<The photo is just one of the ones I took to the Louvre and showed them>I had surgery using silicone and autologous costal cartilage, and next month it’ll be six months since the surgery. It took almost 1–2 months until the surgery, and I had consultations over the course of two months. I didn’t want things to get delayed this much, but I had no choice because several of the clinics I wanted were extremely hard to book, and I felt like I’d regret it if I gave up on those consultations and had surgery somewhere else because of that, so I waited it out. One tip is, when you make a reservation, ask them to contact you and let you know even a bit earlier if a cancellation slot opens up. And even if they didn’t contact me first, I made sure to call and ask once a week. Thinking about it now, it was almost obsessive;; That’s how desperate I was, and I think I really wanted to succeed in one go. And for me, online research mattered more than in-person consultations. At that time, it wasn’t like I just looked at reviews and thought, “This is the place,” and had surgery. Apps and cafes were the basics, and even on other sites, if they were female-dominated cafes, I searched through everything to find surgery information. Surprisingly, besides places that openly share plastic surgery information like that, when you go to other communities, there are a lot of places where people speak more honestly..?? And the place where I had surgery also had a more positive response there than I expected, so I went for an in-person consultation, liked the consultation, and eventually had the surgery. Honestly, the line the director first planned for me was so glamorous that I was unsure. But during the consultation, I showed photos of what I wanted (I also showed reference photos from multiple angles), and when I explained in detail how I wanted to change the shape of the nasal tip and the bridge, the director redesigned it with me to match that. Also, because I didn’t want to worry about the nasal tip dropping or sagging after my rhinoplasty, I asked them to use a firm material for my nose. From the start, after taking a CT scan, they said my septal cartilage was barely visible.. lol My skin was so tight that even when they tried lifting it, it didn’t lift much. After putting all of that together, the director said my nose should be done in a naturally defined style, so that’s how the surgery was done. And it wasn’t just the design. The reason I chose this place was also because the director explained things realistically. They didn’t just say everything was possible, or that it would be pretty if done a certain way. They clearly said what couldn’t be done, and for things that were realistically impossible, they also told me alternative methods. Hmm…. Actually, when I showed some reference photos, they said they couldn’t make my nasal bridge as slim as that lol They said that because I have eyes with epicanthoplasty, making it that slim would make the inner corners of my eyes look more crowded together. That made sense, so I said okay. I’ve lived while getting little cosmetic procedures here and there, but honestly, for the nose, what people call the recovery period was the toughest. First, when you look in the mirror with the splint on, you feel a reality check lolololol And after taking it off, you seriously check the swelling several times a day. I think this is a stage even people who normally don’t have appearance-related obsessive thoughts can’t avoid… You just spend the whole day with nothing but swelling on your mind. Those thoughts started getting better after the one-month mark, and I thought I liked it even at two months, but people around me said it looked really pretty at 3–4 months. And that nose has been maintained until now, yep. They usually say swelling keeps going down up to six months, so you need to keep watching it, but I don’t think there have been any major changes for me…. I do think it would be even better if the nasal tip gets a bit slimmer from here, so I’m going to keep watching it steadily. Honestly, at this point, I can consider it the stable phase, right? This is the first time I’ve written this much after my rhinoplasty, but thinking back to when I was researching now, it really was tough.
This review is a surgical review pursuing a naturally defined look.