Lisa Rinna has never been particularly shy about discussing beauty, aging or the cosmetic procedures she has tried over the years. But one treatment produced a result even she wasn’t prepared for — and the public reaction that followed became far more painful than she expected.
The former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, now 63, has spoken candidly about undergoing SKINVIVE injections in 2024 and then quickly having the effects reversed after she was unhappy with how dramatically her face appeared to change. At the time, photographs of Rinna circulated widely online, with people commenting on the fullness of her cheeks and questioning what she had done.
Rinna later revealed that she didn’t need strangers to tell her something looked different. She already knew.
“Oh my god. It was really humiliating because I knew that it looked terrible,” she recalled while discussing the experience. She also remembered how relentlessly the images spread, saying, “Everyone was so mean about it.” (thecelebritist.com)
It Started With a Treatment Rinna Expected to Be Subtle
Rinna’s experience centered on SKINVIVE by Juvéderm, an injectable hyaluronic-acid treatment designed primarily to improve skin smoothness and hydration rather than dramatically reshape the face.
For Rinna, however, the result wasn’t what she expected.
The issue became public in April 2024, shortly after she attended the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards. Her appearance prompted widespread discussion online, and aesthetic physician assistant Nicole Smith posted a TikTok analyzing what she described as Rinna’s “overfilled look.”
Rather than ignoring the video or fighting back against the criticism, Rinna entered the comments herself.
“Skinvive is not for everyone,” she wrote, adding that the treatment “was not good for me” and that she was relieved it could be dissolved. (E! Online)
The admission immediately attracted attention because Rinna wasn’t pretending that she loved the result.
She was essentially saying: I tried something. It didn’t work for me. I changed it.
Her Face Had Changed Enough That People Immediately Noticed
The reaction to Rinna’s appearance was intense.
Some social-media users said they initially struggled to recognize her. Others questioned whether she had dramatically increased the amount of filler in her face.
Rinna later explained that her reaction to SKINVIVE coincided with Botox treatment in her jaw for TMJ. She said the combination altered the proportions of her face in a way she strongly disliked. (thecelebritist.com)
Once photographs began circulating, the commentary exploded.
Beauty accounts reposted before-and-after images. Cosmetic professionals analyzed her face. TikTok users debated what she had done.
Rinna later recalled feeling as though her photograph was suddenly everywhere.
The fact that she agreed with some of the criticism didn’t make hearing it any easier.
“Everyone Was So Mean About It”
Years later, Rinna’s description of that period revealed just how much the commentary affected her.
She recalled beauty influencers circulating comparisons and said the experience was “really humiliating” because she herself was unhappy with what she saw. (thecelebritist.com)
There is an important difference between deciding for yourself that you dislike a cosmetic result and having thousands of strangers announce that opinion simultaneously.
Rinna experienced both.
But instead of waiting for the attention to disappear, she acted quickly.
She went back to her dermatologist and had the effects reversed. According to Rinna’s later account, her appearance returned to normal within days. (thecelebritist.com)
And photographs taken afterward provided a very different look at the television personality.
Photos Afterward Show Rinna Years Later
Rinna has continued making frequent public appearances since the 2024 episode, giving fans plenty of opportunities to see her appearance after she said the SKINVIVE effects had been reversed.
At 63, she has hardly retreated from fashion or experimentation.
At the Los Angeles premiere of A24’s The Invite in June 2026, Rinna arrived wearing a dramatically structured black ensemble, paired with a shaggy hairstyle and relatively understated makeup.
She appeared again at the 2026 Emmy Awards this September, this time with her own hair styled into a sleek, glossy bob with a deep side part and flipped ends. Hairstylist Brian Fisher said the look drew inspiration from Audrey Hepburn and Kate Moss. (Byrdie)
The newer photographs are particularly interesting beside the images that triggered the 2024 discussion because they show Rinna well after she said the unwanted effects had been reversed.
But Rinna herself has never suggested that reversing one treatment meant abandoning cosmetic procedures altogether.
That distinction matters.
Rinna Has Never Pretended to Be Completely “Natural”
Rinna’s openness about cosmetic work goes back decades.
Long before injectable treatments became an everyday celebrity conversation, her famous lips were already a subject of fascination.
When she was in her 20s, Rinna had silicone injected into her upper lip. Years later, scar tissue created complications, and in 2010 she underwent surgery to reduce some of that tissue. (Bravo)
She has also openly discussed Botox and other cosmetic treatments.
So the SKINVIVE reversal wasn’t Rinna suddenly rejecting everything she had done before.
It was more specific: she disliked the outcome of one particular treatment and decided she didn’t want to keep it.
That candor has remained remarkably consistent with the way Rinna approaches her appearance publicly. She experiments, sometimes dramatically, and tends to acknowledge what she has done rather than insisting that nothing has changed.
Her Daughter Has Also Spoken Openly About Cosmetic Procedures
Interestingly, the conversation has extended to the next generation of Rinna’s family.
Her daughter, model Amelia Gray Hamlin, spoke publicly about cosmetic procedures earlier this year. Amelia said she had never used traditional lip filler and explained that she had recently tried SKINVIVE herself, describing it as a moisturizing injectable rather than something she was using to add volume to her lips. (E! Online)
Amelia has also discussed surgeries she has undergone, making openness about beauty treatments something mother and daughter appear comfortable addressing publicly.
For Rinna, however, the 2024 experience remains particularly memorable because of how quickly the conversation became cruel.
The Beauty Conversation Has Changed Since Then
Rinna’s decision also anticipated a broader shift now visible across the beauty industry.
By 2026, the ultra-filled aesthetic that dominated portions of celebrity culture and social media for years has begun losing momentum. Some patients are dissolving previous filler, while others are asking for subtler treatments or moving toward different procedures altogether. (ELLE)
Rinna wasn’t the first celebrity to reverse injectable work, and she certainly wasn’t the last.
But her case became unusually visible because people watched the entire cycle happen almost in real time.
First came the photographs.
Then came the criticism.
Then Rinna herself appeared in the comments and acknowledged that she wasn’t happy either.
And finally came the reversal.
She Didn’t Hide the Result She Regretted
Perhaps the most revealing part of the story isn’t that Lisa Rinna tried an injectable and later changed her mind.
It’s what she did when the result became the subject of ridicule.
She could have ignored it. She could have denied having anything done. She could have blamed lighting, makeup or photographs.
Instead, she publicly acknowledged the treatment.
“Skinvive is not for everyone,” she wrote at the time. “It was not good for me.” (Cosmopolitan)
The criticism clearly hurt. Rinna later described the experience as humiliating and recalled how relentlessly her photographs circulated.
But she also didn’t allow one cosmetic mistake to stop her from experimenting with her appearance.
Two years later, she is still changing her hair, wearing daring runway looks and showing up on red carpets looking unmistakably like Lisa Rinna — just without the result she decided wasn’t right for her.
And the newer photographs make the transformation particularly striking: not because Rinna suddenly decided she wanted to look like somebody else, but because after one experiment left her uncomfortable in her own face, she chose to reverse it.
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