fat transfer . Beverly Hills, CA

It’s been 5 years. The fat is still there unfortunately. I’m not swollen or puffy but the fat is still there. I still feel all the lumps in my under eye and I can still see the track marks in certain angles and my eyes look so weird and squinty when I smile still. I’ve gained and lost weight, when I gained weight the fat grew too and it made my eyes look really hollow and I hated how it made my face look. I have to stay real lean for it to look semi normal. Also it looks like the fat on my right cheek kinda sags, I never had that sagging before, and it looks like some of it might have migrated right below my cheek near my mouth. I’m late 20’s right now so I don’t think it’s normal aging / sagging. My family doesn’t have saggy faces and I don't sunbathe much. If anyone knows any doctors that have removed their facial fat transfer please let me know. He injected my fat under the muscle, so it’ll be hard to microlipo out...
Again, please stay away from this procedure, specially if you’re relatively young. For a few years after I was able to cope alright because I stayed very lean and was really young but I’m nearing my 30s now and my body filled out more and now the fat grafts just look weird; they don’t look botched per se but there’s just something weird I can’t put my finger on it. Overall it just detracts from any natural angularity your face has and it just looks kinda bloated/puffy and amorphous. There’s nothing appealing about it. You may not look like a monster, but it’ll certainly detract from any natural attractiveness you have, and it might age bad/sag you. Plus, it’s permanent unlike fillers. Please stay away.

Well I thought I was finally looking normal. Friends and fam tell me I look like the old me but pictures say something entirely different when I animate. I look in the mirror and see myself sort of like before but that's far from the truth as my face is still distorted . I can't smile in pictures without looking distorted. I get ridges and bumps all over my undereye area from where the fat was inserted . You can see here where the irregularities are totally visible. My eyes look so squinted and tiny from the fat bunching up. I try to smile now without elevating my cheeks/ eyes but it's such a concious effort and I look totally fake and insincere trying to do a half smile. I dont want to bother with Botox either. I'll also add that my midface where the fat was inserted still sinks I and worst yet I feel like my cheeks are saggier than before . Stay away from this procedure. So not worth it.

Forgot to add that he injected fat so high up my cheek in effort to create this " infra orbital rim augmentation" effect that the inner portion of my right cheekbone has about two pea sized lumps that go past the bone into the lower lid space and look like I have eye bags which I never had. Ive been trying so desperately to smash these two pea lumps with. I success because they're so mobile and in such a sensitive thin area. They are not decreasing in size. I've read that the undereye area is very difficult to address when fat graft goes wrong and the fat tends to stay because this area is so rich in blood supply so I'm desperate to have these lumps go down or go away otherwise I'm going to have big undereye bags at 24 years old and I do not want to have to undergo a lower kid blepharoplasty at such a young age to fix this mess. It's beyond me why a doc would even do this to someone my age. I didn't even have eye bags to begin with. My family has a flat cheek undereye area . I have friends/models that have pronounced undereye bone/orbital rim area and that is all BONE when they smile the fat/cheek does not go past this area into the eye. The doc tried to create this effect using FAT and I'm now left with undereye bags and distorted eyes when I smile from the fat moving up when I smile. I'll add that a prior surgeon I consulted who does bespoke/world reknkwn surgery did not want to touch my undereye area with rim implants because he said my skin was too thin and it would be visible so I don't know why my ps injected the fat there and worst still on my cheek that was NOT flat to begin with. What a nightmare .