Eyes - buried suture double eyelid + epicanthoplasty Nose - silicone + autologous costal cartilage + bulbous nose correction At first, I went around to consultations for eyes and nose separately, but I started thinking it would be better to have the surgeries done at once. I felt this after going to a consultation at another factory-style clinic... They made me wait 1 hour just for the consultation, and after the eye consultation, when I tried to get a nose consultation, they told me to wait another hour. Seeing that, I thought I’d rather hear all the consultation and explanations from one person and have surgery that way. Also, I couldn’t trust a clinic that made me wait around so pointlessly, so from then on, I filtered out all factory-style places and went to private clinics, or even somewhat mid-sized ones, as long as the clinic system was well organized. Honestly, for my eyes, I had used a lot of double eyelid glue and double eyelid tape in high school (I didn’t after becoming an adult), so I was worried, but they said it was possible with the buried suture method I wanted. For my nose, the glabella, nasal bridge, and nasal tip were all low, so there was no way around using silicone, because I had a nose shape I wanted. Instead, I was conflicted about costal cartilage. I went to five consultations, and they all checked CT scans. My septal cartilage was really, really small... Even to me, it looked impossible to increase the height as much as I wanted with that. But there’s a cost difference between donated rib cartilage and autologous costal cartilage.. Looking only at cost, it would be donated rib cartilage, but hmm.. even though it was my first surgery, I don’t think I wanted to gamble. What if I used donated rib cartilage and it drooped? Then who would compensate me for my nose? Because of thoughts like that, I did autologous costal cartilage. I thought I’d save the money I would spend on revision surgery and finish it with the first surgery. But doing eyes and nose together was honestly harder than I imagined... It wasn’t so much that it was hard because it hurt, but it was already hard to open my eyes properly, and with my nose blocked too, it felt like daily life just didn’t run smoothly. When my mouth got dry, I mainly ate peppermint candies, and my eyes weren’t particularly difficult, so I just waited for the swelling to go down quickly. What I liked about doing buried sutures... before even 2 weeks had passed, the major swelling was all gone, and for the nose, there was more swelling at the glabella and nasal tip, but I believed time would take care of that much. Most of all, I was happy to get away from the overly natural nose I disliked. In terms of satisfaction: eyes < nose. The impact the nose has is really big.. so I think it’s even more important to get the surgery done properly. There were moments when I felt a bit of reality hitting me while going through each surgery, but as long as you’re satisfied, I don’t think there’s anything as good as this.
This review is a surgical review pursuing a natural-but-refined look.