How anyone can look good after having nose surgery
Hollywood celebrities are best famous for their penchant for undergoing cosmetic surgery left, right and center. Among the more common procedures undergone is rhinoplasty, or nose jobs. Young actors and actresses as well as the older ones have gone under the knife to change how their noses look for a long time now. Checkout photos of Jennifer Grey’s nose job for evidence that a simple nose job can alter everything about a person’s looks.
Conventionally however, rhinoplasty is commonly carried out on younger patients – possibly because the younger generation is more conscious about how they look. Once you reach a certain age, its thought that you have probably made peace with your features. This isn’t always true though, many older women and mothers have opted to go under the knife for rhinoplastic procedures.
The challenge for older patients
A good nose job is pegged on two aspects: achieving functional harmony as well as aesthetic balance. Because of the normal effect of aging, achieving a balance between the two becomes harder. Plastic surgeons usually shy away from making any dramatic transformations, possibly because of the extended healing time involved with an older patient – the healing process slows down as one’s age increases.
For instance, when you are born, you nasal dorsum usually has a natural ‘scooped’ or concave shape. As you grow older, the nose take on a ‘droopy’ convex tip, called a ptotic tip. The degree of change differs from one individual to the next. Of course, the skin also undergoes a loss of elasticity and atrophy (shrinking) which may make features that were once subtle very noticeable now.
For older women in particular, the small dip seen on the nasal profile – located just above the nasal tip – becomes more pronounced, accompanied by a reduction in the width of the nasal dorsum. This is what possibly drives women who have long lived with their noses to finally undergo the knife for a better looking nose.
Put in a lot of thought
Prior to going through with a nose job, the patients should put in a lot of thought into the reasons they are seeking the procedure, and all the possible effects of such a procedure.
Jennifer’s rhinoplasty was easily the worst decision she ever made, because the surgery completely changed the way that she looked. The key is to have just enough work done to maintain your physical appearance. In fact, the perfect nose job should be unnoticeable to the average person – someone should see that there’s ‘something’ different about you, but be unable to point out exactly what.
In its understated way, your nose job should change the way you look, complementing and bring out your best features without noticeably altering how you once looked, like what her rhinoplasty did to the star of Dirty Dancing, Jennifer Grey.
Jennifer’s nose job caused her career to end prematurely; she was now so different that people did not recognize her anymore. She lost her identity as a Hollywood star, and has now become the face of bad rhinoplasty in Hollywood. In your quest to look good by getting a new nose, be careful not to stretch too far out of your natural looks. Subtlety is the key.