I had a breast augmentation done on Thursday, Saturday I noticed a light rash and it has gotten worse over the last few days. My surgeon prescribed me a steroid pack on Monday and a topical steroid today (Wednesday) but nothing is helping. I am so incredibly itchy, and the rash is continuing to spread. It’s around my neck, my armpits, and my breasts. Has this happened to anyone else??? I don’t know if it’s a reaction to meds or to some adhesive / surgical prep.

I have been thinking for a few years about getting tear trough/under eye fat transfer. For reference I’m wanting to look similar to 3rd photo.
\haven’t have procedure yet last photo is a filter\
I’ve had tear trough filler once 3 ml, and it didn’t really improve them much so I won’t be doing that again or recommending it.
Has anyone on here had a fat transfer procedure before? Doesn’t have to be under eyes just in general wanting to hear more patient experiences.
haven’t have procedure yet last photo is a filter

This ring around my mouth drives me crazy. Don’t wanna do filler because I know it will migrate with all the movement. It’s not even really smile lines, it goes around my whole mouth. Orbiculus oris muscle I believe.

I am listening to your guys advice! So initially I was going to get a nose job but people told me to do my jaw because that’s the biggest source of my imbalance! Didn’t even realize until I saw a difference with filler. I’m not getting jaw surgery, and the surgeon said I didn’t need it unless it was strictly for aesthetic purposes. The recovery is too much BUT I am getting a sliding genioplasty.

I also inquired about my mid face. He mentioned wanting to do BOTH fat graft and lower bleph but I can do one or the other, too. However he thinks both would look great.

Genio- 7.5 k
Bleph- 3.5k
Fat graft - 3k

Wondering if I really need both.
Which will be more sustainable long term?
I am curious on other people’s experiences of those procedures.
I know the fat graft has a likelihood of resorption.

This is me with a little filler in my chin. No other procedures or filler.

3 months post op, very satisfied with the results.

For anyone who has had plastic surgery how has your life changed since the surgery. Do people treat you better? Did you see people finding you more attractive?

EDIT: thank you for the comments. I wanted to go for surgeries years ago because I wanna be more attractive and I am not totally content on how I look. People tell me it's about confidence, that looks won't bring me more attraction and to get therapy. While I got therapy; i am still not happy on how few attraction I can make and the way I look. That's why I made this thread, and the comment confirmed what I thought.

I hve super sunken and hollow eyes, I have my whole life. Along with that comes the dark circles and eye bags. The eye bags are really starting to come on now. I cannot stand looking at them anymore, and cannot imagine what they will look like in just a few more years. My only problem is being afraid I will look more hollow than I am. I am hoping fat reposition with a skin pinch will help restore my confidence. I know my undereyes probably won’t be 100%, but any sort of improvement will help me. The photos are misleading bc you can’t really see the bag, but I do have one. Just wanted to show how hollow I am, I just have huge eye sockets unfortunately. Anyone else with sunken/deep set eyes have a lower bleph with fat repositioning and not look worse? I have a consult with Dr Vrcek in September, just would love to hear experience from others. I hate my deep set eyes so much. Included pics of me smiling so you could see how sunken,at rest to see how prominent and long th tear trough is, and the last one is me just barely pulling on the skin to show how the tear trough and darkness goes away. Ideally my end goal.

I’m scared I went a little too small. I am bearly on week 3 and I feel like much of the swellness compared to the beginning (especially the upper cleavage) has gone down but I was loving the way it looked before. Like I mentioned I am bearly on week 3 and I’m scared that by the time they do settle I regret the size. For reference I am 5’3 117 lbs. I did 295cc dual plane. I just feel regretful as I want to LOVE them, and that almost everyone with my stats goes much bigger. This is how I look at exactly 3 weeks post op

Hello all, I’ve always had an issue breathing, I only breathe out of one nose nostril and I can see an obvious bent/crookedness in my nose from the outside. I believe I have a deviated septum which I know this is solved with a septoplasty in some cases but I want to ask, does a crooked/bent in the nose as well as breathing issues in the nose possibly mean that a Septorhinoplasty is needed? I was thinking a septoplasty might not be enough because of the bent on the outside. I know a diagnosis isn’t enough from online and I understand I must visit a ENT to check it out. But if anyone has any past experience please let me know. Thanks.

