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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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@MissOrange The whatsapp has no link and no number... hope you can help me with a reachable link ?
Hi @Teina,Where did you do the arm lipo? I'd love to get rid of mine!
34K for FL revision with Dr. Dongman Park. Ummmm, no sir.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.
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.@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 @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!34K for FL revision with Dr. Dongman Park. Ummmm, no sir.
Thank you, I really wanna do thigh and arm lifts when my weight becomes stable.Hi @Teina,
I took the Eurostar to Belgium and had my arms lipo’d by Dr Bert Oelbrandt. Had the consult in London for £40 and the op for €1500. The key to a good result is to wear arm compression bandages and/or garment for a month to prevent loose skin and expedite deswelling. https://www.singelberg-kliniek.be/en/team/dr-bert-oelbrandt/