Hey! So today I did diy Nabota for the first time. Just wanted to do a quick recap of what I did as it might help others. 

First I put Emla covered with cling film on my forehead for 1h. 

I reconstituted the 200 Units Nabota bottle using 4ml 0.9% saline. Swirled it for a bit. Then I filled up my needles. 

Thus I have the following ratio: each insulin unit = 0.5 Nabota units. 

I disinfected my face and put the injection points on.

I have filled up my needles as follows:

-5 x 8mm with 1 Nabota unit (2 insulin units)

-4 x 8mm with 2 Nabota units (4 insulin units)

-5 x 12.7mm with 2 Nabota units (4 insulin units) (which was a mistake on my part as I wanted double that)


I used the first set of needles on the lower row of my frontalis. I mapped it out to have the most lateral spots 2cm above the arch of my eyebrows and went with two above the inner corners of each eye and one point on the midline, so 5 in total. A total of 5 units were injected on my lower treatment row. The middle set of needles was used for my upper treatment row which consisted of 4 spots set in between each spot of the lower row. I injected by going in perpendicular as deeply as possible with the needle and then withdrawing a bit and tried injecting right into the belly of the frontalis. 

The lower set of needles was used for the procerus and glabellar complex. I pinched the skin above my nose, went in with the needle right to the bone and then withdrew a little bit for the procerus. That was quite a deep injection. For the corrugators I went into applied periorbital pressure and frowned, then injected at the spots marked in the picture by going in at a approx 45 degree angle with the needle angled medially towards the insertion of the muscle as deep as possible.

I have used too little Nabota for the glabellar complex (2 units per injection spot) but that was my fault, I was meaning to inject twice that but got confused. But it’s too late to correct that as the Nabota has likely diffused already. 

Despite all my knowledge and having a medical background I still found this quite hard. The difficulty is getting the injection spots right as well as the angle and making sure you are in the right muscle. I believe this is something best practiced on a proper course. My work was probably not the best symmetrical wise and I’m worried I didn’t hit the right muscle in my corrugators. Luckily tox is quite forgiving and I didn’t use that much but wondering what it will be like in 2 weeks. 

This isn’t to put anyone off DIY btw but I thought I had all the necessary knowledge but you only realise how hard this actually is once you are injecting trying to hit the right spot because despite all knowledge what I was lacking was the proper “feel” for doing it. 



First time DIY tox review