So glad I did it! - Altoona, PA

It is beyond me how no one teased me for my nose growing up, because boy do I sure hate it! I've got my father's nose to a T - skinny bridge, gets a little wider, skinny again, a bulbous tip, hanging columella and a dorsal hump. Also, a BIIG thing for me is that when I raise my eyebrows, my skin tugs and makes an extreme weird triangle shape [picture included]. I've been wanting to have this done for as long as I can remember and I finally have the time and money now! The only obstacle I've run into is that literally everybody I know is arguing against it, so I've just started telling people that it's for medical reasons so they don't give me so much grief over it. I've always hated my nose to the point where I don't let anybody photograph me for anything and I try to keep big smiles at a minimum occurrence.

I'm going to Dr. Robert Louton of Blair Plastic Surgery. I had my initial consultation on Tuesday [yesterday]. He told me that my expectations for a smaller, feminine profile are very realistic. He's going to start it as a closed rhinoplasty but because there is so much tip work to do he may choose to do an open for the remainder of the surgery. He estimated 3 hours. They took a few pictures for their digital imaging so that at my pre-op we can look at some estimated results! I couldn't be more excited. The staff is so friendly and helpful! I feel completely comfortable with them. My pre-op apt is on the 10th at 9am at their Altoona location, and my surgery date is set for the 24th but they don't have an exact time for me yet.

I threw in some before pictures for you. I feel like my nose rarely looks the same in pictures but trust me, it's a honker, especially for my tiny frame! I'll be sure to keep you all posted :)

Something I've always hated about my nose is that often times it looks very different. Sometimes I feel like it's too skinny, other times too wide. Sometimes the bump feels huge and other times it feels small. Also, any time I get any sort of blemish I just feel like I have a classic witch nose with the warts on it :(
Oh well, I'm about to have a super cute nose soon! Here are a couple recent before pictures since my other ones are really old :)

I'm super excited for my pre-op! Dr. Louton and his staff are seriously so kind and amazing. They could tell how excited I was and they were all congratulating me and saying they were excited for me. I'll let you all know how it goes!!

At my original consultation they took my photos for the digital imaging predictions, but weren't able to access the software that day for whatever reason. So today at my pre-op I got to look at what Dr. Louton has dreamed up for me. Mind you, I've looked through his portfolio and it's flawless, but my predicted after from the head-on photo was not by any means what I was expecting. It was extremely short and looked wider than what I have now somehow, and the columella was hanging somethin' fierce. I asked him if he could reduce the columella but it looked worse that way. He assured me that it was just because the picture the nurse took was at the wrong angle and I was looking down more than I was looking face forward. After asking him to tweak it a little bit, no matter what he did, even if it was exactly what I asked, I still hated it. Maybe I dislike my face in general even more than I thought. Also, I didn't help that I was sans lipstick so my lips looked super small. He showed me the side profile and it was gorgeousss and straight and cute. So maybe it was just a bad angle for the head-on after all.

My gut instinct is telling me to go through with this, so I'm still on the schedule for the 24th. I'll also probably be adding in some fillers for my lips. I'll keep you all posted!