What Is Baby Botox?

If you are under 25 and you are erasing facial lines with little touches of Botox – commercially known as Baby Botox – it’s highly unlikely you will look any younger or appear any more attractive than you already are.

It’s actually the quality of your skin that is far more important when it comes to perceptions of youth and beauty because it screams good health, which is key to looking younger and more attractive.

While I question the sense of Baby Botox, a treatment that requires far more top ups than regular Botox, it’s fine as long as it isn’t used on BABIES. And by babies, I mean the under 25s.

If you are under 25 and you are wanting to enhance and preserve your looks, you need to improve skin condition, skin pore size, pigmentation, skin tone, fine marks and acne scars.

Treat the skin well and it will also make you less likely to develop premature lines and wrinkles because they are the result of the skin losing collagen or being dehydrated.

All that is fixed with the Prager Illuminator Facial, a gentle skin resurfacing treatment that reestablishes healthy collagen levels, reduces acne scars, fine marks, evens out skin tone and texture, and gives you a massive glow up.

And the bonus is, you don’t lose your youthful, beautiful facial expressions because attractiveness is not all about the lines on your face.

What is Attractiveness?

It is generally accepted that the female face shape is most attractive when it’s a triangle.

A lot of this has to do with our instinctive sense of beauty; the young face, the youthful, almost childish face, has a narrow chin and a wider upper part.

In a female, especially, this is what creates the attractive, heart shaped face.

In order to achieve this means widening the upper part of the face in the cheek area, and reducing and slimming down and contouring the lower part of the face at the bottom jawline and neck area.

The ideal shape in a male face is a masculine square jawline. In fact, a jawline on a man can never be big enough. If you look at cartoon figures or Marvel action heroes the jaw is often hugely exaggerated to increase their sense of masculinity.

Likewise, in a female cartoon character the heart-shaped face often takes on grotesque portions whereby the chin is pointy and small and the cheek eye and upper areas are enlarged tremendously.

This is partly why face contouring has become such a thing – and done well with an understanding of aesthetics and not cartoon characters, it can be supremely effective – but is that all there is to attractiveness?

As ever, the story is a little more complicated.

Attractiveness Research

Dr Bernhard Fink is well-known for his research in evolutionary psychology, especially focusing on human physical appearance and its relation to social perception and mate selection. His studies explore topics like facial attractiveness, body symmetry, and the evolutionary basis of physical traits, often linking these with social signals and human behaviour​.

In the academic paper Visual Cues of Skin Condition Predict Perceptions of Health and Attractiveness written with associates Karl Grammer, and Paul J. Matts, Fink delved into how different aspects of the skin’s condition – such as texture, smoothness, and the presence or absence of facial lines – affected perceptions of attractiveness and health.

In the study, digitally manipulated images were used to independently examine the effects of facial lines and skin texture. Their findings highlighted that smooth skin texture and the absence of wrinkles contribute separately to attractiveness, linking skin condition closely to perceived health and youthfulness.

Generally speaking, smooth skin texture was associated with healthiness, while the absence of lines was more directly linked to youthfulness. Both traits contributed to higher attractiveness ratings, but smoother skin texture alone (without removing lines) could still enhance attractiveness, suggesting that skin quality is a stronger factor.

The study highlighted how nuanced features of skin appearance contribute to attractiveness beyond just the presence or absence of wrinkles.

The Bottom Line on Baby Botox

Anything attractive is always healthy and the heart-shaped face instinctively appeals to us as humans. What the under-25s don’t seem to be understanding is that simply erasing facial lines or fiddling with them in an indiscriminate way completely bypasses your DNA-driven instinctive perception of beauty.

You cannot trick instinct.

If you are under 25, you need to steer clear of Botox – and that includes Baby Botox, Micro-Botox, Soft Botox, Mini Botox, and Preventative Botox – and work instead on promoting skin health.

It’s that simple. It’s that easy.

The Prager Illuminator Facial: Starts at £595