Laboratoires Vivacy at Bar Beauty Medical Toronto
Vivacy makes Stylage, the hyaluronic acid gel that does most of the filler work at our CityPlace clinic. Three Canadian licences, five grades legally available here, and a French factory whose address is printed on the Health Canada record. This page is about the manufacturer and the Canadian licences. If what you want is the treatment itself, how the grade is chosen on the day and what it costs, that is on our Stylage treatment page.
Laboratoires Vivacy publishes a nine-product Stylage catalogue worldwide. Only five of those products hold a Canadian device licence, so only five can legally be sold or injected in Ontario. The four that cannot include both of Vivacy’s dedicated lip gels, which is the single most useful thing a Toronto patient can know about this brand before booking.
| Stylage product | What Vivacy publishes it is for | Canadian licence status |
|---|---|---|
| Stylage S (and S Lidocaine) | Fine to medium wrinkles | Licensed. Listed on licence 95643, first licensed 27 August 2015 |
| Stylage M (and M Lidocaine) | Medium to deep wrinkles | Licensed. Same licence, 95643 |
| Stylage L (and L Lidocaine) | Deep to very deep wrinkles | Licensed. Same licence, 95643 |
| Stylage XL Lidocaine | Facial volume restoration | Licensed, but only since 22 August 2024, on its own licence 111727 |
| Stylage XXL | Facial volume creation and restoration | Licensed on 96945, which is a System licence covering the gel plus needles and a cannula |
| Stylage Special Lips | Light lip augmentation, definition and hydration | No Canadian licence. Cannot be sold here |
| Stylage Lips Plus | Full lip augmentation and contouring | No Canadian licence. Cannot be sold here |
| Stylage Hydro | Skin hydration and mesotherapy | No Canadian licence. Cannot be sold here |
| Stylage HydroMax | Skin quality and elasticity improvement | No Canadian licence. Cannot be sold here |
Licence numbers, dates and device lists are from Health Canada’s Medical Devices Active Licence Listing, read through its public API in August 2026. The middle column is Vivacy’s own published design intent from stylagebyvivacy.com. It is not a Canadian indication: the Health Canada record has no indications field at all, so no indication should ever be quoted from a licence number, by us or by anyone else.
About Laboratoires Vivacy
Vivacy is a French manufacturer of injectable hyaluronic acid, founded in 2007. Its Stylage range reached the aesthetics market in 2008 and the company now says it sells in more than 85 countries. Unusually for a filler brand of this size, Vivacy is not part of a pharmaceutical conglomerate. It runs its own production, and the company’s website separates the two French addresses clearly: sales and marketing sit at 8 rue Bellini in Paris, and production and logistics sit at 252 rue Douglas Engelbart in Archamps, a technology park in Haute-Savoie on the Swiss border.
The Archamps address is worth a second look, because it is the address Health Canada holds. Company record 139385 in the Medical Devices Active Licence Listing reads LABORATOIRES VIVACY, 252 Rue Douglas Engelbart, Archamps Technopole, 74160 Archamps, France. In other words the entity Health Canada licensed is the factory, not the sales office. That is a small thing, but it is the kind of small thing that tells you a product line is made by the company whose name is on the box rather than contract-manufactured somewhere else and rebadged.
What else Vivacy makes, and why none of it is in our clinic
Vivacy’s own product pages list four families. Stylage is the hyaluronic acid range. Desirial and Desirial Plus are hyaluronic acid gels for women’s intimate health, which Vivacy says were the first of their kind and which carry a CE mark obtained in 2011. Rejuran is a polynucleotide skin booster made from purified salmon DNA fragments, which Vivacy distributes under an exclusive partnership rather than manufactures. Novuma is a calcium hydroxylapatite collagen biostimulator.
None of the three non-Stylage lines is on a Vivacy Canadian licence. Vivacy holds exactly three device licences in Canada and all three are Stylage. So Desirial, Rejuran and Novuma are not products we could stock through Vivacy in Canada even if we wanted them, and we do not claim them. If you have read about Rejuran and want to know where we actually stand on polynucleotides, that is a separate conversation and we will have it honestly at a consultation rather than pretend a product is on our shelf.
