POSTED UNDER Forehead Reduction Reviews
22yr Old Female. Hairline Lowering, Australia.
UPDATED FROM Cosmic_lily99
9 days post
Photo update. Days 6-8
Cosmic_lily99November 13, 2017
WORTH IT$4,686
Close up of incision before and after sticthes have been removed.
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Replies (5)
November 17, 2017
Due to have my surgery in a month! Your results look great, is there anything you would recommend to make the whole process easier? I think I will purchase a travel neck pillow on your review of
That.
How did you sleep the first few days? And how was it washing your hair? So many questions
November 22, 2017
Definitely can't recommend the travel pillow enough! I slept like a baby with it. I just slept on my back. It meant that my incision was never able to accidently come in contact with anything if I moved absentmindedly in my sleep.
The first few washes gave me the most anxiety. I put the majority of my hair over one of my shoulders so when it got wet my hair wasn't pulling down my back with the weight of the water if that makes sense. I tried to have as little tension going back to my head as possible. I washed the back and top pretty gently and then just lightly pressed a soaking wash cloth to the incision and cupped warm water very very lightly in the front part of my hair (:
The first few washes gave me the most anxiety. I put the majority of my hair over one of my shoulders so when it got wet my hair wasn't pulling down my back with the weight of the water if that makes sense. I tried to have as little tension going back to my head as possible. I washed the back and top pretty gently and then just lightly pressed a soaking wash cloth to the incision and cupped warm water very very lightly in the front part of my hair (:
November 19, 2017
Your results are looking fantastic!! just wondering how much did the consultation cost?
November 22, 2017
Thanks so much!
The consultation was $150 which then came off the total price of the procedure if I chose to continue with it
The consultation was $150 which then came off the total price of the procedure if I chose to continue with it
November 20, 2017
You look great!! Are you wearing any foundation to cover it up ? Is it ok to use make up on the scar after a certain period ? Heal well!
November 22, 2017
Thanks!! I am wearing makeup yeah. I think I'm about 3 weeks post now and have been parting my hair in the middle. Half the time I don't put foundation and the other times I do (depends on what I'm doing that day and how much other makeup I'm wearing ect). So far not one person has noticed anything!
November 20, 2017
How are you now? ?
November 22, 2017
Hey! Doing well thanks. I guess from here on out I just focus on the rest of my life and over time my scar will hopefully fade into nothingness!
UPDATED FROM Cosmic_lily99
9 days post
Day 9
Cosmic_lily99November 13, 2017
So on Friday (day 6) I went to the doctor to have my stitches removed. I don't have a set Dr I visit so I ended up with a man I had never seen before. The wait was really long and the clinic was very busy. When it was my turn I went in and showed him the letter from my surgeon and explained it and he took one look at the stitches and said he said make an appointment for Monday and I'll do it then. I asked why and he just brushed me off saying they look inflamed, not once did he even look me in the eye! I was in and out within 90 seconds. I'm positive it was because theyre so fine and there was so many of them that he just felt pressured for time and didn't want to do it. I was on my way to the meet my family on our weekend away though so I had to accept it and leave. On Saturday I just googled to see how long facial stiches could be left in as it was going to be day 9 not day 5 as recommended by my surgeon and I wasn't happy with that. And everywhere I found online said between 4-6 days! Turns out longer than that can cause permanent train-track scarring from the where the stitches were pressed into the skin!! Obviously I want my scar as scar as invisible as possible so I booked a different doctor and had them removed at lunchtime on the Sunday.
This other man was super lovely and triple checked every last stitch was out even though it took him ages because he was being so gentle not to hurt me haha. Having them finally out feels sooo good! My skin around where the stitches were is very dry and flakey now but I can see the new healing pink skin all healing nicely. Today was my first day back at work and nobody noticed a thing! Most people just thought I looked "prettier" today because I swapped my glasses for contacts and have my hair parted in the centre instead of at the side as I had for years. I just put a little bit of tinted moisturiser over the scar where it may become visible and even I couldn't see it when I looked hard in the mirror.
I'm still applying vitamin E cream daily and when I hit the 2 week mark I will be applying Strataderm instead.
Feel free to ask me any questions!
This other man was super lovely and triple checked every last stitch was out even though it took him ages because he was being so gentle not to hurt me haha. Having them finally out feels sooo good! My skin around where the stitches were is very dry and flakey now but I can see the new healing pink skin all healing nicely. Today was my first day back at work and nobody noticed a thing! Most people just thought I looked "prettier" today because I swapped my glasses for contacts and have my hair parted in the centre instead of at the side as I had for years. I just put a little bit of tinted moisturiser over the scar where it may become visible and even I couldn't see it when I looked hard in the mirror.
I'm still applying vitamin E cream daily and when I hit the 2 week mark I will be applying Strataderm instead.
Feel free to ask me any questions!
