52 and Hate Looking in the Mirror....Chester, NJ

I think you look fantastic. But if ou really think you want another one.. I just got home from Costa Rica.. my review was posted this morning. Dr. Lev is super reasonable price wise he is an absolute artists is website is Eternally vain.. you can send pictures to him and see what he thinks. You can trust him. You still look so ping.. amazing

I wonder if you might need a mini lift to help you look/feel your best? Please update us!

Oh wow! I followed your updates 7 years ago! Looking forward to following you again. Please keep uodating.

Thanks for posting your update.
I’ve followed you from the very beginning and we share a roller coaster ride of emotions. Ups and downs. I think overall you had a great lift and look so much younger and healthier. I completely get that we bite the bullet and shell out massive dollars for what we hope is the more practical and long lasting results. I spent more than I’d care to admit for 10 years prior to my lift when I turned 53. It was all temporary and so expensive for fillers, etc. and towards the end I was not content that it was doing the job. I have a friend who has fillers every 3 months plus does some really pricy skin care system. Overall costs her a whole lot each year. She is 61 and still looks great. However her neck is still a giveaway.
I feel similar to you. Glad I did the surgery, just wished I still had the fullness so my lower face didn’t have dimples and slight sag.
Like so many have said before, all I have to do is look at my before pictures for a shock and then I realize just how grateful to have been able to afford the surgery.
Best wishes sweetheart and know you are not alone in how you feel. xoxo

I will echo the other posters comment. I had mine a year ago and paid a lot more than you did. I had CO2 laser but it looks like you did to. I am a lot older - 69 - so I have a lot more skin laxity but I think you look great. I too have to go back to my original pictures to feel really happy about this. I still have wrinkles in my forehead, my left eye lift was not perfect and does not match my right eye perfectly, I have lines above my upper lip and lines around my eyes. So, yes I am told I will need fillers and have already had some but like you I can only afford so much so I will do what I can to maintain the overall look but I already went to a second and third PS to see about additional surgery which they do not do for many years. I did have one tell me he could do a much better job using fraxional laser to remove some of the lines around my mouth and forehead and also would use it on my upper chest to make it match my face a little better. Right now it give me away due to so much sun damage. Anyway I am happy I did it, my savings account took a big hit and I don't think I would have minded a little more extreme lift (they are trying to be too natural now and not accounting for skin laxity and droop). At my age this will be the only one but at your age you can look forward to another tweak in a decade or so. Best to you

he did a great job! eventually you realize you will never look 25 but you can be a smashing 50 yr old!

These kinds of reviews are extremely important because they show that facelifts and lasers and other antiaging procedures are incredibly overrated and overpriced and they do not deliver the results we would hope for. I would be very disappointed if I spent so much money for a facelift and the results were minimal. I get that a 70 year old can’t look 25. I get it. However, there should be more aggressive ways to remove aging signs. I regret to say that so far, the technology is not there yet.

Wow you look beautiful. What % peel did you get?

You look great - well done. Thanks for sharing your story.
Best wishes.

Hi..I think you look amazing!!!it can see a huge difference to your before and after..!. I'm also 1 yr post op from quicklift/neck lift and blehaplasty. I'm 52 also. I look back at my pics through my pre & post op often..went through a bunch of emotions in the beginning of OMG I look hideous (few weeks after surgery)..to..starting to like it, my smooth face which was still slightly swollen...to now.. 1 yr and I see some of my old self in there..but I also see a huge difference...people used to ask me if I was tired all the time...and even though I wasnt, I used to say I was because that's how my face looked....nobody has asked me this question this past whole year......all these feelings are normal... it's easy to get used to your new face..because you've lived with it now for 12 months.. so it's not new anymore..
I still get botox when I can...i also use Strivectin (skin tightening serum) daily and a night which I LOVE........again...when you start to have yr doubts...just take a look at your preoperative photos..it always helps me put things into perspective..xoxo

Wow! Your hair grows SO fast! lol...seriously though, I love the, shorter, haircut you got! And you look great!

Thanks for posting over an entire year! It's interesting how we all can't wait for the swelling to go down, then when it does it's kind of a let down. I had some fillers (restylane silk for "lipstick lines" and a little juvederm (next to the jowl lines) and botox (forehead) and when the facial swelling went down after just a couple days, my skin didn't look nearly as tight and firm. Same with my breasts- when swollen they were all firm and round...after swelling subsided I realized I should have had a lift, not implants. ugh.
But following your pics has really been a shared journey. You look great- but you are right, we are our own worst critics. In a previous post you wondered why the Housewives or Christy Brinkley look so great- it's because they can afford to do little minor things like skin peels, minimal frequent fillers, botox to PREVENT lines and wrinkles, etc. We can't afford that so we let it go and go and then get more extreme work like a one shot deal. Oh well.