Full Incisional Double Eyelid Surgery with Epicanthoplasty...Los Angeles, CA

I was born with mono eyelid, growing up in Japan, many Japanese have bigger eyes, my mom took me to get a suture method double eyelid procedure right after high school (then I moved to the US), but it only lasted for a year, so my mom took me back to the same doctor and redo the same suture method procedure, but that only lasted about a year then faded away, then I've been wanting to get my eyes done again but this time full incisional so it will last longer and I can wear mascara instead of false eyelashes and don't need layers of eyeliner and shadows... First I told my mom I wanted to get it done in Japan, but she told me I've been living in LA, so I should find a doctor locally, so I started to search for an asian doctor in LA who specialize in Asian eyes. On the surgery day, I let the Doctor decide the size of the crease since he is an expert, he told me I have a strong eye opening muscle so I shouldn't get big creases, so he gave me 6.5 mm, the surgery took about 2 and 1/2 hours (longer than what I expected) , I guess he took his time and also made sure everything was good, the surgery was painless, just a little tickle on my eyelids. After the surgery, I didn't get sick or anything, just my left eye getting watery for few days, and lots of swollen and bruising, and slight pain on my right eyelid. Lots of icing for first few days and warm packing after, trying to keep low sodium diet but it's tough... My friends think my eyes don't look bad for such a short time after the surgery, the doctor told me it will take about 4 months to heal... It's been 11 days after the surgery, it's still pretty much stollen and still have remaining bruises. I will keep it posted here.

Hi everyone, so a week after my surgery, the stitches were removed, some Drs. Remove them 4 or 5 days after the surgery, but I'm glad that mine was left in for the whole week. Removing the stitches hurt the most of this process because the stitches were so fine, the nurse had to pull them to be able to cut I think... The Dr. And the nurse said it looks good ( but they prob say that to all the patients...), he said I can put make up on but my eyelids were still numb so I waited till the 12th day. Still have the remaining bruises and swollen eyelids...

So on the 14th day post surgery, I finally went out to a restaurant with my friends with make up on but without my big glasses... Hopefully my friends didn't recognize that I got my eyes done...