HOODED EYES!!!

[smileyforest]

Oh what can i do except cosmetic surgery?? Anyone else with this problem? Should I prepare myself that the only option is surgery??? I do have big brown eyes and have comments about my eyes....but I hate the top lids...and can only see it getting worse as I get older....Im 50y..take pride in my appearence etc.....it's expensive though!!! And how to find a good surgeon?? x..........help!

my mum had hers done and it looks fab. no other option i dont think.

Nothing useful to add smiley, sorry, but I share your pain! My eyes were always my best feature but now I'm 52 I'm seeing less & less of the lids. Can't bear the though of surgery though. I've been thinking about have CACI eye treatment but have no idea if it will actually make any difference ...

Oh me too, I was going to post about the same thing! I could never do surgery but open to other things. Mine are almost drooping on to my eyelashes! Even make-up tips would help. I can't actually see much of the eye shadow I'm putting on these days. I'm 49 by the way.

Notactually, how long is the recovery (ie before you can go out and look ok)? I don't need the op yet, but the droop is beginning and I reckon I'll have "Maggie Thatcher" eyes in about 15 years!

Surgery I'm afraid. It's one of the cheaper procedures and apparently about a week recovery. I'm so sick of eyeliner and eyeshadow ending up near my eyebrow.

I went to an excellent dermatologist and asked him to reccomend the best he knew.

Go to a makeup artist and ask them to show you how to use makeup to open up your eyes, maybe debanhams. And get eyebrows done if u don't already as that can make eyes look more shadowed. You don't need have your eyelids mutilated with surgery!

Well Im not saying I wont have surgery...I have small 'fat pads' in the corner of the lids....i know I focus on it...I asked my closest friend her opinion but she didnt notice it. I had my lower lids dont successfully about 15y ago now.....
On You-tube there is a chap demonstrating...massage of the top lids to break down fats etc....
Surgery is expensive!!

thermage may be the non surgical answer

Surgery is approx £3000......ggirl...good article...similar thing used by a chap on you-tube...wouldnt mind getting one for home use
Good results from surgery but scary isnt it!

Botox will lift them.

Actually botox may make them more droopy.

I've heard botox can help when you have the bit inbetween eyebrows done....really lifts apparently......the droop is a rare side effect

A side effect which can last for the 3-4 months that the botox lasts.
If you already have droopy eyes it is something to be aware of.
The botox practioners tend to gloss over the fact that it doesn't always work.
I just wanted to make the point that people need to be aware of its downsides. Look up botox droop on t'web and then see if you still want it.

It works for me - I have Botox for severe migraine and it's an added benefit

Happy it works for you Ken, wish it did for me as I too am a migraineur.
I am in the group for whom it doesn't work, so I like to add my bit when there is a mention. I got off fairly lightly, but whilst searching for other people's experiences of botox gone wrong, I read some horror stories and saw some awful photos. And it's not limited to 'bad doctors' etc etc.
I posted on here quite some time ago about my experience, and was then contacted by other mnetters who had had problems but were too embarrassed to go public.

Isla - I'm one of the lucky ones! Did a trial when I was about 32 (before hooded eyes and wrinkles!) and it changed my life. I used to get about one "go to bed and vomit" migraine a week. Now it's about one or two a year which is fantastic.
It's pricey though - the consultant at hospital does it for me.

There was something on the news this week about offering botox to chronic migraine sufferers.
I am in the 'go to bed and vomit' camp about twice a month, but in order to qualify you have to have 15 migraines a month.
Frankly I can't believe anyone who has 15 migraines a month hasn't already shot themselves in the head.
Do you have botox in your neck too?

No just in my glabella. A friend of a friend had it in her neck. She was taking so many Nurofen she ended up with a serious stomach problem.
They don't fund it at my local NHS yet
15 migraines is not working thinking about. Horrific.
smileyforest Sorry for hijacking!

Ooh yes sorry smiley

search for eye magic eye lift stickers!

I'm really sorry but i have to hijack this thread!

I've suffered from migraines since i was 11,i'm 39 now and for the last two years have been seeing a 'specialist' at a headache clinic. I have pressed and pressed for botox, only to be told about funding which i was told they initially had then waiting lists etc, i am candidate for it as i get about 14 - 20 migraines a month, on a good month anyway. I take amitriptyline and topriamate every night and currently trying hormonal patches, this was the latest option my specialist wanted to try after having failed all the beta blockers and extra antidepressants etc.

I did have a trial of botox a couple of years ago, only about 6 injections, and the dr that injected me usually does it for cosmetic reasons, so he does it privately. He was 'kind' enough to point out that i have hooded eyelids to begin with, which the botox made me more aware of! But to be honest, i'm not bothered what botox would me look like, its the effect on my migraines i'm interested in, if i could feel normal, instead of having the banging headache for most of the time, i'd do anything to have that, to feel normal like my friends and family.

Back to the op. there is a makeup artist called wayne Goss (gossmakeupartist) on you tube that does tutorials for eye makeup for women with hooded eyes, that might help

If you go to a good botox practitioner who is skilled in placement they can lift the brow rather than make it heavier it looks great