Incredible Doctor - Scottsdale, AZ

Hi bang2tang,
Thanks for your input. Unfortunately for my eyebrows, being Korean I don't have much hair on my body! People think I shave my arms! I have considered some options like permanant makeup and have started to occasionally use Latisse on them in addition to my lashes. Trust me, I hate drawing them in and hope to soon resolve the no brow issue!

As far as being natural, I am way past that lol! I highlight my hair, use botox, fillers, and have silicone breast implants! I do what makes me feel good and that's my ultimate decision factor for me. After I did my eyes, I felt like people could finally see me and I don't hide under 10 lbs. of eyeshadow and makeup anymore. In fact, I rarely wear much eye makeup at all now! It's very liberating!! I was lucky to find Dr. Holden because here in the Scottsdale/Phoenix area, there is not a lot of experienced Asian eyelid surgeons, trust me, I called around! I had one doctor tell me she would not do it because she was not comfortable and experienced enough to do "ethnic eyes" at my consultation! It's a good idea to find a facial specialist like I did.

Anyways, my eyes was part of my "total overhaul" goal since I was stressed about turning 30. I've gotten really healthy and fit and just had a breast aug revision on Monday! I love the line in Nikki Minaj's "moment for life" song...-everybody dies but not everybody lives... and this year, I am going to start living :)

Hi WasabiSpam,
I'm sorry that saddens you. I respect your opinion but just so u know, I have both clear and colored contacts that I like to wear. It's a cosmetic choice as is coloring my hair, wearing make up, and changing my lipstick color.

It's interesting to me that you singled out Asian women. Millions of women with beautiful natural colored eyes wear colored contacts among their other fashion preferences. This isn't old school Asian times, it's the USA and it's 2011! Asian and all races of women wear colored contacts, people dye their hair-sometimes crazy colors, grandmas get plastic surgery! etc., lol. GOD BLESS AMERICA! :)

I am not influenced by what the media tells me is beautiful, I believe beauty comes from within. That being said, don't you think that YOU are kind of telling me what is beautiful? Everyone has there own individual opinions and preferances and styles and that is great! Btw, that's one of the best parts about being a woman-we can have fun beauty regimens!

Hi Scottsadale,
No need to apologize that it saddens me.

I'm glad that you have both clear and colored contacts. I certainly hope you wear your clear ones more than the colored ones.I don't think you truly understand the "bigger picture" as to why some Asian women feel the need to wear colored contacts. It's a much deeper rooted issue that I hope you will be able to truly be honest with yourself as to why. Wearing different colored makeup is purely superficial whereas feeling the need to wear colored contacts is perhaps coming from a more subconscious desire to fit in with the majority whereas in this case, it is white.

Although we don't want to admit it, we are truly influenced by media. Do you not read the latest fashion magazines, watch MTV, movies, etc...?

I myself am Asian and singling you out because I was once like you (although you are much prettier!) until I realized what I was so "white washed". In looking at your photos, you are a beautiful Asian American women.

Let your true inner beauty show. You are not white. Be proud of your Korean ancestry.

P.S. - I read your other comments. In seems as though you are as Madonna sang "a material girl" You have had quite a few procedures done on you and plan to have more. You're a plastic surgeon's dream! Young, healthy, and $$.

Ditch all my previous comments. I don't think you'll understand the deeper meanings of them. You are already beautiful, don't get any more work done.

Peace.

Wasabispam,
I am proud to be American. I was raised in a Caucasian family and was not raised in a traditonal Korean family but still am proud to be Korean as well. Maybe it's a more deep rooted issue with Asians raised Asian. To me it's just fun! I recently got very healthy- lost 20lbs, stopped eating meat and drinking and started taking better care and maintenance of my body (I'm 30-not that young!). I don't by all means have tons of money and I worked very very hard for the surgeries I chose to have. Yes, I have had botox, filler, bleph and breast aug. But that is not that extreme especially in this region, trust me. I do appreciate your incite, btw, I will not be getting any major procedures for a long time. My wallet will not allow it anyways lol.

