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Wanted A Beautiful Pout - ACHIEVED!!

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Wanting A Beautiful Pout

tigerkitty96
WORTH IT$3,000
I'm 20 years old. I have always had thin lips..they are shapely but small. I wanted to keep my lips, particularly my curved cupid's bow, but just make them bigger and fuller. I wanted to balance my face. Having large eyes and a small mouth was not balanced. And I feel like I've achieved that finally. Lip injections for me would last a few weeks, and I always loved the swelling results just a day after getting them done. I needed something more permanent. $3,000 is worth it to me because I was getting $650 lip injections every 3 months and they diminished quickly. I got PermaLip 5mm (the largest) on both top and bottom. Dr. Newman recommended 4mm on top but I really wanted the 5mm and I'm glad we did it. I did not want subtle. I actually wish there was a larger size, because I wouldn't mind going even bigger, but this size is fine. I feel like my face is balanced and I'm a lot more confident. I feel like this is how I was supposed to look. I will most likely get lip injections in the future, but not for a while and hopefully they will stay longer once the scar tissue forms a capsule and the injections can sit in the capsule. The practicality issue I've seen on here is perfectly fine. I've come across zero issues besides trying to suck my lips in to put foundation on over my mouth, I can't suck them in so I get powder on my lips..blegh. I do not notice my lips when I brush my teeth or eat or talk.

tigerkitty96's provider

James Newman, MD, FACS

James Newman, MD, FACS

Board Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon

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UPDATED FROM tigerkitty96
1 month post

Sharing photos before & after. I don't have…

tigerkitty96
Sharing photos before & after. I don't have immediate post-surgery but I have 7 days and beyond. The large implants in my small lips gave me excruciating, stretching kind of pain-- and I am someone who NEVER takes pain medication for anything.

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UPDATED FROM tigerkitty96
1 month post

So I'm showing one more photo before and…

tigerkitty96
So I'm showing one more photo before and after. I'll have to take more of myself smiling. The one I have smiling is just 7 days post-op, so it looks a bit tight still. In both of these pictures I have absolutely nothing on my lips. I'm so happy I don't have to use weird angles and poses to have lips anymore hahaha

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February 2, 2017
Your "before" lips look SO much like mine do now! And your after result is seriously so beautiful, I might drive or fly down to the Bay Area just to have your doctor do mine. Thanks so much for posting all the pics and responding to another person's question about stiffness, that was a concern of mine and my partner's. I've also wasted so much money on Juvederm (my body eats it in like 2-3 months!) so I definitely feel like this is a great option for me and the fullness I want to achieve. I definitely want 5mm on both lips for myself as well.

PS: your nose looks absolutely perfect! It honestly looks already cosmetically enhanced (in a good way), I would love to have your nose lol
February 3, 2017
Thank you so much!! I appreciate your kindness about my schnoz hehe I struggle with it.. If one can afford it, I would definitely fly to Dr. Newman just because he has had SO much experience with lip implants specifically. I'm actually from the Sacramento area and I refused to get it done there..just think logically you know? No plastic surgeon who goes through allll that schooling is going to find a great market in random Sacramento. The Bay Area is where the money is, and in turn, where the best of the best is. I'm really surprised Dr. Newman doesn't charge more for this procedure. It went so seamlessly and although the post-op pain was terribly aching for a solid week (as surgery typically is), nothing wonky went wrong and everything turned out beautifully. I noticed there's a lack of befores/afters for the lip implant procedure as a whole. Even less doctors who do the procedure at all or are reasonably priced, even less who are experienced, and sadly even some who don't produce great results and have to revise. I received a quote from a place in Sacramento (a doctor with 15 years less of experience than Dr. Newman) and they quoted me $5,400! Ha ha! No thanks! I can get boobs for that. Sadly a girl here recently in nearby Folsom has experienced malpractice, and she documents it--I'm sure you've seen. And she paid $9 more than I! So if you want top-notch quality at an affordable price, I definitely recommend Dr. Newman. He has before/after photos of women of all ages, natural looking and more prominent like mine. He's the master of lips, truly.
February 22, 2017
I think they really make a difference, I like yourself had fat injections, juvaderm, restslyn, with no long lasting results, Lucky if they stayed a month, my body was metabolising the filler so fast, I wish, my Dr. Would have said that's what was happening after the fat, because, some one said fat lasts longer, so after 4 fills I was upset, and the fat transfer also included lips smile lines, and where my lips drooped. Just that fat transfer for little lines and lips cost me 3,000, need less to say the smile lines were also back, and thin. Drooping lips after only 1 mth. My next invest mentioned will be the permalips. He did other procedures, which what he told me was not what he did, very upset, Ihad such high expectations which, he told me, but when asked why he.Didn't do a very important part, he said that's part, of your back, which at consultation he said oh yes we'll take those off but did not.Thst was a tummy tuck which he said he'd take off love handles, I don't know exactly what their called, but woke to find not taken off. Plus because of the way they cut he said, he'd make me another belly button, but did what he said cleaned at least 3 xs a day my belly button has since closed there isn't one just round scar. And along with extra fat to be removed w TT the lower tamale part protrudes out further than lower abdominal, and under breasts it's like a hump that comes out further than my breasts. I'm very upset I feel uglier than before these procedures after 17,000 $ I'm sick over this, also did, under chin, small bit of fat, don't remember the name but consisted of shots under jaw, which was supposed to get rîd of that and did not, at 2,000. And upper and lower eye, not lift, but where they remove skin on top lids, and bottom where they removed tissue under eyes, at 5,000 I don't notice except my lower under eyes look hollow, like my eyes are sucked in. And TT was 7,000. II don't feel good about one thing he did, Now I have to ask him my belly button grew shut, I went through at least 1,000 Qtips and antibiotic cream since July of 2016 finally stopped oozing, kept it clean now cantt even fit q-tip. Have I been botched?
February 22, 2017
Any suggestions, I feel awful and all the money with no results. Cry when look at tummy tuck.I believed in him, he lead me down a path of roses, only to feel uglier.