Wearing Makeup After Blepharoplasty or Eyelid Surgery

There are several different blepharoplasty techniques, some of which may allow you to wear make up one week after surgery.  You need to check with your surgeon to see if you had one of these techniques.

Make up can irritate the incision. You should speak with your surgeon for further details. You may be allowed to wear make-up earlier in your particular case. Seeing your surgeon before applying cosmetics is important, especially if you want to put it on so soon before the recommended wait time.

After the sutures have been removed from the Blepharoplasty procedure, you may apply makeup in addition to sunscreen on your eyelids the day after the sutures are removed.  This is provided that your wounds have healed nicely and with the clearance to do so from your Plastic Surgeon.  Additionally, mineral makeup has many advantages over other lines of makeup products.  For instance, mineral makeup will not block pores, virtually no allergy risk, has... more

I would try to wait a week after surgery to start using makeup atleast. The wounds are still healing and your doctor does not want to risk infection or the wound opening up. I would gingerly remove the makeup and be careful about using alcohol based removers. Getting a blepharoplasty is not like getting a haircut or a cheeseburger. You are not doing this every month so I tell patients to stick by the rules. To be frank, it is frustrating for a surgeon when you give your patient a set of... more

The incisions from Blephroplasty have healed well enough in 3 days after surgery to have the sutures removed. By 1 week the incisions are certainly sealed. There is no problem in beginning to use makeup at the 1 week interval but I would be very gentle in removing the makeup until the 2 weeks post-op. 

Hi. The eyelids heal very fast. After blepharoplasty in Manhattan, we let our patient wear make up in one week and we have not had any problems. 

By 4-5 days mineral make up can be used to conceal post blepharoplasty bruising if all incisions are healing well, are sealed, and there is no fluid drainage form the wounds. I use the transconjunctival blepharoplasty for the lower eyelids, thus there is no exyternal incision to worry about. I prefer to have my office aesthetician instruct the patient in how to apply mineral make up to make sure that you do not traumatize the lid during application.

I like to wait for two weeks post op before applying makeup close to the eye lid incision. Mineral makeup is milder and has less effect on the skin in general. Facial makeup away from the incision is okay much sooner.

Until the incisions are completely healed, I would avoid make-up. Rubbing make-up can open incisions and also can cause an infection. Give it two weeks at least. If you are concerned about the bruising, then you can probably by cover up to blend the lowest part of the lower lid and cheek, but I would not put any makeup near your incisions.

Other than the slight possibility of some irritation of the incision by your make-up, there would probably be no reason why you couldn't apply eye make-up within one week after surgery. The problem is removing the eye make-up, which involves much harsher products and some degree of rubbing of the delicate eyelid skin and incision line, which may not be strong enough to take the abuse, just one week post-op. You are best advised to check with your surgeon to see whether the suture line has... more

There are different procedures that would allow you to apply make-up but only your doctor can tell you for sure.