Have you ever had a nose job?

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What was it like? Did you have to stay indoors for a while after? Were you happy with the results?

if this isn't a form of cunnilingus, then no.

The irony being, this is the one procedure that my employer offers that I would LOVE to get - except they can only reduce or reshape a nose. They cannot enlarge noses.

I would desperately love to swap my horrible little pig nose for one of the gorgeous lovely big noses that ladies come in here to get reduced, but alas, surgery does not work that way.

You'd think if they can enlarge, um, other things, ahem, Noses would be a fairly straightforward one...

I was asked if I had a nose job once. I haven't but I think that would be a pretty rude question to ask in the event that someone had.

it's pretty much a compliment if you haven't, on the other hand.

They can't enlarge... ha-hem, that other thing. Well, not effectively. That's why my employer stopped doing that particular operation.

Well, Noses only have to be hard, don't they?

my cousin had a nose job when he was 17. i think he's happy that he did.

he had it done by a family friend who does these things. something that seems tricky is deciding where to go... how do you know who's good?

Surm you don't need a nose job - i like yrs the way it is!

says the girl with the perfect nose :)

aw ty and I guess I don't know what it's like to be unhappy with yrs but I was being honest. I like strong noses!

or at least interesting ones. Mine is boring.

i broke it against the back of someone's head and had to have it re-set if that counts :^(

rough neighborhood?

I was in line for the slide. thats how it is on the streets.

I ran into a glass door a few weeks ago and jacked up my nose, and there were a few minutes afterward where I was asking myself: if you've broken it and it needs to be re-set, would you ask them if they could make it straighter? Then I realized it wasn't even close to broken and I am not really insured enough to get anything other than a bandage.

when my bf's sister broke her nose, the doctor told her they could do like an undercover nose job and charge insurance, and that she could "be on Vogue"

she was like uh, no

I used to have my mom's nose, until she got a nose job and now I don't anymore. Or maybe she doesn't. Or something. Anyway, it was kind of wierd and alienating.

It's going to be weird when Ashley Simpson's spawn ends up having her original nose and is all "Hey, where'd this come from?"

its name is bronx

Bronx Mowgli

A nose job will never EVER make you look better, IMO... partly because even the best ones look unnatural.

big and natural vs. small and slightly unnatural

?

one time this guy was trying to pick me up, and he goes "i have a thing for big noses" and i was like umm, that's really not the way to do it

but i went home with him anyway

My friend had a nose job because of an accident involving a rock quarry, bad footing and the collapse of a segment of rock cliff. I nearly died-- she broke her nose.

That said, she had a big ol' Jewish schnoz to begin with, so the nose job didn't really fix much...more a resetting.

Also, I don't get why people prefer (or generally think others do) smaller noses. I certainly don't. In fact I think I prefer big noses because ugly big nose >>> ugly small nose.

Oh noes. Because I totally *DO* have a thing for men with big noses.

But would it be less insulting if I added the caveat that it's because I'm secretly convinced that big noses are indicative of general massiveness in, errrmm... other areas?

Oh, men should absolutely, never, ever, have a nose job!

i take it you don't have a problem with your nose?

Well TBH I don't like my nose very much. I think it's a bit bulky, but I would never touch it because I've never seen a nose job that I like. I don't know what it is but it makes me very uncomfortable, but then I also don't like any kind of jobs.

one time this guy was trying to pick me up, and he goes "i have a thing for big noses" and i was like umm, that's really not the way to do it

Okay, I know I have talked about this before, but this was once a major issue for me -- I genuinely like beaky noses, interesting noses, etc., but you're not allowed to tell anyone that you like this! It sucks man, genuinely liking something that people are likely to be self-conscious about. But it's just a nose! It's not like you're some kind of pervert fetishist going around like "OMG I love your psoriasis" or "I think chicks with MS are just so hot" -- it's a nose, a natural facial feature that you think is attractive!

but i mean like, there's a way to say it -- a time and a place, too

"OMG I love your psoriasis"

this statement is making me kind of uncomfortable

the MS one sounds a billion times more creepy to me

i wouldnt mind a nose job - but only if it were for free. im not that desperate.

You have a cute nose!

i dont want cute - i want REGAL

my nose isn't huge but it's definitely an all-star jewish nose. and i'm happy with it.

