Fat grafting.

Volume is one of the eight ingredients

As we age, the fat pads that cushion the brow and upper eye deflate. The result is a hollow, slightly skeletonized look — most visible at the outer brow and just above the crease. It reads as tired, but the cause is loss, not excess. In fact, some people who feel they have "too much" eyelid skin are really seeing volume deflation change the way that skin drapes.

Restoring that volume does double duty: it softens the hollowness, and by rebuilding the scaffolding that holds the brow up, it can provide a gentle lift from beneath.

You may be a good candidate if…

• Your brow or upper-eye area looks hollow, flat, or "skeletonized"
• You've lost fullness at the outer corner of the brow
• You'd prefer your own tissue over a synthetic filler
• You want a softer, more rested frame — not a dramatic change

The technique, in plain terms

Fat is gently harvested from elsewhere on your body, purified, and placed in small, precise amounts to rebuild volume where it's been lost. For hollowness above the eye, Dr. Ahn often places fat along the bone of the upper orbital rim rather than into the eyelid or orbit itself — the safer, more predictable plane.

Two principles guide the work. First, the right layer matters — fat placed at the wrong depth looks lumpy, so technique is everything. Second, the face ages as a whole, so brow grafting is rarely done in isolation; Dr. Ahn evaluates the forehead and temples at the same time so the result looks balanced, not patched.