When Dr Shim suddenly moved a shiny metal stick towards my left eye, I was too stunned to pull back. I feared he was going to make a cut right there and then.After all, I had just asked for the cost of double-eyelid surgery, and he could see I was agreeable to his 1.5 million won (S$1,785) price quote.Thankfully, my concerns about that metal object aimed at my eye were unfounded. He just used it to create a temporary fold.
Then he told me to open and shut my eyes a few more times as he repeated the same move before he declared: "Ok, this is optimal."That was how I learnt that the natural crease on my eyelids should ideally be a few more milimetres from my lash lines.
He also suggested that I get an epicanthoplasty - a procedure to have the tiny skin folds covering the inner corners of one's eyes removed - for another 500,000 won. That, he said, would give me bigger, wider eyes that appear less spaced apart.This spontaneous consultation - my first with a plastic surgeon - was at one of the hundreds of plastic surgery clinics along Apgujeong-dong, the world-famous beauty belt in Seoul's upscale Gangnam district, yes, the one immortalised in a certain Psy song.Think Singapore's Orchard Road or New York's Fifth Avenue. But instead of shopping malls, this beauty belt is flanked by long stretches of hospital complexes.Many are plastered with signs indicating what they could "fix" - from unflattering chest sizes to lantern jaws, short limbs and stubby clubbed thumbs, a genetic anomaly made famous by American celebrity Megan Fox.
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