22 - My Right Eye Droops, I Think? How Can I Fix It? (photo)

My right eye has always "drooped." When I smile, it squints really noticeably. Eyeliner applied on my top lid will smear and wipe off around my brow bone only on that eye because of how the skin is hooded. I don't know if it's relevant, but when I was 16 I was told that I have amblyopia in my right eye that could no longer be corrected since I was too old. I have a few pictures of what it looks like but I don't take many pictures while smiling since the squinting is obvious and ugly.

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Your young face is still changing, but something can be done when you're a bit older

Based on your photos, you have a little bit more skin and soft tissue over your right eye that makes the crease less defined. And I would probably recommend doing some type of right upper eyelid blepharoplasty to remove a little extra skin and fat, but since you are relatively young, I recommend you wait until you’re a bit older. With Asian eyelid surgery in my practice, we have many younger women who come to have their crease formed because they never had a crease. It is possible to... more

Right Eye Lateral Hooding

You may benefit from a right sided brow lift or brow pexy and possible minimal skin excision to help the appearance of hooding. However, no two sides of a face are the same, and this is fairly common.

Slight asymmetry is not a good reason for cosmetic surgery.

The asymmetry pointed out in the photograph is very subtle and would be noticed only by very close scrutiny. Asymmetry is the rule not the exception. This slide asymmetry is not worthy of surgery.