How Has BBL Size and Shape Changed Throughout History

The hourglass in this history is that tight waist together with the generous buttock. The stance is tall and poised, and the qualities attached to the figure are social success and self-assurance. The later stretches are written as a departure from that line or as a return to some version of curves.

How has BBL size and shape changed after the Gibson Girl is the flapper turn. Women in this era were described as trying to look more masculine in order to enter the workforce. Flappers wanted to avoid feminine features and curves, a direct contrast with the Gibson Girl. They tried to hide curves and aimed for a flat butt, a flat chest, and flat thighs. Loose clothes carried a boyish figure that suited labored, physical work.

Hiding the buttock, the chest, and the thighs was the goal, and loose clothes were how that boyish line was worn for physical work. The Gibson Girl hourglass is the shape this era is set against. A flat butt here is the shape those clothes were meant to show.

The 1930s began a shift toward more generous buttock volume and more curves, and that trend continued from 1930 through the 1950s. Women were generally heavier and more matronly than their 1920s counterparts. The change was toward showing modest curves, and fitted trousers were the clothing that typified it.

Fitted trousers replaced the loose flapper clothes as the garment that showed the line. Modest curves replaced the flat buttock, flat chest, and flat thighs. Heavier and more matronly is the comparison with the 1920s, the flapper years just before this stretch.

From 1960 to the 1980s the described figure went back to a more conservative, athletic build, best typified by the wonder woman body. Fitted booty shorts, worn by women of all ages, were the garment tied to that buttock shape.

That return comes after the curvier years from the 1930s to the 1950s. The wonder woman body and fitted booty shorts, worn at every age, are the two markers given for the athletic buttock in this stretch. The stretch itself runs from 1960 to the 1980s.

A curvy buttock returned, but not like the 1930s to the 1950s. Physical fitness became a priority and women began weight training. Squats became a mainstay because of the gluteus maximus, the main glute muscle crossing the buttock cheek. The popular result was a stronger cheek, not necessarily a large one. That athletic look kept building until the 2000s.

Stronger is a different claim from larger. The training named for the cheek is squats and weight training, aimed at the gluteus maximus. The curvy return is not the heavier, more matronly curves of the 1930s to the 1950s. What continues up to the 2000s is the athletic version.

Attention to the buttock continued through those two decades and is described as peaking because of social media influencers such as Kim Kardashian. The push for a huge buttock ran through the 2020s and is said to have required redesigned jeans for very large volumes. That peak is also described as sending patients to Miami for a Brazilian BBL lift.

Three markers are given for the peak: influencers such as Kim Kardashian, jeans cut for very large volume, and travel to Miami for a Brazilian BBL lift. Huge volume is the size claim for this stretch. The next stretch is the one that pulls the size back down.

A recent trend turns back toward smaller sizes. The result is still large, just not out of control. Patients who already had an extreme Brazilian BBL lift, with transfer of over 1 liter of fat into each cheek, are described as coming to California for reduction. Reducing that extreme transfer takes liposuction of the fat and excision of upper buttock skin, so the skin does not sag from overfilling and the stretch that followed. Removal of that upper skin for the redundancy has been named the lateral thigh and BBL tuck. Interest in a more proportional enlargement has been named the skinny BBL.

The general trend and the two named operations are separate statements. The general trend is a smaller size that is still large, and not out of control. Reduction is for someone who already had over 1 liter of fat transferred into each cheek, and it uses liposuction plus excision of the upper skin so that overfilled skin does not sag. The skinny BBL is the proportional version: fat in the upper central buttock for projection, and no fat added on the lateral buttock. California is the place named for that reduction. Miami is the place named for the earlier rush toward huge volume. Those two cities belong to different parts of the timeline.

A 40 year old female who had a lateral thigh tuck and Brazilian buttock lift to achieve her BBL goals.

A bubble butt is maximum augmentation of the buttock cheek. A skinny BBL is transfer of fat only to the upper central buttock, for increased projection, with no addition to the lateral buttock. Adding fat is the enlargement. Tightening loose skin or cutting away excess skin is the option when size is already enough, or when an earlier transfer has stretched the skin. Moving fat from one area to another is the reshaping step, and it is described as more common after a BBL the person is not happy with.