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If You Keep Tensing Your Forehead, Consider Eyelid Drooping

21성형외과의원 · 21 PLASTIC SURGERY · June 16, 2026

Hello. I’m Lee Won, chief director of 21성형외과. When you look in the mirror, do you ever find yourself unconsciously tensing your forehead? When your eyelids become heavy, it is natu...

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Clinic: 21성형외과의원

Original post date: June 16, 2026

Translated at: August 17, 2026 at 2:47 PM

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Hello.

I’m Lee Won, chief director of 21성형외과.

When you look in the mirror,

do you ever find yourself unconsciously tensing your forehead?

When your eyelids become heavy, it is natural to develop the habit of using the forehead muscles to lift the eyes.

Without even realizing it, you may be continuously raising your forehead.

“Why does it feel so heavy to open my eyes?”

“I used to have double eyelids, but at some point they became hidden.”

“The skin under my eyes also seems to be drooping, and my dark circles appear worse.”

These concerns

may not actually have just one cause.

They may be changes caused by simultaneous changes in both the upper and lower areas around the eyes.

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Aging around the eyes does not affect just one area!

The upper and lower areas around the eyes are interconnected structures.

Therefore, rather than aging occurring in only one area, it is much more common for the upper and lower areas to change together.

In the upper area, the skin beneath the eyebrows droops, causing the double-eyelid line to become hidden and the eyes to look narrower.

In the lower area, the skin beneath the eyes stretches, and the fat layer extending toward the cheeks below also droops, causing the tear troughs to deepen and dark circles to appear more pronounced.

Only by designing the upper and lower areas together can the entire eye area look naturally refreshed.

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A sub-brow lift is a procedure that involves making an incision along the lower border of the eyebrow and lifting the drooping eyelid skin upward.

The key is the location of the incision!

Because the incision is made along the natural border beneath the eyebrow, the surgical mark is naturally concealed within the eyebrow.

It becomes even lighter over time, and after recovery, it looks natural enough that the surgical mark can be difficult to find.

By lifting the drooping skin, the previously pressed-down double-eyelid line is naturally revealed.

In particular, drooping at the outer corners of the eyes is effectively corrected, creating a clearer and more lively appearance across the entire eye area.

[Surgical Plan]

Sub-brow lift + buried-suture double-eyelid surgery (eye-shape correction) + lower blepharoplasty revision + SOOF

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Let’s look at an actual patient case.

This patient was a woman in her 60s.

The skin beneath her eyebrows had drooped, leaving her double-eyelids almost completely hidden.

At the same time, the skin beneath her eyes had drooped and the tear troughs had deepened, which made the entire eye area look heavy and tired.

In the preoperative photographs, you can see that she was tensing her forehead when opening her eyes.

Under the eyes, wrinkles were visible, and the boundary extending toward the cheeks appeared deeply sunken.

For this patient, we designed the upper and lower areas together and proceeded with them in a single surgery.

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When you think about it, in most cases, it is not the eyes that have drooped, but the skin beneath the eyebrows.

A natural and satisfactory result can be achieved only by accurately correcting the area where the cause lies.

A sub-brow lift may seem like a small procedure, but it can relieve eyelid drooping, reveal the hidden double-eyelid line, and eliminate the habit of unconsciously tensing the forehead.

As a result, you may experience a change in the overall impression of the eye area all at once.

If you are concerned about drooping around the eyes, let’s first check together which method is right for you.

21성형외과 will be with you~

Thank you^^

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