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I would love to get my eyes rejuvenated like that. I look younger but still there is oldness of my eyes coming through... FL can become addictive. I look very natural right now as swelling subsided and much fg absorbed. I am glad the doctor didn’t do my lips even though I would love fuller lips...

 

Guys, as much as I find ps worth it, it’s going to depend on how satisfyied you are with your self. I finally look like myself but younger after three months, but not prettier than I was. I look some how older and mature but told younger looking which I embrace. My daughters finally like my face better after my fg absorbed, they said I look like myself and begged me not to do anything else. I am tempted to go back next year to refill my fg to even out my face. I can only say I would do this procedures again.... it wasn’t bad of journey and well worth it.... with the right surgeon!

 

I am amazed! I felt small bumps behind my ears, I was afraid to look but had my daughter take pictures of bumps on both ears. Dr Lee hid buckling behind my ears so all my stitches around my face line up perfectly for smooth transition. If you have tried sewing of any kind, lining all the cloths evenly to match is pretty hard. (I am very precise to a fault), now I noticed that ever slight unevenness of my back earlobes are the price I paid for perfectly lineup incision lines. This doctor Lee at ASPS is a magician! If you go through RealSelf site, there are horrible pictures of buckling of peoples faces around the front ears... I didn’t want that kind of surgery so I took a chance going to Korea for the perfect facelift!

 

Is this place what you are talking about? I had my smas done by doctor Lee, I did review about my experience about FL. They know what they are doing. A person works there told me they have 70 staff members working at all times as their building has 7 floors.

 

Before picture on the plane to Korea, one week after FL and removal of sultures from lower eye lids, after 2 weeks FL and second fg, after 4 weeks and new digit perm. My ptosis correction was really added bonus. Still hardened areas to the touch but feelings are coming back more and more everyday. My hairdresser who knows me well said that I look very natural and wouldn’t think I had FL. I am amazed how my bags are completely gone!

 

Take the dollar and see if they’ll give you discount giving US dollars... if you want tax refund because you did not get a good deal, then get the cash converted to korean currency. Despite government crack down on tax evasions in Korea, I think they like foreign currency.

 

The area my index finger is pointing is hard where the draining tube was. The doctor said the line will resolve as firmness softens. There were tubes in each side of my cheeks and both laid in different positions so my face is uneven but others might not notice. The tubes were taken out the day after the surgery about 10am since there weren’t much output later as the nurse was draining it quite often. Also my left under neck is hard too, I think my lymph nodes must be swollen. I made myself watch the SMAS operation before deciding on the surgery. It was tough to watch as the thoughts crossing my mind the consequences of power outage, multiple bacterial infections that can eat off the skin... doctor accidentally damaging my nerves... but I don’t think I had any other choice as my skin was too loose due to weight loss and me being in my 50’s to have my skin bouncing back. The additionally having fg gave my face dimensions that was lost... having lips corrected will be emotional challenge as SMAS it self didn’t change my look. So far I consider the SMAS as only redraping my skin over my bones and fg inflating my cheeks. I also love my neck as rings around my neck softened. If I start to sag again, I would consider doing a second SMAS in my mid 60’s as long as my skin holds up.

 

two weeks and 5 days after face and neck lift and 5 days after second fg. I just got home yesterday from Korea after being up 26 hours and dozing through out the day today. I unfortunately didn’t take good care of my second fg as I slept on my left temple and right cheek. I am just crossing my fingers. My left jaw area is still more swollen due to drain tube placement. The skin close to the incision lines close to my ears are still numb to touch and do not feel like my skin. The second fat injections are closer to my eyes which actually is giving me more youthful look. My second daughter saw me for the first time today and said I do look different but way younger. I must confess that I feel my fat appearance changes through out the day. I think I look the worst when I initially get up in the morning and feel like puffed up miss piggy and my eyes look tiny. I am going to adventure out tomorrow to buy some concealer for my eyes and tryout some eye makeup. This fuller cheek are not something I desired but I think I like them... I know that the final look won’t look this full. I still wish my lips were fuller. I may try the bull horn lifts after I fully recover.

