When I was really little, I only had a faint inner double-eyelid line. In middle school, I got a crease when I did double-eyelid treatments (double fold/tape), and a line appeared. When I brought up double-eyelid surgery, everyone said, “You already have a line—why get surgery?” so I think I also thought, ‘Maybe I don’t really need to.’ But after I got a job, I started looking at a computer a lot. As I got more tired, I had to stare at screens longer and use more eye tension. As a result, I gradually stopped using eye tension in daily life. Since relaxing my eyes became a habit, every time I took photos, instead of just looking sleepy, my eyes would open in a snake-eye shape. The formed line looked uneven/zigzag, and looking at rear-camera photos gave me stress and drove me crazy. So (1) I wanted the double-eyelid line not to be split or uneven. (If it stayed and did not disappear even after waking up, and kept the same line and size.) (2) Even with my eyes relaxed, I didn’t want a sleepy-eye or snake-eye look. For those two reasons, I decided on surgery. I have never imagined eye features more glamorous than my own image, so I think I naturally chose an in-out style. When reading reviews, every eye I thought “This eye is so pretty!” turned out to be done by the same surgeon at the hospital where I had my surgery. I felt this surgeon’s aesthetic taste is very similar to mine.
I booked an appointment and went; I didn’t have to wait long. The chairs were divided by partitions, which felt unusual (it was useful when I came back for suture removal, lol). I talked with the senior assistant first, then met the surgeon. The surgeon brought a photo I had chosen from eyes he had operated on that matched what I wanted. (A slightly cat-eye in-out double-eyelid look?) My eyes were relatively shorter horizontally than that photo. But the surgeon looked carefully at my eyes and said there would be no space ahead to work with, I asked, “How about secondary canthoplasty?” There is space behind my eyes, but this clinic performs posterior canthoplasty as a package, so he said it could harm the cat-eye image I wanted and advised me to think it over. He said the line could be placed as I wanted even without canthoplasty. There was also a concern. My eyes and eyebrows are very close, so he said if surgery is done, the double-eyelid line may rise and become even closer. That was one of the things I had been very worried about. But instead of saying, “Since we’re already operating, let’s just do everything,” he said to do the double eyelid first, and if swelling is gone but I still want it later, then it wouldn’t be bad to consult for posterior canthoplasty or another procedure then. For me, who even has trouble going to a beauty salon because I avoid extra procedures, this was heaven.
After the surgeon consultation, the assistant came in. The plan I had judged for myself was eyelid shape correction + fat removal + incision. (I chose incision because I didn’t want to lose my double eyelid again after waking up.) But the assistant said exactly three clear points, and I thought, “This is it,” and decided to book right away that same day. And we also talked about the brow-to-eye distance I had brought up earlier with the surgeon! This hospital is also known for eyebrow lifting, so I asked whether combining that would improve things. The doctor explained how long eyebrow lifting can last, and also introduced another method, forehead lifting. (But he also reassured me that even if I judged things after all the double-eyelid swelling goes down, it wouldn’t be too late.)
I set surgery for the next week. Since that was my vacation week and I wanted to do it, he postponed the next surgery a bit and gave me my slot! On surgery day, I was really nervous and dazed. From locker-room guidance to the moment I left, there wasn’t a single time I felt unwell. Honestly, I didn’t know my hands would be tied on the operating table, so I went ‘Huh!’, but because he explained each step as it was done, nothing unexpected happened. I answered “Are you still not sleepy?” about two times, and by the time I came to my senses, the surgery was already underway. Even every time I had to open my eyes on the table, the doctor saying the line was beautiful made me excited. The surgery didn’t hurt at all… tattooing hurt 100 times more. Even on the day stitches were removed, it didn’t hurt much, and when the doctor said, “You handled it very well~,” I immediately felt proud, and his gentle tone made me want to cry. After stitch removal, while waiting, the doctor came. As soon as I saw him, I smiled broadly and said thank you. The doctor had said the swelling might make things look puffy above and below the crease now, and yes, it was swelling; it is still going down now. In fact, I hadn’t even told my parents and came for surgery alone, but I honestly expected to get scolded a lot, lol. When I arrived and showed my eyes, instead of getting angry they said the line was well placed, so I felt it really turned out well. I keep hearing people who see it say it looks naturally done. When I said incision, many were surprised. Quite a few people even asked if I had done an anterior canthoplasty~~ ㄱㅇㄷ Although swelling is still going down, opening my eyes is definitely much easier than before, and because the vertical width is aligned, I don’t feel a big horizontal-width difference. The swelling is not fully gone, but I’m glad my eyes and eyebrows are not as close as I feared. As mentioned before surgery, there is slight visual reduction. With the glasses I normally use, it is mostly corrected. Because my eyesight is not great, there are moments I get a little tired trying to focus closely, but I believe recovery will come soon. For incision techniques they say to monitor for one to six months. If the line becomes slightly thinner from this point, it will probably become the shape I really wanted. >< This is one of the best things I’ve done this year!!
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