1st pic me before any chin lipo and chin fat graft. 2nd pic jawline now, 3rd pic I like how my chin looks more angular now and makes face less round. 4th pic horrific eye bags (the soft lightening makes it look not as bad, but trust me in person they're bad, so much so that my massage lady was like I'm so sorry they did this to you it looks as if you've been crying all day!)

He lipo'd my chin and fat grafted the fat to the chin, smile lines, and under eyes. Chin looks good, it gave my tiny chin and round face more projection, smile lines eh, can't really tell a difference but ok. Chin lipo itself I already see a difference in the jawline. But MAN I knew I shouldn't have gotten the fat graft to my under eyes! He over injected it and now I have eye bags when I never did before (I had problems with dark under eyes but i didn't actually have "bags" they were flat if that makes sense, now they're actually bags

He said today ya....your body did not absorb as much fat as people usually do (which is bs, I think he just overdid it) so basically I'm screwed. He said the way it looks now is how its ganna basically look. Said I can only fix it with blepharoplasty and here comes the best part, I have to wait at least 6 months to even do anything about it since thats when the fat cells will establish permanent blood supply, so I have to go around looking like I got punched in the eyes for 6 months yay! I guess my point is, please don't do this

hi all

my whole teen years up until now (21) i’ve been severely insecure of my forehead. not only is it pretty long, but i have those two horn-like bones that poke out. it’s frustrating because i don’t even like going swim, putting my hair up or showering nearby anyone in fear that they’ll see how large my head is. i also have a pretty big nose, so it makes me feel 10x worse. i’m a cis woman, but i have very masculine facial features and i’m at the point where i can’t even look at myself anymore. my siblings don’t even have a forehead like this.

has anyone ever gotten a forehead reduction or forehead burring? i need first hand experience to help me decide on what to do.

i need to know if it’s common to have complications after surgery or for it to be botched.

I’ve been really insecure about my side profile for a while now. I know I have a recessed chin and have considered many options, but I’m finding it hard to pinpoint exactly what would improve my profile. I have noticed it seems worse when smiling.

I have considered chin filler to test this before looking into more permanent options, e.g. chin implant or sliding genioplasty.

I have previously had braces when I was younger but I lost my retainers and stupidly didn’t replace them at the time and now it’s too late. So I have considered getting braces again but I’m unsure how much this would correct my bite as I may be too old (27?)
To be honest, I’m not sure how much it improved my bite before but I believe it was better than it is now.

I am also in the process of losing weight, I’m currently at a BMI of 22/23, however even at a lower BMI this was something I struggled with so I know it is not just body fat that is the issue.

Anyone have similar before pictures to me - what worked for you? Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks!

Doctor went through the same incisions as my first open rhinoplasty to do a minor revision. Stitchers were removed on Day 6. Today is Day 8 and I realized there is a slight bump.. is it normal? How do I get rid of it?

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Here is my morph, anything I need to consider? I would like my hump removed without changing the front which should be possible without too much deprojection. How was people's healing time, is 2 weeks enough? Did you have a bad reaction mentally? I assume it takes time to get used to it ☺️

Hi guys, I'm new to this and I wanted to get some advice from those who have gone through it. A little background on me: I just turned 20 and am on a weight loss journey. So far, I've lost 60 pounds through a mix of GLP-1s, dieting, and exercising. This process has taken over three years. I am still working on myself every day, but being heavy still after that much weight loss has affected my life in ways that I never expected. I'm young and going into my junior year of college, and although I think I'm pretty, I know the weight and extra skin have affected my confidence a bit.

In my mind, these are my hottest years, and having skin so stretchy and covered with stretch marks has affected how I show up. My arms have a very visible hang to them and I can pull my skin around 3 inches out. My breasts are small, but droopy and covered in stretch marks. My stomach and legs have almost a ripple effect of skin. Besides the physical appearance, the itching and chafing have been hard to deal with as well; my arms have been the worst, and I find myself itching my arms multiple times a day and trying to find ways to stop skin tags from popping up.

I still have about 60 pounds left to lose, and during this upcoming year, I've decided to be really intentional about hitting my protein goals, laying off partying, and committing to a personal Pilates studio 3–4 days a week. My goal within the next year is to move forward with a lower body lift and circumferential refinement, an arm lift (#1 priority), and a breast augmentation.

Regarding my family, they are encouraging me to have it done after I lose the rest of the weight. They want to cover the cost of the full body lift and the arm lift. I would be on my own for the breast augmentation, but I have saved for years, plus I have a year-long paid internship for my junior year.

