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🧠 High IQ Plastic Surgery Tier List​

A structural, risk-weighted, accessibility-aware breakdown of plastic surgeries — explained like you're a smart beginner with average income.

📊 Tiering Criteria​

FactorWeight
Aesthetic ROI (how much it improves overall looks)⭐⭐⭐⭐
Frequency of need (how common the structural problem is)🔁🔁🔁
Surgical risk/botch rate☠️☠️
Accessibility/price (UK avg. salary: ~£35k)💷💷
Clarity of diagnosis (how easy it is to tell if you need it)🔍🔍

🔺 TIER S – Structural Master Keys​

🧱 High-ROI, treat extremely common foundational problems, relatively safe

🔶 Sliding Genioplasty

  • Fixes: Weak chin, short lower third, poor jawline
  • Mechanism: Bone of the chin is cut, advanced forward/down, and fixed with titanium plates
  • Price (UK): £6,000–£10,000
  • Risk: Low to moderate (numbness/swelling), very low botch rate

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Chin is behind lower lip in profile
  • Lower third of your face is short
  • Chin is small even at a healthy body weight

🎯 Why It Works:​

Unlike implants, genioplasty uses your actual bone, meaning the projection is seamless and adapts to facial movement and tissue over time. It can also correct vertical height — crucial in people with short lower thirds (a major masculine/feminine trait divider).

👤 Best For:​

  • Men with “soft jawlines” despite being lean
  • Faces with convex profiles (chin too far back relative to nose/lips)

🔶 Orthognathic Surgery (Lefort I / Bimax / Double Jaw)

  • Fixes: Midface recession, over/underbite, lip incompetence
  • Mechanism: Surgeon repositions the upper jaw (Lefort I) and/or lower jaw (BSSO) to restore harmony, bite, and projection
  • Price (UK): £10,000–£20,000 (can be NHS covered for medical issues)
  • Risk: Moderate, major surgery with long recovery

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Smile shows lots of gums or lips don’t meet when relaxed
  • Flat midface/undereye area
  • Severe overbite or underbite

🎯 Why It Works:​

Your midface determines the center of harmony. Recession here pulls everything back — eyes look tired, lips strain, nose appears large. Jaw surgery rebuilds your entire facial scaffolding, making this the most powerful surgery outside of reconstructive fields.

👤 Best For:​

  • Flat-faced men who “don’t look bad” but have 0 side profile
  • Anyone with skeletal malocclusion or Class II/Class III profiles

🔶 Submentoplasty / Chin + Neck Liposuction

  • Fixes: Blurred jawline from fat or loose muscle
  • Mechanism: Removes fat under chin and may tighten platysma muscle
  • Price (UK): £3,000–£6,000
  • Risk: Low (if conservative), short recovery

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Double chin despite healthy body fat
  • Good bone structure hidden under soft tissue

🎯 Why It Works:​

A clean jawline is one of the strongest youth and masculinity signals. This low-risk surgery unmasks existing structure. Particularly useful for meso/endo body types who carry facial fat first.

👤 Best For:​

  • Rounder faces with good underlying jaw
  • Men who have “fat face” even when lean

🟨 TIER A – Targeted Power Moves​

🎯 High aesthetic potential, but only for certain face types or needs

🟨 Zygomatic / Malar Implants

  • Fixes: Flat cheeks, under-eye hollowing, downward facial tilt
  • Mechanism: Implants are placed over cheekbones for volume and projection
  • Price (UK): £6,000–£10,000
  • Risk: Medium — correct positioning is critical

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Undereyes are sunken
  • Cheeks are flat when looking front-facing or from 45°

🎯 Why It Works:​

High cheekbones elevate the visual center of gravity. When missing, your face sags visually even if young. Implants are often better than fillers long-term, as they don’t migrate and give sharp, structural volume.