I would be so freaked out by having any sort of plastic surgery. I'm not a big enough of a narcissist to say I think I'm perfect looking, just enough to say I wouldn't change anything. That said, I'm the only person I know who actively looks forward to getting grey, bald, and fat due to thinking it would suit me.

omg you do kind of look like a professor sometimes

one time this guy was trying to pick me up, and he goes "i have a thing for big noses" and i was like umm, that's really not the way to do it

o surmounter! one time some dude at a bar hit on my sister with, "your nose was the first thing i saw when you walked in the room." fuck these dudes imo. not literally, of course. also, don't get a nose job!

lol WAHT kind of line is that

i know. i think she still regrets not punching him in the crotch.

People are fucking cluless. See here all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "EXCELSIOR! "... and I'll look down and whisper "LOL" for my story about a dude trying to pick me up after telling me I was fat. People!

my nose isn't huge but it's definitely an all-star jewish nose. and i'm happy with it.

same here. Actually mine is a whopper.

Nabisco, if anyone were to compliment me on my nose, I'd be absolutely delighted.

supposedly they can't do much about cartiledge or however the fuck you spell it -- just the bone. confirm/deny?

one time this guy was trying to pick me up, and he goes "i have a thing for big noses" and i was like umm, that's really not the way to do it

o surmounter! one time some dude at a bar hit on my sister with, "your nose was the first thing i saw when you walked in the room." fuck these dudes imo. not literally, of course. also, don't get a nose job!

― horseshoe, Tuesday, June 9, 2009 1:32 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark

this is actually a great line i think, but i suppose its selective. I dunno its more believable and uh nicer imo for someone to be charmed by some imperfection than bowled over by ur physical flawlessness

i have a big nose and it has a scar on it from a strip light falling on it but imo it's pretty cool.

i used to want a nose job but since i'm not hiding from any nazis or trying out for a modeling agency, i've decided i'm fine with what i've got. i'd rather spend the money on boob reduction (mostly for practical reasons: back problems, fear of breast cancer).

one way i got to like my nose, which i never had a complex about but was for some time slightly self-conscious about, was to think about where it comes from. My dad has a very similar nose; his mother my grandmother Nana, who is awesome, has it; and from looking at old photographs her father Vito and her grandfather Enrico had it. My nose goes back to Chile and before that to Genoa, and before that who knows? I have the large, aquiline, Roman nose my family have had for who knows how many generations and if I have children I hope I have at least one with the same nose as me.

Eh I think cosmetic reasons are totally legit too. Like getting a haircut only you have to really think it through and have reasonable expectations for how this will actually change things (and/or not change things) for you cuz it's permanent. Only thing I could take issue with is emotional baggage or what-have-you that might be attached and that varies so whatever...

xposts to somebody or another

My views on the matter aren't terribly deep or nuanced really more the nature of \(._.)/

as someone with a sizable and prominent beak, i can say honestly that i thought about nosejobs as a kid. one time when i was about 22 or 23 or so a boss of mine said what was perhaps the nicest thing anyone has ever said about my nose: "If your nose was smaller, you would be too cute"

I took that and ran with it because I had never heard anything positive about my nose before. Now that I'm older, I don't really care as much, but I still think about it sometimes. What would I look like with a slightly less prominent/beaky nose? I wonder, but I don't care enough to do anything about it anymore.

Mostly I'm with quincie -- give it some time.

without it I would be a pretty dull, forgettable looking lady at whom no one would look twice.

quincie i could punch you for this! you are stunning! but i'm glad you did not get a nose job.

don't get nose jobs, guys.

surm, you are quite a looker! don't be so hard on yourself.

Maybe I should have. But not an esthetic one, more like: change nose so the air flow isn't obstructed. God a life time of not being able to breathe properly is massively dud. :-( Esp with colds and sinus infections. :-(

i dunno i just think u don't wanna fuck with the character of your face

made for an interesting x-post with the object of my smashfixation

Sorry, as a committed big / interesting nose fan, I would like everyone to post pictures as lovely as Curtis.

hahaha C, that ain't a big nose, dude.

