What are Gender-Affirming Aesthetics?

Gender-affirming aesthetics is a compassionate approach to care that focuses on helping align your physical appearance with your inner identity using noninvasive and minimally invasive treatments. As a body-positive, aging-positive, gender-inclusive, and judgment-free beauty and wellness space, FACE prioritizes identity-based care as foundational to our mission, vision, and values.

In the past, gender-affirming care was often conceived of as a surgical-only option—which remains an incredible course of action to help you look and feel like your truest self. As the field evolves, there is a growing awareness in aesthetic medicine about the role of minimally invasive treatments. These non-surgical cosmetic and wellness options can take your look to the next level with nuanced but transformative results, both with and without surgery.

What results can gender-affirming treatments offer?

The treatments we offer at FACE can create softer, more feminine appearances, such as heart-shaped faces and full lips, and enhance masculine traits, like a pronounced chin and strong jawline.

If you want to create a more traditionally feminine appearance, Desiree can:

• Add volume to enhance cheek fullness and projection

• Create higher, more pronounced cheekbones

• Use fillers to emphasize the taper of the chin

• Increase the volume and shape of lips

• Lift the brow for a more feminine arch

• Taper the waist and hips for beautiful curves

If your goal is to achieve a more conventionally masculine look, the treatments we offer can:

• Enhance bony definition in the cheeks and facial contours

• Establish a stronger, more square chin

• WIden the jaw and increase jawline prominence and definition 

• Create a browline that is flatter and straighter

• Taper the lower body to diminish the waist-to-hip curve.