Should I Get Double Eyelid Surgery or Not?

As part of The Talk’s weeklong series on ‘secrets,’ Chen revealed that she underwent the procedure, also known as blepharoplasty, at age 25 under pressure from a media industry agent. "He said, 'I cannot represent you unless you get plastic surgery to make your eyes look bigger,'" she recalled. She also remembered her superior at an Ohio news station had commented that her “Asian eyes” made her “look disinterested and bored." Chen is not alone in this. More than 150,000 blepharoplasty procedures were performed in the US in 2012, making it the fourth most in-demand cosmetic procedure that year. It stands to reason then that blepharoplasty is the most sought-after aesthetic plastic surgery in Asia. But blepharoplasty is a polarising issue in its home turf or anywhere there are people of Mongolian lineage. Is it really a tacit rejection of ethnicity, a form of racial reassignment surgery? Or is it not any more contentious than Caucasians undergoing a breast augmentation or nose job? What is blepharoplasty? http://www.yooarticles.net/article/clean-skin-abscess-in-and-around-it-with-gauze

To understand double eyelid surgery, one needs to know the anatomy of the Asian eyelid. Around half of all Asians are born with a single eyelid, i.e. with minimal to no crease on the upper eyelid. A blepharoplasty is designed to accentuate this crease to give an impression of a rounder eye. An operation typically entails the incision of excess skin, the scar concealed in the newfangled crease. Other surgeons do not require a scalpel at all and can produce the coveted crease in under an hour, with no scars to boot. Pros of getting blepharoplasty One of the most immediate benefits of getting a more prominent eyelid fold is the relative ease with which women can apply eye makeup. Despite having such modest goals, individuals who undergo blepharoplasty are up against a tide of public opinion. Opponents of the procedure cry that it is an out-and-out way of denying one’s racial heritage. Proponents are quick to rebut that blepharoplasty patients only expect the procedure to make them look like their best Asian selves, not Caucasians. Many Asians are born with a double eyelid, after all. They also argue that blepharoplasty’s effect on single-lidded patients is too subtle as to raise debate on race relations, compared with skin lightening among African-Americans. Responding to the furore caused by her confession, Chen reiterated that her goal was never to look less Asian. "Guess what? I don't look less Chinese! I'm not fooling anybody here," she said. If Asians really desired Westernised features, blepharoplasty would not be enough, according to proponents. Moreover, they contend that Asians have esteemed rounder eyes since the dawn of history. Many South Korean surgeons can attest to patients bringing pictures of K-pop stars instead of white celebrities. Cons of getting blepharoplasty Then again, those Asian celebs may be looking up to people outside of their race. The Daily Mail has quoted one K-pop band member as saying that her ideal appearance is “that of westerners...big round eyes, straight nose, round face.” Obsession with double eyelids has in fact made South Korea the plastic surgery capital of the world. In 2000, Monolid Magazine was launched as a mouthpiece for Asian-Americans repulsed by the idea of cutting their skin to mimic a Caucasian visage. “Beauty has been warped to fit into a Caucasian person’s ideal, making Asians slaves to an aesthetic ultimately not of their making,” editor Carrie Chang ranted in an article titled “Why Asian Women Need to Say No to Eyelid Surgery.” Critics of blepharoplasty point out that double eyelid surgery can be taken to such extremes that the signature bagginess of the Asian eyelid is lost, giving way to a ‘semi-lunar’ crease and hollowness indigenous to Caucasian eyelids. http://www.sarticles.net/article/hiv-can-be-transmitted-through-blood

Otherwise, blepharoplasty is merely a matter of vanity and thereby a question of confronting medical risks. With blepharoplasty, there is the very real risk of getting ptosis or a droopy eyelid after the operation. This occurs when the surgeon injures the levator aponeurosis. Ptosis may also happen another way, in which an overly high crease causes the eyebrow to droop. Such concerns may be the ultimate deterrent against getting this kind of surgery. Conclusion But of course patients can circumvent these risks by referring to a surgeon who simply knows what he or she is doing. Even then, you must understand that healthy expectations are demanded of you in any surgical procedure. As a minimum, you should expect some reasonable degree of asymmetry between the eyelids after an operation. As for the prospect of being shunned by an entire community because of one procedure, fret not. If you are honest to yourself about your motivations, then you only have yourself to answer to. Everything else is inconsequential. http://www.ezine9.us/article/hiv-can-be-transmitted-through-blood