Facial volume and structure
Seamless, efficient clinical appointments
Medically-backed facial volume treatment
Results that meet the Undetectable Standard™
Doctor-led care and clinical oversight
Your facial contours should reflect vitality and proportion, not depletion or inherited imbalance.
Volume deficiency can result from age-related fat and bone redistribution, or from naturally limited structure. These imbalances can create disproportion and shadows that affect the way light reflects across the face.
Using our doctor-led 3-Pillar Framework™, we rebuild support and precisely refine proportion. By addressing volume while respecting your natural anatomy, we achieve results that embody Identity Alignment™.
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When you no longer see yourself in the mirror
Refine facial structure the medical way.
The quiet effort of compensating
Volume loss or limited structure can lead to adjusting angles, avoiding certain lighting, or relying on makeup to compensate for hollowness and lacking contour.
Natural methods don't fix structure
Facial exercises and gua sha may temporarily relax muscles and reduce fluid, but they do not rebuild structural deficits. True refinement targets support where it is needed.
This isn’t about change, it’s about Identity Alignment™
Treating facial volume isn’t about dramatic change; it's about bringing structure into alignment with your natural features and identity.
The Undetectable Standard™ at every step
Our clinicians personalise treatment to your anatomy and goals, achieving seamless results with clear guidance and ongoing care through our doctor-led 3-Pillar Framework™.
Treatment info
Treatment objectives
Suitability
Preparation
Aftercare
Results
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Temples
Volume loss in the temples can create hollows and shadows, affecting the balance and contours of the upper face. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to support temple volume.
Brow
Brow volume loss can lead to heaviness and flattening with age, while natural brow structure may also influence the shape of the upper face. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to support brow structure and volume.
Upper eyelids
Upper eyelid fullness and tone can change due to natural anatomy or ageing, sometimes leading to a hollow appearance. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to support the upper eyelid area, helping to refine the contours of the area above your eyes.
Nose
The nose can change in shape and structure over time. Skin laxity, cartilage shifts, and changes in surrounding facial support can make the nose appear longer or create uneven contours. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to support and refine nose structure.
Under eye
Under-eye volume loss and ageing can lead to dark circles, hollowness, and the appearance of eye bags. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to increase under-eye support and create a refreshed look.
Nose tip
The tip of the nose can lack definition or projection due to natural anatomy or ageing. Changes in cartilage, skin laxity, and surrounding facial support can cause drooping or flatness. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to support and refine the nose tip for a lifted appearance.
Cheeks
Cheek shape and volume, whether naturally flat or reduced with age, can affect the definition and fullness of the mid-face. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to support cheek volume, helping to refine contours.
Nasolabial folds
The lines running from the sides of the nose to the corners of the mouth can become more prominent due to natural facial anatomy or ageing. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to soften these folds and smooth mid-face contours.
Marionette lines
The grooves extending from the corners of the mouth toward the chin can deepen over time. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to smooth marionette lines and improve the structure of lower-face contours.
Lips
Changes in lip shape and volume, whether from natural anatomy or ageing, can affect overall facial harmony. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to support lip shape, definition, and subtle volume.
Jawline
The jawline can lose definition or appear softer due to natural anatomy or age-related volume changes. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to support jawline structure and refine lower-face contours, including reducing jowls.
Chin
Chin volume and shape, whether naturally smaller or reduced with age, can influence lower-face proportions. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to support chin structure and refine the contours of the lower face.
Temples
Volume loss in the temples can create hollows and shadows, affecting the balance and contours of the upper face. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to support temple volume.
Brow
Brow volume loss can lead to heaviness and flattening with age, while natural brow structure may also influence the shape of the upper face. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to support brow structure and volume.
Upper eyelids
Upper eyelid fullness and tone can change due to natural anatomy or ageing, sometimes leading to a hollow appearance. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to support the upper eyelid area, helping to refine the contours of the area above your eyes.
Nose
The nose can change in shape and structure over time. Skin laxity, cartilage shifts, and changes in surrounding facial support can make the nose appear longer or create uneven contours. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to support and refine nose structure.
Under eye
Under-eye volume loss and ageing can lead to dark circles, hollowness, and the appearance of eye bags. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to increase under-eye support and create a refreshed look.
Nose tip
The tip of the nose can lack definition or projection due to natural anatomy or ageing. Changes in cartilage, skin laxity, and surrounding facial support can cause drooping or flatness. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to support and refine the nose tip for a lifted appearance.
