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VelaShape GAVE Me Cellulite - Montreal, QC
UPDATED FROM thinkagain
October 2, 2012 Update: It's been over a month...
thinkagainOctober 2, 2012
$150
October 2, 2012 Update: It's been over a month since I had the treatment. My butt looks TERRIBLE. It looks lumpy and you can still see marks where the sucker was applied. I never did go back for the second treatment and it's just as well because after 1 treatment, it looks like crap. It was fine before. Learn from my mistake, ladies.
UPDATED FROM thinkagain
October 2, 2012 Update: It's been over a month...
thinkagainOctober 2, 2012
October 2, 2012 Update: It's been over a month since I had the treatment. My butt looks TERRIBLE. It looks lumpy and you can still see marks where the sucker was applied. I never did go back for the second treatment and it's just as well because after 1 treatment, it looks like crap. It was fine before. Learn from my mistake, ladies.
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October 3, 2012
On the bright side, I wanted to let you know, I have been experimenting with dermarolling at home and am getting amazing results from that. I have done my knees and stomach and although I was nervous and did it unevenly, after a few months I see definite improvement in the skin that was well-rolled. It is tighter and less crinkly. If I ever get a chance to have someone dermaroll my butt, that's the treatment I would go for.
October 3, 2012
I doubt that there are people who would report results that include injury to their skin if it didn't actually occur. Of course it did. Look, the technicians see dozens of patients a week. They may take photos, but those photos show only so much. It is the PATIENT who knows every single characteristic of their own body.
My longtime aesthetician learned to use the old Vela from a dermatologist friend, and when he didn't want to use the machine any longer in his practice (I wonder why....?), he leased it to her. She said the Vela works on some, not on all. It is also not unusual for the machine to burn, scar, and dent, depending on who's hands are doing the treatment. The skin is sucked up and can hit the plate and burn you. It can cause depressions. It can cause track marks and imprints. But, as the doctor who owns the facility that I went to said in apprising the scaring and burning that I suffered...."Well, it doesn't look as bad as my wife's bad lipo, you should see her...."!
Very comforting, indeed.
October 28, 2012
Wow thanks for sharing. There is so much hype about these type of procedures & you never know what's beneficial or not. Do you think getting the recommended number of treatments would have made results better?
November 8, 2012
With all due respect to all parties involved your left thigh and butt seem significantly better than your right.
The lighting with which you took your pictures is definitively different and makes the after results look worse.
November 8, 2012
This brings up a very good question. How is it that literally EVERY brochure for cosmetic procedure, be it laser/chemical peel, skin tightening, cellulite, etc., has a completely different lighting in the "before" photos, from the "after" photos?! I have frankly stopped putting ANY credibility in the photos, whatsoever. Show me the real thing, or nothing at all!
November 9, 2012
Hi, I took several after pictures with several different forms of lighting. Brighter daylight, a flash, dimmer daylight, indoor light. It's hard to reproduce the exact lighting conditions of the office where the before pic was taken. However, you can see from all these pictures that the shape of my derriere is quite changed, even the crease under the buttocks is is different, and that has nothing to do with the lighting. It also looks lumpier any way you slice it, mainly on the right side.
UPDATED FROM thinkagain
Update: 1 Month after treatment. As you can see...
thinkagainAugust 31, 2012
Update: 1 Month after treatment.
As you can see from my 1-month-after pic, things have definitely settled down and evened out.Overall I actually see some improvement in smoothness on the left side. However, in some areas, the right side is still lumpier than before treatment and I still have some dark spots where the sucker left kind of ;track marks'. I really don't understand why this happened on only one side other than, as I mentioned before, the right side was treated unevenly because it was more sensitive.
I have mixed feelings about Velashape. One one hand, it definitely does something, but it has to be applied very carefully or you get uneven results that could end up looking like you have more cellulite than before.
As you can see from my 1-month-after pic, things have definitely settled down and evened out.Overall I actually see some improvement in smoothness on the left side. However, in some areas, the right side is still lumpier than before treatment and I still have some dark spots where the sucker left kind of ;track marks'. I really don't understand why this happened on only one side other than, as I mentioned before, the right side was treated unevenly because it was more sensitive.
I have mixed feelings about Velashape. One one hand, it definitely does something, but it has to be applied very carefully or you get uneven results that could end up looking like you have more cellulite than before.
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September 5, 2012
I can see the un-eveness you are talking about in the picture. Thank you so much for continuing to update us with pictures - that is so helpful! Have you decided if you are going to do it again, or are you still undecided at this point?
September 6, 2012
I am still very much undecided because the left side looks better while the right side looks lumpier and has track marks. I interpret this to mean, the treatment could go either way, even on two different parts of the same person's body. I think I will talk to the clinic and see what they think. Right now, I'm just really glad it doesn't look like it did right after the treatment!
August 4, 2015
I too have heard varies outcomes with Velashape. I'm trying to eventually get thigh, butt lift with lipo. I need to see how my recovery from the laser goes. I do see a nice difference. It can truly be a waiting game. I know I will continue to do a lot of research.
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