(Seoul=News1) Business Desk, reporter Cho Eun-soon = Ms. A (22), who had double eyelid surgery as soon as she entered university, is still unhappy with her eyes. Small, heavy-looking eyes had been her complex, so she had surgery to get large, well-defined eyes, but even after the swelling had completely subsided there was no great improvement.
Looking in the mirror and turning the problem over and over, she concluded that although the double eyelid made her eyes slightly taller, the cause seems to be that they are still narrow from side to side. She had insisted on the most minimal surgery possible, but the result is that only the double eyelid looks unnaturally large on narrow, small eyes, so it does not harmonize with her face and feels awkward.
What is more, her eyelids look weak and her pupils are not clearly exposed, so she still gets the same misreadings she often heard before surgery - that she looks sleepy or tired. After suffering in silence for a long time, Ms. A wants revision surgery, but she is frustrated because she has no way of knowing which eye procedure other than double eyelid surgery suits her.
The wish for large, open eyes is a desire commonly held by Korean women. Many therefore have double eyelid surgery, the most widely known eye procedure, but because eye shape and structure differ from person to person, the same surgery can produce different results.
According to Dr. Jeonghwan Jeon of TheLINE Plastic Surgery, "For eye surgery it is important to apply the surgical method that fits the patient, taking into account eyelid thickness, the degree of sagging and the strength of the muscle that opens the eye," adding, "Choosing a surgical approach based on overall facial harmony and the individual structure of the eye is the way to raise satisfaction."
If you want to open up narrow, heavy-looking eyes, it is worth considering Crystal Eye Surgery, which combines epicanthoplasty in the areas that need it with the buried-suture double eyelid technique. Not only the height of the eye but also its width increases, so larger and more defined eyes can be obtained.
If the muscle that opens the eye is weak so that the eyelid lacks strength and you are often told you look sleepy, the impression can be improved by combining ptosis correction. Non-incisional ptosis correction, which creates knots on the muscle that opens the eye and on the double eyelid line, adjusts the strength and elasticity of the levator muscle at the same time for more defined, clearer eyes, and it pairs well with buried-suture double eyelid surgery and with Crystal Eye Surgery as well.
Dr. Yoosuk Chung said, "Rather than simply having double eyelid surgery, more patients are combining eye surgery and ptosis correction to resolve multiple eye concerns at once without revision surgery," adding, "In particular, for ptosis correction it is important to first determine precisely whether ptosis is present, through accurate assessment and consultation with experienced medical staff specializing in eye surgery."
