*This is advice for people who are not just on the shorter side, somewhat bulbous, or somewhat firm... but who have a truly short, truly bulbous, truly firm nose, so it’s not really something other people need to read closely haha
The reason this is Review 1 is because I’m only on day 5... My personality is ISTJ, so I went to consultations at 10 places. I’m the type who studies like crazy, and my job is consulting too, so I have no regrets about my current surgical choice.
This is not a bragging post at all... My nose is short and bulbous, and I want to leave a little review for people who also have a firm nose like mine.
1. Is my nose firm? When you touch your nose, is it hard and strong, and does it barely move? On top of that... is it large? Then first, I hope you lower your expectations to less than half. In the end, whether you raise or lower the nose, it means stretching the skin... But if the skin doesn’t stretch... if the skin is thick, what can a plastic surgeon do about that? The way to solve it is to have surgery multiple times and soften it, but that’s insane... (In reality, some transgender people intentionally have multiple surgeries to stretch the tissue when getting breast surgery.) Anyway, because the amount it can stretch has to be increased... and used to lower the nose... that is my maximum mathematically allowable range. It can’t be dramatic.
2. “Short nose” sounds nicer than it is... most of them are upturned. Realistically, there’s a high chance it’s synonymous with an upturned pig nose. (There are occasionally short but prominent noses, but those are exceptions...) When getting nose surgery, don’t just raise it according to your complex. You have to match the contrast with the rest of your face, the eyes and mouth, which have been balanced around that short nose. People with short noses often have relatively cute-looking faces (to put it nicely) and compact features, but you’re not going to extend the nose below the philtrum... and you can’t just make the nasal bridge shoot upward, so it has to be raised within the existing settled length. Again, the more dramatic it is, the easier it is for it to look unbalanced.
3. Bulbous nose... If among bulbous noses, the nose is chubby... even if some of the fat and tissue inside are removed, they say there’s only about 2 mm that can actually be taken away. Then after surgery, it looks like there’s no difference (after surgery, swelling makes it look even chubbier). A pointed, prominent, sleek, pretty nose is difficult. Honestly, the people who post here saying they have bulbous noses and whose surgeries turned out well... if I’m being objective, they have some bulbous-nose characteristics... but I don’t think they’re truly bulbous noses, let alone really big noses.
In conclusion, I had surgery knowing the limits of my nose, and the result came out exactly within those limits... so my current nose “is not botched,” but it’s not a result beyond imagination.
So what I realized is... this nose is really a hopeless combination... and I wanted to leave behind the message that the goal should be improving the complex. I hope this helps people whose noses are like mine.
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