Painless & Perfect Experience

I attached 2 before pictures and 1 after. It’s been 2 weeks and 2 days since the surgery. I love how it looks, I got approval from the office to slightly blow my nose and that made a huge difference. Now I can breathe normally. For not being able to breathe through my nose due to congestion/blockage for 2 weeks, I realized how I have taken advantage of simply being able to breathe. I’m so grateful to smell again, even the unpleasant odors. Wow.

From beginning to end, my experience with Dr. Zoumalan was better than I could have ever imagined. I had a hump and a drooping tip and wanted surgery to get rid of both of those. I had been researching plastic surgeons since I was around 19, and I'm now 26. Either I never really liked any other doctor's work, or some of the reviews for them scared me off. When I found Zoumalan on google, I thought it was too good to be true, but it was true! His work and confidence made me feel actually safe moving forward with the process. Something I appreciated was he doesn't do any surgery on the body, just the nose and face, which sealed the deal for me. That means he is an expert! I know so many girls who have gotten their noses done only to complain about their long-term breathing problems and not being satisfied with the overall appearance of their noses and I definitely didn't want that for me, I mean who does? So it was a really picky process choosing a doctor, but Zoumalan checked every single box for me and more.
So fast forward to the day of surgery, I was internally freaking out because I've never had surgery done and had no idea what to expect even though I read a million articles online of what to expect. Dr. Zoumalan and the anesthesiologist he works with, Dr. Baghdadi, were soooooooooooo amazing. Like I can't even express how well everything went, how smooth everything was, it was just perfection. I got home from surgery at 6 pm and by 8 pm I was walking around and could not keep quiet, all I wanted to do was hang out with my family and talk. I was facetiming my friends and everyone was like, aren't you supposed to be in pain or tired or something? But I wasn't! At all. Of course I was taking pain medication but I was feeling so normal. For the next 7 days after surgery I was out and about every single day, as if nothing happened. I'm still shocked honestly at how comfortable this whole entire process was. If I would have known it would have been painless, I would have done this a longgggg time ago - but I am also glad I didn't because I didn't know what to look for in a plastic surgeon a couple of years ago and wouldn't have been picky while choosing. Also, when I say painless I actually mean it. Like stabbing your toe on a table leg hurts more than this. Getting a paper cut hurts more than this. Brushing your hair when its tangled hurts more!
It's now 5 days after my cast has come off and it's amazing. I should open up a thesaurus to find other words to describe Dr. Zoumalan and this whole experience besides perfect and amazing because I sound like a robot, but those 2 words couldn't be more fitting. It feels weird to say that I love my nose because I don't want to come off as vain, but it's a world of difference between my confidence level before and after this surgery.
I already wrote a Yelp review but I wish I could have added on there how amazing even his staff was. I talked to Elsy the most, but also with Christin, and they were really helpful. The way the staff looks is important to me (in the sense of how much work they have/haven't had done) because when I see girls that have really big and unnatural lips, or super pronounced artificial cheekbones/jawline structure, it freaks me out and I don't want them anywhere near my face. Or even worse, when the doctor himself has had artificial looking, over the top work done. Yiiiiiiiiikes. Anyway my point is, Dr. Zoumalan and his staff all looked normal which is so satisfying because that just means they appreciate the simplicity and elegance of looking human and not fake, which in turn makes it more likely that I won't be looking fake.
I'm so glad I went with Dr. Zoumalan, I feel so blessed to have found him and to have had such a great experience during surgery and with my results. Natural results was very important to me, as my facial structure wouldn't look good with a petite nose, and I was okay with that. I also still wanted to look like myself. I do get compliments because it is noticeable, but I didn't do it for the compliments. I did it so I could feel free and talk to people and go places without constantly thinking about my nose being the main attraction on my face, in a negative way. It was really such a big part of my life, all of the worrying and the constant scrutinizing. My nose can be the main attraction all it wants now, because it will only be in a positive way lol.