Story | Leslie Yip Boucher-Harris
Cosmetic injections like Botox and beauty boosters have transformed modern skincare, offering visibly smoother, plumper and more youthful skin. But for those not ready to embrace needles, a new generation of skincare products delivers similar benefits—no syringes required.
These injection-inspired formulas harness powerful active ingredients, such as peptides, hyaluronic acid and skin-plumping agents to mimic the effects of cosmetic procedures. Perfect for needle-averse beauty enthusiasts, they’re also an excellent way to enhance or extend the results of professional treatments.
A defining feature of many of these products is their precision-tip applicators, designed to allow targeted application to specific areas, such as fine lines, wrinkles, or expression zones. While they excel in precision care, most can also be smoothed over the entire face for broader benefits.
Achieving radiant, youthful skin has never been so effortless, painless or so precise.
DIOR
Dior Capture Totale Hyalushot, 15 ml | $125
Inspired by professional hyaluronic acid injections—aka beauty boosters—this wrinkle corrector offers a targeted, multi-zone approach to combat both visible and emerging wrinkles. With 97% natural-origin ingredients, the potent formula is enriched with a patented hyaluronic acid duo, smoothing peptides and longoza extract. Targeting eight key wrinkle areas, including vertical “bunny lines” on the cheek, it visibly plumps and refines skin instantly and over time.
Pair with: the new Dior Capture OX-C Treatment Le Serum (50 ml | $235) and Cream (50 ml | $175), a clinically effective duo that activates oxygen delivery in the skin to visibly rejuvenate skin lacking in collagen.
SKINCEUTICALS
Skinceuticals P-Tiox, 30 ml | $180
This powerful anti-wrinkle peptide serum is designed to reduce nine types of expression wrinkles, refine pores and reveal radiant, glass-like skin. Formulated with amplified Argireline, Niacinamide, PHA and Laminaria Extract, it visibly improves skin smoothness within one week and reduces wrinkles—including those resistant to neuromodulators—within 12 weeks. Suitable for use starting in your 20s, P-TIOX helps prevent and diminish wrinkles over time. Apply to a dry face morning and night for best results.
Pair with: Skinceuticals A.G.E. Interrupter Advanced, a potent corrective cream treatment that helps reverse visible signs of aging impacted by collagen decline and glycation, including wrinkles, laxity and dullness. 48 ml | $225
SHISEIDO
Shiseido Vital Perfection Intensive WrinkleSpot Treatment, 20 ml | $130
This 2-in-1 targeted treatment combines retinol with lifting and brightening ingredients to visibly smooth deep wrinkles and fade dark spots in just one week. It is clinically proven to improve smile lines, crow’s feet, lip wrinkles and discoloration in four weeks, and provides 48-hour hydration. Suitable for all skin types, this paraben-free, dermatologist-tested formula reveals a smoother, brighter complexion without irritation. Apply morning and evening to concern areas as the final step in your skincare routine.
Pair with: Vital Perfection plifting and Firming Advanced Cream, a highly effective daily moisturizer that strengthens skin’s invisible nutrient network, encouraging the natural production of collagen for a stronger moisture barrier and firmer and brighter skin. 50 ml | $185
FILORGA
Filorga Time-filler Shot 5XP, 15 ml | $94
Inspired by botox injections, its 60-per-cent active ingredient formula features a neuropeptide complex to relax facial muscles, protective polysaccharides for hydration and a firming enzyme to enhance skin tone and elasticity. The precision syringe-tip applicator ensures easy, targeted application to the five main expression lines: forehead, frown lines, crow’s feet, upper lip and marionette lines. Suitable for all skin types, apply morning and evening and massage with the fingers until the product is completely absorbed.
Pair with: Filorga Time-filler 5 XP Gel-Cream to double the effect. 5 XP stands for the brand’s 5XP core formula, inspired by five areas of expertise from aesthetic medicine to smooth the five types of wrinkles: expression lines, deep wrinkles, dryness wrinkles, surface wrinkles and neck wrinkles. 50 ml | $118
IDC
IDC Dermo Ultime Premium Expression +, 15 ml | $89.99
This advanced wrinkle-targeting concentrate, developed and tested in Quebec, is designed for the face, lips and neck. It delivers both instant and long-term results through a potent blend of hyaluronic acids for plumping, peptides to boost collagen, phyto-retinol to refine wrinkles and pores and plant collagen for smoothing. Apply directly to wrinkles after cleansing, avoiding the eye area.
Pair with: IDC Dermo Express Multi-Action 16-In-1 Global Anti-Aging Cream, an award-winning treatment that helps simplify the anti-aging routine by nourishing the face, neck and eye contour while serving as a cream/serum for both day and night use. 50 ml | $86.99
PETER THOMAS ROTH
Peter Thomas Roth Peptide Skinjection Fill + Fix Under-Eye Cream, 15 ml | $61
Clinically proven to smooth fine lines and boost volume for a filler-like effect, this eye cream instantly hydrates and brightens, and can visibly firm and refresh the eye area in a week. Powered by 4% Peptilift Peptide Technology, 3% Juveneye CL™, Hyaluronic Acid Filling Sphere and caffeine, it targets dark circles, puffiness and fine lines. se with the cooling metal applicator for a refreshed, youthful look—alone or under makeup.
Pair with: Peter Thomas oth Peptide Skinjection Expression Line Hydra-Gel Patches to relax and lift the appearance of crow’s feet, forehead lines and nose scrunch lines. Containing niacin amide and squalene, they help brighten and hydrate the skin too. 60 patches (2 shapes) | $88
RoC
RoC Derm Correxion Fill + Treat Serum, 15 ml | $49.99
Developed with dermatologists and plastic surgeons, this targeted wrinkle-filling serum combines retinol, triple hyaluronic acid and swertiamarin to deliver visibly younger-looking skin without injections. Ninety-seven per cent of users reported that fine lines and wrinkles were visibly plumped and filled within minutes, and 100 per cent saw an improvement in hard-to-treat wrinkles after just four weeks.
Pair with: RoC Derm Correxion Contour Cream, a moisturizer that can help firm the face and neck. Say goodbye to those peskyhorizontal neck lines! 48 g | $26.99
