Asian eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty): correction of eye shape

What is an Asian eye shape?

The Asian eye shape is a shape characteristic of representatives of the Mongoloid race. Being a dominant feature, the incision is characterized by a narrowed palpebral fissure, the presence of skin folds in the corner of the eye (epicanthus) and the almost complete absence of the so-called supraorbital folds - a double fold on the upper eyelid.

The Asian cut differs from the typical European cut by thickened eyelid skin, the presence of a large amount of orbital fat and high-set eyebrow arches. The Asian structure of the palpebral fissure is transmitted genetically, but can also occur in people of other races. As a rule, this is the result of previous injuries, as a result of which the epicanthus was formed, age-related changes, or in people suffering from Down syndrome.

Makeup for Asian eyes for every day

The eye shape of Asian women is narrow, slightly slanting. In most cases, the movable eyelid does not have a fold and droops. The brow ridges in girls of Asian appearance are poorly defined, and the mobile eyelid often looks hidden.

To get beautiful, expressive eyes, you need to balance the outer and inner corners. For the heavier inner corner of the eyelid, use light gray or white shadows with a slight sheen. The lighter their texture, the more natural the makeup will look.

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To achieve an expressive look, remove dark circles under the eyes. They make your eyes look dull and give your appearance a sickly appearance. The deficiency is corrected using a foundation or concealer that is one tone lighter than the natural color of the skin.

To create daytime makeup, makeup artists give the following tips:

Before applying shadows, powder the upper eyelid;
start drawing the contour of the upper eyelid from the outside of the eye;
end the eyeliner at the point where the eyelashes begin to grow;
draw the arrow from the outside outside the eye, thicken the line towards the end;
apply shadow to the eyelid before the eyebrows begin to grow, use light shadows, a veil;
for the mobile eyelid, use light-colored shadows, and dark ones for the orbital fold;
highlight the outer edge of the eye with velvety shadows in dark tones;
on the outer corner of the eye, apply shadows at a slight upward angle;
to balance sunken eyes and prominent cheekbones, use the same shade for the eyelids and cheeks;
draw your eyebrows clearly, highlight the contour with concealer;
Draw the eyebrows with a pencil or powder a tone darker than the natural color;
line your upper lashes with lengthening mascara.

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To visually enlarge your eyes, use a white pencil and mascara to lengthen your eyelashes. On the edge of the lower eyelid, close to the eyelashes, draw a contour with a white pencil. Make the arrow lines even, especially if you use black or very dark eyeliner.

Use soft pastel colors that only emphasize the created image and natural beauty.

How is Asian eyelid surgery performed in Moscow?

In most cases, I perform blepharoplasty of the eastern eyelids under local anesthesia, but there are cases when this is not enough and general anesthesia is required.

The entire plastic surgery can last from one to two hours.

The peculiarity of this area of blepharoplasty is that the surgical intervention consists of three main mini-operations

Removal of the fold of the inner corner of the eye or epicanthus . The sutures are hidden along the new line of the canthal angle.

Reduction of the upper eyelid . It is carried out by eliminating part of the subcutaneous fatty tissue or hernias above the eyes. As a result, the eye becomes visually larger. In older women living in Asian countries, in order to achieve a more visible change and create a beautiful European eye shape, more skin has to be cut off during the procedure.

Formation of a fold in the upper eyelid . To make a new fold, the plastic surgeon securely fixes it using a neat cosmetic suture. (The peculiarity of the Asian eye shape is that it is distinguished by the absence of this fold)

How is the rehabilitation going?

Rehabilitation proceeds in the same way as with classic blepharoplasty.

The swelling and bruising intensify in the first days, and then within ten days they practically disappear.

Since the operation to change the eastern type of eyes is quite serious, it is very important to conscientiously follow the surgeon’s recommendations during the rehabilitation period. This means that the first two weeks you need:

Avoid physical activity
Do not visit the bathhouse, sauna or solarium
Do not watch TV for a long time or sit in front of the computer
Don't drink alcohol
Don't smoke and so on.