 

Hi All, I have been running around pretty none stop with my aunt and a cousin being dined constantly. My stitches of my eyes came off exactly after one week and second face stitches on the second week right when I arrived back to Seoul from Busan on the fast train which was Monday. On Tuesday they did my second fg and result yesterday was scary but today much better after I washed my hair this morning. I can tell that I did the right thing by getting all my procedures along with ptosis correction I didn’t know I needed. The clinic told me not to apply any products under my eyes but i have experience with a little bit of wound products, I applied honey based product under my eye stitches every night since taking the stitches out. I never had scabbing and I really thing my eyes healed well. Of course now I am apply to my other stiched area since the removal of the stitches on Monday. This pic I am posting is from this morning before heading to a palace where my daughter and I will dress in korean traditional outfits. When I get home I will post in details of my healing processes.
I do have nice size nose but pictures always makes me look as if I need a nose job. However I think my face features are pretty balanced even though they all could be better... my doctor again told me no to lip injections.... my daughter reinforced and told me if I get anything else done to my face she would get mad

 

When I woke up this morning most of my swelling subsided and my joker lips disappeared. My lumpy cheeks from fg feels smoother instead of bubbles, my right jaw feels normal, left jaw still little numb. My crooked smile from my right lips are 80% better... I think my fg from from my chin shifted upward and massaging helped dissolve it.

 

Well, the incision was only done on one eye vs both... so if they were trying to create that arguing sal look than I would be assuming the incisions need to be done on both eyes. For the aegyo sal under the eye, it’s too far from my under eye lid and the direction it was striving wasn’t that look. I guess we’ll just have to see. So far esthetically from the distance the extra incision appears trying to match my right eye that has aged differently. It’s quite a lot of guessing work right now after one week of surgery. I just read about a person who looked like a completely different person after couple of weeks... that seems almost impossible.

 

I am a nurse, there is professionalisms that we speak only the truth. I have an official letter stating and stamped that the surgery was performed by Dr Lee, as a professional I would never ever sign a paper stating something I didn’t do as I did... at least that is the way I only know and all the doctors and nurses I know. Even i know I would get myself into trouble we nurses only tell the truth at my work and we own up to our mistakes and report incidents... that thought alone would not even cross my mind... my collegues and I would not sign a paper if we did not see fellow coworkers waste narcotic disposal or collaborate a statement unless we are 100% certain, I never assume and we check things over and over... that idea you suggest is very disturbing.
Esthetically, that extra line makes sense when you look at it from distance... I will keep you informed but I really do not want to enter the realm of believing such unethical things... what is aego sal creation?

 

My initial plastic surgery journey began with only desiring to have eye bags removed... really the main problem was my right eye... if my right eye was like left eye, I think I could have waited another one to two years before needing the eye bags fixed. I think my right side face aged more than my left side of the face.

On Monday night after the surgery as soon as I could open my eyes, of course I took a picture of myself. What was surprising was that under the good eye which is my left eye with less of bag problem had an extra 1 cm arched curve incision under my eyes. It was a strange unnecessary scaring. My initial thought was did he over correct on the wrong side... what the hell I thought. I did ask him the next morning why he put extra cut on my good eye. His explanations didn’t seem to make sense as my Korean isn’t that good in medical terms and he didn’t elaborate either. He just reassured that I wouldn’t scar. I decided just trust the doctor. Still for the whole week until my stitches came off I still didn’t understand. Today my stitches came off... I still didn’t see why I had extra cut under my good eye. Until whole day passed and I kept on looking at myself.... then it dawned on me My doctor was anticipating a smiling line that was going to happen to my bad eye and put an extra line on my good eye to even both eyes... if he did not create that line I would have been uneven... at least that is my theory of why that extra incision is made... I will let you guys know more as I keep on healing... I never had real pain except for headaches for couple of days. Feelings around my right jaw line is coming back quite strongly today. The worst numbing happened to be close to my incisions around the ears.

 

Hey, I might get to see you on November 12. It’s the day I come back from Busan to get my stitches removed...