👤 Best For:​

  • Flat or sloping cheekbone ethnotypes (some South Asian, Northern Euro, East Asian)
  • People whose eyes look “tired” even after rest

🟨 Rhinoplasty

  • Fixes: Nose imbalance — hump, bulbous tip, width
  • Mechanism: Surgeon reshapes cartilage and nasal bone
  • Price (UK): £6,000–£12,000
  • Risk: Medium-high botch rate, long recovery

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Nose clearly dominates face or breaks harmony from front/profile
  • Trauma altered nose shape

🎯 Why It Works (When It Does):​

Your nose isn’t meant to be “perfect” — it’s meant to blend. Rhinoplasty is powerful only when the nose disrupts facial harmony. However, many “big noses” appear so because of receded chins or midfaces. If you don’t fix those first, you’re chasing symptoms.

👤 Best For:​

  • Mediterranean and Middle Eastern phenotypes with bulbous tips or dorsal humps
  • Those with otherwise balanced facial thirds

🟩 TIER B – Moderate ROI / Conditional Use​

⚖️ Can refine a face well but often not game-changing

🟩 Lip Lift

  • Fixes: Long philtrum, thin lips, aged or droopy mouth
  • Mechanism: Removes skin between nose and upper lip, shortening the philtrum
  • Price (UK): £2,500–£4,000
  • Risk: Moderate — risk of visible scar, especially in men

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Upper lip disappears when smiling
  • Philtrum is >15mm in men, >13mm in women

🎯 Why It Works:​

Shorter philtrums signal youth and vitality. A visible, rolled upper lip enhances the “center” of the face. But the effect is subtle, and often lost if lower third is recessed — making it more of a finishing touch than a foundational change.

👤 Best For:​

  • Men with good bone structure but long midface
  • Feminine looksmaxxing for a softer mouth center

🟩 Blepharoplasty (Upper or Lower Eyelids)

  • Fixes: Sagging eyelids, fat pads, “tired” look
  • Mechanism: Removes excess skin/fat in upper or lower eyelid
  • Price (UK): £3,000–£6,000
  • Risk: Moderate — skilled hand needed, esp. for lower

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Eyes look tired 24/7
  • Hooded lids or eye bags that persist even when rested

🎯 Why It Works:​

The eye area dominates perceived age. Removing heavy upper lids or fat from under-eyes restores openness and symmetry. However, the frame (brow + cheek + orbit) often plays a bigger role — making this more useful for aging than pure looksmaxxing.

👤 Best For:​

  • Aging faces (30s+)
  • Northern European and Asian phenotypes prone to puffiness

🟦 TIER C – High Risk / Situational ROI​

🪓 Not commonly needed or useful, often misunderstood

🟦 Buccal Fat Removal

  • Fixes: Overly full cheeks
  • Mechanism: Buccal fat pads removed via incisions inside the mouth
  • Price (UK): £2,000–£3,500
  • Risk: High — can hollow face permanently

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Face looks “babyish” even at very low body fat
  • Cheek fullness obscures otherwise angular bone

🎯 Why It's Risky:​

Buccal fat loss is inevitable with age. If removed too early, you lose midface volume and may age poorly. High bone structure is required to make the result look sculpted rather than deflated. Best avoided unless truly needed.

👤 Best For:​

  • Endomorphic faces with hypertrophied buccal fat
  • Short, wide skulls where contour is completely lost

🟦 Canthoplasty / Cat Eye Surgery

  • Fixes: Drooping lower lids, eye tilt correction
  • Mechanism: Tightens and repositions outer eye corner
  • Price (UK): £5,000–£7,000
  • Risk: High — risk of lid distortion, dry eye, asymmetry

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Lower lid has visible laxity or slant
  • You’ve had orbital trauma or severe asymmetry

🎯 Why C-tier:​

It’s a surgical fix for a very niche issue. Most eye problems stem from midface lack of support, not eyelid shape. When done unnecessarily, can create a weird, stretched appearance.

🟥 TIER D – Low ROI / High Risk / Overhyped​

🚫 Rarely worth it, especially for cosmetic purposes alone

🟥 Commissuroplasty

  • Fixes: Downturned mouth corners
  • Mechanism: Alters vermillion border and oral commissure angle
  • Price (UK): £2,000–£4,000
  • Risk: High — visible scarring, poor healing, artificial look

🎯 Why It’s D-tier:​

Low ROI — corner mouth lift rarely improves overall aesthetics unless mouth angle is drastically off. Mouth expressions are dynamic and hard to “sculpt.” Most botched smiles stem from jaw or lip imbalance, not mouth corners.

