The “Quiet Luxury” Trend in Cosmetic Surgery: What It Means for You

Duck lips and bombastic bodies had their moment, but that moment is passing. In its wake, people from all age groups are embracing a more understated, sophisticated approach to their aesthetic procedures. This move towards subtlety over excess has spurred a quiet revolution in the cosmetic surgery industry that continues to evolve today.

Looking for low-key yet game-changing results? Terrasse Aesthetic Surgery and ERASE MediSpa of Lake Forest, IL, offers a diverse range of minimalistic treatments, surgical and nonsurgical, to authentically enhance your natural features rather than covering or contrasting them. 

The Rise of Minimalism and Quiet Luxury

Social media filters and multiple decades of heavily overdone celebrities have instilled an appreciation for authenticity among young and old alike. This renewed focus on understated aesthetics emphasizes longevity over trendiness while maintaining an appreciation for a fresh-faced, youthfully rejuvenated look.

On the surface, mastering this balance between subtlety and youthful rejuvenation may seem easier than making more drastic enhancements, but the opposite is true. Surgeons embracing quiet luxury must blend technical expertise and an innate understanding of facial harmony and proportions to provide enhancements while preserving each patient’s natural features.

The Industry Adapts: Subtler Approaches Win the Day

Examples of aesthetic treatments and procedures that embrace the philosophy of quiet luxury include the following:

• Mini facelifts
• Dermal filler injections
• Wrinkle relaxer injections
• Microneedling 

Our team at Terrasse Aesthetic Surgery offers the above treatments and more to provide discreet yet transformative results for the face and body.

Mini Facelifts Blend Subtlety With Staying Power

Where a full facelift targets more advanced signs of aging, including deep wrinkles and severe skin laxity, especially along the jawline (jowls), a mini facelift with Terrasse Aesthetic Surgery offers a toned-down version that still allows for a confidence-boosting transformation. This procedure is the least invasive of facelift approaches, requiring significantly smaller incisions. 

Dr. Terrasse approaches each mini facelift with careful consideration of the patient’s facial structure, including how their muscles move when making facial expressions, to provide understated results that hold up to everyday life.

Mini Facelift Benefits and Applications

Mini facelifts are a highly popular option among younger patients (30s through early 50s) looking to achieve a refreshed, youthful appearance without giving off the impression of having had work done.

This procedure addresses the following issues affecting the mid to lower face:

• Mild skin laxity
• Fine lines
• Softened jawline contours

To address signs of aging affecting the upper face for more comprehensive rejuvenation, mini facelifts can be combined with brow lifts, eyelid lifts (blepharoplasty) and other complementary procedures.

What to Expect From the Treatment Process

In a mini facelift consultation, Dr. Terrasse will carefully assess your suitability for this procedure, including reviewing your health status and goals and examining the treatment area.

The procedure may be performed under either local anesthesia with sedation medicine or general anesthesia. Small incisions will be made around the ears, and the underlying tissue will be manipulated as excess skin is removed. Then, the incisions are closed with fine sutures, and the short and comfortable recovery process begins.

Injectables Deliver Carefully Balanced Results

Terrasse Aesthetic Surgery and ERASE MediSpa offers a wide range of popular injectables, including wrinkle relaxers and fillers. As with a mini facelift, mastering the art of the “undetectable injectable” requires a restrained approach that accommodates natural facial movement. 

Benefits and Applications of Injectables

Dr. Terrasse offers Botox, Dysport, and Jeuveau wrinkle relaxer injectables, also known as neuromodulators, which provide the following benefits:

• Significantly reduce the appearance of dynamic wrinkles 
• Improve skin texture
• Enhance facial contouring (especially the jawline)
• Prevent future occurrences of fine lines

Our injectable fillers, including Juvéderm products, Restylane products, Radiesse and Sculptra, deliver these benefits:

• Restore lost volume affecting the cheeks, lips, temples and other areas
• Redefine facial contours
• Reduce the appearance of fine lines
• Address thin lips, under-eye hollows and other specific issues

What to Expect From the Treatment Process

Whether you’re getting fillers, neuromodulator injections or a combination, the treatment process is comfortable and convenient. 

Once you have been determined an appropriate candidate for injectables in a consultation, you will either proceed to treatment that day or return to our Lake Forest facility at a later date for treatment. The first step of the procedure itself is to clean and prepare the treatment area. This includes applying a topical numbing agent if desired.

Then, Dr. Terrasse will administer the filler or wrinkle relaxer in a series of injections, using carefully measured doses to preserve your natural features and facial expressions. Depending on the size, complexity and number of treatment areas, treatment can take between just a few minutes to roughly an hour. 

Microneedling “Tweakment” for Restrained and Refined Results

Engineered to kickstart key regenerative processes in the skin, the premise behind microneedling centers squarely on collagen activity. 

This minimally invasive anti-aging procedure uses very fine needles to create tiny punctures in the skin. While you won’t consciously register them as a legitimate injury, the body responds by increasing collagen and elastin production. This promotes a cascade of anti-aging skin benefits, and since it’s your own body’s healing mechanisms at work, the results are effortlessly natural-looking.

Microneedling Benefits and Applications

Aside from its minimally invasive nature, microneedling is favored for its wide range of benefits, including the following:

• Improved skin texture and tone
• Reduced hyperpigmentation
• Reduced pore size
• Improvement in fine lines and wrinkles
• Fading of acne and surgical scars
• Reduced appearance of sun damage, stretch marks and other imperfections

When paired with radiofrequency energy, the benefits of microneedling extend even further. 

Vivace® Radiofrequency Microneedling

A highly innovative take on traditional microneedling, Vivace Fractional Microneedle RF adds a radiofrequency energy component to enhance and broaden the effects of this go-to treatment. 

As the very fine, gold-tipped needles create tiny punctures in the skin, radiofrequency energy enhances the skin-tightening effects. This treatment is calibrated to reach deeper layers of the dermis (with the RF energy), in turn promoting a greater healing response and all of the results that come with it. 

Choosing the Right Provider for Your Quiet Luxury Surgery

How much is your unique facial geometry factored into the consultation and planning process? How much emphasis is placed on your lifestyle considerations, goals and aesthetic preferences by your provider? Is the main focus to complement your natural contours or strive towards a more generic template? 

Considering questions like these can help you to differentiate between cookie-cutter aesthetic treatment plans and providers who truly appreciate the art and science behind quiet luxury. 

Dr. Terrasse’s approach to subtle aesthetic treatments is centered around you, the patient. As a team, you will work together to plan and achieve an outcome that fits perfectly into your lifestyle and vision. Our goal is to bring out your best features in a way that enhances, not subtracts from, your uniqueness.

Embrace Authenticity With Quiet Luxury Treatments in Lake Forest

You already have the features you need to look your very best. Our focus at Terrasse Aesthetic Surgery and ERASE MediSpa of Lake Forest, IL, is to reveal them to the world in an authentic way. 

Call us for a consultation at (847) 234-2400, and our experienced team will partner with you to create a personalized treatment plan built around your vision.