■ Double eyelid surgery 1. When you don’t know whether you need eye shape correction or not, first check whether it’s true ptosis or pseudoptosis. In my case, I filtered out places that said I needed eye shape correction and Botox in my forehead, and chose a place that said double eyelid surgery alone would be enough. I only did double eyelid surgery, and I stopped using my brows/forehead. (There are many side effects from eye shape correction, so don’t take it lightly and look up side-effect posts first.)
2. Even if you bring reference photos, they can’t make your eyes perfectly identical to the photos because it depends on your own eye shape. Figure out whether your eyes are sunken or protruding, and whether the distance between your brows and eyes is narrow or wide. (They say if you do a semi-out line on narrow eyes, it will end up too close to the brows.) Look carefully through hospital before-and-after photos and narrow it down to places with cases similar to your eyes that you like.
3. If you show a reference photo, each hospital may describe the same photo differently, like saying it’s semi-out or in-out, so don’t be flustered.
4. In most cases, the result tends to come out the way the doctor sets the line, so try setting the line yourself at home in advance.
5. If you’re going to do medial epicanthoplasty, check whether a lot of your lacrimal caruncle is visible. If you do a canthoplasty when the caruncle already shows, it can look monstrous.
■ Under-eye fat repositioning 1. Don’t choose a place just because you heard it’s good at under-eye fat repositioning. I hope you first understand your own under-eye condition before going. ex) - a: When expressionless, there is no aegyo-sal or eye bag, only a tear trough is visible / When smiling, the aegyo-sal and eye bag protrude and the tear trough becomes worse. - b: When expressionless, aegyo-sal is visible and the eye bag is huge / When smiling, the aegyo-sal and eye bag protrude and the tear trough becomes worse.
2. I was type a. Hospitals that said I needed fat grafting scared me by saying that if I didn’t do fat grafting after surgery, I’d get Indian wrinkles worse than now. But in the end, I had surgery at a place that did not recommend fat grafting, and I did not develop Indian wrinkles. (It’s been a little over a month now, and even the very slight Indian wrinkles I already had disappeared.)
3. As with the above, look for cases similar to your own eyes in the hospital’s before-and-after photos, and if possible, check reviews to see whether the surgery also looked perfect when smiling, not just when expressionless.
4. Some people say they’re doing it because of dark circles, but under-eye fat repositioning does not improve dark circles 100%.
5. Many people think under-eye fat repositioning is an easy and not dangerous surgery, and I also looked up a lot of reviews before surgery. In reviews on YouTube, communities, and blogs, most say you recover in 1-2 weeks and can return to daily life, but that is absolutely not true. Days 1-3 are peak swelling. Until 2 weeks, think of yourself as Majin Buu after a traffic accident. The swelling gradually moves down from the cheekbones to the cheeks, making you look flat-faced. (This may vary by person.. For me, the swelling was really like that^^..) And on the first day I had no bruising.. but when I woke up, bruising formed severely along the tear troughs like Itachi from Naruto and lasted until 2 weeks,, After surgery, almost every morning for nearly half a month, green eye discharge was stuck and crusted on both my upper and lower lashes, so every morning I used artificial tears carefully so it wouldn’t get into my eyes, gently loosened and wiped it off, then opened my eyes. Eye discharge kept forming frequently. For me to look like a person, it took 3 weeks before I looked human. I did brisk walking/walking exercise for 2 hours every day.
5. Under-eye fat repositioning also has many side effects, so I hope you look up side-effect posts carefully. - Flattening of the face, loss of aegyo-sal, enophthalmos, wrinkles, hollowness, undercorrection, asymmetry under both eyes, worsened dark circles, etc.
There were a lot of posts from people wondering what they should do for double eyelid surgery or under-eye fat repositioning, and if they went on like that, it seemed like hospitals would tell them to do everything even if they didn’t need it and they’d get taken advantage of. You may already know this, but I wrote down what came to mind based only on what I experienced. Everyone, research carefully and then get surgery~!