 

Wow, I am amazed! Beautiful!

 

You are too funny, I am full blooded Korean with full jaw line. Look at my nose...

 

One Korean lady I talked to told me that she paid 400000krw for fg few years ago... MVP price with fg is really good but I really didn’t know about their skills with SMAS as they don’t even advertise about it... at ASPS, one translator told me that there are 70 people working as there are 7 floors... they seem to be well running place. After the doctor has seen me for the follow up, the lady informed everyone via ear piece that the doctor is going to such and such floor... ASPS have one inch thick catalogues of their work all over the place... having said that I still will have to see my result to see how good ASPS really is. I do ceramic for hobby, I love curves and I am good at it even without much experiences, I can throw thin and the right curves better than people who have been doing for years as hobby... but my two teachers were always better because they do it all the time and they were real artists...I am hoping this doctor Lee who operated on me can read skin and texture like my teachers with the clay... and when he does the second fg, I hope Dr Lee is an artist and know where to tweak to get the perfect curves.... MVP did an excellent work on MissO with fg, Dr Seo really has talent with the fg, MissO ‘s face is really balanced without needing to be butchered... I lost too much volume and had too much excess skin for just the tweaking thus you see the big cut... Dr Seo only wanted small incision until my ear, I just let Dr Lee make the decision... now the bigger incision makes more sense... my neck is pulled evenly, not only in small spot to make things fit... my right and left incisions on the back are exactly at the same place when I touch them with my hands... initially I was surprised at how long the cut was.

 

This was me about 4 days before the surgery in good lighting and bad lighting... I like my neck much better now, hope it will get me through 10 years I’ll post after photos more after I recover some more. There is a fluid collection on my right bottom gum that is making my smile weird. I sent them a text and they will look at it Monday... I don’t think it’s fg as fg feels firm to touch. Maybe it will resolve itself before Monday but I hate having uneven smile. I did anticipate some hiccups so I am not too terribly worried but dang I still don’t like any complications.

 

I wear ponytails a lot as I exercise. I am going to have my hair dresser cut my hair around the incision sites as if I have lot of baby hair... I don’t know how the scaring is going to turn out. I think my scars tend to turn white. If any of you have advice on about scaring let me know please!

 

I finally got my hair washed. I didn’t wear scarf anymore since I was allowed to have my hair down. Swelling on my face is going down considerably but my smiles look crooked but they said it will resolve itself.

 

Went and bought pineapple juice but I think it’s more of pineapple flavored. Bought a fresh pineapple for 8,900 k.

 

Thank you! Unfortunately I didn’t order the arnica pills on time. I am taking papaya enzymes as I heard it’s good too. Tomorrow i’ll Try to venture out for some pineapple juice but it’s tricky here. Koreans aren’t the most healthy conscious people, I don’t want pineapple flavored sugar drinks. I was told no ice packs on my fg, I am just using the pack for my eyes mostly. Also, I am not placing the cool compress on my face as often as the Smas need to be attached back to my skin? I thought that warmth means that the body is working to heal? I am not as swelled up as I thought I would, maybe it’s coming...

 

Right now, my face looks pulled, my eyes are tiny... I am looking at my old pictures and thinking it wasn’t so bad, until I saw some real awful ones and remembered why I did what I did. My neck definitely looks better, no more layers of loose skins folding onto another folds after another folds with my chin tucked in... my smiles made multiple lines around my mouth... my eyes are however another story, my best feature about myself are my eyes and they look terrible... I am giving myself until Friday to freak out. I am praying to God not to punish me for wanting to unwind the clock a little...
One good thing is that there aren’t any pain. I am following their directions and adding more proteins. I am definitely glad that they did not take any fat from what little thighs I have left... my mommy tummy needs a tummy tucks after this even more... there aren’t any bruising but much more loose than before. You can’t get rid of the loose with exercise...

 

I went to the clinic about 8:30 am, surgery started about 9am, I was in a room about 7pm... I think I was in a recovery room for few hours that I don’t really recall.