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Great Non-Incisional Double Eyelid Surgery Experience!
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Great Non-Incisional Double Eyelid Surgery Experience!
WORTH IT$4,640
I’m a little more than three weeks out from the day of my operation (non-incisional double eyelid surgery with epicanthoplasty) and I’m super satisfied with my results!
Why I was frustrated with my eyelid, and which procedures I chose to do:
Pre-surgery, I used to tape my eyelids every night to simulate the double eyelid effect (tape can only create a fold in the skin, whereas surgery connects the skin to the underlying levator muscle that ‘lifts’ the eyelid), but the tape began failing somewhere around late January. The first thing I noticed was that my creases weren’t folding despite taping them for longer periods and using thicker strips (which I thought would help ‘reinforce’ the fold). When I looked more closely, I saw the skin where the crease was meant to be was callused and raised, resembling a skin-colored scar — probably cumulative damage from extensive taping. I took a one month break from tape, letting my eyes go back their natural state while applying eye cream to the crease to expedite the healing process, but once I applied tape again (after a long time of going without any), I washed it off only to discover another bumpy, raised callus in the same area. This process, which was both massively unsustainable and frustrating, continued up until the surgery: I waited until my eyelids seemed ‘healed’, applied tape, washed it off, and found that my skin had thickened within a day after washing. I’d been taping my eyes for the past four years, but had never seen the cumulative damage the double-sided tape had done until now, although the problem was probably conflated knowing that my eyes were puffier from excess sleep (and couldn’t hold a crease well).
Anyhow, I sought out the non-incisional double eyelid blepharoplasty expecting my post-surgery creases to look similar to how they did with tape. After a consultation with another doctor, I decided to add on epicanthoplasty because I had a heavy Mongolian fold that was in part responsible for the difficulty I had in creating a crease with tape.
The surgery experience:
Lea Plastic Surgery’s facility is beautiful! The staff was welcoming and receptive, and during the pre-op consultation, Taghva was patient with all my of questions and requests. Because I wanted a medium, natural-looking crease crease, she suggested going around 8mm (the highest my tarsal plate went) which would look like 7mm once all the overhanging skin and fat was accepted for. During the surgery, they gave me IV sedation (lower dose because I’m small), although I was still wide awake during the entire procedure. Besides the injection of local anesthesia, the surgery itself was close-to painless, although I ended up more swollen and bruised than expected.
Results:
I still have some remaining bruising on my right eye (can easily be covered up with concealer), but as far as swelling, much of it has gone down and my eyelids (especially the left one) look natural! There’s still a clear asymmetry in my eyes, but I’m healing pretty slowly and my right crease is still more swollen in the pre-tarsal area than my left. I’ll post an update at the one month and two month mark, but so far, I’m satisfied with the crease height and hope the left one won’t go down too much!
Why I was frustrated with my eyelid, and which procedures I chose to do:
Pre-surgery, I used to tape my eyelids every night to simulate the double eyelid effect (tape can only create a fold in the skin, whereas surgery connects the skin to the underlying levator muscle that ‘lifts’ the eyelid), but the tape began failing somewhere around late January. The first thing I noticed was that my creases weren’t folding despite taping them for longer periods and using thicker strips (which I thought would help ‘reinforce’ the fold). When I looked more closely, I saw the skin where the crease was meant to be was callused and raised, resembling a skin-colored scar — probably cumulative damage from extensive taping. I took a one month break from tape, letting my eyes go back their natural state while applying eye cream to the crease to expedite the healing process, but once I applied tape again (after a long time of going without any), I washed it off only to discover another bumpy, raised callus in the same area. This process, which was both massively unsustainable and frustrating, continued up until the surgery: I waited until my eyelids seemed ‘healed’, applied tape, washed it off, and found that my skin had thickened within a day after washing. I’d been taping my eyes for the past four years, but had never seen the cumulative damage the double-sided tape had done until now, although the problem was probably conflated knowing that my eyes were puffier from excess sleep (and couldn’t hold a crease well).
Anyhow, I sought out the non-incisional double eyelid blepharoplasty expecting my post-surgery creases to look similar to how they did with tape. After a consultation with another doctor, I decided to add on epicanthoplasty because I had a heavy Mongolian fold that was in part responsible for the difficulty I had in creating a crease with tape.
The surgery experience:
Lea Plastic Surgery’s facility is beautiful! The staff was welcoming and receptive, and during the pre-op consultation, Taghva was patient with all my of questions and requests. Because I wanted a medium, natural-looking crease crease, she suggested going around 8mm (the highest my tarsal plate went) which would look like 7mm once all the overhanging skin and fat was accepted for. During the surgery, they gave me IV sedation (lower dose because I’m small), although I was still wide awake during the entire procedure. Besides the injection of local anesthesia, the surgery itself was close-to painless, although I ended up more swollen and bruised than expected.
Results:
I still have some remaining bruising on my right eye (can easily be covered up with concealer), but as far as swelling, much of it has gone down and my eyelids (especially the left one) look natural! There’s still a clear asymmetry in my eyes, but I’m healing pretty slowly and my right crease is still more swollen in the pre-tarsal area than my left. I’ll post an update at the one month and two month mark, but so far, I’m satisfied with the crease height and hope the left one won’t go down too much!
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