I am actually in month 2 of a new nose - old one was just comical; some minor teenage injury caused it to grow into a strange version of the already sort of large family nose, but it happened so gradually that for the longest time I thought I looked different. Then with Facebook I got to see a lot more candid, side-on shots of myself and I realized I did not look like what I thought I did. And now I do! Worth it just for that but also the added bonus of not getting as much scorn from strangers on the street. Some of them even smile at me now; it's wonderful

wow

now if you don't mind my asking, was this mainly a bone problem?

that sounds weird

I'd like to encourage anyone else whose nose seems to have changed shape or has a bump that they think may be growing to get it checked out, I turned out to have a cyst growing under/between my nose bones which cd potentially have been dangerous (I mean, most likely not immediately, so don't panic if you are in that category) so it had to be taken out

pretty sure the procedure for that surgery is a whole lot different to a cosmetic nose job though so I won't be any help on this thread

considering i prob have a sinus infection again: CHOP OFF NOSE

is being into prominent noses the analog to indie ppl preferring fall to other seasons, like indie-rhinism? whatever, i'm into interesting noses.

wait, autumn is my favorite season what r u saying that i'm some sort of sexual deviant?

i am now!

both my fathers sisters had v minor nose jobs - like i didnt even notice i had to be told - not sure wtf their problems are

there was a girl i went to hs w/who needed one and got it - her nose was comically epic - it was distracting to look at - cyrano level shit - except not long - beak shaped - i do not begrudge her her nosejob - and her nose was still pretty big even after

ramz tho u do not need to be fucking w/this shit dawg

Surm I hate to say "when I was your age" but anyway when I was your age I wasn't crazy about my v. v. prominent nose, but ten years later and I'm glad I never did anything too it--it is certainly my most interesting feature and without it I would be a pretty dull, forgettable looking lady at whom no one would look twice.

So I dunno maybe give it some time before you decide to mess with it?

― quincie, Monday, November 9, 2009 12:47 AM (fourteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol I have zero recollection of posting this or even seeing this thread back in the day. I recently found because oh hey I'm getting a nose job next week

oh no

(ok that was a garbage response and i have apologized)

Well I'm 5'10" of course people would look at me twice, that part of my post was ridiculous

But anyway a couple of months ago I was kicked in the face by a horse, which is as bad as it sounds and really I should be either majorly TBIed or an organ donor. I got off with a broken nose.

Said nose is now somewhat off-kilter in my eyes, but probably not so much that others would really notice. It's also not working very well through the left nostril, which is annoying but survivable.

But fuck it.

Surgeries I've had in my 50 years include getting my uterus yanked (not a horse accident), my ACL replaced TWICE (horse accident), both of my cancer-riddled breasts removed (not a horse accident), my ankle smashed and reconstructed (horse accident).

At this point I'm like you know what, I'd like to be the agent of bodily changes for once. So I'll get it fixed and have a little cosmetic work done on the tip while I'm at it. Fuck it.

Also, watching 1400 pounds of horse rear up and strike you--seeing it coming, having that "oh shit" moment, then doing a damage assessment on your hands and knees while you pour blood out of your face. . . that was fucking hard. And I need something to erase that.

why are horses always mauling you tho

Because I refuse to leave them alone is the issue.

shes had a mare

quince it sounds like you should do whatever the fuck you would like to do, and thoroughly enjoy the result

*quincie, thx auto-c

I just want to say how in awe of you I am quincie!

Your list of surgeries is something else (as someone that has had a few). Hope this one goes well and you are happy with the result.

I should be either majorly TBIed or an organ donor.

Hello, friend! Glad we both survived our injuries, have a great nose job!

My wife had a septoplasty a few years ago, to correct a deviated septum from a broken nose she had as a child. One potential side-effect that she wasn't briefed on ahead of time was the potential for severe dental pain. The nerves for your teeth run through that general area.

The doctor had sent her home with a small amount of percocet for the pain, but the recommended dose did not touch the screaming agony in her teeth. We called the doc up for advice, and he suggested doubling the dose of painkillers. This still did nothing for her tooth pain. Because she had been the last surgery on a Friday afternoon, she would have to wait until Monday to get a prescription for anything stronger. Her pain calmed down over the weekened, fortunately, but apparently, it can last for a while.