Replies (4)
November 13, 2017
Pictures?x
November 13, 2017
They're in the post below (:
My phone freezes when I don't post them separately for some reason lol
My phone freezes when I don't post them separately for some reason lol
November 14, 2017
My stitches are still in too. Think I might book a dr tomorrow to look at them and have them removed before Thursday. I was meant to have them out by tomorrow but the dr is busy.
November 14, 2017
I would be, anything to minimize potential scar! (:
How did your op go? Would love to see an update or DM about how you're going. Hope you're healing well xo
How did your op go? Would love to see an update or DM about how you're going. Hope you're healing well xo
January 16, 2018
How long did you have to stay in Sydney for?
January 24, 2018
I stayed for 5 days. I probably could've only stayed 3 days but I didn't know how good my recovery would be so allowed extra time!
February 10, 2018
Was it painful to get the stitches out?
My forehead is also 8cm! And I am also thin in the temples! I'm so nervous for this surgery but excited! Reading your review has been so helpful. Thank you so much! X
My forehead is also 8cm! And I am also thin in the temples! I'm so nervous for this surgery but excited! Reading your review has been so helpful. Thank you so much! X
February 13, 2018
The surgery helped my temples alot! I'm glad my review helped you, so many other people's here helped me so I'm glad I could give back in some way to someone else :)
I was so incredibly scared to get the stitches out but if they cut them all individually and pull them one by one you honestly don't even feel it!
I was so incredibly scared to get the stitches out but if they cut them all individually and pull them one by one you honestly don't even feel it!
UPDATED FROM Cosmic_lily99
5 days post
Day 5
Cosmic_lily99November 9, 2017
I was told I could have my stitches out between 5-6 days after surgery. I've decided to wait til tomorrow (day 6) because surely having an extra day of healing would be better!
Since my last update (I think it was day 1 post?) I've had probably only 1/10 swelling, if that! I'm not sure if I've just been super lucky or it's down to the supps you lovely ladies mentioned on your own post. Either way I've been super happy with that.
Day 2 I just lazed around in the hotel room reading and watching movies. Dr Aliaa (another one of the surgeons who helped and I also met in my consultation) said I could mix Dettol antibacterial hand sanitizer with warm water and use that as a shampoo. Be prepared to have little spots of dried blood washing off other parts of your scalp where it settled and dried in the lovely matted birdnest your hair became.
Day 3 I was feeling pretty good and the weather was nice so I went to Bondi and did the Bondi to Bronte walk along the coast (: It was this morning though I started feeling insanely itchy all over the top numb section of my head. It's like having mosquito bites 4 layers of skin deep that you can't actually relieve!!! One because it's 4 layers deep lol but also because your scalp is numb. It's the weirdest most unpleasant sensation. I found if I drummed my fingers on my scalp it slightlyyyyyyyyyyy felt like I was itching it. Not sure if it just aggravated it more though haha as I usually then had to run to grab my ice pack before I ripped my scalp off (: I put up with it for a few hours before I decided to call Dr M and she told me it's caused by the nerves becoming resensitized again and trying to reform their connections as well as likely a bit of inflammation. She told me to go buy some antihistamines and it would help. I pretty much ran to the chemist haha! but she was right, I got the double strength ones and it definitely helped.
Day 4
Feeling better each day! Looked in the mirror again and started to wish I went a bit lower. I know any more though and it would be more noticeable that I had something done. And because not even my parents know, I couldn't be too drastic. 20 years and they know this face pretty well ha ha. I was snap chatting someone in the morning and they said "Why are you looking so radiant, have you done something to your hair?" They literally had no idea! But what a lovely first compliment hey? With that surge of self confidence i boldly strode into the glorious sun to show off my new forehead to make my way the syndey harbour bridge. It was about 5 minutes into my train ride that I realised Stupid girl! You can't let your incision in the sun!! Now with confidence gone and foolishness kicking in I made my to the nearest shop to buy another cap LOL.
At about 6pm I flew back home again which brings me to today..
Day 5
Unfortunately this morning I had to have a check up with my skin cancer clinic and the lady wanted to check along my hairline too! EEK! As she went to start she froze and I quickly began to explain so she didn't freak out. She was super intrigued and kind about it though. She told me she's never seen that before but she can see it's healing really well and I'm looking good.
Tomorrow after I get my stitches out I'm going away with my family for 3 days.. let's hope noone looks too closely! I forgot to ask at what stage I can cover the incision with make up? :/
It's going to be pretty sunny though so it won't be weird if I'm in a cap alot, especially since just having some suss spots checked out.
I'll do another review after the weekend which will be around day 10.
Another weird thing to note is this super strange feeling of fluid running down the curvature of my head when I lean over and stuff (flowing from the crown to the incision and back the other way). Kind of syrupy and slow though. Not really bothering me at all but I wasn't expecting it and feels so weird!
At this stage no hairloss that I've noticed. No pain since the day of the op.
VERY MILD yellow bruising starting around my temples and front of incision, only really noticable if my hair is pulled back which it hasn't been yet.
