How to go from 50+ to looking 20+ with plastic surgery rejuvenation.
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Hi @huongkhanmoon, yes you have had a sneak preview of how much better your face can look when fuller. Here are 2 facial fat graft pics of mine where I felt overjoyed and then could not understand when the fat went down. I got into the cycle of flying back to Korea for top up after top up to regain this face until I realised why I was losing fat and learned how to retain it. At least you have learned now and not after 5 facial fat grafts like I did.Thanks! I will keep this in mind for my top up. Doc advised to walk as much as possible for faster deswelling, that's why I spent most of my time awake to walk around Seoul lol. Never thought I would kill the precious fat, not to mention my surgeon was quite conservative with fat injected to my face.
I really miss my face 2 weeks ago!!!But on the bright side, I kinda had a sneak peek of how much better my face would look when it's fuller.
Can we have as many fat graft sessions as we want in our lifetime?
For upper lid fat graft, do you know if the fat tends to retain better there? Or does it also suffer from absorption as on face?
Is fat from inner thighs or from belly better for retention rate?
That's a lot of questions, but thank you
As for which fat is better, only you know the answer to that. When you lose weight where is your stubborn resistant fat? Do you still have thunder thighs or do you still have a Michelin tyre tummy? For me, my resistant fat is in my thighs which was used for my last facial fat graft 4 years ago and my breast FT 3 years ago. I remember when I had my last facial fat graft in January 2020 there was snow everywhere. After my surgery I stayed warm in the hotel room and only stepped out to have brunch and an early dinner. Unknowingly this helped with fat graft retention so it is possible to get the procedure done in the winter months but in future limit going outside once you have your top up unless it is hot outside. If you get the top up in the hot months, the sun also helps break down bilirubin so your bruises vanish faster!
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That's a lot of useful information for not only me but also all the girls here who wish to have fuller, more youthful face! Thanks so much for your time to write such a detailed answer. And you shine + look absolutely fabulous in those photos
Why Korea is THE capital of the world in plastic surgery. Here I am at 50 before my 3rd fat graft in Seoul as full face fat transfers 1 and 2 at DA in 2016 had all reabsorbed (just before my upper lid fat transfer top up with Dr Seo at MVP), then the right sided photo taken 12 days after I had full face fat graft at DA hospital with Dr Kim in May 2017. I wish I had known back then how to retain fat graft like I do now. I had my 5th and final facial fat graft with Dr Seo in Jan 2020 when I finally figured out how to look after fat graft so it takes permanently. Looking at the eyebrows reminds me how fresh the eyebrow tattoo looked in 2017. I have booked Tracie Giles again for later this week to refresh my eyebrow tattoo.
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It has been a while since you posted this, have you found a good surgeon for smas?
Hi @SDUSATravel,
Yes I found a good surgeon for smas. I had my free revision Jan 2022 and it lasted! It is almost 2 years now. I realised I needed to take a week of postop steroids to stop any facial swelling and stretch. I can recommend my facelift surgeon Dr Nick Rhodes of Coppergate Clinic.
I had my eyebrows tattooed yesterday and unfortunately it is too dark and too thick. I think the technician was applying Western standard brows on my Asian face. I am trying everything to lighten the pigment and make it less thick, washing with hot water and scrubbing with salt which is supposed to draw the pigment out. This is me after my diy attempts. It was darker yesterday. On the plus side this photo shows how amazing Dr Seo did my eyes and upper lid fat graft. The eyelid crease is in at the inner corner and parallel, ie out at the ends. I think this is the most flattering for Asian eyes. Can’t believe my eyes are over 7.5 years old! Never has an upper bleph lasted this long when I did it in the UK.
I shall buy concealer as a last resort to cover the brows and make them look thinner. These brows look like they belong to Brook Shields!
I shall buy concealer as a last resort to cover the brows and make them look thinner. These brows look like they belong to Brook Shields!I had asked Dr Seo to give me Han Ye Seul’s eyes. Here are her eyes without eye makeup. She has the eyelid crease go in in the inside of her eye and go out or parallel at the outer edge. Dr Seo delivered over 7.5 years ago!
