Review: Tiffiny Yang Aesthetics & Surgery | Nose Fillers Treatment

Hello 2017! and yes, i'm 25 already. ):

The first post of 2017 is going to be dedicated to.....

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THIS!!!!!!!!!


On the last few days of year 2016, i finally did it!!!! I finally did my nose fillers with Tiffiny Yang Aesthetics & Surgery on 28th Dec 16! To clarify, this is NOT a sponsored post. I paid for the fillers myself and everything in this post are 100% my feelings and wordings.

Okay, back to the main topic.

I went ahead and decided on it even though families and friends all disapproved. It was something that i was considering for years and i'm truly truly happy and satisfied with my decision. 

I went for my consultation and procedure alone, so i was really really nervous. I believe readers of this blog post would have already done their own intensive research on all the facts about nose fillers. So i'll just go straight to the documentation of my nose fillers experience with Tiffiny Yang Aesthetics & Surgery. I don't have much photos with me, but i'll try to make this post as detailed as possible! 

After doing tons and tons of research on my own, i decided to go for Tiffiny Yang Aesthetics & Surgery. The main reasons why i decided on Tiffiny Yang Aesthetics & Surgery was simply because i was more comfortable with having a lady to do my procedure and the procedure was within my budget. So i kind of made my decision in a day and went ahead to sms in to book my appointment!

I knew exactly what i wanted clearly, which is a higher nose bridge. Initially, i did consider the Nose Threadlift procedure to contour and define my nose. However, i decided against it as i was kinda afraid of the procedure and after all, it was my first time doing any aesthetics procedure, so i stick with my decision of having just nose fillers for now.

(apologies for the orange lighting! I had my night lamp on!)

As you can see, i have a button nose and sunken nose bridge. ):

To book my appointment with Dr. Tiffiny Yang, i sent in a text message to the contact number provided (9186 0805) on their website and stated the procedure that i wish to have.

I would say that they do reply back promptly and they gave me a reminder text message on the day before my appointment as well. 

And so, my appointment was confirmed and the day finally cameeeee~

I arrived at 4.30pm sharp and their clinic was filled with people, even on a weekday afternoon! I was given a form to filled up before my consultation with Dr. Tiffiny Yang. As the clinic was fairly crowded, I had to wait till around 5.30pm before it was my turn for consultation.

I was then brought into Dr. Tiffiny Yang's room for my consultation. I must say, i was feeling kinda inferior because Dr. Tiffiny Yang is so pretty! Her room was so brightly-lit that i felt that all of my imperfection will be shown. ): 

I shared with Dr. Tiffiny Yang on my concerns of sunken nose bridge and my desire of achieving a higher nose bridge with nose fillers. She also brought up the issue of my nose bridge was actually leaning more to the right and she will inject the fillers more to the left to balance it out.

Usually, people will inject the full one syringe to fill up the nose bridge and tip. But i was kinda scared of the pain and afraid that it would turn out all wrong, so i eventually only got the half syringe to treat my nose bridge only. Honestly, i regretted it because now, i want my nose tip to be sharper. But i heard injecting on the nose tip is hella painful.

In the room with Dr. Tiffiny Yang, i was really nervous and scared. But Dr. Tiffiny Yang was really really nice and she was very confident and assured me that the whole procedure was really painless.

I also shared with Dr. Tiffiny Yang with regards to my doubts if the injection will actually cause any keloids, considering the fact that i had a keloid on my helix (after a bad helix piercing). After confirming with Dr. Tiffiny Yang that the procedure is safe for me, i decided to proceed with the procedure. 

Let's go!!!!!

After consultation, i was brought to a room to take pictures of my side profile and off to another room to apply on the numbing cream. It's okay to have makeup on as it will be removed before the numbing cream is applied on your nose bridge. After which, i was asked to take a seat outside at the waiting area. Don't worry about having the cream on while waiting, everyone else are all the same. :)

While i was waiting for the numbing cream to take effect, i was given a terms and conditions agreement form to sign on every page. Do take your time to read through the agreement and make sure you are fully aware of what you are signing!

I waited for around 20mins and the numbing cream started to melt towards the end and even dripped to my lips. I had to use tissue to wipe it off my lips. In the end, my upper lips was numbed as well. Hahaha. I checked with the staff there and they said it was normal. So just remember to have some tissue with you!!

The nose fillers that i had was Juvederm. 

Once the numbing cream has set, i proceed into the procedure room for preparation. No pictures of the process as i was dead scared and nervous at that point of time.

