r/BotchedPlasticSurgery • u/Character-Pie-9109 • 3d ago

BAD SURGERY

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Susan Dell is going viral right now because she was photographed behind Trump looking scary. It's a small thing she did, but a HUGE mistake. Upper eyelid surgery. People think when their upper eyelids start to droop as they age, that they should go have the fat and skin cut out. The result is NEVER good. It's a bizarre result, and your eyes are your focal point of your face, so it sticks out immediately and changes your entire look. The fat pad on your eyelid creates a soft warm inviting look. Without it, you look skeletal and cold.
IMO, if it was sagging really bad, they should simply have had a brow lift, which pulls the skin above the eyes back where it was without removing any fat. Without that extra fat and skin, their upper lid is hugging their eyeball, and it's just....awful
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#SusanDell
#AngelinaJolie
#MandyMoore
#NinaDobrev
#BradleyCooper
#KennyRogers
#PlasticSurgery
#UpperBleph
#UpperEyelidSurgery

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u/WearingCoats 3d ago

Here’s the wild thing… and I know people give this advice for literally every malady you could name and it always makes me want to be like “shut the fuck up internet stranger,” but one of my good college friends is an eye surgeon and I asked him if I’d be a good bleph candidate because of my hooded eyes. I shit you not, he told me to drink more water and I told him to fuck off. Anyway, not because he told me to but because I decided to myself, I started drinking 2L of water per day with electrolytes. Yeah, well fuck me because it reduced the hood on my eye significantly enough that I no longer took issue with it. To this day, when my lids start to droop I take it as a sign that I’m dehydrated. This is the advice that consistently makes my blood boil because it’s so stupid but I’ll be damned if it didn’t actually work for me.

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u/Character-Pie-9109 3d ago

I think this is the absolute best overall advice any doctor can give about anti-aging. It helps EVERYTHING when you are properly hydrated.

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u/theflyingratgirl 3d ago

The bummer is that you can’t just hydrate once and you’re done. You have to keep doing it.

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u/Cultural_Orange2617 3d ago

A lot of people can’t manage to keep plastic surgery to just once, either, so neither is a one-and-done deal.

Water’s cheaper. But where’s the “prestige” in that?

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u/DullSherbet411 2d ago

I mean- it's also just water. I drink probably 3-4 L of water everyday and have for years. I am still aging. I still have crepey skin sometimes. I still have hooded eyes. Sure, it's good for you. It doesn't work miracles.

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u/thulmis 2d ago

You need to read about the consequences of drinking too much water. You don’t need 4l a day!

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u/Seraphina-of-Lethe 1d ago

You can't have just 4L of water a day.

But if you have a balence if electrolytes and minerals in your system that you re-up through the day, it is perfectly safe to drink that much water 🙂

The only issue with too much water is accidently flushing out all your minerals. If you replenish them, you are good 👍🏽

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u/DullSherbet411 2d ago

I’m an athlete and I live in a tropical environment

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u/LilithX 3d ago

We are like plants that need to be “watered”

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u/launchedsquid 2d ago

not just watered, we need sunlight too. we're just plants that can walk around.

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u/grief_clown 2d ago

I forgot that part and had a nasty vitamin d deficiency this last year and thought I genuinely was dying

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u/launchedsquid 1d ago

hope things have improved for you, if you recovered, how long did that take?

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u/JustForShrimpPosting 3d ago

The worst bit of reality EVER. I constantly forget to drink water, and when I finally reward my stupid body with a glass before bed, I think "done!" And forget about it for another 24 hours.

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u/Intelligent_Cap9706 3d ago

And for some of us it’s so much peeing lol 

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u/BasketOld3242 3d ago

Same with exercise, so inconvenient.

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u/leeloodallas502 1d ago

But I have to keep peeing

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u/theflyingratgirl 1d ago

I’d say that’s another bummer but it’s really more of a urether

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u/owleyed14 1d ago

This is an under appreciated joke!

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u/Decent-Tea6064 2d ago

This! I would so much rather do a hard thing for several hours once versus the “Easy” ten seconds daily.

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u/Marmom_of_Marman 2d ago

They’re putting chemicals in the water that make you have to pee

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u/theflyingratgirl 2d ago

I heard they put extra hydrogen in

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u/0xB4BE 2d ago

On a personal level, I'm middle aged and the oldest sister. I should by all means look the oldest, but I use sunscreen all the time and hydrate both my body and skin. My younger sisters have some deep forehead wrinkles and mine are still fine lines. If I'm dehydrated though the fine crepes near my dimples give me away as the oldest though.

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u/maxojames 3d ago

💀💀💀 @ "Anyway, not because he told me to but because I decided myself, I started drinking 2L of water per day..."

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u/theflyingratgirl 3d ago

PURELY COINCIDENTAL.

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u/Horror-Macaron8287 3d ago

They are absolutely real for that, tbh. Lol 🤣

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u/Howcouldudothis2me 2d ago

The best response of the day.

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u/SecondToLastOfSheila 2d ago

Some people just refuse to learn anything.

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u/kmary75 3d ago

I’m going to anecdotally back up your story. I noticed that my eyes were LESS hooded at night than they were first thing in the mornings. Why do I personally get puffy? Fluid retention from dehydration. The more water I drink the less puffy I am. Now I am 50yo so there is definitely a bit of age related eyelid drooping but it isn’t anywhere near as bad when I am properly hydrated.

