Can someone please tell me what waist snatching is?

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Can someone please tell me what waist snatching is?? Is it just wearing compression garments after the lipo for bbl? I'm confused.

Kenneth Hughes, MD · Answer

I believe it refers to getting the waist as small as possible through surgery and getting the best waist to hip ratio.

Johnny Franco, MD, FACS · Answer

Snatched is a term that I have recently heard in my office. While the term is new the goals of the liposculpting and Brazilian Butt Lift are not.  The vast majority of my patients want to have have a tiny (snatched) waist and a perkier, more full butt and hips. 
  
In the Brazilian Butt Lift the combination of the liposculpting and fat transfer is what leads to the figure transformation.  In this transformation my patients can go from square to an hourglass figure.  The smaller the waist the better the hips and butt will appear.  
  
The snatched waist comes from the liposuction.  I turn all my patients on each side.  This gives me direct access to the love handles as this key in terms of making the waist as small as possible.  This liposculpting will not only make the waist tiny it will give us good fat that we can use to fill the hip dip and butt.  This combination will give patients more of the “s” curve that they desire for their overall shape. 
  
The first step in a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) is the liposuction.  I think people often forget how import this part is in making the overall figure as sexy as possible.  The liposuction during a BBL is not only for harvesting fat to fill the hip dips and butt, it is used to shape and sculpt the waist.  The are of a Brazilian Butt Lift is in the combination of the liposculpting and the butt enhancement with he fat transfer. 
  
Please discuss your Brazilian Butt Lift with your Board-Certified Plastic Surgeon so that they can discuss the surgery and the results that are possible from the procedure.

Jason Emer, MD · Answer

Waist snatching is using a compression waist trainer to make your waist smaller or doing a large liposuction procedure to make the waist as small as possible.  Combination of non invasive treatments can be used to improve the waist size such as coolsculpting/vanquish together -- we call this the "fire and ice" treatment.  HI DEF 4D VASER contouring is also an alternative.  Best, Dr. Emer.

Ayman Hakki, MD · Answer

Garments combined with lipo sculpture (whether surgical or non surgical like CooSculpt) are being promoted by some to be an effective method for achieving a smaller waist. There are no double blind controlled studies that support this, but the anecdotal evidence is compelling. In order to get a valid opinion on this, and other curve promoting options, you must see a plastic surgery board certified plastic surgeon, who operates at a certified facility and ask her, or him; how many waists have you sculpted this year Dr.? Don't settle for vague answers and you'll be in good hands.

Can someone please tell me what waist snatching is?

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