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1:51 • Published 16 May 2026 • Dr Ed Robinson
Can ChatGPT Plan Your Botox?
The short answer
Not yet. When Dr Ed Robinson compared an AI-generated injection map with his own plan, the AI's choices would likely have caused a Spock brow, a heavy inner brow, puffiness under the eyes and an odd smile, and some points landed on his scrubs. Toxin treatment needs a face-to-face assessment with a medical prescriber.Founder and Medical Director • Last reviewed 19 October 2026
In brief
Key Takeaways
- 01This is a light-hearted experiment, not a guide to where toxin should go.
- 02Injection plans are tailored to each person's anatomy and goals, so no map, from a person or a chatbot, applies to everyone.
- 03The AI's forehead points would likely have arched the outer brows into a Spock brow and dropped the inner brows.
- 04Its under-eye and chin points risked puffiness under the eyes and an odd-looking smile.
- 05Ed's conclusion: AI is not going to reduce his workload any time soon.
Dr Ed Robinson explains
The Detail
I am an aesthetics doctor who works too much, so I asked AI to plan some treatments for me and compared its suggestions with my own. To be clear, this is a bit of fun, not a guide: the markings in this video, mine included, are for my face only, and nobody should use them to plan a treatment.
While the AI was having a good think, I marked up where I would place toxin on my own face. My priorities are a flatter brow with no arching, which can look quite villainous, and a little lower-face treatment, which I find helps the contour of my jawline.
Where the AI went wrong. Its forehead points sat in the middle of the forehead with nothing towards the sides, which is a classic way to create a Spock brow. Its frown points were too high, which could drop the inner brows and make the Spock effect even more dramatic. It put toxin right under the eye, which could weaken the muscle that helps pump fluid away from the area, leading to sagging and puffiness. Its chin points were likely to affect the muscle that pulls the lower lip down when you smile, giving a very strange smile and probably a lot of lip biting. The neck points looked random, and some appear to be on my scrubs, which would be a sad waste of toxin.
So, is ChatGPT going to reduce my workload? Probably not. And I feel my job is safe from AI for the moment.
The serious point is that toxin is a prescription-only medicine. Where it goes, and how much, is decided for you by a medical prescriber after a face-to-face consultation that looks at your anatomy, your medical history and your goals.
Video transcript
Edited from the video captions. This video is a light-hearted comparison and is not treatment advice.
I'm an aesthetics doctor who works too much, so to make my life easier, I asked AI to do some treatments for me. Let's see how it shaped up. So, while it was having a good think, I marked up my own face to show where I would place toxin to get the results that I want. The priorities for me: having my toxin in my upper face placed in such a way that I get a flattening of the brow and no arching, which can look quite villainous. And also, I'm a big fan of lower face toxin, just to lift some of the structures in the lower face. I find it contours my jawline quite nicely. So, as a final result, these are all the places that I marked up on my face. And this is the result that ChatGPT suggested for placing toxin to get my results, which makes for some very interesting analysis. So, if we move through each of these aspects in turn: placing toxin like this in the medial, the middle part of the forehead, and nothing really laterally, is going to create a crazy Spock brow. While at the same time, they've not really got the frown complex properly. Those injection sites are too high, and that's going to cause quite a nasty dropping of the brow on the inner part as well, which is going to make that Spock brow look even crazier. Secondly, I would never put toxin right under the eye like this. That's going to create some interesting under-eye sagging and probably quite a lot of fluid build-up, by making the muscle that wraps around your eye less effective. That actually acts as a pump for lymphatic fluid throughout the day. This is going to look terrible. If we're looking at the chin, the areas which they've highlighted for treatment are almost definitely going to hit your DLI, which is this muscle under your lip. It pulls the lip down when you smile. That's going to create a really interesting crooked smile like this. But actually, to be fair, they've hit it on both sides, so it wouldn't be crooked. It would just look really weird. So, when you smile, your bottom lip would come up and it would just be very strange. And you'd also probably end up biting your bottom lip quite a lot when trying to eat. So, not a great look. The neck band treatments have just been placed completely randomly in the neck. And then also, some of the treatments seem to be in my scrubs, which I feel like would be a disastrous and upsetting waste of toxin. Is ChatGPT going to help reduce my workload at the moment? Probably not. But I do feel like my job is safe from AI for the moment.
Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I use ChatGPT or another AI to plan my Botox?
No. An AI cannot examine your face or take your medical history. Toxin is a prescription-only medicine, and treatment is planned by a medical prescriber at a face-to-face consultation.
Are the injection points in this video a guide?
No. The video is a light-hearted comparison. Ed's markings are for his own face, and the AI's points are shown to explain why they would not work.
What is a Spock brow?
An over-arched outer eyebrow. It can happen when the middle of the forehead is relaxed but the outer part is not.
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