Description of Business	12 Months Ended
Description of Business	Dec. 31, 2021
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
Description of Business	Description of Business Description of Business Evolus, Inc., (“Evolus” or the “Company”) is a performance beauty company focused on delivering products in the self-pay aesthetic market. The Company received the approval of its first product Jeuveau® (prabotulinumtoxinA-xvfs) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA”) in February 2019. The product was also approved by Health Canada in August 2018 and the European Commission (“EC”) in September 2019. Jeuveau® is a proprietary 900 kDa purified botulinum toxin type A formulation indicated for the temporary improvement in the appearance of moderate to severe glabellar lines, also known as “frown lines,” in adults. The Company commercially launched Jeuveau® in the United States in May 2019 and in Canada through a distribution partner in October 2019. The Company currently generates all of its net revenues from Jeuveau®. The Company is headquartered in Newport Beach, California. Liquidity and Financial Condition The accompanying financial statements have been prepared on a basis that assumes that the Company will continue as a going concern, and do not include any adjustments that may result from the outcome of this uncertainty. This basis of accounting contemplates the recovery of the Company’s assets and the satisfaction of the Company’s liabilities and commitments in the normal course of business and does not include any adjustments to reflect the possible future effects of the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts or amounts and classification of liabilities that might be necessary should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern. Since inception, the Company has incurred recurring net operating losses and negative cash flows from operating activities and management expects operating losses and negative cash flows to continue for at least the next 12 months. As of December 31, 2021, the Company had $146,256 in cash and cash equivalents and an accumulated deficit of $422,882. In December 2021, the Company entered into a $125,000 Term Loan agreement with BPCR Limited Partnership, BioPharma Credit Investments V (Master) LP, and Biopharma Credit PLC (collectively, “Pharmakon”). The first tranche of $75,000 was funded on December 29, 2021. The second tranche of $50,000 may be drawn at the Company’s election no later than December 31, 2022, subject to the terms and conditions of the loan agreement. As of December 31, 2021, the Company has not drawn the second tranche. The Company received net proceeds of approximately $68,695 from Pharmakon, after issuance costs and debt discounts. See Note 6. Term Loans for additional information. In January 2021, the Company and Oxford Finance LLC (“Oxford”) entered into an agreement, pursuant to which the Company paid Oxford $76,447 to pay off the Oxford Term Loan. See Note 6. Term Loans for additional information. In February 2021, the Company, Medytox, Inc. (“Medytox”), Allergan, Inc. and Allergan Limited (together, “Allergan”) entered into settlement agreements in connection with the International Trade Commission (“ITC”) action, for which the Company agreed to pay $15,000 in 2021, $15,000 in 2022 and $5,000 in 2023 with additional terms including specified royalty payments as described below and in Note 11. Medytox/Allergan Settlement Agreements and Daewoong Arrangement. In March 2021, the Company and Daewoong entered into certain agreements, pursuant to which Daewoong (1) paid the Company $25,500 in April 2021 and (2) agreed to reimburse the Company certain amounts with respect to the royalties payable to Medytox and Allergan, among other terms. See Note 11. Medytox/Allergan Settlement Agreements and Daewoong Arrangement for additional information. In addition, in March 2021 the outstanding Daewoong Convertible Note (as such term is defined in Note 7. Daewoong Convertible Note), including accrued interest, in the amount of $40,779 was converted into 3,136,869 shares of the Company’s common stock. See Note 7. Daewoong Convertible Note for additional information. In April 2021, the Company completed a follow-on public offering and issued 10,350,000 shares of its common stock, which included the exercise in full by the underwriters of their option to purchase an additional 1,350,000 shares of common stock, at a price to the public of $9.50 per share. The Company received net proceeds of approximately $92,426 from the offering, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions, excluding other offering expenses. In June, July and August 2021, the Company sold 934,367 common shares at the prevailing market prices for total net proceeds of $10,910 under the existing “at-the-market” sales agreement. See Note 10. Stockholders’ Equity for additional details. The Company believes that its current capital resources, which consist of cash and cash equivalents, will be sufficient to fund operations through at least the next twelve months based on its expected cash needs. The Company may be required to raise additional capital to fund future operations through entering into licensing or collaboration agreements with partners, grants or other sources of financing. Sufficient funds may not be available to the Company at all or on attractive terms when needed from equity or debt financings. If the Company is unable to obtain additional funding from these or other sources when needed, or to the extent needed, it may be necessary to significantly reduce its controllable and variable expenditures and current rate of spending through reductions in staff and delaying, scaling back, or suspending certain research and development, sales and marketing programs and other operational goals.