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As the tired cliche goes, "The eyes are the windows to the soul." While this clever saying is too often used to introduce just about any topic related to the eyes, what is pertinent to the discussion at hand is this:
Nearly everybody who has ever extolled the beauty of a well-made window is actually talking about its frame and shutters and hardly ever about the glass.
The glass can grow grimy and pitted with age, but as long as the frame and shutters and the surrounding structure are well-maintained, the window remains an appreciated architectural masterpiece.
The analogy here is not intended to be subtle.
Cosmetic eyelid surgery, or blepharoplasty, is an operation (actually, a set of operations) for your eyelids designed to maintain the appearance of your eyes. Today more than ever before, the primary (and most difficult to achieve) objective of such surgery is one of restoration as opposed to remodeling. That is to say, the ideal blepharoplasty should recover the glory of your "original-equipment" now weathered by Father Time and Mother Nature rather than reconfiguring your face into some hodge-podge it never was.
Said bluntly, replacing a well-crafted wood window frame with a cheap aluminum mock-up with glued on fake mullions creates an eyesore (sorry!) that looks out of character with the rest of your prized Craftsman bungalow.
Without a doubt, then, THE buzzword in today's world of cosmetic eyelid surgery is "natural."
Materials aside, if you've ever hired a building contractor to fix up your house, you've undoubtedly learned that some means of installing a given set of materials have the potential to yield better results than others. And as luck would have it, the more structurally-sound and authentically-accurate methods of restoration often carry a much higher price tag and may require a level of building skill well beyond that of your run-of-the-mill builder. For that very reason, the "latest and greatest" technique poorly performed can sometimes yield a result far worse than the old "tried-and-true" quick-fix.
Furthermore, using a high-tech method of repair simply because it exists is nothing short of "overkill"--an unnecessarily complex (and often risky) way of addressing a relatively easily-remedied defect.
Still, if your poor old crumbling house (or cracked window or baggy eyelid) is truly beaten up, anything short of the best restorative technique may constitute little more than a ugly patch-job that won't survive the winter.
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