🟥 Orbital Box Osteotomy

  • Fixes: Eyes too close together, boxy orbits
  • Mechanism: Orbital bones are cut and restructured to widen eye placement
  • Price (UK): £25,000+
  • Risk: Very high — close to brain, optic nerve, sinuses

🎯 Why It’s Here:​

Essentially craniofacial surgery. Cosmetic-only cases are almost never worth the risk. Used for major congenital deformities, not micro-adjustments.

🟥 Leg Lengthening Surgery

  • Fixes: Short stature
  • Mechanism: Bones are broken and slowly distracted with external fixators
  • Price (UK): £50,000+
  • Risk: Extremely high — chronic pain, nerve damage, immobility

🎯 Why It’s Here:​

Only useful for those with extreme height dysphoria. Otherwise, it's not a looksmaxxing procedure — it's a life-altering one.



 

🧠 High IQ Plastic Surgery Tier List​

A structural, risk-weighted, accessibility-aware breakdown of plastic surgeries — explained like you're a smart beginner with average income.

📊 Tiering Criteria​

FactorWeight
Aesthetic ROI (how much it improves overall looks)⭐⭐⭐⭐
Frequency of need (how common the structural problem is)🔁🔁🔁
Surgical risk/botch rate☠️☠️
Accessibility/price (UK avg. salary: ~£35k)💷💷
Clarity of diagnosis (how easy it is to tell if you need it)🔍🔍

🔺 TIER S – Structural Master Keys​

🧱 High-ROI, treat extremely common foundational problems, relatively safe

🔶 Sliding Genioplasty

  • Fixes: Weak chin, short lower third, poor jawline
  • Mechanism: Bone of the chin is cut, advanced forward/down, and fixed with titanium plates
  • Price (UK): £6,000–£10,000
  • Risk: Low to moderate (numbness/swelling), very low botch rate

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Chin is behind lower lip in profile
  • Lower third of your face is short
  • Chin is small even at a healthy body weight

🎯 Why It Works:​

Unlike implants, genioplasty uses your actual bone, meaning the projection is seamless and adapts to facial movement and tissue over time. It can also correct vertical height — crucial in people with short lower thirds (a major masculine/feminine trait divider).

👤 Best For:​

  • Men with “soft jawlines” despite being lean
  • Faces with convex profiles (chin too far back relative to nose/lips)

🔶 Orthognathic Surgery (Lefort I / Bimax / Double Jaw)

  • Fixes: Midface recession, over/underbite, lip incompetence
  • Mechanism: Surgeon repositions the upper jaw (Lefort I) and/or lower jaw (BSSO) to restore harmony, bite, and projection
  • Price (UK): £10,000–£20,000 (can be NHS covered for medical issues)
  • Risk: Moderate, major surgery with long recovery

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Smile shows lots of gums or lips don’t meet when relaxed
  • Flat midface/undereye area
  • Severe overbite or underbite

🎯 Why It Works:​

Your midface determines the center of harmony. Recession here pulls everything back — eyes look tired, lips strain, nose appears large. Jaw surgery rebuilds your entire facial scaffolding, making this the most powerful surgery outside of reconstructive fields.

👤 Best For:​

  • Flat-faced men who “don’t look bad” but have 0 side profile
  • Anyone with skeletal malocclusion or Class II/Class III profiles

🔶 Submentoplasty / Chin + Neck Liposuction

  • Fixes: Blurred jawline from fat or loose muscle
  • Mechanism: Removes fat under chin and may tighten platysma muscle
  • Price (UK): £3,000–£6,000
  • Risk: Low (if conservative), short recovery

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Double chin despite healthy body fat
  • Good bone structure hidden under soft tissue

🎯 Why It Works:​

A clean jawline is one of the strongest youth and masculinity signals. This low-risk surgery unmasks existing structure. Particularly useful for meso/endo body types who carry facial fat first.

