Will wearing eyelid tape give me a double lid even though I already have a crease above
my eye?
When I was young, my mother used her fingers to make creases above my eyes to give me double
lids.
One became a double lid but the other got messed up.
So, I have one double lid on one eye and a messed up crease on the other.
Will eyelid tape fix this??
Thank you for your question!
You submitted a photo and a question where you state that your mother helped you develop
a crease just by manually creating one and you described where one eyelid has a crease
and whether or not tape will result in a more permanent crease.
I think that is what you’re trying to attain from this question.
So to help you understand what exactly is the basis for eyelid crease in Asians, it
comes down to essentially to a particularly connection.
And this connection is between a muscle called the levator muscle.
The levator is the muscle that lifts the eyelid, like the world elevator without the letter
“e”.
The fibers from the levator muscle go into the skin and it pulls the skin in and it creates
that connection that causes that fold.
Now, when we perform Asian eyelid surgery, whether it’s with the non-incisional method
or the incisional method, we have one primary objective is to create that connection between
the skin and the levator muscle.
When you wear eyelid tape and it’s very popular to try that is to see how you like
it.
In fact, sometimes our patients will come in wearing that tape and it will give me kind
of a guideline as where they want their crease and then we discuss if it’s feasible or
not.
But the point is that tape can force the skin to fold in but tape will not create that connection.
And so, because tape will not create that connection, I don’t think that you should
use the tape to create that effect as a long-term strategy.
A lot of patients who come before they have the surgery, they’ll actually say how routinely
they would apply the tape and use it before they went out or for special occasion, the
challenge is that it is of course, a little cumbersome to that and sometimes people get
sensitive to the adhesive.
The eyelid skin is delicate and sometimes pulling on and off the tape becomes less fun
than it was initially.
So understanding that the goal is to create adhesion, to create a connection between the
skin and the levator muscle, I would say that probably, if you’re very serious about having
a crease, then you should meet with a qualified experienced cosmetic surgeon who has a lot
of experience with eyelid surgery.
You may be someone who will maybe benefit from a non-incisional approach which means
you don’t have extra skin, you don’t have any fat to remove and you’d do well with
something that is limited in terms of its invasiveness because what we’re doing is
we’re making little openings and connecting the skin to the underlying muscle and those
stitches and everything stay underneath inside the eyelid.
So with that understood, you can now do your research and decide how to proceed or you
may just want to use the tape, an ongoing basis just to maintain a certain look.
So I hope that was helpful, I wish you the best of luck and thank you for your question!