What Is a Nefertiti Neck Lift?

Hi, I'm board certified dermatologist Alex Snodgrass, and today, in honor of National Botox Day, I want to talk about an increasingly popular and trending use of Botox, although it's not so novel, and that is the Nefertiti neck lift. The Nefertiti neck lift has been studied in the literature since as early as 2007. Nefertiti was an Egyptian goddess who had a very sculpted jawline, and the use of Botox in this area is to replicate or create that.

A sculpted, defined jawline combines the location of Botox injected in two areas: the platysmal bands, I have very strong, great ones, and the depressor anguli oris muscles, or the DAOs, which connect here and pull down the corners of the mouth. You can accentuate them by making this face. So here and here.

When you inject a little bit of Botox in both of these areas, at the minimum it can take 25 units, and more commonly it can take 35 to 40, sometimes more, you essentially eliminate that downward pull along the jawline. So when that is relaxed, you reveal a more sculpted, less tech neck, defined jawline that's becoming increasingly popular. So if you want to know more, let's talk in the comments. Bye. Happy Botox Day.