If you imagine how it feels to have a substance injected under your eyes or near your mouth, you'd be about right. It's unpleasant, and it does hurt - but probably not as much as you think it will. Some areas of the face (usually places where nerves and vessels are closer to the surface such as the marionette lines, the lips, and the apples of the cheeks) are more painful than others. Also, bigger, more viscous fillers, such as Radiesse and Perlane, stretch the skin, and this creates an extremely achy, throbbing feeling for about twenty minutes right after the injection. It usually is not painful after the procedure is finished, though.
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