Cheeks
Cheek shape and volume, whether naturally flat or reduced with age, can affect the definition and fullness of the mid-face. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to support cheek volume, helping to refine contours.
Nasolabial folds
The lines running from the sides of the nose to the corners of the mouth can become more prominent due to natural facial anatomy or ageing. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to soften these folds and smooth mid-face contours.
Marionette lines
The grooves extending from the corners of the mouth toward the chin can deepen over time. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to smooth marionette lines and improve the structure of lower-face contours.
Lips
Changes in lip shape and volume, whether from natural anatomy or ageing, can affect overall facial harmony. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to support lip shape, definition, and subtle volume.
Jawline
The jawline can lose definition or appear softer due to natural anatomy or age-related volume changes. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to support jawline structure and refine lower-face contours, including reducing jowls.
Chin
Chin volume and shape, whether naturally smaller or reduced with age, can influence lower-face proportions. During your consultation, we can explore non-surgical approaches to support chin structure and refine the contours of the lower face.
Your Experience
Step 1 of 4
Check your suitability
Begin by completing our Online Suitability Assessment. Our experienced clinicians will carefully review your facial anatomy and provide a personalised preliminary report—including your suitability for treatment, all-inclusive pricing, and clear guidance to move forward confidently.
Your Experience
Step 2 of 4
Plan your treatment
Next, meet one-on-one with an experienced clinician who will use our proprietary 3-Pillar Framework™ to confirm your treatment suitability and outline a precise approach tailored to your unique anatomy—or advise against treatment if it isn’t medically appropriate.
This medical process provides the professional certainty required to proceed with confidence.
Your Experience
Step 4 of 4
Enjoy refined results
After your treatment, we provide clear post-care instructions, so you can enjoy your results and get back to your day.
All treatments include an optional complimentary follow-up, and are backed by our satisfaction guarantees for complete peace of mind.
Why people trust Cosmetic Connection
We move beyond “beauty retail” to provide a doctor-led environment. Our focus is on thoughtful, measured assessments, and calculated clinical plans rather than a sales pitch, ensuring your treatment is guided by medical expertise and mutual respect.
Identify your clinical path before you enter the clinic. Our digital triage process evaluates your anatomical baseline, providing an intelligent first step and a personalised clinical path that replaces the “aesthetic gamble” of a vague “discovery session” with clear, expert guidance.
We respect that your hesitation is a sign of intelligence. This in-clinic consultation serves to confirm your digital roadmap in person. It is a private space to finalise your clinical plan and proceed with treatment only once you are completely certain.
We replace guesswork with calculation. By assessing your unique Anatomy, the Aetiology (biological drivers) of your concerns, and your Goals, we ensure every intervention is biologically appropriate and structurally sound.
To maintain clinical integrity, we removed the incentive for over-treatment. Our transparent flat-fee pricing ensures your clinician is motivated by your anatomical outcome—not by the amount of product used.
Achieve Identity Alignment™ through clinical restraint. By applying the 90/10 Rule, we refine your appearance while protecting your natural character, ensuring your result withstands the closest social scrutiny.
The role of volume & structure in appearance
The appearance of the human face is built on a balance of bone, muscle, fat, and skin. Over time, natural processes, genetics, and lifestyle factors can cause changes in facial volume and structure. This leads to hollowing, sagging, and a loss of definition.
Modern non-surgical medicine offers potential solutions for facial volume and structure loss without surgery. These treatments typically focus on adding volume, defining contours, and supporting skin quality.
The science of facial ageing
Structural foundations
The face is supported by a framework of:
- Bone – provides the scaffolding for projection and contour.
- Deep fat pads – add softness and fullness.
- Muscles – animate the face and influence expression.
- Skin – the visible surface, affected by elasticity, hydration, and environmental exposure.
With time, each layer undergoes predictable changes. Bone remodels and recedes, fat compartments shrink or shift, and skin becomes thinner. This cumulative effect manifests in things such as sagging cheeks, hollow under-eyes, decreasing jawline definition, and deeper folds.
Key areas affected by volume loss
- Cheeks
- Temple
- Under-eyes
- Lip
- Jawline & Chin
- Forehead & Brows
How treatments for facial volume and structure work
Our appearance depends on the way the skin drapes over the underlying fat and bone structure. Some people lack natural structure in certain parts of their face. Others lose structure with time and weight-loss.
Treatments for facial volume and structure add support to the skin. This may increase definition, contour and lift, and reduce visible skin wrinkles and folds, hollowness and sagging.
