A new research has suggested that the plastic surgery is supposed to make your face look different, but the impacts of procedures can go far beyond a change in physical appearance. The study found that people may perceive your post-surgery personality differently.

According to a study published Thursday in the journal JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery, people rated women with certain kinds of facial rejuvenation procedures as being more likeable, attractive and feminine as compared to the ones who hadn't yet undergone operations.

The study also found that the women who underwent the procedures were also perceived to have more social skills.

Michael J. Reilly, study co-author, an assistant professor of facial reconstructive surgery at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, said, “Our faces are conveying these traits, even when we're not intending to. All of our faces do this all of the time, but some of our faces are more prone to expressing an emotion”.

Reilly said the reactions given by others on those traits, via looking at physical appearance, get rooted in one’s brain functioning and evolution.

During the study, 173 respondents, including 110 women and 63 men, were given photos of 30 white women, who had procedures such as face lifts, upper and lower eye lifts and neck lifts, to view. In order to avoid a comparison bias the before-and-after photos were mixed in different groupings.

These women were rated on the basis of eight traits. The research overall found that the women's post-operation photos were given higher rankings for social skills, likeability, attractiveness and femininity.

In trustworthiness rankings also, the after-surgery photos were trended higher, but the connection wasn't statistically significant.

Although, in the study the post-operation photos as a whole were rated more positively than the pre-operation images, yet four of the women photographed for the study were actually rated worse following their procedures.

Reilly cautioned that the surgery can result in patients being perceived in a different way and that is not always a good thing.