I deleted the photos. It seems some people are misunderstanding this face as if it were the final facial contour line, even though at least several months still need to pass before my facial line looks natural.^^ I can still feel the scar tissue around my cheekbones and jaw not yet loosening, staying firm and swollen. That’s also why I keep saying repeatedly that it has only just been one month. I uploaded the photos because some people were curious about how the line became smoother compared with the severe asymmetry and previous unevenness. --------------------------------------------- Because people requested photos in relation to the post I wrote in the surgery review section a few days ago, I uploaded the photos briefly. It has only been one month, and I want to say that the swelling has not fully gone down yet. They said the line will keep changing and can become even slimmer for up to 1 year. Since it is only one month, my face is still very unnatural, but because there are people curious about the greatly corrected asymmetry and the softened contour line even before the swelling has fully subsided, I uploaded the photos. ----------------------------------------- As promised yesterday, no, the day before yesterday, I’m uploading the photos. After I finally got off work late yesterday, I spent all that time taking photos, choosing them, disguising and editing them, and only now am I finally uploading them. Because I’m extremely timid, it took a while as I changed the eyes, changed the mouth, put glasses on, and made a whole fuss. Thanks to that, I feel somewhat reassured, but there is also a lot left to be desired. If I could, I wanted to upload natural photos from before surgery and natural photos from after surgery, compare them in various ways, and show the actual change in image. But I felt anxious that if I did that, my face might end up circulating here and there on the internet against my wishes, so in the end I worked on them with extreme timidity. Actually, when I first posted here, I had firmly decided that I would absolutely not upload photos. But many people were curious, and I thought it would be a good opportunity to actually gauge the distance between the subjectivity of the “satisfaction” I feel and the subjectivity other people feel, so I decided to upload photos. Since I can upload only two files, I edited several photos by attaching them together. The first photo compares the asymmetry before and after surgery. As you can see in the photo above, my face had asymmetry where the left jaw, which had developed from being used a lot, spread outward, while the weaker right jaw, which was used less, rolled inward. Because the lower face was crooked like this, the nose was also crooked, one cheekbone looked more protruded while the other looked less protruded, and the lips met crookedly, so the left and right sides gave completely different impressions across the center of the face. I covered them in the photo, but one eyebrow alone was raised upward, and because of the imbalance in the height of the facial skeleton, even when I directed both pupils straight forward, it often looked slightly like strabismus to other people. The lower left and right photos were taken from below with matching angles and edited side by side so that the asymmetry before and after surgery could be compared. However, the right photo, which is the post-op photo, has a slightly mismatched angle, so the photo itself feels crooked. (You can probably feel it if you compare the angle of the nose.) Please definitely take that into account when comparing the photos. When I looked in person, I didn’t feel it that much, but after taking photos, I can tell that the post-op swelling still remains fairly plump. (Lower right photo) The second photo is a front-view comparison before and after surgery. I tried to crop the photos so the face size matched almost as closely as possible. If you want to gauge the actual change, I think it may be okay to roughly compare the proportions of other facial areas using the thickness of the neck or the width of the forehead as a reference. It’s unfortunate that the change I actually feel is not expressed very clearly in the photos. Since photos are two-dimensional planes, they really are insufficient to explain changes in a three-dimensional structure. I don’t know how much change you can feel and compare from those photos, but the three-dimensional change I actually feel is tremendous. First, my broad, spread-out cheekbones do not feel as if they were suddenly sharply bent; rather, I can feel a rounded, natural surface moving backward, like shaping a fine line by gently smoothing clay into a round form. Compared with before, I also feel like the oblique side view of my face has become longer than the front view. In fact, I had tried to photograph this change as the focus, but after taking the photos, the impression of my face showed too plainly, and the risk of exposing my identity was too high.^^;; Please understand. The change in the perceived size of my face after surgery also feels big. If measured in actual numbers, the difference may in reality not be that large, but in real-life visual perception and how it is received, it seems to have a several-fold synergistic effect. Since it has only been one month since surgery, the hospital and people who had surgery before me said that as time passes, my face will change to look more natural and slimmer. Well... even if it does not change much from here, I will not be disappointed or greedy. I have already reached the minimum threshold of my satisfaction. The subjectivity of “satisfaction” that I mentioned earlier was exactly this. I no longer want a slimmer or sharper V-line, and my expectation for “satisfaction” was only at the level of hoping that the complex about my face would be complemented into a natural impression. So for those who want beauty that surpasses others, these photos may actually be a disappointing surgical result. This is exactly why I emphasized in my writing that each person must choose and judge their own situation depending on their own case. Everyone’s expectations for satisfaction are different. Therefore, even if someone has surgery at a certain hospital and considers it a success, the same surgical result may feel like a failure to someone else. (Of course, I am talking about the result after a normal surgical process without side effects, and I am referring to subjective aesthetic satisfaction.) My “standard” for satisfaction was “naturalness” through correction, and the “principles” of surgery that I valued even more were safety and stability. Please do not be easily swept along by this or that talk, and I hope you investigate, experience, judge, and choose according to your own center.
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