Your “glabella” is the skin on your forehead, between your eyebrows and above your nose. When you make facial expressions, that skin is moved by the muscles on your forehead.
Depending on your face shape, skin tightness, genetics, and how often you make certain expressions, you may notice wrinkles that look like wavy lines beginning to develop. These wrinkles are called glabellar lines, or more commonly, forehead furrows.
If you don’t like the look of these lines, there are home remedies, clinical treatment options, and prevention strategies to minimize their appearance.
Keep reading to learn more about glabellar lines, why they appear, and what you can do about them.
Glabellar lines are horizontal indentations that stretch across your forehead. They may intersect with another category of wrinkles called frown lines.
Typically, frown lines are the vertical lines between your eyes, while glabellar lines appear above your eyebrows and run horizontally.
Frown lines don’t just come from making sad faces. When you smile, laugh, or look worried or surprised, the glabella muscles tug and pull the skin that covers them.