The only person who is against it is my therapist. I've suffered with a food addiction for years prior to the weight loss. My heaviest was 280 pounds at 16, and my lightest was 200 pounds. I moved to Europe last semester, and my recent weight gain is alcohol- and partying-related, so I am now at 220. My therapist thinks I should wait 7–10 years before I do any surgery. I understand her reasoning completely: we should get the food addiction out of the way and prove stability for many years before we move forward with the surgery. Although I understand it, it's hard for me to digest.

In a way, I just want to feel beautiful. I have an amazing group of gorgeous friends who are all thinner. I feel beautiful when I'm around them, but insecure in public. I know I am the odd one out; this has been shown to me throughout the years. From being rejected by their sororities because they only ordered bid day T-shirts in size small (I'm not kidding either—this was told to me by my tutor, who is on executive board), to my stupid on-campus crushes ignoring me and talking to my friends. (Don't judge my friends; I don't communicate crushes with them because I already know I'm normally not the guys' type, and I don't think it's fair to ruin a potential relationship for my friends.)

I'm insecure about it and blame my body. Although I don't want to do this to get a guy or prove my worth. I have good friendships in my life, an active social circle, and good grades. I just want to feel like a normal college kid, not one with body wrinkles, or small boobs that touch her horizontal belly button.

I would love any advice you all have, whether it's plastic surgery-related, weight loss tips to push past a setback, or just general life advice or an additional perspective. I am open to all of it.

I have strange marks on my flanks from donor-site lipo for a lower eyelid fat transfer on April 2 (about 4 months ago). The color went from red after surgery (1st photo) straight to this brown/gray-rust color without ever going through the normal green or yellow bruising phase.

My plastic surgeon keeps saying it's PIH because of my skin tone, but after doing some research I started wondering if it could be hemosiderin staining instead. He says no and won't really explain how this happened. Even the nurse at his office said she'd never seen anything like it.

I'm now about 4 months out and the progress has been very slow (see the photos over time). I've tried 6% hydroquinone for 3 months and 3 BBL treatments for PIH, but I'm still trying to figure out what this actually is and what treatment would help. Has anyone seen something like this after liposuction?

Hey peeps,

I made the mistake of getting BFR in 2023. I took my cheeks for granted and should have let them age naturally. I’m 37 now and have spent the past few years trying to restore structure and volume. I don’t entirely shun this procedure but I don’t think I was a great candidate either. My surgeon said he took a very conservative amount of fat, but even that made a huge impact. One thing I wasn’t prepared for is how much this surgery throws off your facial proportions. Big lesson to love what you’ve got!

Anyways since having BFR I’ve done:
2 rounds of Sculptra (1 vile a year) and
1 vile of Radiesse to the temples/cheekbones
1 vile HD Radiesse to midface hollowing

I’m feeling better about where my face is today. Of course daily analysis can drive you mad and skew your perceptions - so hoping you all could tell me what you see in the progression of my journey. Before > Soon after > to current day.

I like my bone structure fine overall. And don’t want to look like a different person. I’m curious about pros and cons of these two approaches cosmetically or in terms of risks.

What could help give the appearance of a slimmer or more feminine chin? Botox or filler or what?

I would love any tips. I am getting an injection for swelling in September when my dr is back from his vacation. Taping seems to make my tip worse and when I told my dr this he told me to not tape it anymore.

For context I had my rhinoplasty in November, a steroid injection in Jan (helped so much) but I recently had my nose rasped under local anesthesia which caused my tip to re swell and I have to wait for my dr to be back from Greece lol. I will include a pic of what my nose looks like after I remove the tape. it exaggerates the tip and looks worse than when I don’t tape imo.

I have a mole on my forehead I want to get removed. I went to a dermatologist about it. They said they could shave it but it probably would grow back but said a plastic surgeon could remove it completely because they don’t do direct incisions on the face.

How much do you think this could cost? I went to a doctor for a free consultation and they said it would be over a grand. I want to get a second opinion but other doctors I have been finding make you pay $100 for the consultation but it could be used for the procedure. But if they give me an expensive quote, I don’t know how comfortable about doing that.

The mole is about half an inch on my forehead. This is completely cosmetic, and my insurance will not cover it. I looked online and it said anywhere from $200 to $800 on Google, which is why I was confused when I got the quote.

I'm thinking of just 1ml filler but I'm concerned about any side effects. Would it migrate? Do I have to keep doing it every year? Will it cause any long term issues?