Lip lift by Dr. Orxan Abasli

I've wanted a lip lift ever since I discovered it 8 years ago, but never had the courage or the right timing do it. I hatedddd my long philtrum, which made my face feel off-balanced. I discovered Dr Orxan on IG and loved his work with clean stitches. However, he is from Azerbaijan, so my dream of seeing him felt out of reach. Somehow all the stars aligned as I was going to be in Istanbul while he was also there for 3 days doing surgeries there!!

Local anesthesia hurt the most. You can feel it burning as they inject it. They did a few under the lip and some outside under the nose. Very little pain after that. Once the anesthesia wore off a few hours later my whole head felt like a dull, achey, headache. Not painful but uncomfortable. I took otc pain meds and tried to ice a bit throughout the day

I slept slightly upright right with a couple pillows and neck support and was able to sleep okay through the night. When I woke up my lips were much more swollen than yesterday and same achey pain mid-face. I iced a little and waited til after breakfast to take meds. Swelling and pain decreased throughout the day