Rising trends in plastic surgery: Butt Lifts

By Brandie Umar - Executive Director of Content | August 5th, 2010

Beyonce, J-Lo and Kim Kardashian have played a large part in the latest trend to embrace a fuller figure. Women are increasingly stepping away from body slimming plastic surgery procedures to body boosting surgeries; in particular, plastic surgery procedures which lift and increase the size and shape of the butt.

According to studies, the ideal female body shape has a hip to waist ratio of 70%. Women increasingly want to measure up to this ratio. In 2008, butt boosting underwear became popular; by 2009 women were searching for a butt enhancing solution that would increase their curves in bikinis as well as jeans. Between 2009-2010 there was a 35% increase in requests for buttock augmentation surgery and over 3,000 butt lifts were performed in the US alone - a 25% increase on 2008 figures.

Women who spend hours training and eating the right diet to trim, tone and shape their figure can achieve perfection with a little help from plastic surgery. To enhance the shape of the derrière there are two plastic surgery options;

buttock augmentation using butt implants and a Brazilian butt lift.

Brazilian Butt Lifts are the preferred surgery and the procedure plastic surgeons recommend for the most enhanced results. Compared to a butt augmentation procedure where butt implants are used to enhance the shape, Brazilian butt lift allows patients to redefine the hips and mid-section as well. To perform a Brazilian butt lift, plastic surgeons remove fat from another area of the body. This fat, which is prepared specifically to ensure permanent results from the surgery, is then transferred into the butt to achieve the desired shape.

Most women who choose plastic surgery want to enhance their curves, not just their buttocks and Brazilian butt lift surgery is becoming the curve defining surgery of choice for the impressive results. Butt lift plastic surgeons minimize love handles, sculpt the waist and boost the booty to achieve the dream figure patients want.

Costing between $4,000-$15,000 USD, Brazilian butt lift surgery is not the cheapest option to enhance the figure but for women in search of the J-Lo glow it is a price worth paying for a rounder, firmer derriere.