Full recovery occurs 1.5 – 2 months after surgery.

Are complications possible after Asian eyelid surgery?

In general, complications do not arise, but it is possible that the patient may violate the rules of behavior during rehabilitation, which will lead to:

Increased swelling and hematomas
Seam divergence
Bleeding
Scar dehiscence
Dry eyes and so on.

Demand level

In most cases, the exceptional prestige of Asian eyelid surgery in the East Asian region is due to the commercial demand for European appearance in these countries.

! An Asian with facial features - a la 'Europe looking' - has a great chance of getting a decent job, as well as a speedy promotion, being an employee in a local corporation, the prospect of which in one way or another involves cooperation with Western countries.

Asian woman with European appearance

Blepharoplasty of Asian eyelids in some cases is carried out for purely aesthetic reasons: many people with specific Mongoloid facial features complain that their eyes are inexpressive and small. Often they are not satisfied with the shape of the eyelids themselves. Practical reasons include the inconvenience of applying makeup due to the lack of an additional fold in the upper eyelid.

Judging by reviews of blepharoplasty for Asian eyes, some patients resort to this procedure not to achieve a “European” appearance, but to create a more pronounced “double eyelid.” At the same time, the patient retains his unique ethnic characteristics in appearance.

And although the price of blepharoplasty for Asian eyes is much higher than the cost of traditional aesthetic eyelid correction, this procedure is still gaining more and more love among superstars of Eastern origin and ordinary teenagers who imitate the former.

Famous personalities who have resorted to such cosmetic correction:

comedy master Jackie Chan;
Japanese pop diva Ayumi Hamasaki.

Ayumi Hamasaki before and after eyelid surgery
Photos of Asian eye surgery demonstrate a radical transformation in their appearance.

! This procedure is in greatest demand in Japan: every year in this eastern country more than 200 thousand blepharoplasty operations are recorded. South Korean surgeons are considered the most highly qualified specialists in the field of blepharoplasty of Asian eyes, and up to several tens of thousands of Koreans, as well as tourists from neighboring countries, turn to them every year.

Preoperative preparation

Before the operation, the following measures are necessary:

Consultations and examination by specialists - plastic surgeon, therapist, ophthalmologist, cardiologist and anesthesiologist;
Passing all laboratory tests;
Undergoing a hardware examination of the body - ECG, ultrasound, etc.

In addition, the patient must strictly adhere to the following recommendations:

3 weeks before the correction, stop taking aspirin , hormonal drugs and all blood thinning medications;
1.5 - 2 weeks before surgery, stop taking alcoholic beverages and tobacco products .

Rehabilitation period

Based on reviews of blepharoplasty for Asian eyes, patients often experience short-term pain in the eyes, severe dryness, and characteristic pain in the postoperative period. Swelling appears and persists for two weeks. These symptoms are typical for this procedure and will disappear after some time. The patient is required to standardly follow several recommendations:

you should protect your eyes from all kinds of irritations: cosmetics, lenses, etc.;
do not part with sunglasses, it is preferable to go outside in the evening;
After plastic surgery during the day, it is better to wear glasses
; high-quality eye drops can eliminate dryness, inflammation, bacterial infection and promote a speedy recovery;
ice is an excellent helper for swelling;
after Asian blepharoplasty, it is recommended not to touch books during the entire rehabilitation period;
you should not engage in intense physical exercise;
alcohol is excluded.

!A characteristic feature of Asian eyelid surgery is that the operation does not involve repeated intervention by the surgeon. The results of the procedure last a lifetime.

During aesthetic blepharoplasty for Eastern people, general anesthesia is not used - only in complicated situations. The duration of the procedure is 3 hours, the rehabilitation period is two weeks.

Postoperative period

On average, the postoperative period lasts 2–3 weeks, during which the specialist’s recommendations should also be strictly followed.

