Areola Reduction

Okay so it has been one year since my surgery, I am sorry to anyone that wanted to see the outcome sooner. I didn’t have RealSelf on my phone anymore so I completely forgot about it. So now about the finished results, my areolas did stretch out which I knew was a possibility. My pigmentation that I had on the circumference of my areola also came back. Because of this I had a second areola reduction with permanent sutures, I have a review on that as well. I didn’t take any good pictures before my second reduction so it’s hard to tell what they look like after my first surgery 1 year post op. If you are thinking about getting this surgery I 100% recommend it even though I had to get a second surgery. My surgeon told me that usually he doesn’t need to use permanent sutures since most patients don’t have the same problem I did. I have only seen one other person on RealSelf have the same outcome as me. I wasn’t ashamed of my breasts anymore like I was before my surgery, but I knew they could look better so I did another reduction. I am excited to see how my areolas will look like now after my second surgery and I’ll be updating that on my other review. Thank you for following along my journey!

I just wanted to put side by side my before and “after” photos because the difference is small yet big? I wasn’t that unhappy with my left breast I mean I definitely was but the right one was so much worse, it was such a weird shape because of my areolas/nipples. They still aren’t the “perfect” or “ideal” shape but I’m happy with them. I’m honestly so confused because even though the difference isn’t big I feel like it is I don’t know why that is. I wouldn’t think such a small change would be so significant in my life but it is. I have to preface that my right areola on the after picture looks bubbly because I just took off my bandages which had a weird net thing on it so it looks weirder than normal and I have a fluid build up above my nipple.

Okay so I’ve gotten my inverted nipple surgery, not gonna get into that because I have another review about that. But my areolas are still very uneven but I’m hopeful about it because I’ll just get them tattooed in the future. My right areola is now slightly smaller and a darker shade than my other one but again this can and will be fixed. I am actually very shocked because I’d never thought I’d think and or say this but. I started seeing bigger areolas on women and I never from the start thought it was unattractive but I still found smaller areolas more attractive until recently. I was actually a little sad that I got mine reduced because they were really small and I finally started thinking bigger looked slightly better (this was before even removing the tape for the first time they weren’t healed at all yet and they have spread out a lot more since that) and I’m actually happy they spread out? I think it’s the fact that it didn’t feel like me having really small areolas since I never had that before, they were always big. Yes my breasts looked bigger (I like them big so this was a plus) when my areolas were smaller however it wasn’t me. I don’t think I would’ve been disappointed if my areolas stayed small, maybe a little regretful that I made them that small but not disappointed. I am so glad I did this surgery even though my areolas have spread out and are uneven, because I can finally look at myself topless in the mirror and not be disgusted by my reflection. I think my boyfriend might like them more before (he hasn’t seen them after surgery but he only saw them before when my nipples were hard or in videos were you couldn’t tell how puffy and low sitting they were) besides it doesn’t matter because it’s my body and at least I’m happy with it. I can actually show them to others and not feel ashamed even though some might think they look bad now, they never saw what they looked like in the shower or sauna because I was too insecure to let anyone see. I can actually remove my bra during sex now and I can’t stress this enough, I finally don’t feel disgusting being braless and I can actually be braless care free. If you have puffy nipples I totally recommend this. I didn’t realize how much I hated them being puffy, I just thought I hated them because they were big but no it was the puffyness. On me I just hated it, I never found it disgusting or ugly on other women so I don’t know why they bothered me so much but if this is something you’re insecure about I definitely think you should do it if you go to a great surgeon. Truly life changing, yes my areolas could look better like if they were perfect circles and the same size and didn’t spread out past my incisions but they look so much better than before (in my opinion)