Picking Your Moment 

Vis a Vis the Involvement of Friends, Neighbours and Colleagues

Rhinoplasty (Nose Job) and Your Employer 

Is Your Nose Job Your Employers Business?

Go to the Auctions 

Propped up on your pillows could be just the perfect time

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Keep Your Rhinoplasty Surgery a Secret 

In Ireland?

Is this really a good idea? Not too long ago Irish girls, facing the fact that they were alone and pregnant, quietly disappeared off to a convent on the other side of the country in order to have their baby in secret. How awful that situation must have been. Are you sure you cannot cope with your surgery and just do what you want to do in an upfront way? Are you not made of strong stuff?

You are bound to get found out. I know someone who was on top of the Empire State Building when he heard his name called out and was cornered by someone that had been trying for three weeks to arrange a meeting with him in Dublin.

I remember the tale of two young girls who left their dull office lives behind and went abroad to work. All went well and on the third weekend in London they went to the cinema. As they waited for curtain up who should take the seats in front of them only their married former boss and his secretary.

You will end up having to tell fib after fib about hotels, food and accommodation and your nose will start to grow like Pinocchio's. So think about the possibility of getting found out but how foolish you may feel if it all goes wrong and it is as obvious as the nose on your face that you were not on holiday on a sun kissed beach.

Flickering Through Some Noses 

Pinocchio and Peter Pan

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Other Noses in Your Business 

Focus on those that will help you if given a chance

A few years ago I had a bad fall, broke my glasses and battered my face particularly around the eyes and nose. I looked much worse than I felt for a few weeks. Whenever I went into the local shops, where I am known, a silence fell upon the place where there was usually friendly chat and banter. Eventually I realised that they thought I was a battered wife. It gave me a glimpse of how isolated someone might feel in this situation and that they actually need a hug and not us to distance ourselves from them. You may get such a glimpse too.

There is bound to be the odd fool who wants to tease you to death. Just give a steely look and peer wonderingly at their ears and say it is now possible to have them pinned back and that you hope you are not causing offence. Alternatively tell them you met someone with bags under the eyes who is having the operation to remove them at your clinic and that the bags were not quite as big as the ones now under your gaze.

Some other puritan will want to discuss the pain, cost or vanity aspects. Be swift at changing the subject and shifting the focus back onto them. Best to avoid justifying your operation or the expense. Watch out for them prefacing sentences with "Don't you think?". "No pockets in a shroud' is a good line when discussing cost or be blunt and simply say "That's enough. You know you are getting up my nose."

There are people that will be kind and helpful if given the chance. Focus on them and engage them in the practicalities of the event. One might give you a lift to hospital and another might pick you up and a third and fourth might do some much needed shopping, cleaning, cooking, and peeling of grapes. Let them help you and express your gratitude when you recover.

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Flickering Through Ireland 

The Village Of Howth

The Village Of Howth

The Village Of Howth

The Village Of Howth

The Village Of Howth

When to Mention Your Rhinoplasty Procedure? 

A week to a few days before

It may be hard to predict what will happen or how people will behave in this situation. It could be tiresome if people want to talk about it a lot before the event and constantly ask you if you are sure or nervous or tell you about horror stories. One place I worked in people used to broadcast when they were having their driving test. There was much sending of good luck cards and a frenzied amount of interest and offers from people to accompany them on extra driving trips. Taking a driving test is nerve racking enough without that. When it came to my turn I simply put my dental appointment in the office diary for the driving test and the driving test in for the following week when I was actually going to the dentist. I was so nervous on the day I nearly ran someone over on the pre-test drive. I passed and was then able to inform people that I had done so. I was better off without the pressure of that extreme sort of interest.

So I think you should 'keep your powder dry' till the last week and then casually mention it as if it is as routine as going to the dentist for a bridge. To a certain extent you influence how people behave towards you and they may well take their queue from you.

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Finding the Best Rhinoplasty Surgeon in Ireland? 

Cosmetic Surgery Ireland dot Info May Help

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Other Films, Information and the Blah Girls 

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Film Rhinoplasrty

Short film with great diagrams explaining this type of surgery.

Alternative procedure to surgery.

This is a news clip from NBC in Los Angeles of Alexander Rivkin MD demonstrating the Non Surgical Nose Job procedure. He pioneered this first non invasive alternative to traditional surgical rhinoplasty. There are no surgical risks, swelling or bruising. It takes 15 minutes for the procedure to be completed procedure that costs a fraction of the price of rhinoplasty surgery.

Blah Girls

This is ultra light entertainment with new episodes on Monday and Thursdays. Perfect for when you are home recovering.

Smoking and Rhinoplasty

Short video about rhinoplasty and smoking.

IrishHealth.Com

Interesting report on research into people quitting smoking in preparation for surgery.

So You Have Picked Your New Nose 

Are you going to let me get up it or just the smoke?

Have You Got Tales of Nosy People To Tell? 

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To Tell or Not To Tell 

That is the question

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