My blepharoplasty didn't work. What can I do? (Photo)

Hi Karen.  It looks like what you are experiencing is hemosiderin staining.  This is a common problem for patients that have had surgery such as rhinoplasty and blepharoplasty.  We use q-switched lasers to remove the dark coloration and at the link below you can see before and after photos of a ...

However, a photograph is much more helpful that the written description.  Without that, we are just guessing about your concerns and how best to address them.

Any time an incision is made on hair-bearing skin there is a possibility to loose hair follicles.  For many procedures, like facelifts and browlifts, the hair-bearing skin can easily be sutured in a way that makes loosing hair follicles almost unnoticeable. This technique is more difficult to ...

You have hollow sunken upper eyelids. You may benefit from filler injection. See video below for similar procedure on a young patient. You have mild upper lid ptosis but the bigger problem is the hollowness. See an oculoplastic specialist for evaluation to confirm above.

Ptosis is when the eyelid is low and the margin of the lid is sitting at or below the upper edge of the pupil.  This is due to a stretched or weakened levator muscle.  Surgery to correct this can be done from either inside/underneath the eyelid, or through the skin at the lid crease.D...

The incisions are, as noted by others, much too high.  However, this is not at all the only issue with this surgery.  The surgery has profoundly disinserted your anterior levator aponeurosis tendon, which is the fascial expansion of  the muscle that lifts the upper eyelid open.  The tendon is ...