Most people who ask me about facial balancing arrive with a photograph and a vague complaint. Something in it is off. They have usually decided it is their lips, or their chin, or that they look tired, and about half the time it is none of those things on its own — it is the relationship between two of them.
That is all facial balancing means: treating more than one area in the same appointment so the areas agree with each other, rather than fixing one feature and leaving it sitting oddly against the rest. It is dermal filler, placed in small amounts in several places, planned as one thing.
This is what it does, what it will not do, and what it costs at my clinic in Southsea. Every price is published, where most Portsmouth clinics quote only after a consultation.
What does facial balancing do?
It changes proportion, not identity. The usual combinations are a chin and a jawline together, because projection at the chin is what makes a jawline read as a line rather than a curve. Or cheeks and nasolabial folds, because the fold below the cheek is often a volume problem higher up. Or a nose and a chin, which is the one people call profile balancing, because the two of them decide what your side-on photograph looks like far more than either does alone.
The work is small. Half a millilitre at the point of a chin is a common starting dose and it is the change clients notice most in photographs. Nobody in the room the next day can tell you what has been done. That is the point of it.
What facial balancing will not do
Filler adds volume. It does not move bone, change a bite, or slim a jaw. If your lower face is wide because of the muscle or the bone, filler at the chin will not narrow it, and I will say so at the consultation rather than sell you a package that cannot do what you came for.
It does not lift skin that has lost its elasticity. Filler high on the cheekbone can support the mid-face and soften what sits below it, and there is a limit to that, past which more product reads as more product. Cheeks are where too much shows first, so I place conservatively there and I would rather you came back than went home with a face you have to explain.
And it is not a facelift under another name. If what you actually want is surgical, a package of filler is an expensive way to find that out, and I will tell you at the consultation if I think that is where you are.
How much does facial balancing cost?
Two ways to buy it. Each area has its own price, and if you are treating more than one area in a visit there are five volume packages priced by the millilitre. Here is every single-area price:
| Area | Price |
|---|---|
| Lip filler, 0.5ml Classic | £130 |
| Chin filler, 0.5ml | £130 |
| Chin filler, 1ml | £150 |
| Nasolabial folds | £150 |
| Marionette lines | £150 |
| Pixie tip lift | £150 |
| Cheek filler | £160 |
| Jawline filler | £160 |
| Non-surgical nose job | £180 |
| Pre-jowls and chin together | £190 |
And the five packages, which are what most balancing plans are actually booked as:
| Package | What it covers | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The 2ml Filler Refresh | Two areas from lips, chin and cheeks, in one visit. Nose not included | £250 |
| The 2ml Profile Refresh | Nose filler or a pixie tip lift, plus up to 1ml in one other area: lips, chin or cheeks | £330 |
| The 3ml Filler Balance | Two or three areas in one visit. Listed as the most popular | £380 |
| The 4ml Filler Sculpt | Three or more areas in one visit | £450 |
| The Full Face Harmonisation | Up to 5ml across lips, chin, jawline, nose, cheeks and nasolabial folds | £525 |
Klarna spreads any treatment over three monthly payments, so the 2ml Refresh is £83.33 a month, the Profile Refresh £110, the 3ml Balance £126.67, the 4ml Sculpt £150 and the Full Face Harmonisation £175.
What a millilitre actually buys
The packages are sold by volume, so it helps to know what the numbers mean on a face. Lips take 0.5ml or 1ml. Cheeks usually take 1 to 2ml a side. A chin or a jawline takes 1 to 2ml in total. That is why 2ml covers two modest areas, 3ml covers two generous ones or three small ones, and 5ml is the ceiling for a full-face plan.
A millilitre is a fifth of a teaspoon. Held up in the syringe it looks like almost nothing, and that surprises people who have been reading about faces being transformed. Spread across a chin it is a real change. Spread across a whole face it is a nudge in six places, which is exactly what balancing is meant to be.
Is a package actually cheaper than booking areas separately?
Usually, and not always, and I would rather you saw the arithmetic than took my word for it. Everything in this table comes from the two price lists above.
| Example plan | Booked separately | As a package |
|---|---|---|
| Lips 0.5ml and chin 0.5ml | £260 | £250 |
| Chin 1ml and cheeks | £310 | £250 |
| Nose and 1ml Classic lips | £330 | £330 |
| Chin 1ml, cheeks and jawline | £470 | £380 |
| Lips, chin 1ml, cheeks and jawline | £600 | £450 |
| Lips, chin 1ml, jawline, nose, cheeks and nasolabial folds | £930 | £525 |
Look at the third row, because it is the honest one. A non-surgical nose job is £180 and 1ml of Classic lip filler is £150, which is £330 — the same as the 2ml Profile Refresh. That package is not a discount. What it buys is both areas planned and placed in one appointment, by one person, against each other rather than six weeks apart.
The saving gets real as the plan gets bigger. The Full Face Harmonisation covers six areas that come to £930 if you book them one at a time, and it is £525.
