What Can I Do to Get a Bubble Shelf Booty? (photo)

My recommendation for your buttock augmentation would be a Brazilian Butt Lift. This operation consists of suctioning the waist and injecting that fat into the areas you'd like to augment. The beauty of this operation is that suctioning of the waist automatically enhances the proportions of the body! Buttock implants are the other method to increase the size of your buttocks however based on your before pictures, I'd recommend a Brazilian Butt Lift which would avoid any implant risks and complications. Best Wishes!

Allow me to share with you some information that you may not hear elsewhere. There are only two proven safe and relatively effective methods for Buttock Augmentation and Hip Augmentation: 1) Autologous Fat Transfer (using your own fat, transferring from one area of the body to the other) and 2) Buttock/Hip Implants (semi-solid silicone rubber implants that cannot rupture &/or leak). Both are very good options so what it comes down to, like any surgery, is proper patient selection. Indeed because at least 50+ % of the fat transferred will melt away within a year, most patients are not good candidates because they lack an adequate amount of fat to harvest. Another tip is that if you gain weight for the procedure, the fat that you lose first when you go back down to your baseline weight after surgery is in fact that fat that you originally gained and transferred into your buttocks...so don't fall victim to this recommendation.  Although using your own fat is relatively safe, the one serious complication that can rarely (< 1%) happen is "fat embolism" in which some of the fat gets into the blood stream and travels up into the lungs, heart, and/or brain causing serious problems. This complication is more likely to happen with the larger amount of fat being transferred. This can also happen when using fillers like PMMA and hyaluronic acids. Also fillers, when injected in large quantities, have a relatively high tendency to migrate away from the original area they were placed and tend to stimulate a lot of inflammation and subsequent scar tissue/hardening.

Thus buttock/hip implants become a very good, safe, and long term reliable option for most patients seeking buttock augmentation (at least in my practice). I prefer to insert the buttock implants through a single 2 ½ inch long incision over the tailbone (concealed within the crevice between the buttock cheeks) and the hip implants through a ~ 1 inch incision just below the beltline above the hip region. The buttock implant should always be placed under or within the gluteus maximus muscle. In this position, the implant is less palpable, less visible, and does not sag or shift/migrate over time unlike implants placed on top of the muscle. Therefore it is extremely important to seek consultation with a board certified plastic surgeon who specializes in this procedure. And in this case too, at least in my surgical practice, the infection rate is minimized to ~5%. Glad to help… 

To get the look you desire, you may need to contour the areas around the buttock as well as the buttock itself. Whether to use fat grafting or buttock implants depends on a number of factors including fat donor sites and volume, quality of tissue, desired results, and recovery time. I would seek consultation with a board certified plastic surgeon who is experienced in buttock contouring.

         You can get a very dramatic improvement in the buttocks and the overall body contour with the Brazilian buttlift.  I typically transfer between 1200 and 1800 cc per buttock, and this would put you as close to your buttock goals as possible.   I perform about 500 Brazilian buttlifts each year, and this procedure is the most surgeon dependent plastic surgery procedure.  You do not want to have to do the procedure again.  Find a plastic surgeon with ELITE credentials who performs hundreds of liposuction procedures and Brazilian buttlifts each year.  Then look at the plastic surgeon's website before and after photo galleries to get a sense of who can deliver the results.

Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA

Hello dear!
Thanks for the question and provided information as well.
Based on your pictures, you are a good candidate for liposuction with BBL, and I think you'll get very good results.
Liposuction allows your plastic surgeon to transform your entire shape. You can improve your abdomen, back, hips and flanks, and of course your buttock, to give you your desire shape.
In general, you need to be physically healthy and at a stable weight, have realistic expectations, be a non-smoker and your BMI needs to be 30 or less.
l recommend you to make an appointment with a board certified plastic surgeon to talk about your goals and anything you need to know.
Good luck :)

Thanks for your questions and photos, if you are looking for a big amount of volume to your butt the best procedure is a butt implant with liposculture, i can recommend you think about a liposculture and brazilian butt lift as your first option and if you want to improve even more your buttucks you can opt for an implant. Best Wishes!

To achieve a bubble butt as in the pictures posted , one needs liposuction for body contouring, fat transfer to the buttocks and later may need a buttock implant.

From your photos you are an excellent candidate for enhancement with buttock implants.  Make sure you see a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon with a broad experience with this operation since complications are common.  Ask to see a portfolio of pre- and post-op pictures so you can see the types of results that are treasonable to expect.