Non-surgical addition of facial volume
Modern treatments focus on strategic, precise changes, targeting the areas that require structural refinement based on personal aesthetic preferences and concerns.
Treatment targets (Mechanisms)
Depending on your suitability, different approaches are tailored to different structural needs:
- Volume – targeting areas where natural fullness has diminished.
- Contour refinement – defining the jawline, chin, and cheekbones.
- Support & lift – providing subtle upward repositioning of descended tissues.
- Balance & proportion – harmonising facial features in accordance with your personal aesthetic preferences.
- Skin quality – increasing hydration and elasticity for a smoother surface.
Potential benefits of facial volume & structure treatments
When carefully planned and performed, these treatments aim to:
- Balance facial proportions
- Lift and support sagging tissues
- Reduce shadows and hollows
- Define natural facial contours
- Maintain expressiveness while balancing features in line with your preferences
- Delay the need for surgical procedures
What is facial sculpting and volume restoration treatment?
Over time, natural skin molecules called collagen and hyaluronic acid begin to break down. This leads to visible changes often associated with ageing, such as sagging skin, volume loss, deep folds and lines, and hollowness.
Facial sculpting consultations aim to address concerns caused by facial volume loss, often targeting the cheeks, temples and jawline. This is done with injections, which means you don’t have to have surgery.
What are dermal enhancements for the face?
Dermal enhancements restore volume by adding support and structure where it’s injected. It aims to erase deep folds and grooves, hydrate the skin’s deeper layers and restore volume to hollowed or sunken areas caused by the ageing process or weight loss.
Dermal enhancements draw on the science of one of our skin’s naturally occurring structural sugar molecules, hyaluronic acid (HA).
Enhancements can be used to augment facial features, such as emphasising cheekbones, projecting and defining the chin & jawline, or even contouring the shape of your nose.
Treatments are designed to be non-surgical and delivered within a short appointment, typically less than 30 minutes. Results are typically noticed immediately, but you should allow a few days for swelling to subside.
Customising the treatment
Every face ages differently. Genetics, gender, lifestyle, and even sleeping position influence facial volume. That’s why personalised consultation is essential.
At Cosmetic Connection, each plan is designed around:
- Age-related changes – addressing areas most affected by natural changes.
- Individual proportions – balancing features to create harmony aligned with your personal preferences.
- Personal goals – whether subtle refreshment or structural changes.
Male vs female approaches
Male
Male facial structure typically considers the following:
- Jawline definition
- Chin projection
- Straight, flat cheek contours
- Conservative volume in lips
Female
Female facial structure typically considers the following:
- Increasing mid-face fullness
- Full, soft lips
- Soft jawline transitions
- Smooth under-eye contours
Safety & precision
Non-surgical structural treatments are highly advanced and require expertise. The face is complex, with critical blood vessels and nerves. For this reason, treatments should always be performed by trained medical professionals with a detailed understanding of anatomy.
The treatment process
Undergoing non-surgical treatments for facial volume and structure is more than just a single appointment. It’s a carefully designed journey that begins with a comprehensive understanding of your face, your concerns, and your goals.
1. Personalised Consultation
The process always starts with a detailed consultation. During this session, your clinician examines the structural elements of your face — including bone support, fat distribution, skin thickness, and symmetry. They will discuss your concerns, and what changes you would like to see.
This stage is not about recommending a one-size-fits-all solution. Instead, it’s about designing a plan that reflects your preferences. Some people prefer subtle changes to hollow areas, while others may wish to see more pronounced results in areas like the chin and jawline.
2. Designing the treatment plan
Your clinician then outlines a tailored plan. This may include:
- Identifying priority areas based on your concerns (e.g., mid face support vs chin projection).
- Sequencing treatments — sometimes gradual staging is more aligned, especially for people who want a conservative change.
- Discussing expected changes, downtime, and maintenance.
3. Treatment session
Most procedures are completed in under 30 minutes. A topical numbing agent or local anaesthetic may be used for comfort. The treatments involve various methods, targeting areas that lack or have lost structure and volume.
The approach is generally to recreate structural balance: adding lift where tissues have descended, smoothing transitions between facial regions, and defining contours that frame the face. Patients often notice subtle improvements immediately after the session.
4. Aftercare & recovery
Following treatment, minor redness, swelling, or tenderness can occur, but these are typically mild and resolve within days. Aftercare guidelines typically include:
- Avoid strenuous exercise, alcohol, and pressure on the treated areas for 24 hours.
- Use gentle cool compresses if needed.
