The Gengaballo Nose Job

  • Inspired by the artist’s Matrilineal ties, the Gengaballo Nose Job offers a unique and transformative approach to rhinoplasty, combining process with artistry to create a nose that’s perfectly tailored to your features. Each procedure is customized to reflect not just your facial anatomy, but the essence of your identity, ensuring that your nose becomes a harmonious extension of who you are.

    This exclusive nose enhancement focuses on sculpting a shape that is uniquely yours, drawing on the natural contours of your face and the character of your original nose. Through expert techniques, the procedure refines and elevates your appearance while maintaining the authenticity of your features. Intricate attention to detail ensures that the final result not only complements your face but enhances your natural beauty in a way that feels personal and timeless.

    As part of your experience, we offer the option to incorporate personal elements into the process. Clients can choose to bring in meaningful fabrics or itemsβ€”such as family heirlooms or treasured clothingβ€”which will be subtly integrated into the aesthetic design, adding a layer of emotional depth to your transformation.

    The Gengaballo Nose Job is more than just a non-surgical procedure; it’s a journey of rediscovery, where the process itself is as significant as the outcome. Through careful sculpting and a deep respect for your unique features, we work with you to reintroduce yourself to your nose and explore the ways its connects you to yourself and others, ensuring it feels like a reminder of the multi-layered, caretaking relationship.

    Reimagine your relationship with your nose with a procedure that celebrates individuality, craftsmanship, and the artistry of transformation.

    The Gengaballo Nose Job - named from the artist’s Matrilineal inspirations - epitomizes Geng-Caraballo's detailed and considered sculpting and play using your nose as the guide. Unique and professionally sculpted, the timeless style is hand stitched in fabric instantly recognizable as a nose. The hand embroidered nostrils add depth and charm to an otherwise single textured silhouette. The fabric substrate can be personalized with a textile of the commissioner’s choice. Common selections include familial articles of clothing. The 6 Γ— 6 framed artwork is created as a result of an artistic procedure. Re-discover your relationship with your nose.

    • Created in the likeness to your nose

    • A product of an artistic procedure in which the artist and arts patron explore the nose together of an hour long video engagement

    • Includes a Certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist and the nose holder

    • Museum Quality Acryilc Shadow Box frame included. 98% UV protected

    • Made in Brooklyn, NY

  • Once you’ve chosen the Gengaballo Nose Job

  • Your nose is handsewn to a fabric streteched canvas inserted into a museum quality acrylic shadow box. The hanging hardware includes two D-rings and a wire cable. The acrylic is 98% UV resistant providing protection for the fabric from dust and sunlight. The artist’s signature resides on the back of the canvas.

  • The framed works is 6 Γ— 6 Γ— 3 inches. Each nose varies in dimension but expect it to be scaled slightly larger than your original nose.

  • This cost includes the frame and shipping within the United States. Sales tax is not included.

    Choose to allocate an additional 10% towards the Nose scholarship fund, creating noses for Black, Indigneous and People of Color Changemakers

Your nose sculpted by Kat Geng-Caraballo

What sets us apart

We treat your nose as if it were our nose

one-on-one attention

  • Visual Artist Kat Geng-Caraballo will meet with New York City patrons in-person and out of city patrons over zoom in order the assess the needs of the client

  • Each nose job includes a certificate of authenticity that weaves in the client's own nasal narrative for future generations to enjoy alongside the sculptures

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High quality materials

  • We include a 98% UV protection frame that protects from harmful UV rays offreing alonger life for your artwork.

  • We use natural pigments from Walnut Hulls, avocado and onion skins to dye our cotton fabrics to create a selection of brown skin tones for our nose sculptures.

Customized for you

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

  • Patrons are given a selection of fabric colors to choose from for the creation of their noses.

how our nose jobs are performed

how to get started

Though once limited to a hospital setting, the sculptor’s approach is to perform it in her home studio in Brooklyn, NY. Client need not be present.


Safety comes first. With a thimble on hand, Kat Geng-Caraballo will use thread and needle to sew a nose from selected fabrics and sculpt the various nasal bumps and twists with cotton stuffing.

BEST CANDIDATES FOR RHINOPLASTY

Anyone with a nose who would like to be reminded of their nose’s potency, story and perfection with all its’ bumps, twists and turns. Any nose keeper who would like to reconnect with their nose as a link to their past and future ancestors and heritage. Anyone coming to the conclusion that it is high time their nose is honored and immortalized for all it does and symbolizes. Original noses and new noses welcome. This a monument to your nose, one that can be passed down through the generations.

what results to expect

Expect a fabric nose hand-stitched by Kat Geng-Caraballo accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity. It is best not to expect an exact replica but more of an ode to your nose. The nose dimensions will vary but tend to be 10%-20% larger the the original nose. Yours will be mounted on a fabric decided on with the artist and displayed in a 98% UV protected museum quality plexi-glass wall hanging case.

After an initial 20 minute conversation to determine if you are nos job ready, you will meet with the artist for a virtual Pre-Op visit for one hour. Nose fabric selection will be done during the Pre-Op visit.

preparing for a nose

Once you have decided to make this exciting new reclamation/tribute to your nose we will set up a brief zoom call to discuss the details.

where is the rhinoplasty performed

Though once limited to a hospital setting, the sculptor’s approach is to perform it in her home studio in Brooklyn, NY. Client need not be present.

cost

A custom Nose Job costs $2,475 USD not inc. taxes. This cost includes framing and domestic shipping. International shipping is an additional cost. It t is required to schedule a phone consultation before scheduling a Nose Job. Payment plans are available. International and Domestic patients are accepted. No insurance required.

Our Services

custom

Custom noses are commissioned artworks of your nose using photographs and two consultations (an intial meeting of 20 minutes and one hour procedure with the artist)

$2,475

readymade

The Reclamation Collection is a collection of fully hand-stitched noses with unique identities including The Non-Conformist Nose, The ___ Nose, The _____ Nose and The ____. The Commemorative Collection and The Functional Collection will be released in February and May 2025.

$775

 FAQs

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

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  • From your first appointment to receiving your nose in the mail will take 3 weeks. We do offer rush orders for an additional $100.

  • While we cannot disclose all of the details of the Pre-Op visit in advance, the artist and the patron will spend an hour together considering the Commemorative, Functional and Reclamation element of the reconstructive procedure.

Make it stand out

An heirloom piece