it looks like someone quite literally took a sledgehammer to my face and
that's because they actually did exactly one year ago I got rhinoplasty surgery
or a nose job with dr. deer in Beverly Hills it was something I thought about
doing for years but was honestly too scared it wasn't until I had major
medical issues that I was forced to take action and I've never been happier that
I did I documented the entire process from the initial consultation and how I
found my surgeon - preparing for surgery surgery day and everything post-op if
you want to check that out it's linked down below I really got into what drove
me to make this decision and every step I went through to ensure my surgery and
recovery went smoothly and I couldn't be more thankful for how everything turned
out so here I am one year later and I figured I'd answer the million dollar
question as well as Google's most-searched nose job related questions
was it worth it let's find out what's up you guys I'm on my way to my one-year
follow-up appointment with dr. dear for my rhinoplasty surgery that happened
last February it's actually only January 9th today and my surgery happens on
February and 19th of last year so I'm about a month before the actual official
one year so I'm going today and we're just gonna see basically how my healing
has gone and if there's anything we need to do still remaining I can anticipate
that we may have to end up shaving down some of the inside cartilage because
it's still very swollen on the inside and that's supposed to be gone by now
but other than that I don't think we'll have to do anything crazy I just can't
not believe how fast time flew by I feel like I just got surgery it's insane so
I'm driving there now and I'll check in with you soon all right guys I'm at the
office for my one-year follow-up appointment with dr. deer here you all
right guys we are in the office again what year I am so proud of this result I
can't wait to show you the finer points but we are one year how you feeling
amazing I'll show you the pre-ops as well as
opposed to the before pictures of all the views I'm going to show you guys the
finer points we did discuss taking down a home we wanted to keep it strong and
straight with a gentle curvature super tip break which is this region here and
one of the tips supported and really nicely shaped three-quarter view which
is really important I love this it matches her face it harmonizes with her
strong cheekbones strong chin she's also very tall I think that the nose falls
into the face we just look at the eyes I think if we did any more of a slope that
would have taken away from the other key features because they're so strong I'm
really happy that we kept it that way front view we had to get that hump you
can see the little lines that we'd love to talk about these lines a start here
come all the way down the nose and they shoot outward a little bit there's not
an hourglass with a hump it goes in out and out it breaks the line so now it's a
very smooth line comes to the nice natural refine tip I'm very happy with
that and as you can see on this three-quarter view side profile and then
when she smiles the tip stays upright it's very very important so overall I'm
very happy with the science features of it but of course the person behind the
nose is most important and how did you feel how was your healing process or the
year
and we are very proud you guys know if you've been following this journey like
I'm obsessed with him he's the best doctor in the world please if you guys
are ever considering anything like this come to him he's the best contribution
and I'm not just saying that but you know that yeah we have time I don't ever
want this journey to be over so I'm just gonna keep finding excuses to come back
here like he might micro needle me can all that natural won't teach new stuff
that we're doing yes definitely she's really about natural and I know that we
have Botox fillers yeah they're things too so we're gonna start with micro
needling maybe PRP where we take your blood we put so so cool and weird and
skincare stuff yeah that make her feel that you know she's maintaining your
natural beauty yeah a busy rhinoplasty czar a big
discussion but I think we kept it natural we definitely did I mean people
hardly notice it's great pizza I'm very proud of Adrienne she do the year really
well she's very mature when you're is hard that's our process to swelling and
she got through it oh yeah I was like ain't no thing oh
yeah all the pre-op Co polish over look at that beautiful side profile look at
that tip hell of a smile for the camera psych profile I love on that tip that's
not drew when she smiles a lot of people rhinoplasty when they come in for
evaluations always talk about that and the best part confidence and as you can
see we have plenty of confidence every time he's like there's ten times more
confident than the last time I'm like I don't know how that's possible but
you're right oh it's always a pleasure to meet people that are referred through
either yeah anyway see you later so as you can see there's like absolutely no
hump anymore the tip was brought up from the front before my nose was actually a
lot thinner but it's because I couldn't breathe it was like super pinched right
here so he actually had to take cartilage from the tip and add it to the
outside so like widen this out so I could actually breathe so it's funny
