Calling All the Lip Lift Ladies out There - London, GB

I am 11 days post lip lift surgery. My nose is also bigger. From what I understand, you won't be on a consistent trajectory back to normal size. Expect to stay at this size for a few weeks. Expect at one month to see good improvement. Expect to have stiffness for months. Expect to potentially see some problems crop up months later with a stitch. Expect to wake up with more swelling then when you went to sleep and this will continue for awhile. Settle in for a long recovery. It is normal.

I had rhinoplasty 4 years ago to address a bulbous tip and the swelling at the tip of my nose lasted a very long time. Even comparing pictures from 1 year post op vs 2 years post op I could see a difference. Hang in there!

Hello could you tell me the name of the doctor who done it and what country and clinic name,I think it is lovelyx

Hello. I'm also looking to get a lip lift in Europe. Would you mind PM-ing me the name of your doctor? Thank you!

Who did your lip lift?

Quite a nosy thing to do my dear;-) maybe I don't understand this procedure but I thought lip lifting is for old ladies who smoked a tone of cigarettes in their lifetime and having wrinkles all around them. As for why an obviously young person would do it for fun it's beyond my comprehension. Why weren't lip fillers enough? With the right stick on the right place into them they can give ya whatever form and size u desire... I had put into mines 2 ccs liquid silicone (upper 1 and lower 1) with heart shaped filling method and they are almost perfect since 9 years. Bad reaction to that accurs only by 3% and always until the 6th years mark after threatment, so I waited more than long enough to go for my final correction with that next time I'm visiting my mom. Good luck with your nose! Like any surgery it needs definitely at least 6 weeks to heal so be patient pls ! Take a very big sunglasses on if u need to go out pulled down into the middle of your nose and nobody will notice anything. Say u catched an eye infection and its light sensitive... Or stay Zen and say nothing at all. I always do that .

Hey, its too early for you to be assessing your final results. Please give yourself atleast 6 weeks for all swelling to subside and your stitches to heal. I personally feel your lip looks terrific and it will keep getting a more natural look with time.

having had a lip lift done myself, my only suggestion to you would be to just be patient and give things time to see your final look. as for the nose, its only swelling and it happens with everyone. The swelling will keep reducing and you should be back to your original size in 6-8 weeks time.

take care :-)

Hi, I've had two lip lifts and I absolutely, positively can with the utmost confidence reassure you that your nose will return to its pre-lip lift size! At only ten days post, that is still incredibly early in the healing process. It takes six weeks for most swelling to resolve and four months to really see your end result. So relax - all will be well, I promise! And BTW, your lip lift looks great!

Your lips look great. I just had a skype consult for a rhinoplasty and he also recommended a lip lift for me. Where does the 22mm measurement come from? Distance from lip to nose? Hope it all works out for you!

You can work out 1 week after surgery. I had a bad cold so I started working out two weeks later. (I am not 3 weeks post surgery.) I do spinning class, weights, high intensity stuff. No reason not to be working out. I had my 3 week post op with Baker. He said to wait until 8 weeks post op to start massaging the scar tissue area. If I started before that, I risked adding more scar tissue. I also can't smile fully and feel tightness and hardness under my nose. He said it is a combination of swelling and scar tissue. Again, when the swelling goes down and after 8 weeks, I am supposed to start massaging the scar tissue under the skin to soften it up.

You are still very soon after surgery. It takes around 4 months (not weeks) for everything to settle down completely. Since the lip lift is so close to the nose, some slight nose swelling can last up to a year, but you will look back to normal before a year, and only you will notice this slight swelling.
I have read reviews stating they had difficulties smiling and even talking certain words the first month, so I think this is normal. It took a while for me to feel comfortable smiling wide because the incision area felt tight and I did not want to do anything to pull down in the incision, so I moved my mouth carefully the first month.

My doctor told me to start walking after my stitches were out so it was a week or so after. He said it was important to walk for healing.
I thought my mouth looked weird until a few months post op, but I had several other surgeries at that time so a lot going on in my face to recover.
I think you are doing great at 3 weeks post op. This is surgery and still a big deal not like an injection. It unfortunately takes a bit of time for everything to settle. I don't think pictures on-line really show this as much as in person and may be giving people unrealistic ideals that this is so easy. It can be a little scary seeing changes to your face and difficult to describe it to someone until they experience it themselves.

Do hope it settles and you get the results you want. Where/who did the lip lift?

Yes, I had swelling way worse than yours, it tooks months for all of the swelling to go down. About a month, before the freakish swelling went down. 9 days is really nothing in swelling time.