Warm regards

Honey, 30 is young!!!! =)

Well, it came so fast and when it did, I saw someone in the mirror that looked so much older than I felt! Hence, the blepharoplasties and the health kick. Shoot, I thought I'd be married w kids by 30 but I still feel like I'm in my 20's (except wiser and drunk a lot less lol). I still am getting used to being 30 and it's been 6 months haha! Oh well, it's not so bad. I am making the best of it!

Thank you for addressing this so eloquently. It's awesome to hear a woman stand up for herself and what "she" wants with such confidence. I was taken back by the original comment in regard to Asians doing this. I'm not Asian and I have worn colored contacts off and on for years. Like you, I consider it the same as wearing make up or coloring my hair. It's fun to change up our looks. Again, great response!

By the way, your eyes look great! I'm considering upper eyelid surgery and I'm in the Scottsdale area also. I'll be adding Dr. Holden to my list of doctors to schedule a consultation with.

Thanks Sinderella, you certainly cannot blame someone for having their own opinion which they are entitled to but it sometimes keeps people more open minded if you explain things from your point of view, which I enjoy doing (hence the reviews lol).  It would be hard to always look exactly like you were born nowadays with makeup and hair coloring - I suppose some people may have deeper reasons for wanting colored contacts but I think the majority are like you and me, use them for fun cosmetic accessories.  It doesn't change who we are! 

I love love my eyes now and so wish I would've done it sooner...sometimes I feel like I got a late start living my life to the fullest having had my eyes "opened up" so late but then I appreciate the timing since your 30's are supposed to be when you feel better than ever in your own skin.  Please do go see Dr. Holden first, he is so supportive and caring, and very smart, he really deserves all the credit to my transformation.  Let me know if you decide to do it, I want to know how it goes!  It dramatically changed my life:)

Hi Pianistnao,
Thank you so much! :)I feel so much more alive when I look at myself. First off, you should not worry!!!!! When I did all my internet research beforehand, all the reviews said, "oh yea, 10 days I was fine and back to work." Pffffffffff. Yea, Right. That is the biggest load of crap I ever heard. Maybe it's different for Caucasian surgeries. I believed that and so only planned on taking 2 wks off work when I really needed a good month to month and a half. The high height of the platform you are talking about will take a while to go down. They were still high at 3-3 1/2 months. It's hard to tell bc you are constantly seeing yourself but it will go down gradually. I took pics everyday so when I was feeling discouraged, I could look through the pics and really see my progress.

Nothing can prepare you for the emotions-depression, anxiety, possible regret, lack of self esteem. It's really really hard, you have to be strong! It's not like a bad boob job or lipo where you can hide it and get along with your life. It's your face and it makes you who are.

I would say at 4 months I was really starting to feel like myself again. I had a lot of skin and fat removed though. Everyone's different and you may find that it happens sooner for you. I heard that the key to Asian bleph is not what they remove but what they leave. Usually the bad blephs you see, they just over did it.

I worried and obsessed and it does nothing to help speed up the healing. Luckily I had a really nice understanding Dr. that was there for me to alleviate those worries and kept reassuring me that I just had to be patient. Communicate with your doc a lot so you don't feel like you're in the dark. If you need to know anything else from me, feel free to ask anything! I think it helps to have some support from ppl that know what you are going through. I just had breast aug revision 5 days ago and have at least another wk off work so I have a lot of time on my hands and I'm sure I'll be on the computer a lot lol.

Just be patient, you will look and feel more beautiful in no time :)

Best wishes!!

Thank you for your time, your knowledge, your experience, your warm heart. You are right, I didn't know that valium was to be prescribed for anxiety in the process. I thought valium was for to sleep from pains. (There was no pain at all.) All my Asian GFs are interested in upper bleph, but everyone is super super cautious like you and I. I did lower bleph in 2008, and I didn't have courage for relatively not-urgent problem of upper lid. But it was gradually a big problem when I had to tilt the mirror for eye-make-up. My doc is amazing and patient w/a tons of Caucasian patients, but he was not prepared also for asian delayed healing process. Our skin is heavier and thicker. So, medrow day pack(6 days) introduction was delayed after post-op 6 day. I blocked my work about a month--as you/my doc/everyone says, I look forward to improvement little by little everyday. Thank you for your reply, really. I do wish your recovery from breast aug revision will go really well. Have a good night!