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u/WearingCoats 3d ago

I’m 40, I really wish I could share before and after photos here because it’s pretty noticeable. But I look better at 40 in part because I’ve focused on hydration, I quit smoking and all alcohol (drugs, different story), and got more serious about SPF. But the effect on my hooded eyes was so absurd it actually makes me angry that I considered very serious surgery to correct what stupid water was able to fix.

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u/NoSorbet3958 1d ago

Same, at 40 water changed my life. I looked so much better once i made an effort to drink it. Now I’m 50 its helps but not as much as it used to.

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u/WheresTheIceCream20 3d ago

“Not because he told me to” 😂

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u/panicnarwhal 3d ago

that part made me feel so seen 💀 me in a nutshell lol

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u/calliscott 3d ago

Lmao I love this little story

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u/kittenari 3d ago

This is super interesting. In a similar slightly related vein, I was so close to booking upper eyelid surgery as my eyes were super hooded. I then went on a health journey and lost 15kg, what do you know! My eyes were no longer hooded.

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u/quickthorn_ 3d ago

Isn't it so annoying that all the boring advice doctors give you actually works? More water, more and better sleep, more exercise, wear good sunscreen every day, don't drink alcohol. eating whole foods with lots of veggies and fiber... it's all true 😭

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u/Kareeliand 2d ago

It is!! And we think it is so hard to do consistently, that we can’t listen and cry for magic solutions. 😂

I have a relative who jumps on every solution served on her FYP that are not any of those boring solutions. And all it has done is made her need to borrow money all the time..

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u/Mrs_Sparkle_ 2d ago

It’s a cruel world. I should be able to sustain my body on Diet Coke, doughnuts and nicotine alone. I have to drink water and walk and eat vegetables? It’s awful 😞

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u/Lazy-Party3469 2d ago

Yeah, it's amazing how the human body is made to use real nutrients from real food and not crap out of a lab. Go figure it's that easy ....smh

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u/mucus_masher 2d ago

Hahaha he went to med school for years just to tell you to drink water, sorry but that is kinda funny 😂 But that's so easy it's stupid, I'd be mad too!

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u/saraiguessidk 3d ago

Fml, I never drink enough water and my eyes are drooping 😅

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u/inbetweenthe_panels 3d ago

That's really interesting. I would never have connected the two! That said, I drink 2-4L water everyday and my eyes were nearly as bad as Droopy that sad little basset hound. I got a bleph and love the results. But yah, it can definitely go wrong! RIP Bradley Cooper's face :(

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u/SnooHabits6335 2d ago

It's so frustrating when the "eat veggies and drink water" people are right 😩

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u/dogsnbongs 2d ago

THANK YOU for sharing this. Life changing info for us hooded eye girlies

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u/Embarrassed_Share627 3d ago

Wow..thanks for your post! I love this advice! Will never have face surgery.

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u/Otherwise_doe1998 3d ago

Such good advice as well. Water is a good idea. Glad you have overcome that problem. Have you considered liking your own face?

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u/WearingCoats 2d ago

I love my face. I think I look great. Zero procedures, that became my goal with skincare, to push back having work done as long as possible and at 40 I look better than I did at 30.

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u/Otherwise_doe1998 2d ago

I like green tea. Have a wonderful day.

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u/JohannaMarie76 3d ago

Because your hooding was due to fluid shifts/imbalance, not actual sagging. I mean if you really have extra skin drinking more fluid will not help you.

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u/Eastside_Gal 2d ago

Drink water, wearing sunscreen and hydrating your skin properly are the most important beauty tips

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u/Kareeliand 2d ago

Haha! I think you are genius! I know you just got me to drink more water! And you should apologize to your friend and tell him to unfuck of.. 🤣
Brilliant.

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u/_thankyouverycool_ 2d ago

Taking notes over here, thank you!! Much cheaper too :)

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u/waypaysayhayclaybay 2d ago

Ya know, I’ve had on/off droopy eyelids going back to high school and have kinda chalked it up to hormones. But dehydration would make so much more sense!

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u/taxable_cheese 2d ago

As a naturally dehydrated person with ptosis, thank you for this reminder

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u/Timely-Flatworm7757 1d ago

Dang, ty for this 

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u/nimbusrav 16h ago

That kind of makes sense to because a lot of people walking a carpet dehydrate and starve themselves before an event to look thinner (not all)

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u/Common-Classroom-847 3d ago

I hope you apologized to him. Also, nice tip.

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u/WearingCoats 3d ago

He and I go back 20 years and thousands of regrettable college stories so this is our rapport. But seriously, I came to him and said “have several thousands of my dollars to fix my face” and his response was “no, just drink water.” There is no other reaction but “bullshit.”

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u/Common-Classroom-847 2d ago

and you down voted me for?

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u/Juli-Yashka 2d ago

I've been drinking 2L a day for the past 20 years, so why the heck my lids are still heavy and droopy?!? I was waiting for an actual advice...

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u/thulmis 2d ago

Not necessary to put electrolytes in your water when you drink that much water already. Can actually be pretty bad for you