👤 Best For:​

  • Rounder faces with good underlying jaw
  • Men who have “fat face” even when lean

🟨 TIER A – Targeted Power Moves​

🎯 High aesthetic potential, but only for certain face types or needs

🟨 Zygomatic / Malar Implants

  • Fixes: Flat cheeks, under-eye hollowing, downward facial tilt
  • Mechanism: Implants are placed over cheekbones for volume and projection
  • Price (UK): £6,000–£10,000
  • Risk: Medium — correct positioning is critical

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Undereyes are sunken
  • Cheeks are flat when looking front-facing or from 45°

🎯 Why It Works:​

High cheekbones elevate the visual center of gravity. When missing, your face sags visually even if young. Implants are often better than fillers long-term, as they don’t migrate and give sharp, structural volume.

👤 Best For:​

  • Flat or sloping cheekbone ethnotypes (some South Asian, Northern Euro, East Asian)
  • People whose eyes look “tired” even after rest

🟨 Rhinoplasty

  • Fixes: Nose imbalance — hump, bulbous tip, width
  • Mechanism: Surgeon reshapes cartilage and nasal bone
  • Price (UK): £6,000–£12,000
  • Risk: Medium-high botch rate, long recovery

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Nose clearly dominates face or breaks harmony from front/profile
  • Trauma altered nose shape

🎯 Why It Works (When It Does):​

Your nose isn’t meant to be “perfect” — it’s meant to blend. Rhinoplasty is powerful only when the nose disrupts facial harmony. However, many “big noses” appear so because of receded chins or midfaces. If you don’t fix those first, you’re chasing symptoms.

👤 Best For:​

  • Mediterranean and Middle Eastern phenotypes with bulbous tips or dorsal humps
  • Those with otherwise balanced facial thirds

🟩 TIER B – Moderate ROI / Conditional Use​

⚖️ Can refine a face well but often not game-changing

🟩 Lip Lift

  • Fixes: Long philtrum, thin lips, aged or droopy mouth
  • Mechanism: Removes skin between nose and upper lip, shortening the philtrum
  • Price (UK): £2,500–£4,000
  • Risk: Moderate — risk of visible scar, especially in men

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Upper lip disappears when smiling
  • Philtrum is >15mm in men, >13mm in women

🎯 Why It Works:​

Shorter philtrums signal youth and vitality. A visible, rolled upper lip enhances the “center” of the face. But the effect is subtle, and often lost if lower third is recessed — making it more of a finishing touch than a foundational change.

👤 Best For:​

  • Men with good bone structure but long midface
  • Feminine looksmaxxing for a softer mouth center

🟩 Blepharoplasty (Upper or Lower Eyelids)

  • Fixes: Sagging eyelids, fat pads, “tired” look
  • Mechanism: Removes excess skin/fat in upper or lower eyelid
  • Price (UK): £3,000–£6,000
  • Risk: Moderate — skilled hand needed, esp. for lower

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Eyes look tired 24/7
  • Hooded lids or eye bags that persist even when rested

🎯 Why It Works:​

The eye area dominates perceived age. Removing heavy upper lids or fat from under-eyes restores openness and symmetry. However, the frame (brow + cheek + orbit) often plays a bigger role — making this more useful for aging than pure looksmaxxing.

👤 Best For:​

  • Aging faces (30s+)
  • Northern European and Asian phenotypes prone to puffiness

🟦 TIER C – High Risk / Situational ROI​

🪓 Not commonly needed or useful, often misunderstood

🟦 Buccal Fat Removal

  • Fixes: Overly full cheeks
  • Mechanism: Buccal fat pads removed via incisions inside the mouth
  • Price (UK): £2,000–£3,500
  • Risk: High — can hollow face permanently

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Face looks “babyish” even at very low body fat
  • Cheek fullness obscures otherwise angular bone

🎯 Why It's Risky:​

Buccal fat loss is inevitable with age. If removed too early, you lose midface volume and may age poorly. High bone structure is required to make the result look sculpted rather than deflated. Best avoided unless truly needed.

