After blepharoplasty, sutures and swelling remains there for few days. Once sutures from eyelids removed and the swelling over eyelids starts resolve, some patients try to camouflage haunting discoloration of blepharoplasty surgery. Camouflage is not suggested for the few days after blepharoplasty, because swelling and discoloration is high at that time.
Before using any make-up for eyelids after blepharoplasty, first consult with your blepharoplasty surgeon. Once your surgeon has give it okay, then you can use eyelid make-up. Make sure that you are not using any cosmetic directly to an open wound, because there is risk not only of infection but also of permanent tattooing. Use a brand new tube or bottle for eyelids to lessen the chance of contamination.
You can use eyelid moisturizing cream when eyelids are still tender from blepharoplasty. Moisturizing cream makes easier for the eyelid make-up after blepharoplasty. Use sponge or fresh cotton swap for application of moisturizing cream on eyelids.
To cover discoloration of eyelids, there are thicker concealer type camouflage products in market. There products include demablend, cover FX and Covermark. All these camouflage products come into variety of shades. You can choose any shade which matched to your surrounding normal skin. Do not use too heavy application of product, this may results as obvious as what you trying to conceal.
You can also go for Lighter skin tone concealers for eyelids. These concealers are made by most major cosmetic manufacturers.
A regular foundation may be used with thin colored cream if the discoloration of eyelid is not too dark. The thin colored cream is chosen opposite to the color of bruising. If the color of bruising is red, then thin green cream may be effective. If bruising color is purple, use of yellow cream is effective. If the bruising color is yellow, then it means discoloration is almost gone and you may avoid just more than a regular make-up.
Do not use glittered or frosted eye shadow in few days after blepharoplasty. These contain particles that may irritate healing skin.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Tips for Cosmetics Use After Blepharoplasty
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Friday, January 11, 2008
Overview of Blepharoplasty and Blepharoplasty Surgeon
Blepharoplasty is a procedure in which a person can enhance appearance of his/her eyes with medical help. Among cosmetic and plastic surgery, blepharoplasty is a more popular trend. Blepharoplasty is an eyelid surgery which can change the appearance of the eyes and blepharoplasty surgeon is a doctor who does these surgeries.
Blepharoplasty helps in correcting drooping eyelids. They also help in correcting puffy eyes thus reducing the bulges in the eyes. These are caused due to the fat around the eyes hence it is removed with the help of a surgery. Excess tissue is also removed through a surgery. Blepharoplasty can be performed by surgeons under local anesthesia. It can be performed within one to two hours, depending upon how complex the case is. There are various types of blepharoplasty surgery performed. To remove the excess fats and muscles and excess skin from the upper eyelid, an incision is made in the upper eyelid known as the upper blepharoplasty.
Similarly, to remove excess fats and muscles from the lower eyelid, lower blepharoplasty is performed. Eyelid lift is performed when there are bags around the eyes. This is performed by making an incision inside the eyelids.
Blepharoplasty also includes tightening of the eyelids. They treat wrinkles around the eyes. A brow lift and treating the cheek area under the eyes is also possible through an eyelid surgery. Laser blepharoplasty is also another type of surgery similar to the cosmetic blepharoplasty. In a laser blepharoplasty, the surgery is performed with a laser to change the appearance of the eyes. There are certain advantages of laser blepharoplasty. Laser blepharoplasty helps in a speedy recovery causing less pain. As the incision in the eyelids is made with a laser, there is less bleeding. This helps the blepharoplasty surgeons with a better view of the eye and makes it easier for them to operate. It is always advised to consult several surgeons before opting for a blepharoplasty.
Generally people of the middle age group opt for cosmetic surgeries. With an increase in the number of people who want to change their look, the various enhancement and surgery centers are also increasing. The trend being ever increasing, the rates have also reduced from what it was in the past years. Some of them don't even mind going abroad for these surgeries as they offer them at much reduced rates. People who want a blepharoplasty, San Diego and new york city is a good option to consider as it can offer blepharoplasty at cheaper rates. However, before finally opting for a blepharoplasty, many people consult various surgeons. Be confident that a blepharoplasty surgeon can completely change the way you look as your good looks are restored to you once again.
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
Transfer of Fat by Injection in Depression Area
People have much interest in fat transfer by injection into facial area of depression. Fat injection is required when fat is removed during liposuction into the depression area. Fat may be injected into some depression area such as grooves between the eye brows, tear trough or deeper furrows between upper cheek and eyelids. Fat injection has one limitation that is its unpredictable rate of disappearance generally with the liposuctioned aspirates. The fat reabsorption rate is high in some area such as between the eye brows (glabellar area) and around the mouth. Lower eyelid and cheek have the highest retainment. Depression area treated for fat transfer during blepharoplasty may stay swollen or bruised for few weeks. This procedure is aesthetically acceptable, always performed by experienced blepharoplasty surgeons. The results may be unpredictable if the surgery is performed by inexperienced surgeon. Fat injection in lower eyelid skin is quite difficult as compare to the tear trough. Because incisions are required in both side of eyelids. Fat injection during blepharoplasty is an interesting procedure for natural volume restoration. Patients can be very happy after its results around the eyelid skin.
Some patients are interested in the eyelid fat repositioning by the priorbital fat transfer during blepharoplasty. This can be performed when there is some bulging fat in the lower eyelid located just next to hollow. During blepharoplasty, the excess fat appeared over the orbital rim of bone retails its natural blood supply and is much less manipulated.
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Monday, January 7, 2008
Eyelid and Eyebrow Tissue Fillers in Blepharoplasty
Blepharoplasty is meant for the beauty of eyes by some cosmetic surgical process. Sometime there are wrinkles and grooves under eyes which make you feel older and tired. This can be a cause of age factor and fat deficiency. The loss of natural dermal collagen and eyelid fat cause the wrinkles and grooves. The wrinkles and groves can be filled by dermal fillers and synthetic tissue augmentation. Eyelid tissue fillers are used to fill out depressions around eyes and between the eyebrows. Fat transfer and eyelid filler is a non-surgical technique. The tissue fillers are taken into a syringe and injected into dermis of skin depression area around the eyes. Multiple passes of tissue filler have been done into different tissue planes and make a layering effect. After that a gentle massage is done to smooth out any beading. There are many products in the market which used as tissue filler by the surgeon.
1. Cosmoderm and Cosmoplast: Both products are bio-engineered and human driven collagen. For this product, no skin test is required for skin allergy.
2. Restylane and Perlane (Q-Med Esthetics), Juvederm, and Hylaform: These fillers consist of long lasting and absorbable hyaluronic acid gel of non- animal origin. The skin testing for allergy is not required. These fillers last for about twice as long as injected collagen.
3. Zyplast and Zyderm
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Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Variations and Advantages of Skin Approach Lower Blepharoplasty
There are many variations in skin approach lower blepharoplasty (Transcutaneous lower blepharoplasty), most of which related to the placements of skin incisions and the penetration level between one tissue layer to the other. If the orbicularis muscle rolled over just below the eyelashes during smile or become hypertrophic, then some extra muscle may be removed from lower eyelid. The patients have excessive skin on lower eyelid, only small flap of skin may be dissected instead of skin muscle. The orbicularis muscle close to orbital bone and allow more skin to be removed rather then muscle.
Advantage: Transcutaneous lower blepharoplasty includes removal of excess skin and orbicularis muscle in addition with fat removal and repositioning. This type of process is not possible in normal transconjunctival blepharoplasty. Excess skin or orbicularis muscle in lower eyelid is not indicated and includes significant risk of eyelid contour distortion.
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