Vivacy products we use
Stylage is the range, and we carry S, M, L, XL and XXL. It is the gel behind most of the structural and wrinkle work we do: cheeks, chin, jawline, nasolabial folds, temples, forehead and the deeper folds around the mouth. Every grade we use is a Class III medical device licensed for sale in Canada, and every grade except XXL is available in a lidocaine version for comfort during the injection.
Two technologies run through the whole line, and both come from Vivacy rather than from us. The first is IPN-Like, Vivacy’s patented cross-linking method, which interweaves two hyaluronic acid networks rather than chemically bonding them into one. The second is mannitol, a sugar alcohol included as an antioxidant, intended to slow the degradation of the gel by free radicals. The mannitol formulation has a peer-reviewed description behind it: Ramos-e-Silva and colleagues, Stylage, a range of hyaluronic acid dermal fillers containing mannitol, Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology 2013;6:257 to 261.
What Vivacy publishes each grade is designed for
Vivacy states the design intent of each grade on its own Stylage brand site. The table below reproduces those descriptors and the treatment areas Vivacy names in its longer product copy. Read it as a manufacturer’s engineering brief, not as a menu, and not as a Canadian indication.
| Grade | Vivacy’s own descriptor | Areas Vivacy names |
|---|---|---|
| Stylage S | Fine to Medium Wrinkles | Around the mouth including smoker’s lines, forehead, crow’s feet |
| Stylage M | Medium to Deep Wrinkles | Forehead, temples, nose, cheeks, nasolabial folds, marionette lines |
| Stylage L | Deep to Very Deep Wrinkles | Nasolabial folds, the nose, the back of the hands |
| Stylage XL | Facial Volume Restoration | Temples, cheekbones, jawline, chin |
| Stylage XXL | Facial Volume Creation and Restoration | Cheekbones, chin shape, sunken temples, the facial oval |
The only two duration figures Vivacy publishes for this range are that S results can last up to 12 months and that XXL can give projection lasting up to 18 months. Those are manufacturer ceilings under favourable conditions, not averages, and Vivacy publishes no figure at all for M, L or XL. We would rather print that gap than fill it with a number nobody can source.
Why we will not tell you which grade you are getting before we have seen your face
Because the honest answer is that we do not know yet. Grade choice is made at the appointment, on the anatomy in front of us, and the three things that decide it are how thick the skin is over the area, how much that area moves, and whether the gel has to hold a shape against bone or blend into soft tissue. A patient who reads that XL is described as a volumiser and arrives expecting XL in the cheek may end up better served by M placed differently, or by nothing at all in that area. Naming a product in advance turns a clinical decision into a sales promise, and we do not make that trade. The full reasoning sits on our Stylage page.
What we deliberately do not carry from Vivacy, and why
Four Stylage products exist worldwide that you will never be offered here, and the reason is not preference. Special Lips, Lips Plus, Hydro and HydroMax hold no Canadian device licence. Vivacy’s three Canadian licences list only S, M, L and their lidocaine versions, XL Lidocaine, and XXL. A Class III device with no Canadian licence cannot lawfully be sold or imported for sale in Canada, so any Toronto clinic advertising Stylage Special Lips or Stylage HydroMax is describing something it should not have.
That gap has a practical consequence we would rather state than dodge. Vivacy’s two dedicated lip gels are exactly the products that are unavailable here, which is why our lip work does not run on Stylage. It runs on Revanesse, from Prollenium in Aurora, Ontario, whose lip products do hold Canadian licences. That is not us ranking one manufacturer above another. It is a supply reality that shapes the menu.
Two names that are not Stylage grades
Two words turn up in filler marketing as though they were product grades, and neither is. Bi-SOFT is Vivacy’s patented syringe and injection system, covered by patent WO2018/185406 A1, and Vivacy has since introduced a newer syringe called Bi-FLEX. IPN-Like is the cross-linking technology described above. Anyone who offers you Stylage Bi-Soft as a grade has misread a syringe as a gel. There is no such product.
