I got plastic surgery to fix my grumpy face – now I have the perfect pout but it’s impossible for me to frown
YOU can get plastic surgery for almost anything now – including to give you a permanent smile.
Irina Prosmushkin was fed up of looking grumpy with a perma-frown so went under the knife to have her mouth curved upwards.
The 48-year-old said she suffered from a “resting b***h face” for years.
So, she had the distance between her mouth and nose surgically shortened to manipulate the corners of her mouth into turning upwards.
According to the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, lip lifts are one of the most common facial plastic surgical procedures.
“The corners of my lips were always facing down,” Irina said.
“Now I have this perfect pout.”
In a recent video call, Irina’s mum noticed she “couldn’t stop smiling” thanks to the position her face now sits in.
The Philadelphia-based pharmacist went to Dr. Andrew Jacono, a top facial plastic surgeon in New York, US, to get her new mouth.
According to Dr Andrew, the surgery makes women look more “youthful and attractive”.
However, there are four different types of lip lifts and each one removes a different area of skin.
The bullhorn lip lift, which is the most popular, slices skin from directly under the nose in the shape of a bull’s horn, hence the name.
It takes about 45 minutes and you need five to seven days to recover.
Interestingly, you don’t even have to be put to sleep for the bullhorn lip lift and your scar is hardly noticeable.
The gull wing lift removes a strip of skin from the upper lip in an M-shape, leaving a visible scar.
The Italian lip lift requires an incision under each nostril to remove a sliver of skin and the different sides of the lips are separately lifted.
However, this technique is only suited to people with shorter mouths or those looking for subtle smiles.
The final variation is the corner lip lift, which Dr Andrew dubbed “the best for patients who have downturned lip corners”.
“The incisions are made on the edge of the outer lips before a small, triangular area of skin is removed from the corners of the mouth which upturns the lips,” he penned on his website.