When mentioning the faces of the first generation of 8X Saigon "plastic surgery hot boys", many people will remember the name Ha Nhuan Nam. He has a passion for beauty technology and attracted attention when he publicly announced that he had plastic surgery to completely change his face.
That day we met, instead of greeting and asking about each other's health, his usual words when he saw me were "Do you think I'm strange? I'm pretty." He certainly didn't need any comments because that had been his habit for many years. Instead of waiting to be asked, he always "showed off" his changes with happiness.
After more than 10 years of cosmetic surgery, he confided to VTC News about the gains and losses, and the price to pay when "addicted" to cosmetic surgery.
Obsess
It was not by chance that I became a plastic surgery addict. The first time I decided to have plastic surgery was because I was too self-conscious about my appearance. In 2010, after graduating and applying for a job, my appearance was very unsightly, dark and ugly. And of course, I received unfriendly looks from the recruiter. After a few times, I was shocked. That was my first and most painful failure.
After the cosmetic surgery, I feel much more confident in communication. I realized that not only did my appearance change, but my thinking also gradually changed as if I had become a new person, a new and better version.
I understand that I have to love and respect my body in order to love and care for others. For me, “beauty is also a form of talent”, especially in some jobs, appearance determines 50% of success.
Usually, cosmetic addicts have a mentality of being obsessed with beauty, like to look at beautiful people and love themselves to the point of delusion. The nightmare I fear most is waking up one morning and returning to the old version of myself, the time when I had never done anything.
Mr. Ha Nhuan Nam before and after cosmetic surgery.
After a few edits, my appearance has improved significantly and I have no intention of entering showbiz. Hearing many questions like "You're beautiful, but why do you continue to have so much plastic surgery?", I dare to confirm that plastic surgery addiction is real.
But this addiction is different from addiction to cigarettes, coffee...
Addiction here is strange! That is our common feeling, always under pressure about our own beauty and never satisfied with our own appearance. Once we fix something, we want to do something else. That urges us to be ready to go to the operating table, be injected with anesthesia, accept anesthesia without fear of any risk or pain.
Honestly, since the first time I had plastic surgery, I can’t remember how many times I’ve been under anesthesia and anesthetic. But I’ve definitely had my nose fixed 13 times, I don’t know if it’s going to be 14. People often say that if they don’t see me for a few months, they won’t recognize me.
Ha Nhuan Nam had surgery to create heart-shaped lips, cut the corners of his smiling lips, remove fat bags under his lower eyelids, double eyelid surgery, chin surgery, forehead shortening, eyebrow cutting and porcelain teeth...
Although I cannot remember all the times I went under the knife, I still carry with me the haunting and shuddering feeling whenever I recall the major forehead reduction surgery. I originally had a very high forehead, which people often call a protruding forehead. That was also the defect that made me most unhappy on my face. To have that surgery, I had to beg and persuade Dr. Hiep Loi for 2 years. That was the first and last surgery that he agreed to do for me.
After the surgery, the nurses said I bled a lot. The doctor had to cut along the hairline from one side of my forehead to the other, then peeled off half of the top of my head from the forehead back to pull the skin down. I was haunted by the fact that a year after the surgery, my scalp was only able to feel when touched, before it was numb.
At that time, I felt very scared when I went out, imagining that if someone accidentally played with me and pulled my hair, my scalp could be peeled off!
Too much trade-off
Life always has two sides, good and bad, and so does cosmetic surgery. It makes people more beautiful, but it has many hidden risks and there must be trade-offs. That is why there are cases of complications, deformities, and even death due to cosmetic surgery. I myself must confess that too much cosmetic surgery has affected my health, due to anesthesia, anesthesia, and antibiotics.
I often tell my friends that I only live for the present and the future. I cannot remember the past, my childhood, my school and university days, whether happy or sad. Don't let anyone remind me of the past, because I don't remember anything. The feeling of being lost in my own story is terrible!
I have sacrificed so much, but now ask me if I regret it? Speaking of this, people will probably think that I am about to make excuses for myself. Before answering, I just want to ask if you have ever had the dream of accepting to trade 10 years of your life in exchange for a more perfect appearance? I have, even though I have gone through a few unsatisfactory surgeries, a few regrets, a few "if onlys", I do not regret having "under the knife".
However, on the journey to find the perfect appearance, I also made many mistakes. The biggest mistake I made was letting the doctor cut off my nose wings and take septal cartilage to fix my nose in the first surgery. Cutting off my nose wings made it impossible to fix my nose as high as I wanted, and taking septal cartilage left a consequence of a deviated septum, making breathing uneven on both sides of the nose.
Ha Nhuan Nam feels lucky because despite many edits, her face still looks a bit natural.
Cosmetic surgery will not be beautiful forever, no matter how successful the surgery is, everyone will age after a few years. That is why many people every 5 or 6 years go to the doctor to have a facelift, a nose job, an eyelid lift to reduce sagging, a breast job or liposuction...
The truth is that everyone wants and demands that the doctor fix their nose, eyelids, lips... to look like a certain model. I also asked the doctor to fix my nose to look like a Korean singer or actress, but in reality, that is impossible.
You will notice that all the cases of people who tried to have their face surgically made to look exactly like someone else in the world have failed. They are often considered a disaster, with stiff faces and are criticized for being unnatural.
No one has ever successfully fixed their nose like anyone else, because each person has a different beauty and nose shape. A beautiful face is when there is harmony and balance between all the features on the face, not just a V-line face, a high nose, heart-shaped lips, double eyelids.
Of all cosmetic surgeries, rhinoplasty is the most difficult service for doctors to swallow and the most difficult for customers to succeed in, because the rate of having to be corrected and re-corrected is very high.
With the experience and hard-earned lessons of a plastic surgery addict, I would like to share and remind anyone interested in cosmetic surgery of a few important things before deciding to change anything on their face or body.
First, you have to find the right address of a reputable doctor, skilled and trained from school. I feel scared when now there are too many young people becoming doctors, taking on minor surgeries after only a few months of training. There are young people who last year I saw doing a certain job, a year or two later I met them directly cutting eyes, doing lips and injecting fillers, botox for customers and posting it publicly online.
I have a principle, anything can be fixed, but I will not promote the abuse of filler or botox injections. No matter how good the product is, there will be side effects, easily making the facial muscles unnatural, if someone is gullible enough to be tricked into injecting silicone, then it's over, suffering for the rest of their life!
And another important message, cosmetic surgery is not a simple journey. You will have to endure pain, risks, sometimes unforeseen. Please consider these things carefully before deciding to beautify yourself with a knife.
Trinh Trang (Written)
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