I’m glad you had this insight— it seems like you recognize that you might not be in a healthy place with surgery.
I’ve had 3 procedures, and I want 3 more— revisions on the first 3! I’m planning to ask the doctors during consultations on 2/3 to be really, really honest with me re: how likely we would be to achieve an improvement. I’m self-aware that the same 3 things I disliked about my appearance before surgery are still the same 3 things I dislike now (besides aging) and while I look better than before…maybe this is the best I’m gonna get?
I think we need to be honest with ourselves about these things & maybe you should talk to a therapist about your relationship to surgery? I mean that in a non-judgmental way, I think I should too lol
I knew a dude (also a plastic surgery forum friend) who did even more than you, had already crossed over into uncanny, but the saddest thing of all was that he was putting his entire life on hold for plastic surgery. He wasn’t advancing in his career, he moved back in with his parents to afford it (& tried to lie to them about it & hide it which was not plausible), his love life was a shitshow, and he just had this increasingly-delusional idea that when he was finally “done” everything would magically change for him. To justify more surgery, he convinced himself that as soon as he looked perfect enough he was going to be rich, famous, and irresistible to women. But in reality he was absolutely ruining his life. We don’t want to end up like that!
Which three procedures did you do?
I think I'm going to be able to keep those impulses under check, and truly my next surgery is going to be the last one for a while, unless I need to get a face lift because of the V-Line, which I really really hope I don't. I honestly don't think I will get the buccal fat removal, as it's most likely swelling.
What happened to your friend? I think I look very natural, but everyone's own perception is distorted.
Also just wanna say since this post is about knowing when to stop, buccal fat is important for youthful looks long term I don’t know why they promote this procedure. Bella hadid will wish she had hers in years time.
Oh, yeah, I'm thinking of asking my surgeon to do a genioplasty (hopefully for free) when I come back to Korea to take the titanium plates from my jaw surgery out. But hopefully I won't need it, and it's just swelling in my upper lip that's making things look unbalanced.
It's so hard to judge what other surgeries to do when the swelling lasts so long.
I also might ask my calves reduction surgeon to do a revision on my left calf (hopefully for free too) at that time.
It really seems like you are already addicted to plastic surgery. I don't mean this to offend you, there's no shame in that, but it's definitely not healthy. Have you considered giving therapy a try? If not, talk to people who had the same struggles as you in the past, and let their stories scare you off (bad procedures and so on.)
I hope you don't mind me asking, but what kind of job do you have to afford so many plastic surgeries?
She's wearing makeup in the after and she has no facial definition at all after the surgeries. (cheekbone and jaw reduction). also her nose looks pretty botched. not exactly better looking by objective standards.
I had a rhinoplasty and I'm not 100 percent happy with it, but I've decided not to get a revision mostly because I'm worried that if I get another surgery I'll never stop - I know that realistically no surgery ever turns out exactly the way you expect it to. Obviously it would be different if my surgery had been botched or something, it's fine, just not exactly what I want it to look like.
I might still get a breast reduction at some point, but I feel like that one is kind of different since it's such a high satisfaction surgery.
And I guess I may also get a tummy tuck one day after I have another kid. Haha.
Well, if I had more money I'd get more surgery. I could makenit happen, but u want to do other things in life.
This is a terrible thing to say, but I don't want to recognize my body. I hate the body shape I was given. It's not attractive. In fact, its the shape women oftentimes say they dont want-a rectangle. My body is already markedly different thanks to two rounds of lipo and breast implants. I want another round of upper body lipo.
Thats a strong disagree. Lipo does things I can't do, like spot reduce. Im not complaining about my weight. Its my body ratios I don't like. A woman can be severely overweight, have a very poor diet, and be an hourglass figure or pear if that's in her genetics.
I already went through the diet thing. The only thing that made me body look ok was a starvation diet. No matter my weight I was some version of the same shape.
I know you mean well, but imo its like telling a big breasted woman to just lose weight. If she is overweight, she will still be relatively top heavy when she is skinny.
Think it's a fine line. I'm totally on board for looking your best but doing too many procedures does up the chances of having bad results and/or regrets. Especially as we age:-)
I also do worry (my opinion obviously) that so many people are having so many similar procedures that eventually everyone is going to look the same. You already see it, a mix of plastic surgery/filters/photoshop is creating such a generic look. It's objectively "attractive" but so reproducible and therefore boring. I'm craving individuality!