👤 Best For:​

  • Endomorphic faces with hypertrophied buccal fat
  • Short, wide skulls where contour is completely lost

🟦 Canthoplasty / Cat Eye Surgery

  • Fixes: Drooping lower lids, eye tilt correction
  • Mechanism: Tightens and repositions outer eye corner
  • Price (UK): £5,000–£7,000
  • Risk: High — risk of lid distortion, dry eye, asymmetry

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Lower lid has visible laxity or slant
  • You’ve had orbital trauma or severe asymmetry

🎯 Why C-tier:​

It’s a surgical fix for a very niche issue. Most eye problems stem from midface lack of support, not eyelid shape. When done unnecessarily, can create a weird, stretched appearance.

🟥 TIER D – Low ROI / High Risk / Overhyped​

🚫 Rarely worth it, especially for cosmetic purposes alone

🟥 Commissuroplasty

  • Fixes: Downturned mouth corners
  • Mechanism: Alters vermillion border and oral commissure angle
  • Price (UK): £2,000–£4,000
  • Risk: High — visible scarring, poor healing, artificial look

🎯 Why It’s D-tier:​

Low ROI — corner mouth lift rarely improves overall aesthetics unless mouth angle is drastically off. Mouth expressions are dynamic and hard to “sculpt.” Most botched smiles stem from jaw or lip imbalance, not mouth corners.

🟥 Orbital Box Osteotomy

  • Fixes: Eyes too close together, boxy orbits
  • Mechanism: Orbital bones are cut and restructured to widen eye placement
  • Price (UK): £25,000+
  • Risk: Very high — close to brain, optic nerve, sinuses

🎯 Why It’s Here:​

Essentially craniofacial surgery. Cosmetic-only cases are almost never worth the risk. Used for major congenital deformities, not micro-adjustments.

🟥 Leg Lengthening Surgery

  • Fixes: Short stature
  • Mechanism: Bones are broken and slowly distracted with external fixators
  • Price (UK): £50,000+
  • Risk: Extremely high — chronic pain, nerve damage, immobility

🎯 Why It’s Here:​

Only useful for those with extreme height dysphoria. Otherwise, it's not a looksmaxxing procedure — it's a life-altering one.



mirin you trying to get motm
Dude just ran a script through GPT and you mirin
 
And fucking cage at the only fix for narrow lips being D tier, commisuroplasty isn’t just for upturned lips
end results rarely look good + scars and its just not worth, plus mouth width could potentially be solved via other thing such as mse

id say more narrow mouth n*****s would benefit from mse than just commisuroplasty
 
end results rarely look good + scars and its just not worth, plus mouth width could potentially be solved via other thing such as mse

id say more narrow mouth n*****s would benefit from mse than just commisuroplasty
MSE is not fixing your mouth width you fucking r****d
 
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🧠 High IQ Plastic Surgery Tier List​

A structural, risk-weighted, accessibility-aware breakdown of plastic surgeries — explained like you're a smart beginner with average income.

📊 Tiering Criteria​

FactorWeight
Aesthetic ROI (how much it improves overall looks)⭐⭐⭐⭐
Frequency of need (how common the structural problem is)🔁🔁🔁
Surgical risk/botch rate☠️☠️
Accessibility/price (UK avg. salary: ~£35k)💷💷
Clarity of diagnosis (how easy it is to tell if you need it)🔍🔍

🔺 TIER S – Structural Master Keys​

🧱 High-ROI, treat extremely common foundational problems, relatively safe

🔶 Sliding Genioplasty

  • Fixes: Weak chin, short lower third, poor jawline
  • Mechanism: Bone of the chin is cut, advanced forward/down, and fixed with titanium plates
  • Price (UK): £6,000–£10,000
  • Risk: Low to moderate (numbness/swelling), very low botch rate

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Chin is behind lower lip in profile
  • Lower third of your face is short
  • Chin is small even at a healthy body weight

🎯 Why It Works:​

Unlike implants, genioplasty uses your actual bone, meaning the projection is seamless and adapts to facial movement and tissue over time. It can also correct vertical height — crucial in people with short lower thirds (a major masculine/feminine trait divider).

