How to go from 50+ to looking 20+ with plastic surgery rejuvenation.

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Today's post is a b&a at age 25 graduating from med school vs 56 happily retired and happy with my face. In my 20s I wanted to become a plastic surgeon to help ladies become beautiful. We have all witnessed genetically beautiful students enjoy a life of popularity, dating with ease, going on to marry tall and handsome men, getting picked for jobs easily and I wished I could transform and that all ladies could transform if they wished. We have all wished to be that most beautiful girl on campus...

31 years later I guess I am achieving the same goal but by different means, ie by sharing my journey into understanding how the face ages and how to create a more beautiful face using myself as a guinea pig, sourcing the best yet affordable board certified plastic surgeons in the world. Looking back I can see that my 25 yo face divided into thirds has a too short philtrum and too big chin. I did not have the ideal 1:2 ratio. Now my 56 yo face has the ideal thirds ratio and 1:2 ratio of philtrum to chin, bigger eyes with Dr Seo and a more harmonious looking face.

What amazes me is my lower lip is full and I never had surgery there but just applied carmex lip balm every day for decades! I stopped using lip fillers in my 40s. Maybe that is why models live by vaseline on their lips. It achieves the same thing as carmex and gives fuller lips?!

At 25 I struggled to keep my weight around 99 lbs. At 56 I am maintaining a weight of 95-96 lbs with ease! At 25 I lived on cheetos, lays, milk duds, Captain Crunch cereal, Dunkin donuts, American pizza, tatter tots, capri sun (never drank water), Chinese takeaways, etc. At 56 I have no crisps or chocolates at home, stopped ordering Domino's pizza, rarely eat a Chinese takeaway and live on my husband's healthy home cooked meals and drink water with every meal. I noticed that my weight goes up after I order and eat a just eats food delivery and goes down on days I do not eat takeaways. The other thing I noticed was when I was 25 I lived in a bungalow or a flat in the US so rarely climbed stairs and never did housework and now I live in a house with stairs and do daily housework as exercise.

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I am over 11 months post smas facelift and all is holding nicely at age 56.5 years of age. I weigh 95.2 lbs. Here is today's selfie at arm's length which seems to be the most accurate for android selfies. As my right cheekbone is bigger than my left cheekbone, I worked out I look better from my left profile!

I had a look at 70 yo Sharon Osbourne who has had 5 facelifts and her eyes are tiny! This may be a side effect of too many facelifts?

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Good luck @justbeingmejose! Let bio clinic know asap you are flying for a consult. Idk his schedule so can't say if they can fit you in for surgery on this trip. I booked my surgeries at mvp before I flew out. Korean surgeons are amazing with scars. Part of being a plastic surgeon there is fine suturing leaving almost invisible scars. I would call mvp and kakao to reach them to schedule my op. You could try all the comms ports to reach Bio.
34K for FL revision with Dr. Dongman Park. Ummmm, no sir.
 
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@MissOrange you probably don't remember me but we were in the same kakao group chat for people who were going to Korea in 2020! I had been talking with you about fat grafting back then after mine went badly. I'm curious to know how your fat grafts are now and if you'd still recommend MVP? I'm looking to get mine fixed.

Your smas facelift looks amazing, by the way! I've been following you on Instagram and just want to say I love all your updates.
 
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@MissOrange you probably don't remember me but we were in the same kakao group chat for people who were going to Korea in 2020! I had been talking with you about fat grafting back then after mine went badly. I'm curious to know how your fat grafts are now and if you'd still recommend MVP? I'm looking to get mine fixed.

Your smas facelift looks amazing, by the way! I've been following you on Instagram and just want to say I love all your updates.
Hi @derpbunnie, please send me an IG message to remind me. I am now done with facial fat grafts and am happy with the fat content. I would say in hindsight, I needed prednisolone tablets for a week postop to prevent the skin stretching from swelling. But as I did not know this, each time the face swelled after full face fat grafting, the face then deswelled, looked great for a month but continued to deflate and then sagged big time! Partly my fault as I did not know I needed to feed the fat for 4 months postop. This made me desperate to fly back to Korea 2 months later to get a top up. But yet again it inflated then deflated and I got into a never ending cycle of flying back to Korea, getting more fat put in, swelling, deswelling, losing the fat and sagging more and more in my lower face.

