Lip Lift in Reston, VA

I'm about to get a lip lift in Virginia. I am posting two photos of me. One is me with lip injectibles in lips, and also above my upper lip (bad idea, looks horrible). I went last Thursday and had the filler taken out of my upper lip. (I left the filler in my lower lip, although I might get it taken out. I think it's pretty exaggerated.) There's still some in there however. I think I need the doctor to inject more Vitrase.

The second photo is after the Vitrase, in preparation for my lip lift this Friday.

I look really bad right now :( I had forgotten how long my upper lip was. I had the filler in for over 2 years. That didn't really look good either though. Very ducky-looking, very fake.

I should also mention that the price includes a corner lift and the Vitrase injections.

So it's over. I was really super anxious leading up to this. I was afraid it was going to really hurt. Well, it didn't, surprisingly enough, and there's little pain, little bruising, and not that much swelling. Not at all what I expected. My biggest concern now is that I didn't get enough skin taken off, and that it might have to be modified, but the doctor did say that that is not a big deal. That it's better to err on the side of caution and come back later and just take a little off after. He said it's a minor procedure and nothing like what I just had done. I'm not sure how it works, and what effect another one would have scar-wise, so we'll see. I'm probably jumping the gun anyway. I know I need to be patient and let the swelling go down and see where I'm at. I'm just anxious and was hoping for more spectacular results sooner! Anyway, my post-op is on Thursday, so we'll see what the doc thinks and how I look. Either way, it's a huge improvement on my natural overly long upper lip!