Andy Lee’s fiancée has lifted the lid on the secret to her perfectly plumped lips – without getting filler.
Rebecca Harding, 33, took to her Instagram Stories on Tuesday to detail all the non-invasive cosmetic procedures that she undergoes to maintain her prominent features.
The influencer and model filmed herself getting several treatments at the Skin To Heart aesthetic clinic in Melbourne, including a $275 ‘LipLase’.
Rebecca then took a selfie to document the results of her glowing skin and her full pout for posterity. ‘Thrilled!’ she wrote. ‘Laser treatments are where it’s at!’
‘Bit red and splotchy for a bit and then dry lips for a few days but,’ she captioned the image with an kissing-lips emoji.
The lip treatment involved a Fotona SMOOTH modality Er:YAG, which is a laser treatment used for a variety of non-invasive skin rejuvenations.
‘Pre-Christmas zhush,’ Rebecca captioned her posts, as she filmed her clinician applying the laser treatments to her face, around her under eyes, neck, and collarbone, as well as on her lips.
Rebecca Harding, 33, took to her Instagram Stories on Tuesday to reveal how she gets her plumped up pout without filler at a Melbourne cosmetic clinic
The influencer and model filmed herself getting several procedures at the Skin To Heart aesthetic clinic in Melbourne , including a $275 ‘LipLase’ to give her lips a fuller appearance
‘Probably my favourite treatment,’ the model gushed. ‘The lift and sculpt that this gives is unmatched.’
‘It doesn’t hurt and I see immediate results. The skin is tighter and more lifted, but also over the next few months, it continues to improve.’
The video shows a clinician holding the device over Rebecca’s lips. As she sweeps it across the influencer’s mouth, the light of a small red laser immediately pumps up Rebecca’s top lip to double the volume of her lower lip, which is yet to be treated.
‘I’ve done this twice and the results are incredible,’ she captioned the clip. But added the warning: ‘Prepare for dry lips for the next couple of days.’
The Fontana laser uses a series of low-fluence laser pulses to gently heat the skin and stimulate collagen.
‘With several adjusted passes the characteristics of ‘ideal lips’ can be achieved such as fullness, volume, correct balance between the upper and lower lips and a well-defined vermilion border,’ a description of the treatment on Skin to Heart’s website states.
Celebrities and influencers have entered their no-filler era.
When Kylie Jenner appeared to have dissolved her famous lip fillers, clinics reported an immediate rise in requests for similar procedures.
Rebecca, who is engaged to comedian Andy Lee, said this is the second time she’s had a laser treatment on her lips to give them the appearance of injectables without a needle. Pictured recently at Melbourne Cup
In October, multimillionaire Australian TikToker Anna Paul took to Instagram to show off the results of having her lip fillers dissolved.
American model Blac Chyna also posted a video of her facial fillers getting dissolved. ‘Back to the baseline…’ she said. Courteney Cox talked on a podcast about her biggest beauty regrets: ‘Fillers but I was able to reverse most of that.’
In 2023, Ariana Grande told Vogue, ‘I had a ton of lip filler over the years and Botox. I stopped in 2018 because I felt so — too much. For a long time, beauty was about hiding for me, and now I feel like maybe it’s not.’
Almost a decade since Kylie Jenner first admitted to lip fillers (increasing Google searches for them by 11,300 per cent in 24 hours), injectables and Botox have fallen out of favour with the rich and famous.
Aside from the well-documented problems with filler failing to dissolve and ‘migrating’ to unwanted areas of the face, there’s a simple reason for this.
‘The economics of thinness’ is a theory that says thinness and other changing beauty standards are often associated with class and social status.
When a beauty treatment, or a certain body type, becomes extremely popular, demand for it booms, and then the prices come down, and more regular people get them.
Then, as everyday people start to look like celebrities, and newer, better technologies emerge – celebrities reverse those procedures and move onto the next big thing.
In 2015, Kylie Jenner admitted to having lip filler in an episode of The Kardashians. In 2016, we came up with a new term to describe how everyone started looking: ‘Instagram Face.’
Top plastic surgeon to the stars Dr Stephen Mulholland visited Australia in 2022 to train up hundreds of Sydney-based cosmetic physicians on all the latest gadgets.
‘Technology is now so good that many people are no longer choosing to go under the knife, instead they are using radio frequency heat to pinpoint loose skin and fat, to tighten skin tissue,’ he said.
Dr Mulholland, who looks after Kim Kardashian and Eva Longoria, predicted more more Australian women would take up the non-invasive treatments on their lunch breaks.