👤 Best For:​

  • Men with “soft jawlines” despite being lean
  • Faces with convex profiles (chin too far back relative to nose/lips)

🔶 Orthognathic Surgery (Lefort I / Bimax / Double Jaw)

  • Fixes: Midface recession, over/underbite, lip incompetence
  • Mechanism: Surgeon repositions the upper jaw (Lefort I) and/or lower jaw (BSSO) to restore harmony, bite, and projection
  • Price (UK): £10,000–£20,000 (can be NHS covered for medical issues)
  • Risk: Moderate, major surgery with long recovery

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Smile shows lots of gums or lips don’t meet when relaxed
  • Flat midface/undereye area
  • Severe overbite or underbite

🎯 Why It Works:​

Your midface determines the center of harmony. Recession here pulls everything back — eyes look tired, lips strain, nose appears large. Jaw surgery rebuilds your entire facial scaffolding, making this the most powerful surgery outside of reconstructive fields.

👤 Best For:​

  • Flat-faced men who “don’t look bad” but have 0 side profile
  • Anyone with skeletal malocclusion or Class II/Class III profiles

🔶 Submentoplasty / Chin + Neck Liposuction

  • Fixes: Blurred jawline from fat or loose muscle
  • Mechanism: Removes fat under chin and may tighten platysma muscle
  • Price (UK): £3,000–£6,000
  • Risk: Low (if conservative), short recovery

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Double chin despite healthy body fat
  • Good bone structure hidden under soft tissue

🎯 Why It Works:​

A clean jawline is one of the strongest youth and masculinity signals. This low-risk surgery unmasks existing structure. Particularly useful for meso/endo body types who carry facial fat first.

👤 Best For:​

  • Rounder faces with good underlying jaw
  • Men who have “fat face” even when lean

🟨 TIER A – Targeted Power Moves​

🎯 High aesthetic potential, but only for certain face types or needs

🟨 Zygomatic / Malar Implants

  • Fixes: Flat cheeks, under-eye hollowing, downward facial tilt
  • Mechanism: Implants are placed over cheekbones for volume and projection
  • Price (UK): £6,000–£10,000
  • Risk: Medium — correct positioning is critical

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Undereyes are sunken
  • Cheeks are flat when looking front-facing or from 45°

🎯 Why It Works:​

High cheekbones elevate the visual center of gravity. When missing, your face sags visually even if young. Implants are often better than fillers long-term, as they don’t migrate and give sharp, structural volume.

👤 Best For:​

  • Flat or sloping cheekbone ethnotypes (some South Asian, Northern Euro, East Asian)
  • People whose eyes look “tired” even after rest

🟨 Rhinoplasty

  • Fixes: Nose imbalance — hump, bulbous tip, width
  • Mechanism: Surgeon reshapes cartilage and nasal bone
  • Price (UK): £6,000–£12,000
  • Risk: Medium-high botch rate, long recovery

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Nose clearly dominates face or breaks harmony from front/profile
  • Trauma altered nose shape

🎯 Why It Works (When It Does):​

Your nose isn’t meant to be “perfect” — it’s meant to blend. Rhinoplasty is powerful only when the nose disrupts facial harmony. However, many “big noses” appear so because of receded chins or midfaces. If you don’t fix those first, you’re chasing symptoms.

👤 Best For:​

  • Mediterranean and Middle Eastern phenotypes with bulbous tips or dorsal humps
  • Those with otherwise balanced facial thirds

🟩 TIER B – Moderate ROI / Conditional Use​

⚖️ Can refine a face well but often not game-changing

🟩 Lip Lift

  • Fixes: Long philtrum, thin lips, aged or droopy mouth
  • Mechanism: Removes skin between nose and upper lip, shortening the philtrum
  • Price (UK): £2,500–£4,000
  • Risk: Moderate — risk of visible scar, especially in men

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Upper lip disappears when smiling
  • Philtrum is >15mm in men, >13mm in women

🎯 Why It Works:​

Shorter philtrums signal youth and vitality. A visible, rolled upper lip enhances the “center” of the face. But the effect is subtle, and often lost if lower third is recessed — making it more of a finishing touch than a foundational change.