Where Stylage sits in a range that also contains Revanesse and Teosyal
We carry hyaluronic acid from three manufacturers, and they do not do the same job. Stylage does the structural and wrinkle work. Revanesse does the lips and several of the contouring treatments. Teosyal Redensity 1 and Redensity 2 do skin quality and the under-eye, which are jobs a structural gel should not be asked to do. Restylane can be ordered, is rarely used, is not in our booking system and has no published price.
| What you want changed | Which family we usually reach for | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Cheek, chin, jawline, temple structure | Stylage | The grades Vivacy built for volume are the grades Canada licensed, and the gel behaves predictably under a face that moves |
| Lip shape and volume | Revanesse | Vivacy’s lip-specific gels are not licensed in Canada. Revanesse Lips products are |
| Skin quality, hydration, glow | Teosyal Redensity 1 | A skin booster is not a filler. It changes texture, not shape |
| Hollowing under the eye | Teosyal Redensity 2 | Formulated for the thinnest skin on the face, with low water binding so it does not puff |
| Collagen stimulation rather than gel volume | Radiesse | Calcium hydroxylapatite, a different material entirely, and not reversible with hyaluronidase |
What Stylage treatments cost at Bar Beauty Medical
We price filler by the treatment and the area, not by the product, so the grade used does not change what you pay. Every figure below is live in our Jane booking system and every figure is in Canadian dollars.
| Treatment | What it covers | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Lip Filler | 1 cc | $750 |
| Cheek Contour | 1 cc | $750 |
| Jawline Sculpting | 1 cc | $750 |
| Nasolabial Fold Reshape | 1 cc | $750 |
| Melomental Fold Reshape | 1 cc | $750 |
| Forehead Contouring | Per treatment | $800 |
| Tear trough, under eyes | Per treatment | $850 |
| Liquid rhinoplasty | Per treatment | $900 |
| Chin Reshape | Per treatment | $950 |
| Full Face Rejuvenation and Balancing | 2 cc | $1,500 |
| Frown Line Correction | Per treatment | $500 |
| Dissolving Filler | Hyaluronidase session | $150 |
The consultation is free and is never charged. Most cases need one to two syringes and complex structural cases can need two to four, so we write the whole plan down with a total before anything is injected. The full live menu is on our price list.
One thing worth saying plainly: there is no Jane item that says the word Stylage. Our booking system names the treatment and the area, and the gel is chosen in the room. Four entries in the system do name Revanesse and three name Redensity, in the treatment name or in its description, because in those cases the product and the technique are inseparable. If a clinic quotes you a price attached to a named grade before it has assessed you, that is a product being sold, not a treatment being planned.
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Other brands we partner with
Bar Beauty Medical is an authorized partner for the most-trusted names in medical aesthetics. Browse our other brand pages to see what we offer:
- Allergan, Botox Cosmetic
- Galderma, Dysport, Sculptra
- Prollenium, Revanesse, made in Aurora, Ontario
- Teoxane, Teosyal Redensity 1 and Redensity 2
- Merz, Radiesse calcium hydroxylapatite
- InMode, Morpheus 8, Forma, Body FX, Diolaze
- Aerolase, NeoSkin, NeoClear (all skin tones)
- Aptos, premium absorbable thread lifts
- Venus Concept, Venus Bliss fat reduction
- SkinPen, only FDA-cleared microneedling device
- SkinCeuticals, clinical-grade vitamin C and antioxidants
- SkinBetter Science, AlphaRet retinoid and Even Tone correctors
- NOON Aesthetics, DermShield acne, brightening, and retinaldehyde
- Hale Derma, hypochlorous acid pre and post-care spray
The honest limits of what anyone can tell you about Stylage
Filler marketing leans hard on rheology, the physics of how a gel deforms. The number quoted most often is G prime, the elastic modulus. We do not quote it for Stylage, and here is why in full.
