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Frownies Facial Patches

About this product

Adhesive facial patches designed to be worn overnight on areas prone to wrinkles, such as the forehead and around the eyes, to help smooth expression lines.

Best for

Mature skin

The Guru Index verdict

63%

Mixed

~Mixed · 63%
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What the gurus are saying

Gurus who tested them found the patches work as a budget-friendly way to temporarily smooth forehead and eye wrinkles by restricting muscle movement, and they're priced affordably enough to experiment with. The main thing to keep in mind: they won't stick properly if there's already a lot of other product layered underneath, so those wanting to stack serums or creams may need to apply the patch first or skip the extra layers that night. A few found them quirky but functional for home wear.
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Key actives & flags

Fragrance-freeAlcohol-free

Full ingredients

Unbleached Natural Kraft Paper With Water-Activated Adhesive Based On, Dextrin, [more]

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What the gurus are saying.

Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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~Mixed
"They have different sizes and different patterns so you can use them in different areas of your face. They have some for your forehead, they have some around your eyes, they have some for your mouth area. People swear by these, but the one thing I can't get past is the fact that you can't really layer on a ton of products because they won't stick if you have tons of products on."
Approved
"For $25, and then it goes on sale for Prime for $20, if you want to tape your face at night you might as well. It's not the best thing in the world but it works. They're kind of weird, they're kind of funky, they're kind of fun too, and especially if you work from home. Frownies get the cast pass."
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"For $25, and then it goes on sale for Prime for $20, if you want to tape your face at night you might as well. It's not the best thing in the world but it works. They're kind of weird, they're kind of funky, they're kind of fun too, and especially if you work from home. Frownies get the cast pass."
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"Frownies are basically these silicone patches that sit on top of the skin while you sleep and they have under eye ones, they have little smile line ones, and they even have a chest one, and they prevent you from wrinkling. You have to be consistent with them, if you stop using them they stop working, unlike Botox or a neuromodulator you don't have to think about it, but they actually work really well, especially if you press your skin into your pillow while you sleep at night and you wake up with creases. The patches actually prevent those, and you can use them like 30, 40 times. They work really, really well. Are they the same as Botox? No. But do they prevent me from wrinkling and scrunching my sleep? Yes."
~Mixed
"When you're putting an adhesive on the skin every day it does overtime increase your risk for a contact allergy to the adhesive. When you're buying them every day the price does add up over time and I'm not sure how much money you're saving over just doing Botox in that area. But some people don't like needles and that's okay, so you can use Frownies if you want, but it's not my choice for reducing wrinkles on my forehead."
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"I tried like the Frownies and the brownies and whatever it was not for me. I had weird allergic reactions to obviously that's a me issue that's not a them issue but I just started sweating instead and I developed a little foliculitis underneath it it was not for me."
Approved
"The patches that I use for this are called Frownies Facial Patches. These are extraordinarily affordable remedy for fixing your forehead lines that comes in a box with a whole bunch of patches in here. They're perforated, you kind of tear them apart into triangle sizes and you use them across the forehead. I use just a little thermal water spray on the side that goes skin down, let it warm up for a second, rub it in and then I patch my forehead. These are basically going to lift your wrinkles off the skin and create almost harden into a little cast on the skin that is going to prevent those muscles from firing again, what caused your wrinkles in the first place muscle contraction. So these little guys are blocking our muscular contraction."
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"The patches that I use for this are called Frownies Facial Patches. These are extraordinarily affordable remedy for fixing your forehead lines that comes in a box with a whole bunch of patches in here. They're perforated, you kind of tear them apart into triangle sizes and you use them across the forehead. I use just a little thermal water spray on the side that goes skin down, let it warm up for a second, rub it in and then I patch my forehead. These are basically going to lift your wrinkles off the skin and create almost harden into a little cast on the skin that is going to prevent those muscles from firing again, what caused your wrinkles in the first place muscle contraction. So these little guys are blocking our muscular contraction."
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"Frownies Facial Patches to help fix wrinkles around the eyes and the forehead. I have several videos on my channel of this this year I really loved this and I think it's such a neat edition as a Botox alternative."
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"This product is so affordable, it's not scary like Botox, it literally has no side effects. The before and after pictures from their website are literally like Botox level results. I am seeing absolute disappearance or extreme softening of these wrinkles, so if I get results like that I am going to be thrilled. I got this for right around twenty dollars and this has 144 patches in this box, so that's a lot. I am doing this for these wrinkles to see if I can get results like we see on their website."
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"Every day when I wake up in the morning I have such a smoother look to my forehead and it just looks more well rested. I really love it. I think it is so smart, it's such a simple concept, such a simple hack to help relax the forehead. I think that this is very easy to use and it really is a great budget pick to start to soften those resting wrinkles. This is not Botox, this is not going to completely freeze those muscles and work as quickly as Botox. This takes a lot more time and consistency, and you are going to get most of the benefits and results at softening the standing wrinkles not the dynamic wrinkles. Botox really will help you for both standing and dynamic, and this one is going to be mostly standing wrinkles and a little bit of getting into softening those dynamic wrinkles like I started to experience towards the end of the 30 days. This is virtually risk-free. I had no side effects from this, whereas Botox comes with a lot of potential side effects."
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"Frownies Facial Patches are supposed to treat your wrinkles above the forehead kind of without Botox. It's like your little budget friendly Botox hack. I did a whole thing on this recently and did before and after videos because it's really a cool product. I teach you how to use it and give you all kinds of tips and tricks and tell you why this works."
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