👤 Best For:​

  • Men with good bone structure but long midface
  • Feminine looksmaxxing for a softer mouth center

🟩 Blepharoplasty (Upper or Lower Eyelids)

  • Fixes: Sagging eyelids, fat pads, “tired” look
  • Mechanism: Removes excess skin/fat in upper or lower eyelid
  • Price (UK): £3,000–£6,000
  • Risk: Moderate — skilled hand needed, esp. for lower

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Eyes look tired 24/7
  • Hooded lids or eye bags that persist even when rested

🎯 Why It Works:​

The eye area dominates perceived age. Removing heavy upper lids or fat from under-eyes restores openness and symmetry. However, the frame (brow + cheek + orbit) often plays a bigger role — making this more useful for aging than pure looksmaxxing.

👤 Best For:​

  • Aging faces (30s+)
  • Northern European and Asian phenotypes prone to puffiness

🟦 TIER C – High Risk / Situational ROI​

🪓 Not commonly needed or useful, often misunderstood

🟦 Buccal Fat Removal

  • Fixes: Overly full cheeks
  • Mechanism: Buccal fat pads removed via incisions inside the mouth
  • Price (UK): £2,000–£3,500
  • Risk: High — can hollow face permanently

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Face looks “babyish” even at very low body fat
  • Cheek fullness obscures otherwise angular bone

🎯 Why It's Risky:​

Buccal fat loss is inevitable with age. If removed too early, you lose midface volume and may age poorly. High bone structure is required to make the result look sculpted rather than deflated. Best avoided unless truly needed.

👤 Best For:​

  • Endomorphic faces with hypertrophied buccal fat
  • Short, wide skulls where contour is completely lost

🟦 Canthoplasty / Cat Eye Surgery

  • Fixes: Drooping lower lids, eye tilt correction
  • Mechanism: Tightens and repositions outer eye corner
  • Price (UK): £5,000–£7,000
  • Risk: High — risk of lid distortion, dry eye, asymmetry

🔍 Signs You Might Need It:​

  • Lower lid has visible laxity or slant
  • You’ve had orbital trauma or severe asymmetry

🎯 Why C-tier:​

It’s a surgical fix for a very niche issue. Most eye problems stem from midface lack of support, not eyelid shape. When done unnecessarily, can create a weird, stretched appearance.

🟥 TIER D – Low ROI / High Risk / Overhyped​

🚫 Rarely worth it, especially for cosmetic purposes alone

🟥 Commissuroplasty

  • Fixes: Downturned mouth corners
  • Mechanism: Alters vermillion border and oral commissure angle
  • Price (UK): £2,000–£4,000
  • Risk: High — visible scarring, poor healing, artificial look

🎯 Why It’s D-tier:​

Low ROI — corner mouth lift rarely improves overall aesthetics unless mouth angle is drastically off. Mouth expressions are dynamic and hard to “sculpt.” Most botched smiles stem from jaw or lip imbalance, not mouth corners.

🟥 Orbital Box Osteotomy

  • Fixes: Eyes too close together, boxy orbits
  • Mechanism: Orbital bones are cut and restructured to widen eye placement
  • Price (UK): £25,000+
  • Risk: Very high — close to brain, optic nerve, sinuses

🎯 Why It’s Here:​

Essentially craniofacial surgery. Cosmetic-only cases are almost never worth the risk. Used for major congenital deformities, not micro-adjustments.

🟥 Leg Lengthening Surgery

  • Fixes: Short stature
  • Mechanism: Bones are broken and slowly distracted with external fixators
  • Price (UK): £50,000+
  • Risk: Extremely high — chronic pain, nerve damage, immobility

🎯 Why It’s Here:​

Only useful for those with extreme height dysphoria. Otherwise, it's not a looksmaxxing procedure — it's a life-altering one.






Highest ROI is lefort 3 and monobloc but by far the highest risk
 

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