Why Do Celebrity Facelifts Look So Bad?

The truth is the good ones look very natural and you can't even tell any lifting was done.  Bad ones get all the bad attention.  Good plastic surgery is "invisible".

This is a question I get asked out a lot. I do point out that you are only noticing the bad results and that very many celebrities, actresses and models have had a stick surgery that goes unnoticed. The type of results you are talking about usually occurs after either poorly performed surgery in patients who continue to push for more and more change, leading to multiple procedures. Whilst these celebrities may have sizeable disposable income is and can afford 'the best', most of the mistakes made in plastic surgery occur before entering the operating room. Celebrity status and significant wealth are no guarantees of sound judgement.

A well-performed facelift will notresult in a “pulled look”. There are many celebrities who have had faceliftwith youthful and natural results. The bad one are so obvious that become a hottopic and joke for media. Things can go wrong once there is a miscommunicationbetween the doctor and the patient. Expectation are not properly addressed orchecked. Some of the facelift surgeons apply too much tension and impropervector on their muscle tightening sutures resulting in pulled look. I apply agradual tension during my muscle (SMAS) tightening. At the temple region I onlyapply about 20% tension to the muscle, and as I descend toward the mandible andthe jawlines tension on the muscle reaches 100%. Neck requires much highertension, depending on the amount of laxity. In 2011, I published my uniquefacial tightening technique in the AJCS evaluating 1500 of my patient’s results.
Please look at the before and afterpictures of your doctor, that is a good indicator of how they perform theirsurgeries. Be aware of the surgeons who give you a menu list of things that youactually don’t need and those extra suggestions may lead to artificial look.