Basically, the numbing cream was wiped off and i waited for Dr. Tiffiny Yang. I remembered i kept on telling how scared and nervous i was to Dr. Tiffiny Yang and she was nothing but kind and confident, assuring me that it's going to be painless and it will be fine.

She explained the entire process to me, ensuring that i was fully aware of what she is going to do. Firstly, she marked the area to be injected in some sort of marker. Next, just before injecting, Dr. Tiffiny Yang gave me a heads up before she slowly inject the fillers in. Next, she firmly massage the area to form the nose bridge. After she's done, she gave me a mirror to check if i'm happy with the height of my new nose bridge!! The entire process was less than 10mins!!

Biggest Question of the Day: Was There Any Pain At All???

For such a timid person like me, i would give the safe assurance that injection of nose fillers to the nose bridge is painless. I felt nothing during the entire procedure except for the needle poking in. The numbing cream i had definitely helped a lot. :) 

I would say the only feeling is when Dr. Tiffiny Yang was firmly molding the shape of the nose bridge. You can just feel that she is using some force to make sure the shape of the nose bridge is nicely done. Sort of like using force to mold a clay toy.

Immediately after the procedure, i went to the ladies to take some selfies~ 

I have a higher nose bridge now!!!!

After the procedure, there was only a slight swelling and bruise due to the injection. It can be easily covered up with some concealer and you can just continue on with the rest of your day!

I was slightly concerned about the bruise kind of feeling i had on my nose bridge and injection area. But i only had that feeling for the next two days before it eventually went off. So it was fine! :)

For the first week, my nose bridge was much higher and it was the height i wanted. However, after the swelling has eased down, the fillers will actually be broken down in the body and the final result will actually be a reduction of up to 20-30%. I kinda regretted here as i should have asked for a higher nose bridge then. ):

Maybe, just maybe, i'll be back to fill it up again and this time round, i'll be doing the tip as well!!

If you guys did your nose fillers as well, please do share more with me as i would love to know more!!

TIFFINY YANG AESTHETICS & SURGERY

Website: http://www.tiffinyyangclinic.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tiffiny-Yang-Aesthetics-Surgery/468961296503120

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How i lost my iPhone 6S / SingTel Mobile Swop & Mobile SwopUP

24th October 2015, Saturday - The worst day of my 23 years of life

Yes, i lost my brand new 1 month old iPhone 6S.

Yes, i stupidly left it in the Ladies toilet at USS (near far far away)

Yes, that idiot bitch turned off my iPhone straight and it has been kept offline since then

Yes, i'm officially phone-less, $388 poorer before and going to $550 poorer again

I'm gonna share my process with Singtel on getting my replacement phone. Read on if you are interested. If not, it's just gonna be a ranting post.

So 24th October 2015, i went to USS Halloween Horror Nights 5 together with my friends. I brought a small sling bag along and it was proven to be too small, because i couldn't squeeze my phone in with all my stuff and so i carried it on hand. -.-

I went through 1 hunted house and 1 trail before my another friend and i decided to stray off from the group and go for rides instead. 

We queued for the canopy ride in Jurassic Park, walked to queue for the new ride from Puss in Boots. After getting off the ride from Puss in Boots, the plan was to go over to queue for the Transformer ride while waiting for our friends to come out from the hunted house. AND BAM, that's when my nightmare started.

I went into the ladies toilet and because my bag was too small, i subconsciously placed my phone on the ledge and carelessly, i forgot my iphone and went off. Only after that, i realized i forgotten my phone and rushed back to the toilet. In my heart, i was praying no one will look at the ledge area and my phone will be still there. But i was just cheating myself.

Like seriously, it's Universal Studios Singapore and it was Halloween Horror Nights. Basically, the whole place was filled with people.

And so, my phone was gone... Wondering why good karma didn't happen on me even when i was so kind and honest to return a stranger his iPhone 6 just a few months back! ):

I asked the roving staff there if there is a cleaner stationed inside the toilet, but sadly there wasn't any. USS only clean the toilet once every hour or something. And all they informed me was that i can head over to the lost and found counter to report my lost item.

Immediately, i called back home to get my parents to check the Find my iPhone and it was already offline. So chances are zero, that i will ever find my phone back. So all i can do was to call Singtel to temporary cut off my line, activate the lost mode on Find my iPhone and head off to Clementi Police Station to lodge police report because my brother was previously a police officer there.

