{"id":15329,"date":"2026-01-02T11:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/plastic-surgery-before-and-after\/eyelid-surgery-turkey-before-and-after-a-45-year-old-uk-patients-tired-eye-transformation\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T09:43:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T09:43:47","slug":"eyelid-surgery-turkey-before-and-after-a-45-year-old-uk-patients-tired-eye-transformation","status":"publish","type":"before-after","link":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/plastic-surgery-before-and-after\/eyelid-surgery-turkey-before-and-after-a-45-year-old-uk-patients-tired-eye-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyelid Surgery Turkey Before and After: A 45-Year-Old UK Patient\u2019s &#8220;Tired Eye&#8221; Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":8344,"template":"","meta":{"h1_first_part":"Eyelid Surgery Turkey Before and After:","h1_second_part":"A 45-Year-Old UK Patient\u2019s \"Tired Eye\" Transformation","patient_age":"45","patient_country":"UK","primary_concern":"<p>\"You look tired\" had become this 45-year-old UK patient's least favourite sentence \u2014 usually offered kindly, always inaccurate. Two separate changes were conspiring to produce it: skin hooding over her upper lids, and shallow puffiness beneath the lower ones. Either alone reads as a long week; together they read as a settled state of affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Her <strong>eyelid surgery before and after<\/strong> addresses both halves of that false signal at once.<\/p>","surgeon_approach":"<p>Her <a href=\"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/blepharoplasty-in-turkey\/\">blepharoplasty<\/a> combined an upper and lower procedure in one session:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Upper lids:<\/strong> the excess fold of skin removed along the natural lid crease, re-exposing the lid platform that hooding had buried \u2014 the incision heals hidden within the crease itself.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lower lids:<\/strong> the small fat pockets creating under-eye fullness repositioned and smoothed, softening the shadow that photographs exaggerated.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Expression preserved:<\/strong> conservative tissue handling throughout, so her eyes changed in energy, not in identity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What the after photos show:<\/strong> the same eyes, minus the fatigue \u2014 open, rested, and entirely hers. Initial healing settled over about twelve days.<\/p>\n<p>She planned the trip remotely from the UK, with photographic assessment first via our <a href=\"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/contact\/\">contact page<\/a>.<\/p>","recovery_timeline":"12 Days"},"before-after-procedures":[126],"before-after-categories":[121],"class_list":["post-15329","before-after","type-before-after","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","before-after-procedures-eyelid-surgery","before-after-categories-facial-plastic-surgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after\/15329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/before-after"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after\/15329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15330,"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after\/15329\/revisions\/15330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"before-after-procedures","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after-procedures?post=15329"},{"taxonomy":"before-after-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after-categories?post=15329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}