The BBL: It’s more than just a bigger butt

If you listen to what most women are looking for in a butt, it’s not about the size. You hear words like contour, shape and hip dips. Very few are coming in asking for huge buttocks.

1. Silhouette

Many women want a BBL to accentuate their silhouette. Specifically, they’re looking for that hourglass figure. This requires aggressive liposuction to the abdomen and flanks to make the waist as narrow as possible. The combination of a narrow waist and fuller buttocks will achieve that hourglass shape.

2. Filling in the hip dips

The hips dips are perfectly normal anatomic features. this is the depression between the hip bones and the thighs bones.

Even though these are normal contours in the body and no one should feel as though something is wrong with them, popular culture is driving women to fill these in (as seen below). Rounding out the thigh does contribute to that idyllic hourglass figure so many women strive for.

3. Rounded buttock shape

Ultimately patients want fat injections to the buttocks but this does not require liters upon liters to achieve their stated goals. Fat to provide projection as well as rounding out the upper portion of the buttocks to blend into the hip dips provides a very aesthetically pleasing shape. Gone are the days of the upper buttock shelf. That’s not currently in vogue.

With just the right amount of fat, an older woman can lift and volumize her buttocks just as one would for deflated breasts. With different aged women, their goals vary and we must adjust our techniques to help them attain those goals.

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She started a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) revolution. And in a seemingly effortless way, she continues to stay relevant and up the game she created. In this years’ Met Gala in New York, Kim K arrived in a dress that set the bar again. But how did she create that butt to waist ratio?!

How to create a butt to waist ratio like Kim K?

First, I think it helps that Kim K naturally has a big butt. I don’t believe she had a BBL and maybe not even liposuction. Her butt is genetic. Her mom and sisters all have a healthy derriere. However, if you don’t naturally have the full buttocks you’ve always wanted, there are options.

You could get a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL). That’s when your plastic surgeon takes fat via liposuction from your abdomen, flanks, back, thighs or anywhere fat is available. The fat is then injected into the buttocks to provide more fullness, projection and fill in the “hip dips.” The waist is narrowed at the same time as the BBL due to liposuction of the waist.

If you don’t have enough fat, options include butt implants or fillers like Sculptra. Butt implants have a high risk of infection so beware. And Sculptra filler? You can hear my opinion on its limitations in this video here.

So you’ve got a big butt now, how do you get the waist so narrow for that Kim K butt to waist ratio?! I believe in her case, she’s continuing to use a waist trainer. I say “continuing” because we know she has used one in the past. A waist trainer works. But only in the short term. The corset like waist trainer can narrow the waist if worn for a several weeks prior to your big event. And it’s possible or even probable that in addition to the waist trainer, she’s wearing a body corset under her Met Gala dress.

Last theory. Aside from waist training, maybe she’s not wearing a corset at all. But instead, she’s wearing a lower body suit that has padding in the hip area (like padding in football pants) to make her butt and hips appear wider and therefore make her waist look narrower by comparison!

At the end of the day, a butt to waist ratio like hers requires either genetics, surgery, tight garments, commitment and discipline. It’s not as easy as it looks!

Trying to decide what you want to do now? You can start by checking pricing on procedures, including a BBL, from a doctor near you, here.

Click here for the original blog post written by Dr. Kaplan for BuildMyBod.

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