My last ever photo taken using my iphone )):

Okay, so here's the part where i gets really pissed off with Singtel after accepting the fact that i just lost my phone.

When i bought my iPhone together with my sister at Singtel Jurong Point outlet, the staff there sold my sister and me the iPhone 6S and was telling us about this new 'insurance' kind of package offered by Singtel called the Mobile Swop and Mobile SwopUP.

Basically, at the point of transaction, my sister, her bf and me was there listening to the staff explanation on this new insurance thing. In summary of the information we got from the staff, basically, there is a fee of $8.00 per month for this new insurance and we are entitled for 2 swops and 1 replacement to a new iphone in a year with no questions asked from Singtel. We were thinking, are there such good deals? Because my sister bf was saying that from what he know, M1 is also offering such insurance package, but at a monthly fee of $10.00 and there was some terms and conditions. 

So we asked the staff: 'then this means that we can just drop the phone purposely and come back to Singtel and you guys will change the phone for us with no questions asked lah?' and the staff was saying yah you can like do that lah. So, we thought let's get this insurance package since it's such a good deal! And so, we agreed to get the Mobile Swop and Mobile SwopUP package.

Now, the above is what me, my sister and her bf heard and remember at the point of transaction because the deal was so good that we remembered!

The above isn't the exact word for word.

Thinking back on this, i was somewhat relieved that i purchased the 'insurance' package from Singtel and immediately got my sister to check back on the procedures on getting the replacement from Singtel. And to our horror, we found out that there was a replacement fee of $550!

Immediately the next day, we went down to Singtel Jurong Point outlet to confirm this and also to get a new sim card.

We explained the situation to the staff there about how we were not informed about the swop and replacement fee. Imagine if we just purposely dropped our phone and we need to pay the swop fee for nothing! And so, he said there was nothing he can do and said we just have to pay the replacement fee to get a new phone. We were so pissed off that he didn't even bother to check and we just requested to see the store manager.

So what the store manager told us was that he have to check on the recording clip to confirm if their staff really did not mentioned about the replacement fee of $550 to us and told us to wait or call 1688 to check the status. We were obviously not stupid and requested to get his namecard instead.

After days of waiting, he called us and said that his staff did mentioned the replacement fee. So we requested to also listen to the recording clip and see if he is able to send us the clip. He agreed and told us to wait again. And we waited and then we received the following message from him. 

So apparently, we were asked to pay in order to view the video as we wanted to prove the authenticity of what the manager claimed, which i find was a bit ridiculous and poor customer service from Singtel side. Another weird thing was that, this manager already claimed to us beforehand that his staff did mentioned the replacement fee to us, which was why we requested to view the recording clip. HOWEVER, in the above text message, he was saying that the Customer Experience Team was viewing the video for confirmation findings and will update him.

So the question is, did he even view the recording clip or video at all? Weird, isn't it?

On 6 Nov 2015, i received the following email from the manager.

Basically, i still have to pay for the replacement fee, which i've accepted. But what i could not accept was the poor customer service from Singtel, asking us to pay in order to view the video.

To everyone out there who purchased the Mobile Swop and Mobile SwopUP plan, do take note that there is a swop and replacement fee! Do not think that Singtel is going to replace it WITH NO QUESTIONS ASKED. *roll eyes*

Phone numbers and name are burred out

update 12 Nov 15

So the store manager called and informed us that i still have to pay for the replacement fee, however, they will make arrangements to waive off 5 months of my phone bill.

Okay, so now at this point i'm not gonna complain anymore because at the very least Singtel offered some help in my case. My whole family has been with Singtel our whole life. Our mobile plans, internet and mio plans are all signed with Singtel. And honestly, we are all fairly satisfied customers. 

This is when i really understand why some people complains about customer service. That's because they experienced the inconvenience themselves and others are rarely able to sympathized with them as they are not the one experiencing it first hand and they do not feel the anxiety at all.

But anyway, let me share more on my process of getting the replacement handset.

So i called in their 24hr Mobile Swop hotline on 8 Nov, Sun and requested for the replacement handset because i couldn't wait anymore. They did their usual verification process and proceed to confirm the brand, model number and storage for my replacement handset.

Do take note that apparently, this replacement handset can only be done through delivery and this delivery must be delivered to the owner themselves. AND the delivery can only be delivered to house/private address.