from the front it's actually wider than it was before but as you can tell still
it's just like so much straighter every angle is just so much better than it was
before my nostrils are actually a little bit not symmetrical anymore and they
used to be and then from the top you can tell that it's straight I think the
weirdest part for me was definitely like feeling this after and realizing that
there's no bump because I'm so used to just having how to bump my whole life
okay so let's just get into the question so I searched Google's most searched
nose dog questions and we're just gonna run down through the list right now okay
question 1 how did you choose a doctor so I actually got really lucky if you
guys watch my other video you'll see the entire process I actually got really
lucky and I have a friend who works for this company called cosmetic town and if
you guys don't have someone who works there which you probably don't I highly
recommend going to their website cosmetic town basically they have all
these resources on their site for like comparing doctors and really
understanding what a procedure is so that you can figure out the best surgeon
to do that but I just recommend literally doing as much research as you
can on the Internet go look at like a million reviews make
sure that the doctor is super certified and has like performed a bunch of
rhinoplasty before I ended up getting consultations with three doctors and
then I ended up choosing my one doctor but I did a sufficient amount of
research I would tell you guys like it took me a year from like starting
consultations to actually getting surgery because I was just like very
paranoid and like I'm not someone to go do something like this to go get surgery
especially cosmetic and I was so worried about how am I gonna look so I took my
dang time with the research and I really made sure I felt comfortable with my
doctor I made sure that we had the same goals for my face and it wasn't just
some doctor that was gonna like do a cookie cutter signature style of a nose
like I have my own face and I obviously don't want to look the same as everyone
else so this doctor was like so great I could tell that he really cared about my
needs he never rushed me it was awesome but I'm not gonna blab on and on about
that you can go watch my other video but I used to cosmetic town to kind of
research and I recommend that you do too if you're ever looking next question how
long was recovery so when you get rhinoplasty there are two kinds there's
like an open and a closed open is where they're actually snipping right here
lifting it up and like messing with everything in size because that's a
little bit more like damaging it takes actually a full entire year to heal it
but obviously for a year you're not like bedridden you get your cast off after
six days and then your nose is still swollen so you're supposed to kind of
take it easy for like two weeks after surgery so maybe not going to work until
like ten days after or two weeks if you can basically the longest that you can
kind of chill and do nothing the better just because it's very risky if you hit
your nose if you do anything that could cause like it to not heal the way that
it supposed to heal like that can actually
that's how it looks even more than the actual surgery so I literally just
shelled for two weeks but the cast came off on day six and then beyond that
basically 80% of the swelling goes down in like the first one to two months so
it's not like you're walking around with like a honkin nose other people don't
really notice but the swelling does go down like very significantly over each
week like as you move on but it's not fully fully healed and the cartilage is
not fully formulated for a full year yeah so overall the recovery is so quick
and so easy like literally one to two weeks is all it takes to recover okay
next question I thought this question was really funny
do nose jobs last forever so yes obviously if you're getting a
rhinoplasty or any type of cartilage reconstruction or you know anything
where things are being moved around in there yes it lasts forever there is
another type of rhinoplasty called like liquid rhinoplasty where they're
actually injecting filler into your nose to kind of straighten and smooth it out
that does not last forever I'm not sure how much how long that lasts I think
like six months maybe or maybe even a year actually maybe like two years okay
I don't know you're gonna have to google it but there is liquid rhinoplasty but
for anything else we are going under the knife and you're actually performing
surgery you're moving around cartilage yes and last om ba next question does
rhinoplasty hurt okay so here's the thing I watched a ton of people's videos
on this like before I got my surgery and I saw so many mixed reactions for me it
didn't hurt at all like I had literally the most painless surgery the most
painless recovery I mean I had pain meds but I only took them like the first two
days instead of feeling pain I just felt like I had a really intense headache
like the first day I just felt like right here a bunch of pressure just like
in my sinuses I felt like I had a really bad headache so it was fine it wasn't
like the best feeling in the world but I just felt like I had a really bad cold
because I just had splints in my nose the cast and then I just felt like I had
a really bad headache but the painkillers totally helped but when I
was watching other people's videos I saw some where people were like miserable