The lower face: chin, jawline and pre-jowls
This is the combination I treat most. A chin that sits slightly back makes the jaw look softer than it is and the neck look fuller than it is, so clients come in asking about their jawline when the chin is doing most of the damage. Chin filler is £130 for 0.5ml and £150 for 1ml, and jawline filler is £160, so the pair of them booked separately is £290 to £310 and the 2ml Refresh is £250.
Pre-jowls are the small hollows that appear either side of the chin as the lower face loses support, and they are the reason a jawline can look interrupted even when the jaw itself is fine. Pre-jowls and chin together are £190 as their own treatment.
The profile: nose and chin together
Profile balancing is nose and chin, and it is the one where the second area changes the first. Smoothing a bump on the bridge with filler makes a nose read straighter from the side; bringing the chin forward by half a millilitre changes how far the nose appears to project, without touching the nose at all. A non-surgical nose job is £180 and a pixie tip lift, which treats the tip only, is £150.
Filler cannot make a nose smaller. It smooths and it lifts, and if you want less nose rather than a straighter one, that is surgery and I will say so.
What are the cons of facial balancing?
The honest list, rather than the reassuring one.
You are buying several changes at once, so if you do not like the result you have more to unpick. That is the main argument for starting with one area and seeing it settle before adding the next, and for plenty of people that is the better route even though it costs more in total.
Swelling across several areas is more noticeable than swelling in one, and you need to plan around it. Expect to look puffy and slightly uneven for two or three days and to be back to normal within a week. The settled shape is judged at around two weeks, which is when I want to see photographs if you are deciding whether anything else is needed.
Bruising is more likely the more places a needle goes. It covers with makeup and it goes within a week or so, but do not book a full-face plan four days before a wedding.
And there is the gradual kind of con, which is that faces treated area by area over years can drift away from the face you started with, one reasonable decision at a time. That is the thing I am watching for when I say no to an area. All of my filler is CE-marked hyaluronic acid — Juvederm, Restylane or Belotero — so it can be dissolved with hyaluronidase if it is ever wrong, and you are never locked in.
How long does facial balancing last?
Between nine and eighteen months, depending on the area. Lips go first because the mouth never stops moving. Cheeks and jawlines hold the longest, often twelve to eighteen months. A chin sits somewhere in between.
That matters for a multi-area plan, because the areas do not run out together. Most people top up the lips once in the time the cheeks are still doing their job, rather than rebooking the whole package. If you want it all refreshed at once, the sensible interval is around a year.
Can you balance a face without filler?
Partly. Anti-wrinkle injections work on muscles rather than volume, so they can soften a strong jaw muscle or lift a brow a little, and they do nothing at all for a chin that needs projection. They are a different treatment with a different route: a first course needs a £25 prescriber consultation, which is a legal requirement before the prescription is written and is paid once per prescription period, and a 14-day review is included.
Skin treatments change the quality of skin rather than its proportions. Good skin on an unbalanced face still reads as unbalanced, and balanced proportions under poor skin still read as tired, which is why some plans end up being half filler and half skin work. I will tell you which half is doing the heavy lifting for your face.
What happens at the consultation
A standalone consultation is a 15-minute appointment and it costs £15, booked on Fresha. It is not free. The £15 comes off your treatment if you go ahead, so for anyone who books it is not an extra cost, and I would rather put the number in writing than leave you to find it out at the door.
There is not time to treat you in that 15 minutes, and I will usually have a client straight afterwards, so the treatment is booked in for another day. If you already know what you want, book the treatment itself and we do the consultation at the start of that appointment with no separate fee.
What happens in it: I look at your face at rest and moving, from the front and from the side, and I ask what bothers you in photographs rather than in the mirror, because people are much more accurate about photographs. Then I tell you which areas, how many millilitres and the exact price before anything is injected. If I think one area will do what you want, I will say so, and that is the cheaper answer more often than people expect.
Facial balancing in Portsmouth
I am Natasha, I run House of Glam HQ at 1A Auckland Road East, Southsea, and I do every treatment myself. Nobody else injects here, so the face you plan with is the face you are treated by.
Single areas start at £130. The packages are £250 for the 2ml Refresh, £330 for the 2ml Profile Refresh, £380 for the 3ml Balance, £450 for the 4ml Sculpt and £525 for the Full Face Harmonisation, up to 5ml. Every price for every area is on the dermal fillers page, and the full breakdown of what decides a filler price is in my guide to dermal filler cost in the UK.
Book the £15 consultation on Fresha if you want to talk it through first, or book the plan directly: 2ml Refresh — £250, 2ml Profile Refresh — £330, 3ml Balance — £380, 4ml Sculpt — £450 or Full Face Harmonisation — £525.
If you would rather ask a question before you book, message me on WhatsApp or call 07831 846273. Send the photograph that bothers you. It tells me more than a description does.