I requested for the delivery to be delivered to my office and i was so excited to get my phone so soon as the service allows delivery by the next working day before 12pm. Then, the officer went on explaining that they can't do delivery to public places for security reasons or something like that. If i want the delivery to be delivered to my office, they need to put up a request form and it takes 3 working days for approval. Meaning, i can only get my phone on Thursday (Tues was a PH) and they only deliver from 8am to 6pm. Obviously, i don't want to waste my annual leave. So the earliest i can get my phone is almost a week later, which is this coming Saturday. 

So that's the END to my nightmare. This will serve as a constant reminder and slap to my face whenever the slightest thought of leaving my phone around comes to my mind. Constantly check for your valuable items and never leave them around.

update 20 Jan 16

The store manager of Jurong Point outlet promised that they will make arrangements to waive off 5 months of my phone bill. However, till date, my phone bill was never waived off. I called in and check with regards to this and the store manager got back to me saying that the waiver is still in process and will update me once it's done.

Wisdom Tooth Extraction Surgery

I finally made the decision to remove my wisdom tooth and it's my 5th day since my wisdom tooth extraction surgery with smileworks last Saturday. I'm recovering quite well, but i'm still experiencing soreness around the surgery site and i'm currently waiting to remove those nasty stitches next Thursday.

My dentist is Dr. Law from Smileworks and she just remove my lower left wisdom tooth as she felt that i was too nervous and she wanted me to know the feeling of removing wisdom tooth first. I'm actually supposed to remove my upper left wisdom tooth too, but i supposed i'll have to remove it next time.

So some months before CNY, i had toothache and i couldn't stand it, so i went to google for a nearby dentist at Keat Hong randomly and just book an appointment for checkup on my wisdom tooth and at the same time do fillings and polishing.

Like most, i hate visiting dentist because i extremely hated the sounds of drilling and all. So i did not really visit any dentist ever since my secondary school days, ewww i know. I just visited a dentist to do fillings after i started working.

As requested and advised by my dentist, I scheduled my surgery last Saturday 10am at their Paragon outlet as they only do dental surgery there.

I had to do my xray at their woodlands outlet before my surgery as their Keat Hong outlet was too small and they do not have the xray machine there. It's was quite a hassle actually.

So here's my xray! Unfortunately for me, both side of my wisdom teeth are impacted. The right tooth have to be removed sooner or later. -.-

I arrived earlier than my appointment time to fill up some form before my surgery starts. When i met my Dr. Law, she sat down with me before my surgery to explain how's the surgery going to be like and for me to sign a form to acknowledge that i understand the risk involving a wisdom tooth surgery. 

My wisdom tooth surgery was overall painless. Start of the surgery, they put a cloth over my eyes. The most painful of all was the LA injection, which i would rate only 2/10? I have a very low tolerance for pain and i was okay. Maybe i should say i trust Dr. Law and i feel safe with her as my first experience with her when she treated me was really good. She's very gentle and slow when injecting to minimize pain for me.

I also asked her if i could listen to some music with my earpiece on during the surgery as i didn't like the drilling sound. I have the music on too loudly initially that i couldn't even hear what Dr. Law was talking! Hahaha! So if you want to listen to music during the surgery, just make sure you can also hear what your dentist is asking you! 

The whole surgery process ended in like 30mins. No pain after surgery and swollen cheek and numbness. I even went window shopping at Metro with my mum before taking a cab back home.

My stupid wisdom tooth is finally out! (beware!)

2nd day of surgery. Left side of my cheek still quite swollen. My family wanted to visit the IT Show and I didn't wanted to be alone at home. So i followed them out, 爱美 me even put on makeup. 

For your information, here's the breakdown of my cost:

• Wisdom tooth surgery - $900
• Mouthrinse - $10
• Medicine - Amoxicillin (Antibiotics) - $10
• Medicine - Celebrex (Painkiller) - $20

Total cost: $1,005.80 (includes GST)

Some tips for you if you're planning to remove your wisdom tooth:

• Have a big breakfast before your surgery. Be sure to rinse your mouth after eating.
• Go to the toilet before your surgery!
• Dental surgery can be claim under medisave. Just let them know that you would like to claim your medisave.
• Have soft food for the first week after your surgery. Best time to lose weight!
• Rinse your mouth with the mouth wash prescribed after each meal.
• My mum also recommended me to rinse my mouth using cold water is effective to stop the bleeding.
• Take extra care on the surgery site and not sleep on the affected side.
• You can brush your teeth as per normal. Just do not brush hard and near at the surgery side.

Here's my dentist's namecard. You can contact them if you like!

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