I'm a Burmese girl.
My eye is a double eyelid type.
But I want to have a western double eyelid type.
I wonder if it's possible for me to get Caucasian eyes.
I also want to know what kind of procedures I need and how much will it cost?
Thank you for your question!
You’ve asked an interesting question that is certainly is a little controversial and
the question is can you get Caucasian eyes with Asian double eyelid surgery.
And you submitted a photo and showed that there is a crease but you want to have more
Caucasian eyes.
Well, this is a question that is may not be as common as it may have been decades in the
past.
Most people who come to my practice and I’m a cosmetic oculofacial plastic surgeon with
a specialty focused in Asian eyelid surgery, I’ve rarely heard a patient who come in
who say they wanted Caucasian eyes.
In fact, most people come to me and say that they don’t want a look Caucasian, they just
want a nice defined crease.
But, for the people who come in and said that they want deep eyelid creases and they show
a photo of somebody who’s not Asian and I’ll explain to you what I explain to them.
Being of Asian descent, it’s just being the shape of the soft tissue of the eyes.
It’s about the bone structure.
It’s all about the genetic elements that make up the unique ethnic background that
you have.
When you try to make someone look different from their original race or original ethnicity,
you risk crossing a line of looking unnatural.
You can certainly see many examples of people who are in media or in various types where
there is acting or music etc where they tried to look in a way that was beyond enhancement
and it made them look, unfortunately, not very good at all and became symbols of bad
plastic surgery.
So my first suggestion to you is to explore why you want to look more Caucasian.
It is important that you feel comfortable of who you are before you undergo an aesthetic
procedure.
It is a standard in our practice and in our profession to try to establish realistic expectations
for any patient who considers a cosmetic procedure.
Cosmetic procedures enhance your life but I always say that it doesn’t necessarily
change your life.
It may change how you look in life, it may make you feel more confident which is more
than 99% at the time is true that people who are happy at their results always project
more confidence.
But it doesn’t make someone who is Asian be mistaken for someone who is Caucasian.
Now especially in United States and practicing here in New York, we have amazing blending
of ethnicities and people who have one Asian parent and a non-Asian parent and we see this
wonderful examples of this remarkable ethnic blending.
In that respect, it still looks natural because it is by design from the beginning.
So I would just emphasize to you not to pursue aggressively this type of change unless you
have realistic understanding of what the outcome will be.
Certainly you can maybe get a deeper crease.
Maybe you can do some other things that is not outside of eyelid surgery.
Some people would get augmentation of the nose to build a more defined bridge.
They would do other things that are more extensive on the face.
But I would say to you simply that it is not possible to make someone of Asian descent
make them look like they’re Caucasian but rather try to enhance and of course embrace
your ethnicity if you want to do some kind of enhancement.
But most importantly, ask yourself this question and maybe discuss this with people who are
close to you to establish what the motivation is.
So I hope that was helpful, I wish you the best of luck and thank you for your question!