The two week follow-up is the most underused appointment in aesthetics. Most people skip it, and then live with something slightly off for three months.
Here is when a touch-up is the right call and when it is not.
The two week rule, again
Do not evaluate your Botox before day fourteen. Different muscles take up product at different rates, and what looks uneven on day seven frequently resolves by day twelve.
Assessing early leads to unnecessary correction, and unnecessary correction leads to overtreatment.
At day fourteen, what you see is what you have. That is the appointment to book.
What warrants a touch-up
Visible asymmetry. One brow sitting higher than the other, one side of the forehead moving more. Small and correctable, usually with a few units.
A muscle that did not fully respond. Sometimes one area needs more than was placed. This is common on a first treatment, since good injectors dose conservatively when they do not yet know how your face responds.
A specific line still showing. If everything else softened and one crease is holding, targeted placement can address it.
Compensatory movement. Occasionally relaxing one muscle causes an adjacent one to work harder, creating a new line or an odd arch. Easily corrected.
What does not warrant a touch-up
Wanting a stronger overall result. That is a dosing conversation for your next full treatment, not a touch-up. Adding a lot of product two weeks in increases the total dose in a way that is better planned upfront.
Wanting movement back. There is no reversal. It wears off.
Nothing happened at all. If you saw no effect whatsoever, that is not a touch-up situation. That is a conversation about product, dose, placement or possible resistance, and it needs a real discussion rather than more units.
Week six or eight softening. That is normal wearing off, not an incomplete treatment. Book your next full round instead.
Should it be free?
This varies by practice and you should ask before your first appointment.
Common approaches: a small touch-up within two to three weeks included at no charge, or charged at cost for units used.
What you should not accept is being told a visible asymmetry at two weeks is your normal facial anatomy and nothing can be done. Sometimes that is true, and it should be explained with your face in front of you, not used as a deflection.
Ask about the touch-up policy at your consultation. It tells you a lot about a practice.
The heaviness question
If your forehead feels heavy or your brows dropped, that is different from asymmetry.
Adding more product will not fix it and will likely make it worse. That is a placement and dosing issue, and the answer is usually to wait it out and adjust the plan next time.
Prescription eye drops can help with eyelid drop specifically. Ask.
It resolves as the product wears off. Uncomfortable and temporary.
Timing your next full treatment
Book at week ten to twelve, when movement is returning but before the lines are fully back.
Waiting until you look exactly like you did before means the muscle has fully recovered its strength, and you start over each time.
The summer note
Duration often runs slightly shorter in summer for people who are training hard or spending time in the heat, since higher metabolic activity clears it faster.
If yours consistently runs short and you are active, that is a dosing conversation rather than a mystery.
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