About Babyface

For a couple of years, people kept asking whether I had slept badly, or whether I was coming down with something, on mornings I felt perfectly well. I would catch my reflection afterwards and finally see what they saw: a lid resting low on the lashes, one heavier than the other, a permanent shadow that no early night and no expensive cream ever shifted. The heaviness was skin, and skin only leaves one way.

I am Selina Roth, and Babyface grew out of the year I spent working out whether to let anyone near my eyes.

Where this started

When I began reading properly, I hit the wall that everyone hits. Clinic pages sold a brighter, more awake face in soft focus. Forums lurched between people who were thrilled and people who felt ruined. In between, almost nothing answered the plain questions I actually had: whether the heaviness was my eyelids or a brow that had quietly dropped, why one surgeon wanted to cut a crease and another to stitch one, how strange the dry-eyed first fortnight really is, and how many years the result would hold before my forehead caught up with it.

So I had an upper and lower blepharoplasty, kept notes from the inside, and turned what I learned into this site.

What this site covers

I write about blepharoplasty and eye-area rejuvenation in specific, unhurried language, from real experience rather than a sales pitch. The full picture of eyelid surgery in one place covers what an upper lift and a lower debulk each do, who the surgery suits, the recovery, the risks close to the eye, how long it holds, and the cost.

I do not diagnose, rank surgeons or clinics, or handle anything urgent, and nothing here stands in for a surgeon who can examine your own eyes.

Who keeps the medicine right

The lived half of this site is mine: the swelling that peaked on day three, the grit of the first fortnight, the slow settling over months. The clinical half is not left to me. Every line that touches the medicine is checked by Miss Priya Raman, FRCOphth, a consultant oculoplastic surgeon, before it goes up. She subspecialises in the eyelids and the tissues around the eye, so the descriptions of technique, the figures on recovery and complications, and the line between hooding that is cosmetic and hooding that is functional are signed off by someone trained to operate there. The Editorial Policy sets out how that split works.

Get in touch

I would honestly like to hear from anyone weighing up eyelid surgery or sitting out the swollen weeks after it. The Contact page is the way to reach me. Please read the Medical Disclaimer too: this is one person’s account and general education, not advice on your own operation.