Should i get plastic surgery at 22? will it make me uglier as i age?

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I have BDD. I'm a 22 year old girl. I feel like I have attractive features about my face and I've always wanted to just appreciate those things and be comfortable/confident in my own skin, but I have some features that distract me from that and it's all I can notice. It's to the point where I don't want to talk to people because I think I'm too ugly, or It's the only thing I can think about even if I'm doing big things in other areas of my life.

I have a really feminine and round face, small chin. But, I also have genetic huge round puffy eye bags. I'm pale too, and my whole life basically I've been told I look tired, like a witch, or a meth head, even though people also tell me I'm pretty. I think subconsciously, I feel a lot tired too since I ALWAYS look tired no matter what. No drugstore treatments work, my bags aren't dark but nothing de-puffs them and all I can see are the shadows it overcasts on my face. I also have one laugh line and I feel like the eyebags combined emphasise the ugliness in my face. One angle I look like a doll, the next I look like a grandma. I just feel like if it wasn't for those two things I'd be really pretty.

I just want to get them removed so I can finally feel confident. But I'm not fond of the idea of injecting poison in my face that could later sag, or backfire on me by the time I actually get older. I don't really know the side effects of botox, I just want to get eye fillers for the bags. But I don't want to have to keep getting injections or anything. Does anybody have experience on this or have advice?

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  • olderdude-xx
    2 years ago

    I've seen a lot of plastic surgery that did not age well... and made people look worse years later.

    I would not modify my face with either the poisons or the injections as there is no real long term (multi-decade) evidence to show what you will look like in 30 - 50 years.

    The only thing I would consider reasonable at your age (or even younger) is breast reduction surgery for Ladies that are over-endowed. That has many decades of results; although it does not prevent sagging as you age (nothing does).

    I wish you well with this,

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  • jrbsportz
    2 years ago

    Look here girl I don't know you or seen you but you are a beautiful and sexy lady that's has a heart.you dont need no surgery to make you fill better about your self.you find someone that will love you for who you are ,not some surgery that might or might not help.keep your beautiful head up just saying

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  • SwickDinging
    2 years ago

    Plastic surgery, when done well, can actually look pretty darned good. The only problem is that if you want it done well, you need to pay a shit load of money for it. Most people can't afford the best plastic surgeons.

    If you can't afford someone who is very good, I honestly wouldn't start fucking around with your face.

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  • Sexy442
    2 years ago

    I can change all that without
    surgery it's a simple condition to fix

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  • ellnell
    2 years ago

    You will end up with pillow face.

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    • Tommythecaty
      2 years ago

      “round face, small chin, huge round puffy eye bags”

      Is pillow face....

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  • MonteMetcalfe
    2 years ago

    Google - Jocelyn Wildenstein.

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  • LloydAsher
    2 years ago

    Only surgery I will be getting right now are dental implants. Not because it will fix the missing molar but because it will fix the upper molar growing in to cover for the fact that I dont have a lower molar.

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  • S0UNDS_WEIRD
    2 years ago

    You won't be having anything injected for your eyes. They'll cut out a tiny strip under each eye, pull the wound closed to tighten the skin, and connect it that way.

    A friend of mine had something similar done when he was only about 15 as it was beginning to impair his vision. He was oddly born with far too much upper eyelid and they were beginning to droop over his eyes even in the open position. They cut some off. He was left looking a bit more wide-eyed than he had intended but not to a readily noticable extent and it overall greatly improved his self-esteem and dating life in addition to making it easier to see.

    I support plastic surgery, viewing it as a personal choice regarding one's body and not so different from wearing braces, but I wish it required a psychological evaluation and waiting period like gender confirmation surgery.

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  • JellyBeanBandit
    2 years ago

    If you're the kind of person who'll always pick out a flaw in yourself then plastic surgery probably wouldn't help you. It'll work for a while, you'll feel great about yourself temporarily, but then you'll get used to it and start to pick out some more flaws and feel shit about yourself again. You'll feel even more compelled then to get plastic surgery than you were the first time since you'd be more used to the idea. Then it could start to become a regular thing and you could become addicted to it.

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    • playklax
      1 year ago

      Totally agree. You end up falling down this rabbit hole where there is always something to fix no matter what you had done. In the end, it ends up looking ridiculous and not pretty at all. Natural looks are far more attractive than artificial beauty,

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