Weird question.
I'm 5ft4, 7st/45kg, A cup. How big should my areolas be roughly?
I ask because I'm considering peri-areola surgery and if you have big areolas, it tends to look quite crap.
Well, they come in all shapes and sizes, though guys tend to have less variation in sizes. I suggest just looking at some nudes online and compare yourself in the mirror.
I think the surgeon will be able to offer some advice too.
Best of luck!
Yeah, you can never tell in photos though. Just wondering if there was an average size for either.
Oh, wikipedia said most males have areolas 1 inch accross, or 25 mm. Mature women 1.2 inches or 30mm in diameter up to around 100mm (4 inches. Hope this helps!
Typical size for a guy is around one inch. You should have a little excess skin, yes? If so, it shouldn't be too tough for your surgeon to trim the areolas to an appropriate size (unless your areolas are really big right now). The puckering will smooth out eventually.
You might need a revision to get the nipples decreased, though. A lot of guys who get peri and keyhole wind up going back for revisions, but I'm not sure what the most popular reasons are.
I've been curious about this too. I've tried looking for pictures but it's hard to compare myself to a non-life size picture...
Thanks Nicky and Arch, gonna go measure now... XD
Mine look like lopsided ovals...I wonder if that's normal? Aren't most women's round?
Quote from: jmaxley on June 09, 2010, 08:30:18 PM
Mine look like lopsided ovals...I wonder if that's normal? Aren't most women's round?
This is totally normal, and is more common in women.
There's something normal about me? This is one for the history books.
I was hoping T would decrease the size of them, but from what I've heard, no. Must save for top surgery...
ok.. so my nipple AND areola is the size of a penny.. will that be a problem for top surgery? like... they wont have much to work with
i have no idea why my nipples are so tiny
Man, I wish I had tiny nipples. The things are damn disgusting, to me. >:(
You know, I've been wondering to what extent the actual nipples are re-designed... Areola re-sizing seems straightforward enough, but male and female nipples look different, don't they? Do they also fix those to be smaller? Or is that a revision surgery? Mine are on the small side as compared to top surgery before pics I've seen, but I'm just curious...
Both are resized.
Quote from: V on June 09, 2010, 10:24:03 PM
Man, I wish I had tiny nipples. The things are damn disgusting, to me. >:(
This. Mine make me feel sick.
Quote from: Alessandro on June 10, 2010, 09:20:03 AM
This. Mine make me feel sick.
Me too. I'm hoping to persuade my future surgeon to not re-attach my nipples. I'm hoping to just get some tattooed on so they appear like nipples but I won't feel them.
Quote from: Elijah on June 09, 2010, 10:15:08 PM
ok.. so my nipple AND areola is the size of a penny.. will that be a problem for top surgery? like... they wont have much to work with
i have no idea why my nipples are so tiny
I guess it just depends on what you get. I don't think it'd be an issue at all.
I'm not a doctor, though, when the time comes just ask them.
Quote from: Elijah on June 09, 2010, 10:15:08 PM
ok.. so my nipple AND areola is the size of a penny.. will that be a problem for top surgery? like... they wont have much to work with
i have no idea why my nipples are so tiny
WHAT
lucky bitch :D
Quote from: Elijah on June 09, 2010, 10:15:08 PM
ok.. so my nipple AND areola is the size of a penny.. will that be a problem for top surgery? like... they wont have much to work with
i have no idea why my nipples are so tiny
this. I love my nipples.
My surgeon was supposed to minimize my nipples by scraping some tissue from behind them. I don't know if he did that, because I still have female-looking nipples. Maybe not quite as prominent as before...but the more I look at them, the more I hate them. I wasn't expecting that.
On another note, I have a terrible time remembering to pronounce "areola" properly and always want to put the stress on third syllable instead of the second. What is it about this particular word? ::)
Quote from: Arch on June 13, 2010, 03:03:08 PM
On another note, I have a terrible time remembering to pronounce "areola" properly and always want to put the stress on third syllable instead of the second. What is it about this particular word? ::)
Wait, that's not how you're supposed to pronounce it? Damn.
That's the trouble with learning words by reading them first.
Quote from: SilverFang on June 14, 2010, 01:05:41 AMWait, that's not how you're supposed to pronounce it? Damn.
That's the trouble with learning words by reading them first.
Story of my life when I was a really small kid. I was an inveterate dictionary-lover but didn't always look up words when I first learned them. I would pronounce them one way in my head for weeks and then find out that my pronunciation was all wrong.
At least I didn't mispronounce out loud very often. After my parents laughed at me a couple of times, that is.
But "areola"--it just sounds wrong when you say it right. To me, anyway.
Yep, I usually try to avoid the embarrassing wrong pronunciation when I learn a new word. So I have a better vocabulary in writing.
Quote from: Arch on June 14, 2010, 02:06:59 AM
But "areola"--it just sounds wrong when you say it right. To me, anyway.
Yes, yes it does.
Correct pronunciation: http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio-medlineplus.pl?areola01.wav=areola (http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio-medlineplus.pl?areola01.wav=areola)
Turns out I've been pronouncing it wrong too. Although I intend to carry on doing so, because the correct version sounds weird.
never heard anyone actually pronounce it that way.
Well, I can't bring myself to keep making the same error over and over when I know it's wrong. So I'm stuck with pronouncing it correctly even if nobody else I know does.
I should never have said anything about pronunciation. Every scientist I've ever seen in the last five years in a documentary about early humans incorrectly pronounces "bipedal" with a long "e." At first I was confused. I actually thought it was a different word from "bipedal" with a short "e," and maybe that it had a different spelling. Thought it had some arcane scientific meaning that I was not privy to. Then I looked it up. Nope. It's clearly the same word; they're all just saying it wrong.
I remember someone who kept saying "seg-yew," and I could not for the life of me figure out what he meant. I was about to ask him when it dawned on me: segue.
The list goes on.
And people say things like, "What difference does it make how I pronounce it? You know what I mean?" Uh, no, I don't. Not always.
All of which is nicely off topic...
Nipples I don't have a problem with, but my boobs overall...don't start me. I have previously had a reduction (from gargantuan to less so) and can't wait to just get rid altogether, though I guess I'll have so many scars you could use me as a roadmap. But nipples? They're ok. Gives you somewhere to put your spare jewellery... :)
Oh, and can I say I have NEVER heard it pronounced Ah-REE-oh-la. And I allegedly teach English. Or is that just an American pronunciation...now you've got me doubting myself...
I've got to join the club and say that I've always pronounced it with the stress on the third syllable. Only in my head of course, though. I've never actually heard it said before. The "correct" pronunciation makes no sense to me...
:O I've been pronouncing it ah-ree-OH-la as well. I guess you learn something new every day... :/
Quote from: LucienOctopus on June 14, 2010, 09:20:17 PM
:O I've been pronouncing it ah-ree-OH-la as well. I guess you learn something new every day... :/
I pronounce it like that too.