Anytime! The valium helps a lot! The ambien is for sleep. I put some in between pics so you can see when I was more swollen at 13 days, 2 months, and 4 months. And for my other commenter, wasabispam, they are with my clear contacts ;)

Thank you for posting more photos. Looking at post op 2 months: some bad results could have ended up at just like that! I would have depressed at that point since we don't/didn't know the reality as you said people say "oh, you will look fine in 2weeks". But looking at your post-op 4-5-6 months, they have still kept improving beautfully/gracefully. You are very beautiful. Thank you for showing me your amazing progress. Now I am very much convinced that I am way too early to be freaking out. Thank you and good night!

Glad to help. Also, I did not get my epicanthal folds cut. Btw, I've read about people's creases settling over the course of up to a year! Good luck with your healing

Scottsdale1247, I just woke up and looked at the mirror--and made me nervous if I could be prettier than pre-op again. Today is post-op 11 days. I went back to your picture again and I am not even reached to post-op 13. You are helping people who go through this. excatly as you quoted. I understand theoritically it would NOT dramatically improved after one sleep, but this is hard. But my friend, I will keep you posted.

Good morning Pianistnao!
It is definitly a slow process, not an overnight one. After a few weeks, you will have a day when you see your reflection and think. "hey, I'm really starting to look good!" Everyone is puffy in the mornings but you will find that it takes you a little longer than normal to "de-puff" in the a.m. for a few months. I will show you a pic i literally just took. Even myself this morning looks bloodshot and puffy and feel crummy but I haven't been sleeping well and my body is still recovering from Monday's trauma, I'm sure.

It doesn't help that I have pms and am breaking out from that and my recent surgery!! I had bad skin for a few months after my bleph. Prob a combo of the physical and emotional stress. I went through a really deep depression for like 3 months but you reflect on a lot of things and by the time you start seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, your face will look great and stop stressing you out. Instead, it will start to make you feel better, there are days where I feel like I'm glowing
and I know it shows:) Try to focus on something else, try a new hair style or color. I got my lips plumped with filler shortly after and it gave me something on my face to love looking at and show off.

It will [RS bleep] worth it when you get through the healing process-I Promise! You are so so early in the process, and don't forget millions of other women including celebraties went through it too and come out with amazing life changing results! And you will too!! When I started seeing the positive results, I always wished I had done it so much sooner!!

Happy healing!

I love you Scottsdale1247. Tears in my eyes. Have a great Sunday.

Yikes, that pic I just posted is pretty bad. I guess that's what trying to sleep in a corset while propped up at a 45 degree angle for 6 days will do to ya! Would be easier if I wasn't a side sleeper!! I am on like 4 hours of staggered sleep! I think the pharmacy gave me fake ambien haha. Nice placebo. I might as well have popped a tic tac before bed lol! I'd be better off taking a valium maybe...What I wouldn't give for a good 9 hours!!

I hope you see that pic soon, may take it down shortly. In the meantime, I'm going to go get some visine and cucumber slices lol.

awww, don't cry girl! It will be a great Sunday for you too-because you are another day closer to your healing goal :) :) :)

I cried because of your warm words and support.
My little girl said by looking at your transition. She is a little 6 years old who always tries on my prada 5 inches heels. She knows what she is talking about. Thank you for your support.

Somehow sometimes some sentecs are deleted when I posted them.

I wrote: I cried because of your warm words and support.
My little girl said by looking at your transition, ohhh she has become so pretty, she is pretty! She is a little 6 years old who always tries on my prada 5 inches heels. She knows what she is talking about. Thank you for your support.

jwave circle lenses? Not sure what those are. But I am blind as a bat so I wear Freshlook toric (for astigmatism) Colorblends in Gray. The other colors (blue green or hazel) have too much color pigment and were more obvious. The Colorblends are much more natural than the regular Freshlook Colors.

I think you are referring to "threading" the brows. I have heard about that and hear it's great also for shaping but as you said, if it doesn't grow, there isn't going to be anything to shape! I may get them tattooed in very lightly (they tattoo thin dash marks like hair) if the Lastisse does not show a great improvement. Thanks for the tips!