Quote from: Yasmeen on February 20, 2015, 05:44:54 PM
I love your results Carly! Prety you! Your collage made me wonder what the first six months post-op are like in terms of changes in your face. Am I asking too much if ask you to summarize each month? Do you look like what you thought you would look like when you were 1 month post-op? Is the top/left pic the oldest one? Are you wearing more make-up on that one? Sorry to ask, but I wonder why that pic looks different (more so than the other pics compared to each other I think).
Speaking about pics makes me think about 'angles'. I'm not sure if you had an 'angle-problem' before FFS (I guess you know what I mean) and I wonder if FFS took care of that completely?
Good for you that you did the brazilian butt lift! Please tell us all about it! Where did you have it done and how much did it cost? Not being able to sit down for 3 weeks.. oh well.. for me that sounds like SRS and been there done that LOL. We do what we gotta do, don't we? Glad you're close to getting back to the normal routine though!
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Yasmeen,
Here goes!
Month 1. felt like forever waiting for my eyeballs bruising to clear up. I realised there was slurring speech problems etc etc, people constantly asked what happened to me even though I only went out to do things that are necessary. I also bit my lip constantly by mistake.
Month 2. Things started settling a lot but the brusising to the sclera of the eye was slowly shrinking and so I was avoiding going out too much apart from the necessary until all this cleared up .swelling really makes progress at this stage. Family were asking if my lip and speech problem would go away. But eu also started mentioning how nice I looked, people close to you will notice how much of a difference FFS has made for you. My bf commented on how different I looked whenever looking at me on profile while watching TV, he said if I didn't know what you had done or why its like you look younger or something.
Month 3. Finally all bruising had completely cleared out at this point. I started enjoying the benefits of FFS and socialising a little more again. It's good still taking it easy if you can. Although I always loved makeup, I had a new found love for it at this point. Problems with speech etc seemed to go away for the most part at the 3rd month. A friend said. Wow your new dark hair (at the time) seems to bring your eyes out... Lol it wasn't the dark hair.
Month 4things truly have settled the most by now, particularly with chin and jaw. Some people who you don't see often will say you look "well" but they don't seem to be able to point out why you do. Some might say there's something kind of different about you also
. some clothing choices you love but think were too risky or over the top or maybe too boring seem all a lot more wearable. I don't need to wear something with cleavage to feel very feminine, or makeup. All for obvious reasons! Even boring pj's are ok. No need to try too hard or stay in the safe zone while on a night out.
5 months+ : part of me feels like I can still see small amounts of settling to areas of my face. I am very used to my face now since FFS and hardly remember how things were before unless I look at pics. I think at this point you know wether you are happy or not with your results. From the past 5 months of experience I feel like I can expect more and more settling in the months to come. I do feel prettier the more the facial tissues settle and I have find that I am doing my make up slightly differently. My face is soo rounded and I do have big cheeks. Before FFS I didn't wear bronzer much as I felt it hardened my face. Now. I use it to give my big squirrel cheeks some definition and give my face more of a sophisticated grown up look so don't be surprised if you make changes to your makeup routine. Same like wih clothing, you can be more understated than usual and still feel feminine enough, or going OTT and not feeling like you're gonna get the wrong kind of attention for it.
I do think I had angle problems before FFS. I always felt like I looked good and acceptable with bangs/fringe, once I booked my FFS and I let them grow out I really could see my forehead didn't look right without
em.my profile was always an issue. I didn't like pics taken of me like that. I don't worry about that nowadays. I do think my left side is slightly. Better than the right but that just seems down to I dont know what! Lol I am now thinking weather a more modern or layered haircut would look good rather than my long blunt cut hair. Not sure yet.
Yes the brazilian butt lift is a butt kicker (pun intended) for recovery. I am going to start to sit down in the next few days, but it will be a gradual back to normal process. I know my knees, elbows and even neck will really thank me once normal routine is back! I would say that considering all the swelling I had and all I must still have 90% of the transferred fat, the waist line/ abdomen keep going down more and more as things settle too so we'll see how things finish up!
Any questions you might have about the FFS i am happy to answer YASMEEN, before mine, I found a lot of helpful ideas and guidance through this site and I told myself I would post my experience In hopes it might help others with readiness and expectations, etc.!
Hugs!
