Her field is the eyelids, tear ducts and orbit: a few square centimetres that decide both how you see and how you are seen.
Dr Catherine is completing further subspecialty training in South Korea and the United States. She begins consulting at Eagle Eye Centre Malaysia, Petaling Jaya, in early 2027. The Eyelid Edit is published in the meantime.
One plate of the eye region, drawn the way an anatomy atlas draws it, with the tears quietly doing their work. Each numbered place is a chapter of The Eyelid Edit, and the chapters sit just below.
Watch a tear form, cross the eye and drain to the nose. Point to a numbered place, or to a chapter below: each one lights its spot on the plate.
Chapter VIII, Before you decide, is the compass at the lower left: not a place, but the questions to ask first.
For when your eyes look tired and you want to know why
21 articles
For when a lid droops, turns in or out, or will not close
33 articles
For when you are weighing LASIK, SMILE or lens surgery
8 articles
For when the eye is red, gritty, strained or has a growth
13 articles
For when there is a bump, a sore lid edge or lashes growing wrong
24 articles
For when an eye will not stop watering or sticks shut
11 articles
For when the eyes bulge, look different or see double
26 articles
For when you are choosing a surgeon or planning surgery
23 articles
159 articles by a consultant oculoplastic surgeon. Start where it hurts, or where the plate points.
It pushes the eyes forward and pulls the lids up, and the eyes are often the first part of the body to say the thyroid has gone wrong. Caught in the active phase, there is a great deal that can be done.
"No cream on earth can lift a stretched muscle."
Heavy lids are often ptosis, not tiredness. Read why
Her plans will be personalised, not menus, because no two pairs of eyelids age the same way. Every plan will answer to visual function and aesthetic harmony at once, because an eyelid that looks pretty but cannot blink properly protects nothing.
Softness in manner, none in standards.
Bring the midnight questions.
Researching quietly is smart. When you're ready to ask out loud, Dr Catherine Chow will consult at Eagle Eye Centre Malaysia, Petaling Jaya, from early 2027.
Until then, you can follow her on Instagram, @drcatherinec (opens in a new tab).