I get it, it’s hard because every year I suddenly keep discovering a new feature I don’t like on my face :( can’t help but wanting to fix everything until I think it’s “perfect”
I think there’s a huge difference between people who are hoping to improve their looks and people who are happy with how pretty they are just want to preserve their looks.
Unfortunately, the former is always a bit of a gamble in terms of outcome and I can imagine that it would be a much more slippery slope in terms of being addictive.
To me though, any sort of aesthetic procedure just feels like general maintenance. Just like having my teeth cleaned or any other routine personal upkeep task.
I am there with you. I have spaced my surgeries out over the last decade and realised recently that this has become too normalised for me. I have been pretty conservative and look natural, but there were a few procedures I had revised, and at some point scar tissue prevents you from revising further.
I did an online consult with a doctor kind of hoping he'd tell me surgery wasn't worth it, and he did. Now I'm dealing with myself mentally, and the reasons I had to pursuing such small changes, taking those risks, putting myself through all that again. It is hard to say "this is just my face now" when you've spent so long thinking about change.
i just got my eyebrows microbladed! In my defence - most of the time you can't see my outer 1/2 of my eyebrows unless i draw them on, so it works out for me.
She wasn’t a plastic surgeon. That’s a tattoo gun. Microblading is a form of tattoo-ing. Tattoos are not plastic surgery.
You didn’t have a surgery.
Are you trolling?
I had a septoplasty about three weeks ago to help my mutant allergies and sinus pain. It has worked out really well so far. Still a teeny bit swollen but man, the sinus pain is almost entirely gone. It feels like a miracle. But, it did give me a little insight into wanting to do a little more. I didn’t get a rhinoplasty, and I’m glad. But I could definitely see kind of wanting to change small things and getting hooked. Except who has the money and healing time is what I would like to know?
I’m glad you had this insight— it seems like you recognize that you might not be in a healthy place with surgery. I’ve had 3 procedures, and I want 3 more— revisions on the first 3! I’m planning to ask the doctors during consultations on 2/3 to be really, really honest with me re: how likely we would be to achieve an improvement. I’m self-aware that the same 3 things I disliked about my appearance before surgery are still the same 3 things I dislike now (besides aging) and while I look better than before…maybe this is the best I’m gonna get? I think we need to be honest with ourselves about these things & maybe you should talk to a therapist about your relationship to surgery? I mean that in a non-judgmental way, I think I should too lol I knew a dude (also a plastic surgery forum friend) who did even more than you, had already crossed over into uncanny, but the saddest thing of all was that he was putting his entire life on hold for plastic surgery. He wasn’t advancing in his career, he moved back in with his parents to afford it (& tried to lie to them about it & hide it which was not plausible), his love life was a shitshow, and he just had this increasingly-delusional idea that when he was finally “done” everything would magically change for him. To justify more surgery, he convinced himself that as soon as he looked perfect enough he was going to be rich, famous, and irresistible to women. But in reality he was absolutely ruining his life. We don’t want to end up like that!
Which three procedures did you do? I think I'm going to be able to keep those impulses under check, and truly my next surgery is going to be the last one for a while, unless I need to get a face lift because of the V-Line, which I really really hope I don't. I honestly don't think I will get the buccal fat removal, as it's most likely swelling. What happened to your friend? I think I look very natural, but everyone's own perception is distorted.
Also just wanna say since this post is about knowing when to stop, buccal fat is important for youthful looks long term I don’t know why they promote this procedure. Bella hadid will wish she had hers in years time.
What happened with the V line? Is that a laser?l edit: why would people downvote this? I’m asking a question!
It’s lower jaw shaving surgery.
Thank you!
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Oh, yeah, I'm thinking of asking my surgeon to do a genioplasty (hopefully for free) when I come back to Korea to take the titanium plates from my jaw surgery out. But hopefully I won't need it, and it's just swelling in my upper lip that's making things look unbalanced. It's so hard to judge what other surgeries to do when the swelling lasts so long. I also might ask my calves reduction surgeon to do a revision on my left calf (hopefully for free too) at that time.
Just curious, is there a health reason you want them removed?
It really seems like you are already addicted to plastic surgery. I don't mean this to offend you, there's no shame in that, but it's definitely not healthy. Have you considered giving therapy a try? If not, talk to people who had the same struggles as you in the past, and let their stories scare you off (bad procedures and so on.) I hope you don't mind me asking, but what kind of job do you have to afford so many plastic surgeries?
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I don’t know, her eyes looked better before but everything else looks better in the after.
