that is the right answer this month.
The EVE Muse 3D scan and five-light-source analysis separate the three things people call "tired skin": dryness, texture and lost volume. Only the first two point to a booster, and the scan says which one you have.
Coverage is the whole craft here. Your treatment is director-performed, by the doctor who mapped your field, at consistent depth and spacing and at whatever pace the field needs.
| Item | What it covers | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Skinvive, 1cc | The pricing unit — your mapped field determines how much is used | ₩450,000 (≈ $320) |
| Every plan | EVE 3D + AI diagnosis · director consultation · aftercare guidance | explained at consultation |
Published rate as of September 2026, shown in KRW with an approximate USD conversion for reference; KRW is what you pay. No visitor surcharge, no consultation fee added at the desk afterwards, and no additional product opened without asking you first. If the diagnosis points to a different booster, a filler or a lifting protocol, you are quoted for that instead.
If the scan shows lost volume, a booster is the wrong purchase, and you will hear that at the consultation instead of after three sessions. If it shows genuine descent, the answer is a lifting protocol. Owning all of it is what makes both of those sentences cheap to say.
Individual results vary with skin type, climate and lifestyle, and are assessed at your in-person diagnosis.
Sorting those four apart takes a scan and about half an hour, and it is the reason we ask you to be diagnosed before you buy. Dear carries the full range in the building, so telling you that your answer is on a different shelf — or that it is a skincare routine and three months of patience — costs us nothing at all.
Tell your director about previous injectable treatment in the same area, planned dental work, and any history of cold sores or skin infection. It changes both the timing and the map, and it is the kind of detail a rushed appointment never asks for.
One minute inside the clinic in Cheongdam — the 3D scan, the doctor's plan, the treatment rooms.
Director-performed treatment is a Dear promise — your procedure is planned and performed by the doctors below.
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Skinvive is a hyaluronic-acid product, and the protocol we inject it under is drawn from the wider peer-reviewed literature on hyaluronic-acid injectables: how these products differ physically from one another, where the facial danger zones lie, what the ophthalmologic risk literature records, and how hyaluronidase is used in aesthetic practice. The references below are given as titles, journals and publication years with verifiable DOIs.
They are listed to show the basis of our safety and planning protocol; none of them is evidence of any particular outcome. Your own result is assessed at your in-person diagnosis and varies between individuals.
References are provided for information — outcomes vary by individual and are assessed at your diagnosis.
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