Just putting it out there so you can be prepared and ask your doctor about it, because nobody told her about this going into the surgery. She did receive a mandatory 15-minute lecture about the dangers of opioid drug abuse, which was laughable considering the uselessness of the opioids they gave her.

i had a turbinate reduction a couple years back... i've never been able to breathe through my nose, and i have very bad allergies. i'm still not able to breathe through my nose and my allergies aren't much better. they might have done a septoplasty at the same time as the turbinate reduction, idk. you'd figure with a nose like mine i'd be able to breathe through it, but nope. i don't remember having any tooth pain as a result, fwiw... different people have different side effects.

i generally am opposed how people who get surgeries often described as "cosmetic" get shamed. i definitely did consider getting facial surgery - it's covered for gender affirming purposes where i am, primarily for my nose. my nose isn't _pretty_, is what i'd say. i wouldn't say i'm ugly, particularly, but i don't conform super well to (here's the bit where i complain about white supremacist cisheteronormative patriarchal beauty standards).

i do get jealous of women who have FFS and are prettier and younger-looking than me. the thing is i don't have and haven't ever had actual _dysphoria_ about my face. i don't think i have a "man's" face. i'm just not super "pretty". in contrast i _did_ have dysphoria about my hairline. i passed fine, as long as i styled my hair in such a way as to conceal my MPB (uh, that's "male pattern baldness", not "brazilian popular music"). that hairline made me feel like a man, though, so i did have surgery to change that.

i guess my face might be a problem if i was looking to have lots of casual sex or whatever, but i'm not. people get used to it pretty quick, just like they get used to my speech impediment pretty quick. i find myself attractive. i envy other women sometimes, but only sometimes. i can live with a little occasional envy.

the thing is, the women i know who have FFS - a lot of them were prettier than me to start with. because it's not about how other people see someone. it's about how people see themselves. i've had people say to me "oh you don't need surgery, you look fine", meaning "you pass", and yes, i do pass, and it's not about that. and i feel like the same applies to cis people. so i'd say, quincie, fuck yeah go for that surgery. it's _your_ face. there's a difference between wanting to be pretty and just, you know, being happy with your face. and it sounds after being kicked in the face by a horse, you're not happy with your nose.

personally, this is a hobbyhorse of mine, insurance should fucking pay for nose surgery, after what the horse did to you. i know that's a slippery slope and all... because there's a lot of shaming women for their bodies. i do also know people who get surgeries to, like, try and fix their low self-esteem, and that doesn't work. what you're doing is fundamentally different. it is asserting your own bodily autonomy. i think that's rad. i'm proud of people who do that. i mean i know that doesn't really have much to do with anything, but i feel like it's worth saying. a lot of times people get judged for doing things that i personally think are fucking awesome.

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digression re: other "cosmetic" surgeries:

the one thing i wonder about re: rhinoplasty is if it would affect - possible TMI here so i'll spoil it - my sexual sneezing. i've talked about this elsewhere - sometimes i sneeze when i get turned on. my turbinate reduction didn't affect that. maybe a rhinoplasty wouldn't either. i've heard it's because the nose has erectile tissue. if it is cuz my nose is getting hard-ons, i'd say it gets hard-ons more along the lines of the kinds of hard-ons my clitoris gets. that's something people don't necessarily understand, that the clitoris does actually have erectile tissue. my clitoris just can't stay hard like my penis could (not that my penis could stay hard very well lol, even before the estrogen) because... what i've heard is that there's some sort of biological structure that affects the ability of the clitoris to get hard, and one of the things a metoidioplasty does is remove that kind of, idk, write-protect tab on what gets called, i guess, a T-dick, so that it can stay erect. basically there's not a lot of anatomical difference between a penis and a clitoris.

i have thought about getting a BBL. i have friends who've gotten one, and again, for gender affirming reasons it'd be covered where i am. i got a protruding belly, no hips, and not much ass. those corsets i got a couple weeks ago make it very apparent just how much i _don't_ have hips. actually, now that i write it out like this, i should just fuckin' do get a BBL. i'd feel a lot better about my body if i did. why not.

Thank you all for the support. I get how some people would be pretty judgy about plastic surgery that goes beyond functional restoration--hell, I *am* one of those people--so it is nice to hear a lot of nbd, go for it, why not.

I also appreciate the heads up about the tooth pain! I had heard that it's a thing, but hadn't understood that it can be honest to god awful pain as opposed to brief discomfort.

Unrequested, I've been set up with Vicodin and also Ambien? Because apparently I will need help sleeping while propped up at 45 degrees? That is the least of my worries, considering I wake up nightly with drenching night sweats which Ambien won't do shit for.

Post-surgical opioid prescribing is so uneven. For my double mastectomy, my breast surgeon dispensed exactly SEVEN (7) 5-mg Vicodin. I had 24 inches of surgical scars and two surgical drains threaded through my chest, along with lymph node dissections under both arms! This surgeon is the love of my life, but c'mon lady, help a gal out.