There is no published modulus figure for most of the range
The only Stylage rheology figures in the peer-reviewed literature are for M Lidocaine at 199.0 Pa and Special Lips at 170.8 Pa, both measured at 1 Hz, published by Smarrito and colleagues in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology in 2022. There is no published figure for S, L, XL or XXL. Vivacy itself publishes no modulus number for any grade, only qualitative language such as high elasticity and high viscosity. Any Toronto clinic quoting a G prime for Stylage XL or XXL is quoting something that does not exist in the literature.
Even where a number exists, it is not comparable between products
Lorenc, Ohrlund and Edsman, writing in the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology in 2017, measured the same fillers on different rheometer settings and got results that differed by a factor of 1.6 to 7.4 for a single product. A number that moves that much with the instrument is not a number you can use to rank two brands against each other. So a comparison table that lines Stylage up against another filler by modulus is comparing measurement conditions, not gels.
A higher modulus does not mean more lift
Flegeau and colleagues, in Pharmaceutics in 2023, found that the highest-modulus product they tested had the worst projection index of the group. The intuitive equation, firmer gel equals more lift, is not supported. What is supported, from Fagien and colleagues in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in 2019, is that a firmer gel placed against bone resists the compressive forces of the deep plane better than a soft gel does. That is a statement about placement, not about a ranking of brands.
The practical translation is that we describe how a gel behaves and where it should sit, and we do not put a number on it. If that feels less impressive than a specification sheet, it is also the version that survives being checked.
What Stylage will not do
- It will not tighten loose skin. Hyaluronic acid adds volume where volume is missing. Laxity is a different problem and needs a different tool, or in some cases a surgeon.
- It will not fix a shape you dislike by adding more of it. The commonest reason a face reads as overfilled is that each session added product to an area that was already full. We would rather say no.
- It will not replace weight. Significant volume loss from rapid weight change or a GLP-1 medication is not a one-syringe problem, and we will say so at the consultation rather than start a course that cannot get where you want.
- It is not permanent, and that is a feature. Hyaluronic acid is reversible with hyaluronidase. Our dissolving session is $150.
- It does not improve skin quality. Texture, tone and hydration are a different job. That is what skin boosters are for.
Who should not have Stylage, or any hyaluronic acid filler
We screen for this before we book, not after you arrive. Filler is not appropriate if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, if you have an active skin infection or inflammatory condition at or near the injection site, if you have a known allergy to hyaluronic acid products or to lidocaine, or if you have an untreated bleeding or clotting disorder. We also delay treatment around dental work and around vaccination, and we do not treat anyone whose expectations we cannot meet honestly. Pre-injectable screening, including screening for body dysmorphic disorder, is part of our protocol under our Medical Director.
Frequently asked questions about Vivacy and Stylage
Is Stylage approved in Canada?
Stylage is licensed for sale in Canada as a Class III medical device. Vivacy holds three Health Canada device licences: 95643 covering Stylage S, M and L and their lidocaine versions, first licensed on 27 August 2015; 111727 covering Stylage XL Lidocaine, first licensed on 22 August 2024; and 96945 covering Stylage XXL, first licensed on 13 May 2016. All three were active when we checked the register in August 2026. A device licence proves a product may lawfully be sold in Canada. It does not publish an indication, so nobody should quote one from it.
Which Stylage grade will I get?
We decide at your appointment, after we have assessed the area, and we tell you before we inject. The choice depends on how thick the skin is over the area, how much that area moves, and whether the gel has to hold a shape against bone. We do not pre-assign a grade over the phone or in a price quote, because that would be selling a product rather than planning a treatment.
Why does the price not change with the grade?
Because we price by treatment and area rather than by product. A 1 cc area treatment is $750 whether the gel used is S, M, L, XL or XXL. This keeps the clinical decision separate from the commercial one, which matters when the person choosing the product is also the person quoting the price.
Do you carry Stylage Special Lips or Lips Plus?
No, and neither does anyone else in Canada legally. Vivacy’s two dedicated lip gels hold no Canadian device licence, so they cannot be sold here. Our lip work uses Revanesse, made by Prollenium in Aurora, Ontario, whose lip products are licensed in Canada.
What is IPN-Like cross-linking?