the first three days or just like miserable the first day I was like so
fine I literally had the smoothest easiest recovery and nothing went wrong
I felt great it didn't hurt at all also like you're obviously under anesthesia
during the actual surgery so it does hurt and I recommend if you guys are
like going under surgery at all ask them to give you a prescription for an
anti-nausea medication because a lot of people what I hear is that the
painkillers make them nauseous so they don't end up taking the painkillers and
then they're in a lot of pain I already knew that painkillers made me nauseous
and anesthesia makes me nauseous because it has before so I told my
anesthesiologist like right away before surgery I said I get really nauseous
from painkillers and from anesthesia like can you pump me with as much
anti-nausea meds as you can and she's like I got you so she literally pumped
me with like four different things like on surgery day and then I got a
prescription for zofran which is just like a pill that you can take every
eight hours or so to just really Veni nausea from painkillers so I highly
recommend doing that because I do think a lot of the people who end up being
like severely in pain are not taking pain killers I don't know okay this
question I feel like everyone always wants to know how much did it cost or
how much do like good nose jobs cost so I'm going to tell you right now the
price definitely varies based on basically like what city and state
you're in and also what type of surgeon you're going for I'm gonna tell you
right now like I got surgery in Beverly Hills in Los Angeles which is one of the
like most famous places for plastic surgeons so Beverly Hills is home just
some of the most top-notch famous and also just like most skilled surgeons in
the world like people fly here from all over the world to get surgery with my
doctor and with other people in Beverly Hills so I will say the prices are like
very inflated in Beverly Hills no shops can run anywhere from like 12,000 to
20,000 in Beverly Hills I will save it in other cities I would
say you can get still a really good surgeon in a really good no shock for
like six or seven thousand some time five is probably pushing it unless like
again just do your research so that you know that your surgeon is reputable I
would never get a no job for under five thousand just because I feel like that's
probably not the best surgeon in the world but I think like between five and
ten thousand is usually a pretty good range and of course if you're going to
like a top top surgeon they're going to inflate the prices a bit and it will be
like 15 to 20 but they do offer most of them offer like financing plans and
payment plans so you can pay it off over time because obviously that's a huge
amount of money but I'm gonna tell you guys right now like for something as
serious as a nose job like price was not even a factor for
because yes I don't have like 20 grand to just throw out the window but you
don't want to like mess with your face this is your face this is what you're
gonna feel and breathe through and look at for the rest of your life so do not
skimp on the price make sure that if you're ready to do the surgery you're
ready to go all in and get the top surgeon that you can for the price that
you feel like is right next question does it change your voice so I've heard
so many mixed things about this both from people who've had surgery and just
like rumors and google for me it did not change my voice it definitely can change
your voice though but usually I feel like you would only make your voice
better and why I say that is just because sometimes people to have really
pinched nostrils or can't breathe very well your nose and your mouth are
connected so sometimes people speak a little bit nasally if they you know feel
like their nose is pinched like look if I plug my nose then I talk like way more
nasally you know what I mean and obviously people like don't talk like
this on the daily basis but you know when you're congested and you're just
kind of sound different so for the most part I feel like people who get
rhinoplasty s or nose jobs usually if anything would sound less nasally but it
definitely can change your voice there's kind of no guarantee of like what its
gonna do but I don't think it changed my voice if it did it was so minor that no
one really noticed so I don't know next question does it affect your breathing
so yes a lot of people including me get rhinoplasty or septoplasty to fix and
enhance their breathing so I had a completely deviated twisted separate
septum it's actually funny my doctor didn't realize that I had a twisted
septum until he like opened it up in surgery and he was like whoa it's like
very twisted we just thought that I had like a really narrow nostril and then I
couldn't breathe out of it because of that but I was having like really bad
sleep apnea so I was like choking in my sleep because I couldn't breathe so this
has opened up my airwaves it's like widen my nostrils so I can
actually breathe so yes this affects my breathing in a positive way if you don't
have breathing problems and you're just getting cosmetic surgery I don't think
it really affects your breathing at all because for the most part they're just
arranging things in a straighter way it shouldn't affect really like your
nostrils unless you're trying to make your nose like so small which I just