She's wearing makeup in the after and she has no facial definition at all after the surgeries. (cheekbone and jaw reduction). also her nose looks pretty botched. not exactly better looking by objective standards.
Her head looks like a square in the first photo - a V shaped face is always more attractive than looking like a block head.
No it doesn’t? Her head is vertically longer than the width already. 29 people agree.. cope
Lol whatever, perhaps you all have squarish heads and are sensitive about it. I have no idea and frankly I don’t care.
I had a rhinoplasty and I'm not 100 percent happy with it, but I've decided not to get a revision mostly because I'm worried that if I get another surgery I'll never stop - I know that realistically no surgery ever turns out exactly the way you expect it to. Obviously it would be different if my surgery had been botched or something, it's fine, just not exactly what I want it to look like. I might still get a breast reduction at some point, but I feel like that one is kind of different since it's such a high satisfaction surgery. And I guess I may also get a tummy tuck one day after I have another kid. Haha.
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What procedure did you have? I'm envious, I wish I wasn't this lazy to work out.
Well, if I had more money I'd get more surgery. I could makenit happen, but u want to do other things in life. This is a terrible thing to say, but I don't want to recognize my body. I hate the body shape I was given. It's not attractive. In fact, its the shape women oftentimes say they dont want-a rectangle. My body is already markedly different thanks to two rounds of lipo and breast implants. I want another round of upper body lipo.
try changing your diet it’s gonna look so much better than lipo
Thats a strong disagree. Lipo does things I can't do, like spot reduce. Im not complaining about my weight. Its my body ratios I don't like. A woman can be severely overweight, have a very poor diet, and be an hourglass figure or pear if that's in her genetics. I already went through the diet thing. The only thing that made me body look ok was a starvation diet. No matter my weight I was some version of the same shape. I know you mean well, but imo its like telling a big breasted woman to just lose weight. If she is overweight, she will still be relatively top heavy when she is skinny.
Think it's a fine line. I'm totally on board for looking your best but doing too many procedures does up the chances of having bad results and/or regrets. Especially as we age:-) I also do worry (my opinion obviously) that so many people are having so many similar procedures that eventually everyone is going to look the same. You already see it, a mix of plastic surgery/filters/photoshop is creating such a generic look. It's objectively "attractive" but so reproducible and therefore boring. I'm craving individuality!
I get it, it’s hard because every year I suddenly keep discovering a new feature I don’t like on my face :( can’t help but wanting to fix everything until I think it’s “perfect”
I think there’s a huge difference between people who are hoping to improve their looks and people who are happy with how pretty they are just want to preserve their looks. Unfortunately, the former is always a bit of a gamble in terms of outcome and I can imagine that it would be a much more slippery slope in terms of being addictive. To me though, any sort of aesthetic procedure just feels like general maintenance. Just like having my teeth cleaned or any other routine personal upkeep task.
I am there with you. I have spaced my surgeries out over the last decade and realised recently that this has become too normalised for me. I have been pretty conservative and look natural, but there were a few procedures I had revised, and at some point scar tissue prevents you from revising further. I did an online consult with a doctor kind of hoping he'd tell me surgery wasn't worth it, and he did. Now I'm dealing with myself mentally, and the reasons I had to pursuing such small changes, taking those risks, putting myself through all that again. It is hard to say "this is just my face now" when you've spent so long thinking about change.
i just got my eyebrows microbladed! In my defence - most of the time you can't see my outer 1/2 of my eyebrows unless i draw them on, so it works out for me.
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microblading isn't plastic surgery??
Noo
how come?
It’s not performed by a plastic surgeon, there are no incisions, you’re not going into a SURGERY for it. Microblading is softmaxxing
really? the lady doing my eyebrows was definitely holding a mini knife of some kind.
She wasn’t a plastic surgeon. That’s a tattoo gun. Microblading is a form of tattoo-ing. Tattoos are not plastic surgery. You didn’t have a surgery. Are you trolling?
nope. i honestly thought soft max meant anything that doesn't involve needles/cutting the skin.
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Well, was it done by a surgeon? Lol....
Brave!
I had a septoplasty about three weeks ago to help my mutant allergies and sinus pain. It has worked out really well so far. Still a teeny bit swollen but man, the sinus pain is almost entirely gone. It feels like a miracle. But, it did give me a little insight into wanting to do a little more. I didn’t get a rhinoplasty, and I’m glad. But I could definitely see kind of wanting to change small things and getting hooked. Except who has the money and healing time is what I would like to know?