Oh ALSO! (Sorry this is getting super long winded and I'm starting to ramble) but MAKE SURE YOU CLOSE ALL OVERHEAD CUPBOARDS AND DONT BE A LAZY ASS! I was making breakfast and coffee at the same time as as I turned away from a cupboard I just opened to grab something else, I turned around and hit my temple FULL FORCE into the sharp metal corner of the cupboard door. I literally dropped to my knees grabbing my head. Not sure how much damage has been done but it wouldn't surprise me if I get a bit of worse scarring there because I definitely ripped my stitches back open in that spot :( I cleaned off all the blood and iced the hell out of it but only time will tell.
Since my last update (I think it was day 1 post?) I've had probably only 1/10 swelling, if that! I'm not sure if I've just been super lucky or it's down to the supps you lovely ladies mentioned on your own post. Either way I've been super happy with that.
Day 2 I just lazed around in the hotel room reading and watching movies. Dr Aliaa (another one of the surgeons who helped and I also met in my consultation) said I could mix Dettol antibacterial hand sanitizer with warm water and use that as a shampoo. Be prepared to have little spots of dried blood washing off other parts of your scalp where it settled and dried in the lovely matted birdnest your hair became.
Day 3 I was feeling pretty good and the weather was nice so I went to Bondi and did the Bondi to Bronte walk along the coast (: It was this morning though I started feeling insanely itchy all over the top numb section of my head. It's like having mosquito bites 4 layers of skin deep that you can't actually relieve!!! One because it's 4 layers deep lol but also because your scalp is numb. It's the weirdest most unpleasant sensation. I found if I drummed my fingers on my scalp it slightlyyyyyyyyyyy felt like I was itching it. Not sure if it just aggravated it more though haha as I usually then had to run to grab my ice pack before I ripped my scalp off (: I put up with it for a few hours before I decided to call Dr M and she told me it's caused by the nerves becoming resensitized again and trying to reform their connections as well as likely a bit of inflammation. She told me to go buy some antihistamines and it would help. I pretty much ran to the chemist haha! but she was right, I got the double strength ones and it definitely helped.
Day 4
Feeling better each day! Looked in the mirror again and started to wish I went a bit lower. I know any more though and it would be more noticeable that I had something done. And because not even my parents know, I couldn't be too drastic. 20 years and they know this face pretty well ha ha. I was snap chatting someone in the morning and they said "Why are you looking so radiant, have you done something to your hair?" They literally had no idea! But what a lovely first compliment hey? With that surge of self confidence i boldly strode into the glorious sun to show off my new forehead to make my way the syndey harbour bridge. It was about 5 minutes into my train ride that I realised Stupid girl! You can't let your incision in the sun!! Now with confidence gone and foolishness kicking in I made my to the nearest shop to buy another cap LOL.
At about 6pm I flew back home again which brings me to today..
Day 5
Unfortunately this morning I had to have a check up with my skin cancer clinic and the lady wanted to check along my hairline too! EEK! As she went to start she froze and I quickly began to explain so she didn't freak out. She was super intrigued and kind about it though. She told me she's never seen that before but she can see it's healing really well and I'm looking good.
Tomorrow after I get my stitches out I'm going away with my family for 3 days.. let's hope noone looks too closely! I forgot to ask at what stage I can cover the incision with make up? :/
It's going to be pretty sunny though so it won't be weird if I'm in a cap alot, especially since just having some suss spots checked out.
I'll do another review after the weekend which will be around day 10.
Another weird thing to note is this super strange feeling of fluid running down the curvature of my head when I lean over and stuff (flowing from the crown to the incision and back the other way). Kind of syrupy and slow though. Not really bothering me at all but I wasn't expecting it and feels so weird!
At this stage no hairloss that I've noticed. No pain since the day of the op.
VERY MILD yellow bruising starting around my temples and front of incision, only really noticable if my hair is pulled back which it hasn't been yet.
Oh ALSO! (Sorry this is getting super long winded and I'm starting to ramble) but MAKE SURE YOU CLOSE ALL OVERHEAD CUPBOARDS AND DONT BE A LAZY ASS! I was making breakfast and coffee at the same time as as I turned away from a cupboard I just opened to grab something else, I turned around and hit my temple FULL FORCE into the sharp metal corner of the cupboard door. I literally dropped to my knees grabbing my head. Not sure how much damage has been done but it wouldn't surprise me if I get a bit of worse scarring there because I definitely ripped my stitches back open in that spot :( I cleaned off all the blood and iced the hell out of it but only time will tell.
I believe some people may be more susceptible but I do also think it comes down alot to the technique used by the surgeon relating to how they cut through the blood vessels during the procedure. Right before I went in I asked about percentage of patients with hairloss and she said she hasn't had patients with it! It may be too early to tell but so far now sitting at day 10 I have had zero hairloss, zero pain, zero swelling and yellow bruising only about the size of a 5 cent piece. I also have 95% of feeling back in my scalp already. My scar is also looking and feeling great, flat and baby pink. Perhaps I am also just super lucky. Either way I am very grateful to Dr Martinick for my outcome!!