You must be up and about in a day or two, but should do it easy during the first week after surgery. Be particularly tender with your face and hair, because your skin will be very tender and little numb, and may not react normally at first.

Your surgeon will give more detailed instructions for recommencing your normal activities step be step. These instructions will include such moments: avoid exhausting activity, including sex and heavy housework, for as a minimum two weeks (walking and kind stretching are good); avoid alcohol, hot baths, and saunas for several months. Principally you have to get plenty of rest and allow your body to waste its energy just on healing.

At the beginning, your face can look and feel rather foreign. Your contours may be distorted by the tumor, your facial movements can be a little hard and you'll perhaps be self-conscious about your scars. Some bruising will continue for two or three weeks. This is not shocking that some patients become disillusioned and depressed during the first week.

After the third week you'll look and feel yourself much better. Most patients are back to work in about ten days or two weeks after surgery. If it is very necessary for you to back to your work you may use a special camouflage makeup that will mask most bruising that remains.

Your New Look
 
There are no doubts that you'll be very satisfied with the results of your facelift. You have to remember that the results will not be noticeable at once. When the tumor and bruises will disappear, the hair around your temples can be weak and your skin can be dry and jagged during the several months. Men will have to get into the habit of shaving in such places as: behind the neck and ears, where the skin of beard- growing areas has been relocated.

You may have some scars from your facelift, but they're usually unseen because of your hair or the natural creases of your face and ears. Besides, they'll become paler within time and will be hardly visible.

A facelift surgery doesn't stop the time. Your face will continue to age with time, and after some time you may want to repeat the procedure one or more times. It can be done in five or ten years later. But on the other hand, the effects of one facelift are lasting. After some years later, you'll continue to look better than if you'd never had a facelift at all.