Completely eliminate heavy physical activity, including strain on the eyes, for example, reading while lying down or in poor lighting.
Avoid using contact lenses and cosmetics applied to the eyelids.
Protect the eye area from ultraviolet radiation (wear sunglasses).

Important to remember! You cannot try to eliminate any unpleasant symptoms in the postoperative period on your own, especially with the help of traditional medicine.

Dry eyes, swelling, tingling, burning, etc. symptoms should be a reason to contact a specialist. Otherwise, complications may develop.

Features of the operation

Blepharoplasty of Asian eyelids is not entirely plastic surgery in its traditional sense, since this procedure includes separate surgical complexes that deal with the different specifics of the structure of the eyes of “Oriental people”.

Features of the structure of the eastern eyes include:

the absence of a specific double fold in the upper eyelid that distinguishes the peoples of the Caucasian race;
the presence of an epicanthus, or in other words, a “Mongolian fold”, covering the lacrimal tubercle at the inner corner of the eye;
a pronounced “fatty hernia” on both the lower and upper eyelids.

A specific type of Asian eyelid surgery is performed taking into account the wishes of the patient. In a technical sense: this procedure is considered complex when compared with conventional eyelid surgery, but it is tolerated similarly to the postoperative period of traditional correction. Let's look at blepharoplasty techniques for Asian eyes in more detail.

Asian eye surgery has its own characteristics

Removing the “Mongolian fold”

To eliminate the epicanthus, two skin flaps are cut out in the form of a triangle. The incision starts from the corners of the eyes and is made along the eyelash line. The professional cut is almost invisible.

No cuts

Plastic surgery of Asian eyes without the use of incisions is performed on eyelids with mild drooping, as well as on thin skin. A small number of barely noticeable sutures are created along specific muscle aponeuroses. This operation creates the desired “European” fold on the eyelids.

With slits

This is a classic genre in Asian eye correction: areas of skin are removed through incisions in the upper eyelid. After the fatty tissue is eliminated, a double supraorbital fold is formed.

Cosmetic seams

With Asian blepharoplasty using cosmetic sutures, as well as specific needles, the surgeon stitches an area of skin with the muscle aponeurosis. The remaining fatty tissue is eliminated through incisions.

Cosmetic stitches after “Asian plastic surgery”

Removal of “fat hernias”

There are open and closed methods for this plastic surgery of Asian eyelids. The first method is carried out in the traditional way: the surgeon makes a cut along the upper eyelid, after which the process of peeling the skin from the muscles and removing excess fat occurs. In the “closed” method of correcting Asian eyes, no incision is required, which significantly speeds up healing during the rehabilitation period, and also eliminates the typical problem of entropion. The listed methods can be combined if necessary.

general characteristics

The Singapore operation is very different in its technique from classical blepharoplasty. Asians have absolutely no fold on the upper eyelid, orbital fat is distributed differently, these points require special correction. In addition, the shape of the eyes is determined by the initially narrower palpebral fissure, so making the eyes wider is not so easy; the usual correction of the skin fold in the eyelid area will not be enough. At the same time, the recovery for the patient will be similar: within two weeks the body has time to return to normal, and after a month you can see almost the final result of the operation.

Patients often prefer to combine the Singapore procedure with other aesthetic surgeries, and this is quite possible, as is the case with classic blepharoplasty. If the operation is performed correctly and in the absence of specific reactions of the body, no noticeable traces of the operation remain. They change their color and become barely noticeable, and it is almost impossible to find them in the created crease of the eyelid.

Preparing for Singapore

Despite the fact that this is a specific operation that is required only for a certain type of appearance and genotype, the preparation will be quite standard. It is necessary to undergo general blood tests to confirm the absence of infectious and other dangerous diseases. If necessary, a cardiogram and consultation with a cardiologist are prescribed to identify absolute contraindications to the operation. It is recommended to schedule a visit to a specialist for consultation a few days before the procedure so that the doctor can assess your current state of health.