Getting Serious About Getting This Done - NY

Hello everyone. I'm 21 and have considered getting a rhinoplasty for about 6 years since highschool when I broke my nose after a nasty fall in yoga. Aesthetically, I just could not grow to love it on my face and because it is smack in the middle of my main features, it has grown to be a GIANT nuisance. I know very well how to take pics from certain angles and how to look certain ways. I was never picked on for my nose (to my own knowledge anyhow lol) but it really is too big for my lips and distracts immesly from my eyes.

#1) my tip is extremely bulbuous and truly lacks definition and is very exaggerated/droops with my smile (which I love to do and do often!). I feel that there is an excess of cartilage here and it's my dream to have it minimized and more importantly, defined. This is the only part of my nose that I want a more-than-subtle difference in but my concern is the pinched cookie cutter kind of nose so I want to avoid that as well. The overall largeness/bulbuousness starts a little past the bridge when the nose bones go extremely farther apart (in an asymetrical way too) and extend out leading to my second equally important concern ......flaring of nostrils/nasal base. I wear glasses instead of contacts just to balance this out because I don't like the attention/space the nose gets.

#2) the width of the nose. I want an alar base reduction but am terrified of getting a severe one. This has to be subtle because I want one that would complement the tip work and fit together with it like lock-and-key.

#3)I acquired a bump after the yoga accident and it's on the left side. It isn't too major but can be noticed from the right -- looks somewhat of a gap before leading down to the tip. I would like that shaved down so it can look like a more even slope though I have to stay profile isn't my main concern because I don't have too much of a problem here and no severe hump, just lack of definition/uprightness of tip but that should be accounted for in tip work.

#4) My nose doesn't feel symmetrical and I am not sure if this is due to the bone or the cartilage structure but I know for sure that the left & right profiles and especially, the left and right 3/4 shots are different from each other. Could this be because of the direction of the deviated septum or is that more of an external issue? I always take pictures showing more of my left profile and less of my right because it looks like a completely different nose. I'm guessing this would be addressed while bringing the nasal bones in as well as when doing the alar reduction so it's just a redundant way of putting #1 & #2 together.

I have been to a few consultations in NYC to no avail because I couldnt find comfort in their results. However, I have a consultation with a really good realself doc on september 10th and I'm extremely excited because you guys wrote some great reviews about him.


If anyone has any pointers to share with me when they were at this stage of their journey, I'd really appreciate it! Thanks :)