FINALLY AFTER 6 YEARS I LOVE MY NOSE. BEAUTY TAKES TIME

I was born and raised in Italy and i recently moved to the US. So as you can imagine i was blessed with a nice italian big nose :) Overall i like my appereance, i consider myself a pretty girl but i hate my nose; it's source of imbarassment. To give you a quick example: i never comb my hair and i avoid taking picture.

So after a lifetime thinking of getting a nose job I finally grabbed the bull by the horns and decided to meet with few surgeons for consultations. I visited 3 PS and ultimately decided to chose the one i considered the most suitable to perform my surgery. The first one was simply flawless (too perfect to be true), he' s an ENT with a great portfolio of pictures but i felt he was more interested in selling and marketing himself (huge lcd screen showing pictures of his work in his office, weekly phone calls from his staff ‘’so have you decided what to do?’’ and not much time spent with me); in fact, I went back for a second consultation with him and I felt rushed to the point I asked to see pics similar to my nose and he replied ‘’there are plenty of pics on my website you can look at it’’. On top of that, I will later learn (from another PS) that his post op morph pictures about me are just fake and achievable just with a computer and not in reality. On top of it I didn’t find not even a bad review online and the ones I found looked to me very fake. So I deleted him from the list. The second PS I consulted (another ENT) simply didn’t impressed me with his work and the morph pic , even though I was referred by a friend of a mutual friend. Strange, when she told me she had a nose job I was just What??? Are you serious?? He did this to you? Not a nice work, gotta be honest. A girl from his front staff also got a nose job from him: it was just bad !!!

So at the end I asked my friend’s father that is a great eye surgeon if he knew somebody and he referred me to another doctor that is the one I ended up chosing. He is a professor and head of the plastic surgery division of a very important university; 30 something years of experience and even if he is not an ENT and he performs different type of procedures I felt very comfortable the moment I met him. He took the time (1 hr each consultation) to talk to me and show me what he was going to do, explain to me the shape of my nose and what can be achieved and what cannot be achieved. He then made a strong remark on my skin; it’s very thin and he suggested to use Alloderm during surgery. That was the first time somebody told me that. I met with him other 3 times, he took pictures of me and showed me REAL post op pictures from his patients (like ten pictures). No, he doesn’t have a website where I could go and look at pictures, he is not marketing himself that’s why I felt somehow sure he was the right one. I just felt his approach was very honest, like a father would talk to his daughter. It’s funny cause I asked him: so can I trust you doctor? And he said to me: ‘’ its like we are dating and im proposing and you are asking me to give you happiness for the next 50 years’’ How can I do that? I can tell you I would make your nose look better, I will take the hump off and make everything look proportioned but I m not gonna tell you it will be perfect cause perfection in plastic surgery cant exist. At that point I said to myself : THIS GUY IS STRAIGHT UP HONEST! Cant be worst than the nose I have right now right? And I scheduled my surgery. I basically just went with my gut feelings. I don’t have a post op morph picture of my estimated result, but ive seen real post op pictures of patients with my same nose; I didn’t feel rushed or pushed to buy the product. I was simply educated on the subject and the choice was mine. Now I have my finger crossed eheheheeheh ?

I just realized i posted under my comments instead of updating the review, sorry. Anyway I am 2 weeks pre op and im excited. All i'm hoping for is that i will like the results. I want to be positive :) Yesterday i told few coworkers that i'm getting a rhino...i couldn't hide it, they saw me off on the schedule for two weeks and they started asking me about me going on vacations etc. I told them the truth, whatever, i'm not doing anything wrong after all. I am sure the gossip is gonna spread around but i don't care, it's my life and my body. I feel so much better now that is not a ''secret'' anymore; one thing less to worry about. I can't wait for the day of the surgery; this is something i have always wanted to do to the point i am not even nervous about it but instead it feels like a relief. Any advices on what to eat after the surgery? I read about pineapple juices, soups, yogurts and no salty food. Thank you for listening :)

FIVE DAYS TO GO: omg I can't believe I will actually make my dream come true! Sounds a little childish but this is really a big deal for me and I cant wait to get rid of my hump ( ahaah I'm so mean with my nose). I filled my fridge with pineapple juice, jello, soups. Got my straws, gauzes, q-tip, oxygen peroxide, got my frozen peas and gloves. Speaking of peas how you girls put them on the face? You just throw them in the gloves and you tide a knot? I'm curios..,, anyway , been taking arnica 200 ck for the past 2 days and vitamin c. Got myself a pretty hat so I won't burn my art sculpture under the sun since I'm in Cali and now I'm just counting the hours. People seem so grossed out about the surgery, oh boy I'm so ready I could perform it myself lol. Everybody at home (Italy) is a little worried but very supportive; I live here by myself and couple of girlfriends and my wonderful boyfriend will take care of me. I really envy those of you that have your family taking care of you during recovery ( to me the only comfort will be a Skype conversation with mum and dad) :( can't wait for this. 2 things I'm hoping for: great results and please please God no nausea !!!! It's gonna be great . You see it when you believe it