Finally Getting my Chin Implant and Bi-lateral Lower Blepharoplasty

I finally wanted to make an update after having my chin implant and lower blepharoplasty surgery. It has been year and a half since I’ve gotten the surgery. This is going to be my honest experience since the surgery, since my last update was only 5 weeks post op. I have also tried to match up old photos of me with new ones for decent angles of before and after!
I’m happy with the results of my lower blepharoplasty, I feel like I look a lot less tired then what I did. I still have some slight “bags” under my eyes, but not how it was before. One of the main reasons I wanted the surgery is so I wouldn’t have to waste money constantly getting filler. I thought this would be a permanent fix but I do still feel like I need a little filler still to really execute what I was hoping for (I have an appt to get filler done in April) I wish I would have asked a few more questions about it, but over all I am happy I got it done.
My chin implant has been a roller coaster ride. It has caused a lot of anxiety, and back and forth regret. One day I like my chin, the next day I want it completely removed. I constantly am comparing it to how it was before the surgery. Realistically a lot of my friends and clients could hardly tell that I got anything done, and I do think it has made me feel more confident over all.... so why would I want it removed? I really do love the projection it gave me, but it changes the shape of my face more then I initially thought it would. In the pre op “before and after” the girl at my surgeons office, who edited the photos didn’t change my face at all for the front view, and told me there would hardly be any change, but there was. That is the part I was very disappointed in, I felt like I was mislead to realistically what my chin was going to end up looking like.
Around the 6 month pre op, I contacted my plastic surgeon telling him I wasn’t 100% happy. That it lacked projection and make my face look long. He told me it would be easy to cut down the implant, or to remove it all together. He wanted me to come in so he could look at the implant. About 2 weeks later I went back to see him, he told me the way my muscles moved in my chin was causing it to look the way it was. So he injected Botox for free, and we took photos. He pulled up the before and after photos and told me he thought the implant looked great, I was nit picking the millimeters it added and only changed my face a little. But when I saw the before and after I wanted to cry. I thought I looked so ugly and I missed my old chin. When I looked at my chin, I felt like it didn’t fit the way my chin was naturally shaped (which is what I was hoping for). I had a slight dimple/butt chin, and the implant just rounded my chin and felt like a chin strap.
I felt a little better as time went on, the Botox really helped with the projection (I posted the before and after pre and post Botox) and also even at 6-7 months my chin had some swelling that needed to go down. I do realize that I do nit pick things, I’m a artist, and my mind can just see small changes. I kept reminding myself that people didn’t know I got it done, and people close to me have even forgotten that I got the surgery. I started to not think about it as much, and accepting it into my life.
Then about a month ago I over heard a coworker tell another coworker he didn’t like my implant. That it makes me look like Jay Leno. That spun me into a whirl wind of anxiety all over again. Constantly looking at my before photos and obsessing over it. I have reached out on here about opinions on my chin. A lot of other plastic surgeons say my outcome was great, which I believe them, and I know my surgeon really did do a good subtle job. Immediate post op I felt great, I hardly was in pain, and the healing process was hardly anything.
1.5 years after surgery I am still not 100% happy though. I tried to live with not being satisfied with it. But with the amount of money I put into it, and the fact it’s on my face, i want that extra 5-10% change of what I was wanting. Instead of getting the implant removed, I have been trying to research a revision, just to try to shorten the implant a bit. If you have any revision experience please let me know! Also if you have any questions on my experience don’t be afraid to reach out!

Everything is still healing smoothly! I was finally able to get a good before and after of under my eyes, they still will swell a little bit and then go back down in a few days. My chin is starting to lose the numbness, and soreness almost completely at this point. The swelling under my chin where the incision was made is still a little visible, but not much. So happy I did the surgeries!

Everything is slowly falling into place with my lower blepharoplasty and chin implant, I can still tell there is some swelling still under my eyes and under my chin, and some tenderness but it's slowly going away. I was able to take off 2 and 1/2 weeks of work, and I finally went back this past weekend. My clients who didn't know what I had surgery for, didn't notice a change, which made me happy, because that's pretty much exactly what I wanted. A very subtle change, which is why I picked Dr. Moynihan, all of his results looked so natural, I didn't want to change my face drastically, just a "better version" of myself. I got my hair done today, when I sit down in my stylist chair, and I have to stare at my face, that's when I hated the way I could see bags under my eyes and how weak my chin looked, but today I felt so good about how everything is healing. So far my chin has given me a little extra length on my face, but I can still see swelling under where the incision area is, so I'm sure it'll tighten over a few weeks. I'll post another update a month post op :)