I had an orthopedic trauma surgeon for my (rather gnarly) ankle fracture. Dude sent me home with FORTY (40) 10-mg Vicodin. Forty tenners, that's a lot! I mean yeah there was post surgical pain, but no more than after my mastectomies.

I think the schnoz job is about 20 5-mg Vicodin. I have't really bothered to look.

Insurance is covering the reconstructive part of the surgery, but the surgeon and surgical center are out-of-network, so my co-insurance is substantial (I think I'm on the hook for 40%).

The only in-network surgeon in my mid-size city is an ENT and not board-certified in plastics. Although it will be more costly, I felt more comfortable with this particular well-respected, board-certified plastic surgeon who is known for his subtle/natural-looking rhinoplasties.

When I asked around, his name came up from *seven* totally separate people, including a physician and a nurse who worked with him in the OR. He's in his late sixties and has done hundreds, maybe a thousand or more noses?

Daaaaaaaamn quincie, you are tough as shit 💪💪💪

I’m sure the judgiest among us would concede that you get to do whatever tf you want after being kicked in the face by a horse, on top of everything else, Mattttt otm

I have broken my nose 3x
Twice I walked into a wall 🪐🛸
Third time I was sleeping and somehow managed to smash my face into a wall *again* when I lifted my head, lol
I am not very tough^

Why is this even a question? I've never had cosmetic/plastic (or any other kind) of surgery but you can bet your ass that if I had to get anything like this I'd be asking what else they might be able to tweak while I was already under.

Good luck quince.

My nose has been jobbed! First 24 hours have been much easier than I anticipated. I was on the table for 3 hours, which is apparently kinda long, but there was a lot of work to do I guess.

So far the bruising pales in comparison to what I had with the initial hoof-to-the-face, and I taken so much as a Tylenol for pain.

I expected for my upper lip to be frozen and my front teeth to hurt, but that has not come to pass!

I walked to my post-op appointment today. Everything looks good and the surgeon showed me a picture that he took of my profile in the OR before the swelling set in. Subtle change, still looks like "my" nose.

When I woke up in post op the swelling was still minimal and I was able to take the deepest, most refreshing breath through BOTH of my nostrils!

In summary: A++ would nose job again.

Quincie omggggg at getting kicked by a horse!! That's one of my random fears.

So glad it went well.

may your newly rebuilt nose be a joy forever, quincie

Right on, glad it went well

I got my nose broken in a mugging (face to sidewalk)... it mostly looks the same, but I won't be a sommelier anytime soon; I can smell strong things (spices, solvents, whiskey, very fragrant flowers) but all the subtle stuff is gone gone gone

Awesome, quincie! but I’m sorry for your shitty outcome Andy. fwiw a lot of olfaction comes from sensory nerves which thread thru a perforated bone at the top of the nasal cavity so they are pretty vulnerable, but if it’s less than a year post surg you may still have some more recovery because they regenerate

happy to hear it went well!

but if it’s less than a year post surg you may still have some more recovery

unfortunately it was about 18 years ago

ach, sorry.

My nose has been jobbed! First 24 hours have been much easier than I anticipated. I was on the table for 3 hours, which is apparently kinda long, but there was a lot of work to do I guess.

So far the bruising pales in comparison to what I had with the initial hoof-to-the-face, and I taken so much as a Tylenol for pain.

I expected for my upper lip to be frozen and my front teeth to hurt, but that has not come to pass!

I walked to my post-op appointment today. Everything looks good and the surgeon showed me a picture that he took of my profile in the OR before the swelling set in. Subtle change, still looks like "my" nose.

When I woke up in post op the swelling was still minimal and I was able to take the deepest, most refreshing breath through BOTH of my nostrils!

In summary: A++ would nose job again.

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie)

congratulations! really happy you went for it :heart:

Thank you for all of the good wishes. The tip of my nose is taped upward (this is apparently a common thing) so right now I look very pig-like. Like, I could totally pull off a Miss Piggy costume without the fake snout.

Andy, that's a tough one. How is your sense of taste?

As though it isn't awful enough to be mugged :(

"When I woke up in post op the swelling was still minimal and I was able to take the deepest, most refreshing breath through BOTH of my nostrils!"

wait hang on now im really interested, id forgotten this was possible

It was such a novelty that I gave myself an ice cream headache just breathing in that sweet, sweet surgical air

https://www.rockhurst.edu/counseling-center/relaxation-zone/alternate-nostril-breathing

an furthe r reading with unexpected refence to similarities between the nose and pleasure centers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_cycle