What I should have done is take a week of prednisolone postop so the face did not swell up like a balloon and I should have eaten a lot of protein and fat for 4 months to keep the fat grafted cells alive. I do not think Korean surgeons prescribe prednisolone. If you have 3 full face fat grafts, you may end up needing a lower facelift like I got. I literally lost track of how many face fat grafts I had including top ups but would guess 5?! It ultimately stretched my lower face skin by a whopping 7 cms!!! Best to stop after 2 or 3 facial fat transfers and get a lower facelift or take postop pred so the skin does not stretch and no facelift is then required later.

Dr Seo, who did my better facial fat grafts, has left MVP and is now at his own clinic Machimpyo, same area Apgujeong. From what I hear, it is difficult for foreigners to get in touch. Most of his patients are locals and his bread and butter are upper blepharoplasties.
 
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34K for FL revision with Dr. Dongman Park. Ummmm, no sir.
Hi @justbeingmejose, wow!!!! OMG! $34,000! Okay well that rules out Dr Park forever! No point in following him now on IG. lol. Only rich Chinese tourists can afford his inflated prices or local Koreans who pay a fraction. Let’s hope my £3495 smas plication facelift with Dr Nick Rhodes lasts 10 years! I would say everyone get a free virtual consult or face to face consult and fly to York, UK, for his £4k facelift or £9k face and neck lift but make sure you source postop prednisolone steroids. I have not needed any botox or fillers, which is the ultimate test to see if the facelift was successful! And don’t believe lines that we continue to age so the facelift will not last! It should last at least a decade in my opinion if done right without significant postop swelling. I totally object to paying towards a plastic surgeon’s ferrari or Rolls Royce or Beverly Hills mansion!

What did View and Banobagi quote you? I consulted at View, Girin and Namu for a facelift in Jan 2020.
 
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Here is a closeup of the scars after smas facelift and then retightening. Nick has achieved invisible scars by putting zero tension on the skin when he closes. At 11 months out, this is a brilliant result. Even my bullhorn lip lift needed kenalog steroid injection to flatten my scar at a year postop but Nick's facelift work is amazing and no steroid injections required. My periareolar scars needed umpteen steroid injections to flatten the scars as the periareolar mastopexy puts enormous skin tension on the periareolar sutures to hold up the breasts! Never ever get this procedure. Always go for the full lollipop or anchor breast lift. No one ever sees my chest now as it is extremely obvious with the uneven pigment and spillage of pigment that my areolas look like they have been damaged. This makes me appreciate so much more the surgeon who left me with zero scars, ie Dr Nick Rhodes of Coppergate Clinic in York, UK, a 13 minute stroll through the historic city centre from York rail station. Parts of York were used to film Harry Potter! The diagonal creases on my earlobes are Frank’s sign, which suggests coronary artery atherosclerosis but I chalk that up to having high cholesterol and high lipoprotein A. It just means that in my 70s I may get a stroke like my father, grandmother and aunts unless I can maintain a dairy free and protein low diet. The word lipo means fat and protein means protein! Simples! lol.

Now a word of advice, if after your facelift your surgeon uses excuses like aging continues, you need to still use fillers, then this may suggest poor work by the surgeon or what happens when you don’t take postop steroids to keep swelling and skin stretch to a minimal.

I have seen ladies post facelift complain of drop and urged to use dermal fillers by friends instead of being persistent to get free retightening and this time use postop steroids. The hallmark of a great facelift is that you never need to go back to dermal fillers, a non surgical facelift. I have also seen ladies post lip lift go back to thin upper lips after deswelling. This means the lip lift was too conservative. Remember a young lady’s philtrum should be 11-13 mms in length. If the surgeon does not cut enough skin away, the upper lip may not evert and stay full. I am almost 6 years post bullhorn lip lift after a whopping 9 mms of skin or almost 2 cms was cut away and my upper lip is still very full. In my 40s I required upper lip restylane fillers every 2 months but in my 50s I needed nil. The bullhorn pays for itself.

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