don't recommend obviously but if they're like making your nostrils any smaller
then yeah I mean that could affect your breathing too okay now a couple
questions that I got from you guys on Instagram what was the most on
expected part of the whole process I mean I should have expected this but I
didn't is that when you have your cast on and you have your splint in you
literally can't breathe through your nose and so for a full week I couldn't
taste food which is just something I didn't think about but I've never
experienced not being able to taste food for that long and it was so weird it
made me like not as hungry it didn't make me like feel sick when I hate or
anything it's just like I didn't realize how appealing food is because it tastes
good I mean you would think that's why but it's like the second I couldn't
taste it I just didn't really feel like eating so that was like one of the
weirdest thing because I think it's just like I did not feel like eating because
I couldn't taste food and it was a very weird phenomenon the other weird thing
is that my upper lip was like completely numb for like the first day they did
tell me that I should maybe expect that but it was just funny when I was
actually like trying to eat and I was like do I even have a lip I can't feel
it also the tip of my nose stayed numb for
like months just to the touch and it was like very hard but they did tell me to
expect that so again not super like unexpected but it was just funny another
question I get a lot is like do they break your nose when they're doing
surgery rhinoplasty and this is also a mixed answer it depends on what kind of
surgery you're getting I got an open rhinoplasty and even with open
rhinoplasty they don't always break your bones
because basically your nose is completely cartilage but then up here
like on the bridge it's bone and on your cheeks right here it's bone so for me
they did have to break it because they basically had to widen this out so they
did break my bones and they obviously shaped the cartilage they actually moved
cartilage from my tip to the side if you don't have enough cartilage on your
current nose to add cartilage up here sometimes they graft from your ear or
some other place with cartilage luckily I had a very bulbous tip which I was
trying to get rid of anyway so they were able to just shape it with the nose like
with the cartilage that I currently had but yeah it's funny because in the
photos I look so much worse than I feel like it looks like someone quite
literally took a sledgehammer to my face and that's because they actually did
apparently it was quite barbaric says my friend who was in the operating room
watching him break my face but yeah so it did not hurt nearly as much as it
looks like it hurt and then another thing that's very interesting that they
told me to expect that actually didn't happened
me was that they told me that like about five or six days after surgery and right
before I get my cast off apparently you can get like really depressed all of a
sudden you can like really question your decision and apparently it's like a
mixture of coming off of anesthesia and painkillers like kind of coming down
having this like down period and then also of course you're like waiting and
the anticipation of like seeing your new nose you're just kind of freaking out
that did not happen to me at all but I was really glad that he told me that
because I feel like I was so prepared for every possible thing that could
happen and so when he told me that like I was fully prepared to feel depressed
and then I knew that if I started feeling it I wouldn't freak out I would
just like ride it through because I knew it would end but I actually didn't feel
it at all so that was pretty nice so yeah that concludes my one year update
overall am I happy I did it was it worth it 1,000% yes it's one of those things
like I don't know I didn't do it sooner and I it's not that I wish I did I know
that I did it at the time that was right for me when I was ready when I felt
responsible and confident enough to do it and when I had done enough research
to like really make the right decision with my surgeon and with what I wanted
my goals I am so happy it's just like it's not that I hated my nose before you
again go watch my other video but it's like it's just that added little like
confidence peace of like oh like I like how my nose looks and I can breathe so
it's cool like I'm so so so happy with it and no one even really noticed that I
got a surgery which is funny you only really notice when you look back at the
before pictures I'm always like oh I forgot I had a totally different nose
but yeah I'm so happy I did it was so worth it my doctor was literally the
nicest man on planet Earth I anticipate going and doing like facial treatments
with him not any like surgeries but I really want to try like micro needling
and he's the guy that I would trust doing it so I'm a very natural gal and
I'm like not really big into these whole like these facial things and Botox and
fillers and stuffs but this surgeon I trust with my heart and soul and life
and so I might try like something else with him like micro needling or whatever
but anyway so that's it for this video I hope you guys enjoyed it if you have any
other no job questions feel free to leave them down below I will totally do
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guys in my next video thanks so much for watching okay