I am Chinese and I had double eyelids, just small ones. Prior to half a year ago, the thought of doing the double eyelid surgery never even crossed my mind. I always thought it was a Korean girls thing, or a movie star thing. I’d imagined that it’d cost an arm and a leg, and turn someone super hot… who was… well… super not.My boyfriend loves the change. He says my eye “vocabulary” has expanded (he’s so funny); I can now give him that superstar drawn-out sexy gaze, but on the other hand, can also shoot him a sharp and painful glare of death.MY WISDOM TO YOU:
Must use Dr. Kim
It’s financially doable
It’s not a one-time surgery
Not painful
Months later… you’re hot! And you know it.
It all started with a close relative of mine who had, in my mind a “legitimate” reason for doing the dbl eyelid surgery. Together, we searched, visited, and interviewed half a dozen Asian plastic surgeons in LA. It’s still kind of hard to say why we both felt Dr. Kim was the “right” one. His office had a lot of sunshine and it was spotless, and although we had to wait awhile for him to get out of surgery to see us, we enjoyed looking at his credentials (top of his Yale med class… dang!) He didn’t talk much, and his voice was soft, but he had a very kind face. This was the one! I thought. I guess it was just a gut feeling.
I normally wear the eyelid tape so I always knew what I would look like if I were to get the eyelid surgery. But it wasn’t until finding out how financially doable the surgery was that… like in Inception… the idea of actually getting the surgery grew in mind. Of course I liked the way I looked with the bigger double eyelid that I constructed with tape each day, but more than ever, I wanted to look like that without the tape, to look like that the moment I woke up, when I’m swimming, etc.
The surgery itself wasn’t bad. I had anesthesia, and I could feel some tugging and pulling here and there, but no pain in general. I did the suture method. (I later found out Dr. Kim is the king of this particular suture method. No other LA doctor does this exact method.) Now, 6 months later, if I close my eyes, there is absolutely no trace of surgery on my eyelid. Yeah, it’s that awesome!
Dr. Kim recommended this Ptosis procedure as well. Truthfully I didn’t want to get it done, and even after doing it, I regretted it because it made my eyes swell more. I regretted it up until the last few weeks of heeling when it seemed like day by day my eyes opened bigger and bigger, and I looked more awake; it really boosted the effect of having bigger double eyelids. Lesson to self… trust the veteran doctor. But beware ptosis requires adjustments. So you may need to go in a few more times. Lesson for you… schedule these adjustments for Friday. I always de-swell by Monday.
Dr. Kim himself stayed true to our original expectation. Kind, soft voiced, very knowledgeable, but not very social. He’s definitely not the type of doctor to hold your hand through the surgery, and may probably seem kind of cold or snooty. But he’s actually just shy and not super social. I think he saw me as a canvas and just wanted to paint a really good picture. That’s really all that matters I think. He reminded me of Dr. House, and I’m glad I got such a skilled doctor.
