STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

Collette, seriously?    I have seen your picture, you are stunning!

If its not too personal, can I ask why and what do you want to do?

laken1 wrote:

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Metric wrote:
Collette, seriously?    I have seen your picture, you are stunning!
If its not too personal, can I ask why and what do you want to do?


I totally agree with this & was wondering the same thing but didn't want to pry......

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Collette wrote:

You guys are all really sweet! But.... I've always hated my nose. It's a very prominent Italian nose with a nice bit of my mother Polish bulb on the end. I'm very very self conscious of it. I was teased relentlessly because of it as a child and I guess I never really got over it. Honestly I don't want to change it all that much. I'd like my tip a bit more refined and my bridge thinned out. I've had my nose broken 3 times and never had it set properly. I still want my nose just a bit smaller to fit my face more. Thanks for your kind words ladies!

This is eerie- because I could of wrote this myself!! I am also of italian heritage with the same distinctive nose, had my nose broken three times while  playing sports in high school, and had a nose job at sixteen. I convinced my parents at this age that I would always feel ugly and uncomfortable if I had to live my life with such a nose. My parents at least relented to a consultation. Come to find out I could not breath out of one side of my nose- or very minimally, because of all the scar tissue that had accumulated due to the breaks- so, surgery was a medical necessity. Good for my teenage vanity- but, also bad : because it resulted in being a bit of a traumatic experience- although, now I am happy that I did it, being that it is twenty two years later.  I had problems, both during the surgery, and after.( Let me just note: I am sure that the problems that I had were due to plastic surgeries being new, and unrefined- and none of these things would be something you would have to worry about.  In twenty two years plastic surgery has become much more advanced. ) So, the Dr had to break my cheekbones in order to do the surgery, and in surgery, he found the damage in the nostrils more extensive than he previously had thought-so, took much longer than expected. The face is such a fragile part of the body, any swelling is very painful and believe me when I say that I looked like I got hit by a Mack truck!! I had excessive bleeding after surgery, so they had to put this clamp-like contraption on my face ( kind of wrapped around my head like head gear from braces and came around and clamped around my nose.) My first week recovering was a fog of pain medication, sleep, and liquids- and I could remember my sister bringing in a few of her friends to look at me . I could hear them suck in breath just to look at me: all bruised, swollen, and with that frankenstein contraption clamped on my face. Well, the swelling started to go down, bruising to get better- but, I had to go back to the Drs to remove clamp, and a basic check on recovery. A little into the checkup the dr says he is going to remove the gauze???? What??? So, he takes a tweezer and starts tugging out this gauze that is so packed into my nose-it is resistent to come out because the blood, remember the blood, has dried into my head-oh the pain. This is my nose job experience- the good, the bad, and the ugly.