Before <day of surgery> After <1 month post-op> After <1 month post-op> After <the photo on the right was at week 2, when there was still a very slight bruise on the nasal bridge> Before <what I wrote down on the day of surgery> I had rhinoplasty without implants on December 15 at a plastic surgery clinic!
Since I was young, my blunt-looking nose from the front had been a complex for me, and after going to consultations, I learned not only that I had a bulbous nose, but also drawbacks I hadn’t known about, like a hump nose and arrow-shaped nose. Looking again now, I think it was a nose with a low nasal tip and a narrow nasolabial angle, so from the side it gave a slight downward-leaning impression.
On the day of surgery, I printed out a side line I liked from this clinic and a front-view photo of NewJeans’ Haerin, and I wrote down in a lot of detail the shape I wanted and the shapes I disliked! When I got there, they removed the hair inside my nose and I had the surgery; when I opened my eyes, I was in the recovery room. I was extremely thirsty, very cold, and dizzy. Even though it was past the clinic’s closing time, they let me rest sufficiently in the recovery room, and I was grateful. They also gave me a cold/hot pack and pumpkin juice!
On the first day, there was a subtle numb, aching feeling in the mucous membrane inside my nose and in my ear. And surprisingly, the place that hurt was my tailbone.. I think it was because I kept lying in the same straight posture during surgery. For about 6 days, I slept sitting up, and even then my tailbone felt stiff and it was hard. For swelling care, I slept sitting up, ate convenience-store pumpkin porridge, and used compresses!
The next day, I went to the clinic and had the cotton removed. (After removing the cotton, the refreshing feeling lasted only a moment and it got blocked right away,,) A week later, they removed the splint and took out the stitches on the columella side. (I had almost no facial swelling, so I thought my nose would be the same, but there was some hidden swelling and yellow bruising. But after I walked a bit in the cold wind, a lot went down that evening.) Two weeks later, they removed the stitches inside my nose and in my ear. The nurses who did the treatment were always kind!
After taking off the splint, there was almost nothing uncomfortable, and by around week 3, most of the swelling had gone down and the nasal congestion had improved. By around week 5, the discomfort when using the facial muscles around my nose disappeared, and my nose also became soft and squishy.
I do feel a tiiiny bit disappointed about the nasal tip height, but during consultation I heard that my skin is thin and my nose is on the smaller side, so they couldn’t raise it a lot. I also heard that my septum was quite deviated, so they only removed a little, and I think they raised it safely, so I’m going to be satisfied! Still, I’ve gotten compliments that my nasal bridge is pretty, and before I wasn’t confident about side-profile photos taken from far away, but now I don’t care about that anymore!!
They say the effect of rhinoplasty is from the side, right? But for me, I really, really like the improvement from the front!! I thought the hump would also mainly affect the side profile, but after shaving the hump down, the asymmetry of the nasal bridge from the front improved, the bridge that had looked narrow became neatly defined, and because my nostrils show just the right amount, it looks pretty. Before, nose contour shading was a must whenever I went out, but now the natural shadows are there even without it!!
When my friends around me saw that I had it done, they said they wanted to do it too. When I searched for clinic reviews, there were lots of people who went because of acquaintances, and I understood why! If your usual desired aesthetic matches the director’s, I think you can get a satisfying result!!