Most patients return to most normal activities straight away, but specific aftercare requirements and recovery times may vary depending on your treatment.
5. Ongoing care & maintenance
Results are not permanent — the body naturally metabolises the effect over time. If you wish to maintain your results, repeat treatments will be required, at intervals that vary.
The results
Immediate results
Most patients notice some changes immediately, however it’s important to allow time for any swelling to subside.
Short-term outcomes (1–2 weeks)
Once any swelling or minor bruising resolves, the final results become apparent.
Long-term outcomes (3 months and beyond)
This is the period when results settle further and stabilise. Gradually, the changes soften as the body metabolises the effect.
What other areas can structure & volume treatments be used?
Beyond the most common areas structure and volume treatments address, they can also be used to:
- Reduce static (etched-in) lines affecting the:
- Upper face
- Neck
- Lips (smoker lines)
- Chin (chin crease)
- Lower cheeks (accordion lines)
- Augment body areas
- Penis thickness
- Butt shape and contour
- Hands, to add fullness and reduce prominent tendons and veins
- Adjust facial proportions:
Have questions? We're here to help.
Check your suitability for personalised guidance.
The steps involved in treatment for volume and structure are:
- The treatment area will be cleaned and marked
- Numbing
- Treatment is performed
- The skin will be cleaned again
- The results will be checked to ensure no adjustments are needed
Treatments for facial volume and structure have mild discomfort which can be reduced with a range of techniques.
Yes, treatments for dermal volume and structure can reduce signs of ageing affecting the back of your hands.
It is typically used to reduce hollowness, and prominent tendons and veins.
So that we can provide pricing information, we first require you to complete our online suitability assessment. This is so a clinician can determine if it’s right for you.
Treatments for facial volume and structure typically fade over months to years, depending on specific treatment methods, and personalised lifestyle factors and metabolism.
Treatments for facial volume and structure should not look fake when done conservatively.
Most treatments for facial volume and structure give the final result within days as any swelling subsides.
Treatments for facial volume and structure generally take 2-4 weeks to settle.
If you’ve had treatments for facial volume and structure and noticed your result wear off fast, there are two potential explanations:
- Swelling: This is how your result looks for the first few days, and is often more pronounced. Once the swelling subsides, you see the drop-off, rather than the change compared to your pre-treatment appearance.
- Treatment was conservative: Conservative treatments make subtle changes, and also wear off faster.
The longevity of your treatment for structure and volume depends primarily on the type and extent of treatment. There is some evidence that maintenance treatment can help to prolong your results.
Yes, dermal treatments for structure and volume are reversible.
After having treatments for facial volume and structure expect some slight redness and swelling. As any numbing wears off, the treated area may be mildly tender. Bruising can occur, but you can reduce this by applying a cold pack.
It is important to allow 2-4 weeks for the results to settle, at which time you can assess the final result.
You can apply makeup the day after your treatment for facial volume and structure. This is to allow time for the treatment sites to heal over, and so that you can monitor your skin for any signs of a side effect.
You can wash your face immediately after having treatments for facial volume and structure. Be very gentle for 7 days when washing your face.
The timeframe until it is safe to fly after facial structure and volume treatments depends on the flight duration and destination. Generally, domestic short haul flights are ok after 48 hours, while for longer flights or international ones, you should wait at least 7 days.
After treatment for structure and volume, it is best to avoid smoking for at least 48 hours. Smoking and vaping reduce blood oxygen, and impair healing, delaying your recovery and increasing the chance of side effects.
Light exercise is ok immediately after most treatments for facial structure and volume. For more intense activity, you should wait 24-48 hours.
The main side effects of treatments for facial volume and structure are mild swelling and tenderness, which resolve over a few days.
Rare risks include nodules, skin injury, and infection. These will be discussed with you during your consultation.
Treatments for facial volume and structure are a low-risk treatment, but like all procedures, there are potential side effects.
Some side effects of treatments for facial volume and structure treatment include:
- Swelling and bruising
- Asymmetry due to swelling, that usually resolves on its own over 2-3 weeks
- Small lumps and bumps that almost always resolve on their own over a few weeks
There are rare complications of treatments for facial volume and structure that it is important to be aware of. These include:
- Allergic reactions
- Skin injury
- Infections
Treatment for facial volume and structure have not been tested in pregnant or breastfeeding women.
Most clinics therefore recommend against having treatments for facial structure and volume during this time.
The risks of treatments for facial volume and structure are the same around the eyes as they are for other areas.