Hello, I read that you’re going to SK next month. Do you select your surgeon and PS procedures before you arrive, or do you schedule consult and then make a decision?
Hi @SDUSATravel, I am helping a friend next month. She wants what I had done so I helped her contact the English translator on kakao for Dr Seo at Machimpyo and he saw her pictures and both a consult and next day morning slot surgery have been booked with a 10% deposit. She paid for my plane ticket so off I will go on my 8th trip back to Korea. And if anyone is out there getting surgery between Jan 23 and 29 and feels lonely then message me and we can meet up at a public place for a meal or at a clinic as I know how lonely it is getting surgery solo in Korea. I hope to drop by MVP and say Hi to Ellen, the manager, who was super helpful every time I had surgery at MVP. I loved their maxim Korean coffee and sweets in the waiting room. I bought some maxims from starry asian market in the UK so am drinking this as my morning cup of coffee to remind me of Korea in anticipation of my upcoming trip.
I restarted zoom korean classes to brush up on my Korean for next month and am chuffed I survived the first intermediate conversation class! Although the Korean teacher who is a middle school boys English teacher and the other girls in the class did not believe me when I said I was Korean! lol. And one American student asked me what I was doing in London as I have an American accent??? I think I have a British accent as I was born and raised here but I did spend 15 years living in the States. I am now so confused as to my identity.
If you are not sure which surgeon, then you can book lots of consults on kakao with different clinics and then decide after you have been to the clinic consults. I did this for Jan 2020 and ended up consulting at View, Girin, MVP and Namu enquiring about whether I needed a facelift or bone contouring. That’s when I discovered they all suggested facelifts while some also suggested zygoma reduction and or v line but others said I did not need bone contouring. But I had not done enough research into facelifts at the time to determine which surgeon was best and the prices offered ranged from 9-12 million won for a facelift, so I had another fat graft at the time with MVP. It is much harder to make a decision in Korea without doing the research ahead of time. Multiple consults allows you to figure out what you really need, ie what the majority suggest vs what may be upselling, what only a couple suggest. Doing consults first also allows you to better negotiate on prices. You may often be asked what the other clinics quoted you and can then barter for their best prices as you appear to be walking out.
If you want a facelift in Korea it is vital you are able to communicate you want a smas lift and not a deep plane, how you want pds absorbable sutures and not permanent sutures and how you want intraop or postop steroids. My concern is that translators may not be able to translate this. The surgeons who get into the top korean medical schools will be fluent in English as English is tested as one of the requirements to get into the top schools. This may make it easier if your Korean surgeon speaks fluent English.
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This is so helpful. So I schedule a consult and put deposit down for procedures for each clinic? deposits refundable, I hope. I also want to do an upper and lower bleph and sent enquirers to Dr Seo. Just not sure if I can do FL with someone else and bleph with him - still waiting to hear back from him. Meanwhile, any suggestions for surgeons who are good with FL+ bleph? I’ve looked into v.lif and they recommend so many more procedures than others. I’m afraid if I opted for what were repeatedly recommended by most others, I won’t get results with Vlif, and they say it is because I didn’t follow their suggestions.
I WAS prioritizing deep plane, but the term confuses me. If they retain ligaments is that deep plane? Or does is it refer to which layers are cut and vertically lifted? By cutting ligaments, one place said helps restore restore cheeks and fix nasolabial folds. But there are also smas procedures that cut ligaments. This is like a mattress manufacturer giving the same mattress different names at different retailers, so we can’t comparison shop, or get a price match. 😅
Hi @SDUSATravel,
It is not a good idea to get everything done in one place as you want the best surgeon for each procedure. Dr Seo is the best for eyes in my opinion. For a facelift, look at ASPS clinic which specialises in facelifts. I had a smas facelift in the UK which removed my nasolabial folds. The ladies who had the more expensive deep plane still have nasolabial folds as their retaining ligaments are cut for access to the deep plane and some ended up with more profound nasolabial folds. Smas lift does NOT cut the facial retaining ligaments as these ligaments are necessary to hold up the face.
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