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Best BBL Shapes

A 35-year-old patient with a high BMI had a Brazilian buttock lift to transform her square buttock into a peach-shaped buttock.

Best BBL shapes start from a V-shaped or a square buttock. Peach and pear liposuction differ, and the square plan fills the mid and lateral buttock. At SurgiSculpt® in Newport Beach, our surgeons tailor each plan with artistry, proven protocols, and patient safety as the priority.

BBL — #SS106

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This article features patient #SS106. View patient profile

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This patient’s surgical plan included: Brazilian butt lift with fat transfer.

Best BBL Shapes

Two starting shapes

Patients ask what their BBL shape is and what shape to strive for in a Brazilian butt lift. They present with one of two shapes: a V-shaped butt or, commonly, a square butt. The question of the best BBL shapes starts from that pair.

BBL — #SS106

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35-year-old female patient demonstrates improved back to buttock rato following VASER liposuction of her upper back, middle back, lower back, and flanks, with fat transfer to her buttocks to complete her BBL.

The V-shaped butt is described as moderate to severe excess skin in the flank, a focal upper fullness, and a deflated, flat middle and lower buttock. Many patients choose a Brazilian butt lift after significant weight loss to replace fat cells lost in the middle and lower buttock and to create a bubble butt. Others want an hourglass figure by maximizing lateral buttock fullness. A more athletic subset wants upper central buttock projection, described as a lean butt. Knowing the desired size and shape, and holding realistic expectations about the procedure, remains essential.

Clients who have a V-shaped buttock have lost a significant amount of weight. That sentence stays beside the earlier statement that many patients choose surgery after significant weight loss. Both stay.

Three desires are named against that V-shaped start. A bubble butt is the volume put back into the middle and lower buttock after the fat cells there were lost. An hourglass figure is lateral buttock fullness, maximized on purpose. A lean butt is upper central buttock projection, the athletic subset. Those three desires are not the same plan, and they are not averaged into one best BBL shapes result.

A square-shaped butt is described by a lack of curvature. Excess skin and fat in the flank and lateral thigh surround a flat or concave mid-lateral buttock contour. The mid-buttock concavity seen from the back correlates with the hip dip seen from the front. Identifying which starting shape is present is described as critical to the plan.

The plan follows the starting shape

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The preoperative shape, V or square, determines the surgical plan. A square buttock is treated with liposuction of the flanks and lateral thighs, then fat transfer. The fat is transferred to the mid-central and lateral buttock to round the buttock out. That transfer is fat grafting.

A V-shaped buttock is treated with a lateral thigh and buttock tuck in addition to fat transfer. The source sentence ends with the word and and names no further procedure, so no third procedure is added. Fat transfer for this shape is localized to the mid buttock and, more importantly, the lower lateral buttock, where maximal deflation is observed.

Peach and pear, after the central diamond

Brazilian Buttock Lift

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The service designations for this patient include BBL / Fat Transfer. 35-year-old female patient demonstrates improved back to buttock rato following VASER liposuction of her upper back, middle back, lower back, and flanks, with fat transfer to her buttocks to complete her BBL.

The desired postoperative shape determines the buttock liposuction, and that choice is part of how the best BBL shapes are drawn. The shapes named are round and peach buttocks, or heart and pear-shaped buttocks. Round and peach are one description. Heart and pear-shaped are the other. They are not split into four plans. Liposuction is first performed universally along the upper medial buttock by creating the central diamond. That diamond step is shared. The steps after it are not.

For the peach buttocks, the upper lateral buttock is conservatively liposuctioned along the inferior border of the transition zone. The lower medial buttock is liposuctioned along its inferior border to round out the inner lower buttock. The lower lateral buttock is liposuctioned, extending into the lateral thighs.

For the pear-shaped buttock, the lower lateral buttock and the lateral thigh fullness are preserved. Liposuction is focused on the upper lateral buttocks and the flank. The peach plan removes lower lateral fullness. The pear plan keeps it. Both plans stay.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons states that liposuction, sometimes referred to as lipo by patients, is a surgical procedure that involves the removal of excess fat from specific areas of the body. That sentence is the removal definition only. The central diamond, the transition zone, the tuck, the fat placement sites, the hip dip, and the choice between peach and pear are not that sentence.

What decides among the best BBL shapes

Best BBL Shapes

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Choosing among the best BBL shapes uses the preoperative starting shape and the desired postoperative shape. The start and end points determine the plan for a fuller buttock. Fat deposits are evaluated at the initial consultation to decide whether someone is a candidate. The Buttock Assessment Tool is the method named for choosing a desired size and shape. Types of BBL shapes and sizes, and the patient's preferences, are considered when the technique is chosen. No measurement of those sizes is stated, so none is added.

Brazilian Buttock Lift

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From this angle, the BBL / Fat Transfer result is easier to follow. 35-year-old female patient demonstrates improved back to buttock rato following VASER liposuction of her upper back, middle back, lower back, and flanks, with fat transfer to her buttocks to complete her BBL.

Read in order, the plan is a sequence the page already gives. First the starting shape is named, either the V-shaped buttock with its upper fullness and flat lower half, or the square buttock with its missing curve. Then the desired end is named. For a square start, flank and lateral thigh fat is removed and fat is placed in the mid-central and lateral buttock. For a V-shaped start, a lateral thigh and buttock tuck is combined with fat transfer aimed at the lower lateral buttock, and the sentence that trailed off after and does not add another operation. After that choice, upper medial liposuction creates the central diamond for every postoperative shape. Peach work then takes the transition zone, the lower medial border, and the lower lateral buttock into the lateral thigh. Pear work leaves the lower lateral buttock and lateral thigh full and removes fat from the upper lateral buttock and flank instead. The consultation checks fat deposits before any of those steps, and realistic expectations about the procedure stay part of the decision. The caption states a high BMI and does not give the number, so no BMI figure is added. The square-to-peach change is the only result assigned to that patient. A bubble butt, an hourglass figure, and a lean butt remain desires described for other patients, including those who start from the V-shaped buttock. Weight loss is stated twice and kept twice: many patients seek a bubble butt after significant weight loss, and clients with a V-shaped buttock have lost a significant amount of weight.

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