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I get this question asked often, “How do I get a lift in the Brazilian Butt Lift?”. The patient will then push her own buttock up to help me understand what she wants. They ask me, “Can you do it?” I have answered this so often, it is time to write about it here on our blog.
How do I get a lift in the Brazilian Butt Lift?
The Brazilian Butt Lift is a type of Butt Augmentation performed with your own Fat injections. As a matter of fact, in this procedure the butt is physically lifted very little, if at all. But after a Brazilian Butt Lift, the buttock definitely looks perky, and definitely looks lifted!
How does this happen?
It’s all about how the eye perceives shapes. When you look at the back of a typical woman what you think is the butt is really a combination of two separate fat pockets:
1) the buttock itself, and sitting right above it is 2) the flank, or “muffin top” fat pocket.
The combination of the two fat volumes creates a visual unit. It is longer than it is wide so the butt appears to be droopy or sagging. From the side it appears there is no shelf but a long slope that makes the buttock look like it is hanging. If you eliminate that extra fat pocket above the buttock there are a lot of perception changes that result.
Brazilian Butt Lift Before and After Back View:
As you see in this first picture above, the butt on the left (preoperative view) looks like a long droopy oval. On the right (postoperative view) you see the perky bubble butt, because the flank fat pad, or muffin top, has been eliminated and you are seeing the rounded, shorter buttock contrasted against a narrow waist.
So instead of having two fat pats joining to form a long rectangle or oval, you get a rounded buttock contrasted against a narrow waist. This is an improvement in the waist to hip ratio which is also an important esthetic marker.
Brazilian Butt Lift Before and After Side View:
And on this side view photo above, the arrow shows that the apparent length of the buttock on the left is much longer than the buttock on the right! So the buttock looks shorter and rounder, not long and droopy. Furthermore, when the patient looks at the slope of her back and butt (before) it looks almost like a straight line, so the patient thinks she has little or no butt. This is because the flank fat pad is hiding the buttock shelf from her view.
The Brazilian Butt Lift works so well because by eliminating the fat above the buttock it creates a shelf. By just adding a little fat at the buttock there is a radical change in the slope from her lower back to shelf.
If you look closely at the bottom of the butt, you can also see the butt has not been lifted at all. There is no lift, but there is a real dramatic change and the butt is perkier, rounder, and prettier, a bubble butt, as if by magic. Maybe it should called the Brazilian Magical Butt instead of the Brazilian Butt Lift?! Then again, what’s in a name?
By Ricardo L Rodriguez
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
Baltimore, Maryland
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I look better than anytime in my life. Dr. Rodriguez and staff were able to give me a youthful, masculine contour that is better than I looked in high school! 
17 Comments
May 20, 2013 at 4:23 pm
Will forward the email again!
Sorry for the delay, Kelly had surgery last week and will not be in until wednesday
May 19, 2013 at 4:47 pm
i have contacted her and i have not recieved an email back?
April 20, 2013 at 4:52 pm
Nicole, Kelly should contact you.
Her email address is kelly@cosmeticsurg.net
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
April 1, 2013 at 3:24 pm
Hey Kelly! I would like to know the price range for BBL.
March 31, 2013 at 7:01 pm
Nicole:
Kelly at kelly@cosmeticsurg.net will be getting in contact with you, she handles all the financials.
Thanks for the inquiry!
March 31, 2013 at 7:00 pm
Katelin:
Brazilian But lift is as much about change of proportions as it is about adding fat to the buttocks.
You have enough fat to change the way your body is shaped. We have done several patients who are slender, and there are always changes. furthermore, if you gain weight the changes are more pronounced.
The best way to gage the kind of result you might expect would be to arrange for a virtual consultation where I can look at pictures and evaluate your specific case.
Contact Kelly at kelly@cosmeticsurg.net, she’ll be happy to help out.
March 19, 2013 at 3:50 pm
Approximately how much?
March 18, 2013 at 9:19 pm
I’m 5’5 and aprox 115lbs, am I a candidate for bbl? I have been told I do not have enough fat. Is this true?
Thanks!
March 7, 2013 at 9:44 am
Nicole:
Contact Kelly at kelly@cosmeticsurg.net she usually handles this information.
In the meantime read this and this posts about my way of doing it and the why’s.
March 6, 2013 at 1:46 pm
How much for the Brazilian Butt Lift? Approximately
March 4, 2013 at 7:48 pm
AB:
Just stay in good shape. Being in good shape is the best preparation for surgery. Your heart and lungs, as well as your muscles come back from surgery much quicker when you are in shape.
Start today!
March 4, 2013 at 1:34 pm
Dr. Rodriguez,
Another question I had is; I’m assuming that after the consult generally the scheduled procedure will be made within a limited/reasonable amount of time so, I’m wondering, is there any preparations that you would suggest/recommend prior to having surgery (lipo/fat transfer)? I’m a police officer and in relatively good health but anything that I would need to aid with a good outcome with surgery/recovery is always an added bonus.
Thank you for ur time
AB
February 25, 2013 at 9:46 am
Thank you for ur response. It was helpful. Hopefully it wasn’t a stupid question. It was just I had observed different surgeons photos of their work and saw actual incision areas (lower stomach area, upper torso area, small of the back etc) and hadn’t seen any on ur patients photos.
I will be getting in contact with Kelly in the near future to at least set up a an in person consult with you.
Maybe some time in the future u could incorporate on ur website, photos with the different markings of your incision sites on ur models and or a computer generated body for viewers who may be wondering the same thing I was.
Thanks again. Have a gd day.
February 24, 2013 at 1:12 pm
AB:
The scars are pinpoint. Remember, all I need is a hole small enough for a 3 millimeter cannula to get in.
Even with that, I hide the scars in several areas such as the fold of the breast, inside the belly button, in the mons pubis, which is not seen even on a string bikini, in the fold between the buttocks and the fold below the buttocks. The only place where the small scars are “out in the open” is in the back, and in those cases I place them where people usually wear their bra straps.
So, you are right to worry about scars, but I have done hundreds of african american patients but I have not had any issues with scars because they are very small and in unobtrusive places.
IF you are interested, and it looks like you are from what you say, contact Kelly at kelly@cosmeticsurg.net she’d love to help you!
February 24, 2013 at 12:21 pm
Sierra:
Kelly will be getting in contact with you.
We’d be happy to help!
February 24, 2013 at 10:54 am
Gd morning;
I stumbled across ur website and began reading about the procedures you perform along with viewing the results of some of those procedures. I must say that thru the photos the results looks great. I’m also pleased with the fact of how you have thoroughly explained what’s done in ur practice and with how you perform ur procedures – so the education was good. I am considering lipo/ butt lift myself or the Baltimore lift (as u call it). I just wanted to ask, where are the incisions done? I have not seen any photos on ur website that shows any evidence that there was an entry point for lipo and or the fat injections. I am an African American female and I have some concerns with having such noticeable scars.
February 12, 2013 at 6:25 pm
Cost for this Brazilian butt lift procedure? 410.446.0198