Nothing makes us more excited than talking about a non-so-little tweakment or a process-tuck. In the spirit of transparency, Marie Claire’s Aesthetics column, Life in plasticHe delivers one hand a look at what is happening behind the doctor’s door.
Jennifer is a 52 -year -old woman living in Connecticut. In May 2025, he underwent a lower blepharoplasty and facelift with CO2 laser. This is her story, as she told Marie Claire, edited for length and clarity.
I started talking Robert SchwarczMD FACS, which made my superior blepharoplasty maybe 10 or 15 years ago. I began to ask him all these questions I had to get a facelift and do something in my eyes that have taken hollow. As I have grown up, I was able to literally grab the skin, and it will remain crumpled. I was so insecure in pictures that I would stop smiling because it would make my skin look crepe and wrinkle.
I had so many questions about Dr. Schwarcz: Do you think I’m a candidate for a facelift? Bleph? How old are people when they do this? “There is no universal age, but from my perspective, the previous intervention when the changes are moderate-from waiting until they are serious-usually provides the smoother, more natural results,” says Dr. Schwarcz.
Still, I was really, really scared. You can tell when people go to sea – everything you need to do is walk around Palm Beach, or Greenwich Avenue, or Beverly Hills. I never wanted to look like someone else. I just wanted to be a better version of myself. But God, I was so nervous to get through it. Certainly, I could continue to make a laser and that too, but I started to feel that it wouldn’t make the big difference I wanted.
The Facelift Consultation
Well first of all, I didn’t just have one consultation – I had three. I was not particularly ready to get anything. Dr. Schwarcz has always been historically very realistic with me and truly loves the natural look. So I was just like pushing around: What do you think? What is the process? What is the process? What do you recommend? Is it greasy cuttings? Do you recommend this laser against this laser? How do you tighten? I have to do botox and filling For now? Can I go a little more without needing it? At this point, I thought I met him to discuss something two years from now.
But then, I started looking in the mirror and pulling my face a little. I am like, Wow, that looks good, Do you know? I started talking to people. I started participating in some groups on facebook where people are too vocal for good and bad [plastic surgery]. There are Reddit communities. I felt that the consensus was: If I did, I would have to do it now.
Then I returned to his office and got more serious. We reviewed the odds, placed everything on paper and examined where the stitches for facelift would be placed. We discussed doing a lower blepharoplasty, which, for me, seemed like the easiest place. The fat transplantation during blepharoplasty is worried a bit because it involves pulling fat from another part of my body. I thought: Where do you pull it from? Will it look abnormal? Will it be settled in a joke? But it really calms all my fears.
Certainly, I lost a tone of sleep for concern, but eventually signed the papers to go to surgery in early June for a deep airplane and a neck lift, a lower bladder with transplant fat and a CO2 laser. “Surgical reinstalls and removes the tissues; it is aimed at contours and descent, but does not improve the quality of the surface of the skin.” The laser goes deep and requires a break time, so I like to do both together so that the patient can maximize the time.
The pre-op visit
I had a pre-op visit a few weeks before my surgery. It’s a little scary because you have to be so fastened before. I had to go and get full natural urine tests, an ekg, and I make sure my blood and my heart [were] right. It’s all to make sure your body is healthy enough to handle a surgery like this.
A photo of Jennifer before facelift and blepharoplasty.
(Credit Picture: Jennifer)
I also made sure to work with a nutritionist – her name is Kylie bensley. He specializes in surgical diet and essentially explains how a balanced diet can help in faster healing. I had a lot of protein, fruits and proteins.
What I didn’t realize was how many different medicines they would call for me. There is Oxy and Vicodin, and something about stress. There are antibiotic ointments and nasal drugs. There are antibacterial drugs to prevent infections. They are many precautions and may feel very overwhelming.
On the day of surgery
I took the train from Connecticut to the city without makeup. No lotion. No creams. Nothing, just raw skin. I was literally on the train, wearing a baseball hat and a hoodie, because I didn’t want to be recognized. I [went] Just in the office of Dr. Schwarcz, and they [got] I went right. I don’t think I realized, Ok, this is happeningUntil I was in his office and pulled out on my face with a purple index. Then my anesthesiologist was talking and calming me. They took me to the operating room, and within five minutes, I was out cold.
Five hours later, I was awake.
I felt like I had a very big sleep – then I realized that I was shocked like mummy, literally. However, Dr. Schwarcz said that everything was going well and that it would look great. The one thing I didn’t think I would need, but I’m so happy to do it, was a private nurse. Dr. Schwarcz really asked me to spend at least one night with her. It’s really funny, in fact. There are three locations in the city where people go to heal with nurses. People who really want to spend will go to the square or the sign.
I spent two nights with three different nurses in a lower hotel. Became my best friends. All they do is take care of people after plastic processes. The suite has a separate bedroom for the nurse, who can prepare food for you in the kitchen, change your gauze and drainage and watch your condition carefully.
The recovery
I was in the email 20 minutes after birth in all three of my children. With that? I couldn’t look at my phone for two days. I was constantly icing. My bandages had to change regularly. I was covered in Aquaphor by CO2. It is very maintenance. I would never say I was in pain. I was very uncomfortable. Really having the nurse make a huge difference.
48 hours after surgery, the drains come out. Their nurse really took them out to me, and then Dr. Schwarcz ran and confirmed that everything was fine and healed properly. I didn’t have to be wrapped like mummy after that. I was transferred to this compression sleeve that has ice pockets. I had to wear it for a total of seven days.
Jennifer’s therapeutic development.
(Credit Picture: Jennifer)
The turning point for me was really eight or nine days. I started to feel man again. I could go out – I even went to two graduation parties (in a hat and sunglasses). I was so incredibly swollen by the CO2 laser, though. Elephant treatment was really a piece of cake. “Swelling and bruises from a mulealoplasty improve between two and three week, with the final results evolving over four to six,” says Dr. Schwarcz. I was still a little swollen for about a month, but now I think my eyes look really great and you can’t see the stitches.
The results of the displacement and blepharoplasty
(L to r) Jennifer before her facelift, Blepharoplasty her and Laser CO2, and Jennifer five and a half weeks after facelift, Blepharoplasty and Laser CO2.
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Jenn before (l) and three months after (r) her blepharoplasty and facelift.
(Credit Picture: Jenn)
I’m so happy to do it. Honestly, however, I don’t think they look very different. But for Dr. Schwarcz this is always the goal: “For me, a facelift is not to change someone’s appearance – this is back, helping them look like a refreshed version of themselves,” he says.
That’s exactly what I feel. Most people don’t even realize that I had a facelift. It’s so thin. You can’t see my stitches – you’ll really need a magnifying glass to see them behind my ear. I am now three months out and still very much in the treatment process, but I know it will only improve. All I have to say is that it’s really crazy what you can do on a five -hour topic.
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