My ‘Barbie nostril’ surgical procedure impressed dozens to get it — I don’t take heed to haters

Barbie nostril finest. 

New Yorker Alexandria Linton by no means a lot cared for the picture-perfect, pink-loving plaything. 

Rising up within the early 2000s, when high-tech toys and high-speed pc video games have been de la mode, the plastic icon simply didn’t attraction to her.

However when Linton, now 25, received elective cosmetic surgery in March, she went for the human model of Barbie’s exquisitely straight, slim and barely upturned sniffer. 

“I received a cute little button nose — the Barbie nose,” Linton, a Midtown-based regional enterprise supervisor for a beauty surgical procedure group, instructed The Submit. “I knew [her] nostril would look good on my face.”

The Gen Zer swears her resolution to trim down her naturally “bulbous” beak was not influenced by the inescapable wave of Barbiecore that’s held fashionistas, inside designers and brides in a chokehold — even earlier than the discharge of Greta Gerwig’s flick starring Margot Robbie, which went on to make greater than $800 million in its first 12 days in theaters.

“That is one thing I’ve wished executed to my nostril for the previous six years,” insisted Linton. “I’m a giant proponent of doing no matter makes you are feeling finest and assured.”

“I received precisely what I wished,” she declared.

Regardless of having skilled ties to rhinoplasty specialists in Manhattan — the place a nostril job can vary from $10,000 to $30,000 — the brunette selected to go to Istanbul, below the knife of Dr. Erdi Özdemir, who’s picked up greater than 13.6 million TikTok eyeballs on his “Barbie nose” transformation videos.

There, the process solely set her again $4,100.

Dr. Ari Hoschander, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Manhattan, instructed The Submit that the operation is achieved by a number of fastidiously executed steps.

“First, there’s an incision made to the columella, or the pores and skin between the nostrils,” defined Hoschander.

“Then,” he continued, “we elevate the pores and skin of the nostril off of the cartilage and bone, shave down the bone and cartilage to decrease the peak and take away the bump, break the bone as a way to slim it, take away a portion of the underside of the septum and sew the decrease cartilages collectively as a way to elevate the tip.”

“Performing these maneuvers will lead to [a] smaller, narrower, extra structured and upturned nostril, identical to Barbie,” mentioned Hoschander, urging potential sufferers, nevertheless, to make sure they’re making wholesome, knowledgeable selections about altering their faces earlier than following a beauty development on a whim.

Buzz surrounding Barbie’s flawless schnoz has garnered over 121.5 million views below the TikTok-viral hashtag #BarbieNose. 

Ladies like Linton are touring close to and much for the fashionable snout — however not everyone seems to be impressed with the outcomes. 

Some wannabe dolls are even choosing non-surgical rhinoplasty. Within the noninvasive process, a beauty surgeon injects both Botox or dermal filler into the nostril to boost its tip, easy out bumps and straighten crooked kinks, per Cleveland Clinic. 

The pictures are a less-expensive, semi-permanent possibility. It comes with some dangers, together with fever, vascular issues, imaginative and prescient loss — and in a single girl’s case, a windfall of shade from social media savages. 

Digital Debbie Downers berated a brown-haired lady featured on the TikTok web page of a cosmetologist, whose Barbie nostril injections in Dubai and Istanbul have fetched a number of million views on the app.

Beneath a clip of the unnamed girl’s freshly jabbed nostril, trolls likened her newly pointy honker to that of late pop king “Michael Jackson” quite than queen Barbie. 

In the meantime, Linton mentioned she’s largely obtained reward for her perky new nozzle — a lot in order that over 30 of her associates and followers have flocked to her surgeon abroad, begging to get “Alexandria’s Barbie nostril,” so she says.

She’s encouraging of us contemplating the face-fix to disregard the haters. 

“Different folks won’t agree with you getting a Barbie nostril or any process,” she instructed The Submit. “However that doesn’t imply you shouldn’t do it if it makes you happier.”

“I’m pleased with my resolution, and I don’t care who doesn’t prefer it.”