It is Vivacy’s patented method of building the gel. Rather than bonding hyaluronic acid chains into a single chemical network, IPN-Like interweaves two networks. Vivacy’s description is that this produces a gel which sits softly under the skin and holds its shape under muscle movement. It is a manufacturing technology, not a product name and not a grade.
Does Stylage contain lidocaine?
Most of the range does. The Canadian licence lists Stylage S Lidocaine, M Lidocaine and L Lidocaine alongside the plain versions, and the only Canadian XL product is XL Lidocaine. Stylage XXL is licensed without lidocaine. If you have a known allergy to amide anaesthetics, tell us at the consultation, because it changes which products are available to you.
How long does Stylage last?
Vivacy publishes only two figures: S can last up to 12 months and XXL can give projection lasting up to 18 months. Those are ceilings, not averages, and no manufacturer figure exists for M, L or XL. In practice longevity depends on where the gel was placed, how much that area moves and your own metabolism, which is why we book a review rather than promise a date. Our page on how long fillers actually last goes through the evidence.
Can Stylage be dissolved?
Yes. It is hyaluronic acid, so hyaluronidase breaks it down like any other HA gel. Our dissolving session is $150 and we keep hyaluronidase on site, which matters far more for emergencies than it does for changing your mind.
Is Stylage better than Juvederm or Restylane?
Not better in any absolute sense, and we would distrust anyone who told you otherwise. It is engineered differently. We do not carry Juvederm at all, and our reasoning is on the Allergan page. Restylane can be ordered but is rarely used and is not in our booking system. The right gel is the one your injector picks for your anatomy on the day.
Why is there no Stylage item in your booking system?
Because we book treatments, not products. Jane lists the area and the volume, such as Lip Filler 1 cc or Chin Reshape, and the gel is selected in the room. Four Jane entries do name Revanesse and three name Redensity, because in those cases the product and the technique are inseparable.
Who will inject me?
Injectable treatments at Bar Beauty Medical are performed by Jasmine Saggu, RN, our Aesthetic Nurse Injector, or by Shahram Mafazi, IMG, PDD, our Aesthetic Medicine Expert, Trainer and Instructor, who holds a Professional Diploma in Dermatology from the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. Both work under the medical direction of Dr. John David Henneberry-Fudge, MD, FRCPC, CPSO #95972. You can read about the whole team on our team page.
How do I book, and what happens if I need to cancel?
We hold your appointment with a credit card and nothing is charged when you book. Cancel or reschedule at least 24 hours before your appointment and there is no charge. If you do not show up, we charge $100 to the card, and a first missed appointment is usually forgiven and credited toward your next treatment. The consultation itself is free and there is no obligation to treat on the day.
Sources used on this page
- Laboratoires Vivacy corporate site, company history, product families and the Paris and Archamps addresses: vivacy.com
- Stylage brand site, per-grade descriptors, treatment areas and the two published duration figures: stylagebyvivacy.com
- Vivacy technology pages for IPN-Like and Bi-SOFT, including patent WO2018/185406 A1: vivacy.com
- Health Canada Medical Devices Active Licence Listing, company 139385 and licences 95643, 96945 and 111727, read through health-products.canada.ca in August 2026
- Ramos-e-Silva M et al. Stylage, a range of hyaluronic acid dermal fillers containing mannitol. Clin Cosmet Investig Dermatol 2013;6:257 to 261
- Smarrito S et al. Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology 2022, for the only two published Stylage modulus figures
- Lorenc ZP, Ohrlund A, Edsman K. J Drugs Dermatol 2017;16(9):876 to 882, on rheometer dependence
- Flegeau K et al. Pharmaceutics 2023;15(11):2585, on modulus and projection
- Fagien S et al. Plast Reconstr Surg 2019;143(4):707e to 720e, on firm gel against bone
Booking a Stylage consultation at Bar Beauty Medical
If you want a straight answer about whether a hyaluronic acid gel is the right tool for what is bothering you, book the free consultation. We assess the area, photograph a baseline, tell you which grade family we would reach for and why, and write the plan down with a total before you commit to anything. If the honest answer is that filler is the wrong tool, or that the right move is to do nothing this year, we will say that instead.
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