When a 70 year old gets a facelift and plastic surgery, it looks like a 70 year old who had a facelift. Why is it impossible to convincingly reverse the effects of aging by tightening skin and re-sculpting?
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I just talked to a plastic surgeon.
Older methods of facelifts pulled the actual skin and restitched it in hidden locations like along the hair line. The problem with this method is it pulls on the skin too much and looks unnatural Also, over time, the skin stretches again.
Modern facelifts actually take the underlying muscle and pull it tight. She showed me how — they fold it over itself in in the middle and stitch it together. Then, they lay the skin back like a flap and cut it to fit. This allows the muscle to support the load so the skin is not pulled so tight. It increases the longevity and reduces the windswept look.
Slightly off topic, but let’s not forget that plastic surgeons do more than just facelifts and boob jobs to fight off aging.
I had a plastic surgeon who grafted skin from the side of my thighs onto the 3rd degree burns on the other side of my leg. ie; he used a vegetable peeler to peel skin off my leg to cover the open burn wounds with skin.
They also help women who have had mastectomies rebuild breasts so they do not feel self conscious.
People who have been in disfiguring accidents can find a lot of relief when a plastic surgeon helps them reduce the scars, or rebuild a nose that’s not there any more.
They are a lot more than just “facelift and liposuction” doctors.
I just thought I’d throw that out there. Maybe they can’t make a every 70 year old look like a 30 year old, but they can bring normalcy to people who need are suffering too.
I’m surprised nobody said it, but the skull age, the shapes of your face changes are you get older and we can detect it. One thing you can easily see and notice also is how the eyes starts sinking into the skull’s orbit – adding to the old face.
I’m trained as a plastic surgeon but I don’t do cosmetic surgery in practice.
1. You don’t notice well done facelifts, just overdone ones.
2. Old skin doesn’t have the same structure as young skin. It isn’t just hanging, it’s saggy and thinner. There’s no way to fix that.
I’ve always thought that Tom Cruise has actually been getting small procedures done for years and years so that it’s never anything that’s real dramatic and this is what it’s allowed him to age so well.
Supposedly J Lo had a ponytail facelift in her 30s. On someone that age it would not be as noticeable since she would have a lot less to correct or lift wyd she still had her fat pads in place, Probably a small accent of filler as well. I think that the more sagging skin one has, the texture has changed drastically as well as a dramatic loss of fat. To really combat everything it’s replacement of lost fat, lasers to retexture, and lifting of the skin
Have you seen Madonna? It’s honestly trippy. She looks like a 40yr old with too much plastic surgery with her $500k face. She’s 63
Because if a person has good work done, you don’t notice it. That’s why people think procedures = bad, because bad is the giveaway on the procedure. You’ve seen tons of good facelifts, you just didn’t know it.
It’s actually possible to have a facelift that looks normal. Some people just go overboard.
My mom needed medically recommended eyelid lifts (her lashes were turning under, small eyes). So she opted to add on the forehead lift and something else I forget now that she had to pay for as they weren’t medically recommended. But even just after it healed you’d never know she had anything done. Laugh lines, eye crinkle lines, forehead skin still scrunched up like it’s supposed to when you make certain faces.
There’s changes to the bone structure underneath. So plastic surgery can make you look “good for a 60yo” but it can never make you look 30 again.
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