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What Procedures Can Make Face Flatter/shorter and More Feminine?
I have a projecting/sloping forehead along with a high hairline, significant brow bossing, a tall nose, deep set eyes, long jaw, tall chin, and I also lack the appropriate amount of fat in my face for a female. Even though I am a female, I often get mistaken for a man. It is really embarrassing/painful. Are there any cosmetic procedures that can make me look more feminine?
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5902anon
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Facial feminization surgery
You can think of feminizing the face on 2 levels
the bone
the soft tissue (skin and fat)
Most of the bone work involves burring down the bone just above the eyes to reduce frontal bossing, rounding the chin (by burring or implant placement), reducing or rounding the angles of the jaw below the ears (again by bone removal or implant placement) and making the sides of the nose more concave or less like the male pyramid shape, The nasal part is achieved by a standard rhinoplasty usually with...
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Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon
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Procedures to feminize face
There is nothing that can be done about deep-set eyes or a long jaw. Fat injections to the face can plump the face and increase cheek volume. A tall nose can be made shorter through a rhinoplasty procedure. Some limited reduction with a brow bossing can be performed, but it gets pretty invasive having to do a forehead lift and drilling down the bone of the forehead area.
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Facial feminization of the masculine face.
There are several procedures I have done for 35 years to feminize the male or female face. I lower the hairline using the "Irregular Trichophytic Hairline " technique that we invented more than 30 years ago. Also I shave any protruding bone, etc. Look for the Extreme 90210 segment I did on the E Channel for further information.
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Techniques to Feminize the Face
Without several photographs it would be impossible to answer your question in a specific way.
Of the description you provided: "projecting/sloping forehead along with a high hairline, significant brow bossing, a tall nose, deep set eyes, long jaw, tall chin, and I also lack the appropriate amount of fat in my face for a female" - Not all are gender specific.Brow bossing IS a masculine feature and could be softened by burring down the bone. A nose can be feminized as can a...
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