For health reasons I gained a huge amount of weight in a short time, and I worked hard to lose it, but sagging skin and stretch marks turned out not to be something I could solve on my own,,, my stretch marks all turned white, so I looked into stretch mark lasers but figured they wouldn't work, and that's how I came to look into an arm lift! I heard that doing arm liposuction together with an arm lift works well, so I looked for a clinic that does both lift surgery and liposuction well. Honestly, when I heard 'lift' I only knew about facelifts, but the range is wide - abdomen, thighs, arms and so on. I searched hard for arm lift reviews, but compared to lipo there weren't many. Maybe because it's relatively unfamiliar T_T I messaged the people whose progress looked good asking about the clinic and the cost, and once I put it all together the candidates narrowed down. I live near Seoul so I looked mainly at the Seoul area, and among those I booked my first consultation at TheLINE, which had the most reviews. Among TheLINE's lift surgery reviews there were a lot from women who had given birth. I trust mothers' research skills.... so I referred to their reviews the most haha. I was surprised to hear that the chief director had once appeared on a program called Let Me In. I used to watch it sometimes when I was younger! Since it's a difficult surgery I wanted to have it at a clinic with a lot of surgical experience, so I visited TheLINE Plastic Surgery first. Anyway, I went for the consultation on the 27th. The order was manager > doctor > manager. Honestly I had never even shown my body to my family so it was a bit embarrassing, but the manager didn't mind at all, listened in detail to how much sagging I had and why I decided on an arm lift and liposuction, and then recommended the surgical stages! The manager also said that with an arm lift a scar is unavoidable (since there is an incision), and although the scar naturally fades a lot over time, if I still disliked it I could focus on liposuction and keep the lift at a lower stage. Honestly I felt a stretch mark scar and a surgical scar wouldn't be that different, so I told her I wanted to do as much as possible! She also asked about my budget ceiling and possible surgery dates, and whether there was a particular doctor I wanted. But honestly, which doctor did it didn't matter much to me... I figured they would all be good, so I said I didn't mind, and she recommended Dr. Jungjae Baek. After that I had the consultation with the doctor, who explained where my muscles sit and said the liposuction would be done below them (when I asked the manager, she said what sits above the muscle can't be removed artificially) and we decided to do the lift somewhere between stage 3 and stage 4! The doctor asked if I had any more questions, but the surgery information (operation time, recovery period and so on) was all already on TheLINE's website so I had nothing to ask....Then I talked with the manager again, got the information about cost and the surgical procedure, had medical photos taken and got measured for a compression garment. Honestly, before the consultation I was thinking, should I just get the consultation and check other clinics too? But after it I just signed the contract and paid the deposit right away. I set the surgery date too. What made me trust them most was that they did not only say positive things like 'it will definitely go well, trust our clinic' about the result and the prognosis. If they had said everything will be fine and we'll do exactly the stage you want, it would have felt like a lie and made me anxious, but they said that having a lift doesn't mean you can cut away as much skin as you want, and especially for arms, which have the widest range of movement, rather than pushing it too far the doctor adjusts as the surgery goes, so I trusted them. And since the arm lift and arm liposuction are for cosmetic purposes, pushing the surgery too far isn't good for me or for the clinic, so they said that if my condition isn't good at the test on the day of surgery they won't go ahead, and I need to manage my condition well. So I felt there was no need to get consultations anywhere else, and I put down the deposit and set the surgery date right away haha. Surgery is set for mid-June, so I'm going to take care of my condition until then. I hope revision surgery never happens in my life T_T