ethnic rhinoplasty Dr Levi lansangan phillippines and eye widening with Wonjin clinic seoul

I'm in the UK but I'm not confident that UK surgeons have enough experience with mixed race noses to give me a good result. I had a consult with Dr Haworth last year, he spent over an hour with me n suggested extra surgeries I'd benefit from that I'd not even gone to see him about! Is he a visionary or thinking of the dollars?

I've just come across some of his work on predominantly Asian noses...I'm not Asian, I'm mixed race (English/Portuguese/African) but I think I have issues in common with Asian noses, like a wide undefined tip, a fairly wide alar base with flared nostrils and fairly thick skin. I Really like his before and afters, very natural looking but at 70,000 phillipino pesos (around £1200), is it too good to be true or just a benefit of the exchange rate/ price of living in the Far East....

So I finally bit the bullet and flew to Manila on 21 April for my revision rhino. The Ortigas clinic is slap in the middle of the city so best to stay in a nearby hotel so you're not stuck in traffic jams all the time. I've never seen traffic this bad, all day, every day! Arrived at clinic at 1pm, waited until nearly 3pm to see doctor Levi as he was coming from a clinic in the provinces due to a booking mix up. After a consultation in which I physically showed him how I wanted my nose to look (by physically manipulating it in front of a mirror) and showing him pictures of what I definitely DIDNT want (ie a Jackson nose), I decided to go ahead. Basically, I didn't want anything done to the bridge, I wanted the nostril base slimmed conservatively, the tip slimmed also conservatively and the nostrils de rotated to reduce the piggy look. The surgery took around 2 - 3 hours as the doc found there wasn't enough septal cartilage in my nose to build a strong tip.
I was walked back to my hotel room by 2 nurses (Nurse Renzella is such a sweetheart!), showed which meds to take and told to expect a visit the next evening.
The nurses visited twice during my 5 day recovery in the hotel. I daren't venture out with the drip pad on day one after the op as it was saturated with blood and even with a surgical mask on (which I was surprised to note that I very rarely saw anyone wearing in Manila), the cast and the adhesive tape were still visible, my face was massively swollen ( somewhat from eye surgery I'd had the day before in Seoul...I'll post a separate review about that) and I couldn't face the stares.
Once the drip pad was off, I did venture out to the ginormous SM Megamall, which was 5 mins away on foot, but even wearing a hat and sunglasses, I still felt conscious of being openly stared at.
The cast was removed on day 5. The nurse advised me to apply a warm compress for the swelling. When I sneaked a look between compresses, I must admit that I wasn't prepared for my new nose at all...it felt so much more raised, taller than my old nose and too short! Plus the nostrils were clearly very uneven. The tip was really swollen too....I can't emphasise enough how potato-like your nose looks immediately after surgery...and still does when I'm not applying a compress, 7 days post surgery. The doc told me that the nostrils should even out when the swelling subsides...the jury's out on that but he seemed really happy with the result. I was still in a state of shock and swollen and bruised from my previous eye surgery so to be honest, I kinda felt like bride of Frankenstein at that moment but I tried not to panics d kept telling myself to reserve judgement until the swelling went down. Anyways, it's early days so the swelling won't go down for a while but here are some early pics...be gentle please folks....