Fat transfer to lips with Dr. Douglas! :D

I really liked when my lips were all puffy in those first couple weeks. I wish they could have stayed any of the sizes you see in those four "after" pics. Will I need more than 8ccs next time to get them to stay that size afterwards?? Maybe it's not realistic for me to hope I can get that size in even two surgeries. But also my healing was weird, because I've seen pics of people's lips immediately after this surgery and they didn't look half as nice as my lips did immediately postop. Cross your fingers I don't reabsorb so much fat next time!!! Anyway here are some more wish pics for what I'm looking for as my long-term postop result. Many of these didn't upload right when I attached them to the original review, which will teach me not to upload via the app next time but to stick to desktop. It's helpful for me to have them somewhere I can find them later, plus it's fun to show off

I like bimbo aesthetics a whole heckuva lot, and after getting a BBL then 1200cc breasts then some facial reconstructive work, I wanted to finish with getting bigger lips!!! However I wanted a more permanent solution than lip fillers, I wanted a permanent enlargement that wouldn’t fade over time. Dr. Douglas and his staff were really warm, friendly, and supportive. Every single person in that office is fantastic, Renee, Melanie, Sarah, and everyone else I met and who worked on me whose name I can’t remember - sorry!!!! A little about me: personally I feel like I come off like an extremely weird goofball, and I’ve gotten a lot of pushback from people (even some surgeons) about my body goals. I’m not super fixated on having a “natural looking body,” which I know is an unusual attitude to have. I think fake looking is great looking!! #plasticfantastic Anyway I mention all that stuff about me because Dr. Douglas and the staff at Plastic Surgery Specialists were extremely kind and encouraging and did not make me feel like a “freak,” which is something I’ve been called to my face more than once. I really, genuinely, truly look forward to all my appointments at PSS. They’re a fantastic group of people. It feels really safe there. (Plus they’ve got great COVID screening procedures, so I feel extra extra safe there lol) The only downside to this surgery was, unlike with my BBL, my body reabsorbed way more than 30-50% of the 8cc’s (!!!!) of fat we harvested from my belly and injected into my lips. It seems like I reabsorbed more than 80%, which is very strange. I’ve always thought of myself as a good follower of postop instructions, but maybe I was messing up some way every day I didn’t take into account. And the fat that was harvested was quality fat, I saw it myself, and Dr. Douglas apportioned it exactly right throughout my lips. Everything healed symmetrically, quickly, and without scarring. The hardest part of doing this surgery that requires the most finesse and artistry, in my opinion, is injecting the fat in such a way that all of it heals evenly. So that you’re not left with lumpy or uneven lips. Like, lips that are big on one side and smaller on the other. Getting temporary lip fillers like Restylane is way more common these days than getting fat transfer to the lips, so it’s no small feat to #1 find a surgeon who does fat transfer to lips and #2 find a surgeon who does fat transfer really really well. Dr. Douglas is all of those things!!!! Plus he’s really friendly and whip smart. I feel fortunate to be a patient of his. Anyway I’m bummed and embarrassed that I will have to get this surgery a second time now, b/c I’m not made of money and can probably only afford one more try. I’m happy I have a slightly bigger lips now than I used to, I used to not even have much of an upper lip and now my upper lip actually exists. And I’m happy to be going to such a quality place like PSS and seeing a surgeon as talented as Dr. Douglas (plus his great staff)!!!!