My husband LOVES sexy, pushup, vixen-ish bras. My complaint is always the same when he asks me why I don’ t wear these types of bras (which I do happen to have in my wardrobe), more often. My answer is because they are uncomfortable! I’m sorry, but have you ever known a bra that produces beaucoup cleavage to actually provide any comfort? I certainly haven’t, and I don’t expect any to fit that description any time soon either, because by their very nature, push up bras are not meant to be comfy – they are meant for show.
And you know what that means, anything that is meant “for show” that is in your closet or in your drawer usually means one thing – no comfort, softness or general mobility freedom is involved. With my old, beat up, underwireless bras with no padding and no pushup functions, at least I’m getting the ultimate in comfort, at least as comfortable as I can be without just going braless, which is my favorite way to be if I’m being perfectly honest.
If I could go braless without foregoing the shape and classy look of a bra, then I would do it every single day of my life, without question. Of course, your breasts just don’t look as good without a bra over them in clothes. Also you have to worry about your nipples showing through if you get cold, which is never considered very classy unfortunately.
I bought a few bras for after our wedding (we didn’t really have a honeymoon, but we got married in Las Vegas, so we partied after we got married), so that my new husband could enjoy the brief moments he got to look at me in one of these contraptions, and it was uncomfortable, I couldn’t wait to take the darn things off.
I got one in black that was a plunging pushup bra, and one in bright, hot pink that was the same style, and although I must admit they made my breasts look great, they didn’t really do much in the way of comfort, in fact, if I had to wear one of them all day long and not just for the few moments of “sexy time” for my husband, I think I’d poke my eyes out!
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We all know that part of the concern for women getting breast implants is the scarring that comes along with it. This is why the latest technique in breast implantation have tried to hide the scar as much as possible, or at least position it on the skin that is most likely to heal the best, with the least amount of visibility after some time has passed.
I just got this email from a cosmetic surgeon’s office that specializes in breast reconstruction (which is many times what women with breast cancer have to get, to rebuild the breast or breasts they lost to mastectomy). It is about a cutting edge scar reduction treatment, so read on and enjoy……
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So it addresses facial scars, acne blemishes, burns, stretch marks, hyper-pigmentation and hypertrophic scars – from surgery, cuts, lacerations, abrasions, fire and pregnancy – and will even improve the results of micro-dermabrasion, laser resurfacing and chemical peels.
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InviCible Scars was developed by San Antonio-based plastic surgeon, Dr. Minas. T. Chrysopoulo, who specializes in advanced breast reconstruction techniques, and is among the nation’s top practitioners in the field of enhancing and beautifying the body.
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Well, there’s another story out there about how a woman’s breast implants may have actually saved her life. Seems like we come up with at least one good one a year 
A woman named Lydia Carranza, from California, was actually in a dentist’s office when someone opened fire in the office. A bullet actually struck the woman in her chest. When X rays were performed, according to her new plastic surgeon who is going to give her new breast implants since her old ones were destroyed by the gunshot blast, said that it appears her breast implant – a D cup implant, no less, may have actually saved her life.
It appeared that the bullet and fragments were just moments away from her heart, and if the implant were not there to interrupt the velocity of the bullet, then Ms. Carranza may have died from her injuries almost immediately since when the gunshot wound is in the heart, it is usually instantly fatal. I’m sure the fact that her implants were so large had something to do with the fact that they sufficiently slowed the bullet down enough to prevent it from entering her heart.
D’s are very large implants, indeed, in fact, they are so big that most doctors don’ t like to give patients implants that large because often times women have a lot of back discomfort and they actually can rupture and cause problems more easily than smaller implants can, causing things like capsular contracture more often, so the theory goes.
An expert in firearms and deadly force said that it is not impossible for a large implant to stop a bullet, because if you think about it, it only makes sense that an object obstructing the most vital organ in your chest, the heart, is of course going to have some impact on slowing down the deadly speed of a bullet, but he also joked that you shouldn’t go out and get a boob job as a bulletproof vest. Hah! No kidding buddy!
I don’t think that’s why most women are getting them, although, if these types of stories keep up about breast implants protecting a woman’s heart from deadly force, women might start thinking about this as an added benefit to getting breast implants, and another chalk mark to getting them vs. not getting them and going all natural with breast implant alternatives. I must say it is a pretty incredible story, and I’m glad Ms. Carranza is still alive, no matter what the reason is for it.
I just saw an interesting “As Seen on TV” product infomercial on the television, and thought it actually looked quite interesting, and wasn’t priced too bad, although they could have knocked it down just a bit more considering it’s made of plastic. It’s a plastic sort of bra hanger that you put your bra around for when you put it in the drier. We’ve all had expensive bras that get ruined in the drier, bunched up, or lose their shape.
Well, this little gizmo purportedly helps you to maintain the shape and integrity of your bra’s material and shape by only letting your drier’s air gently filter in through behind the bra and in the front, so it’s very evenly distributed, and it also has a firm backing so that it doesn’t fall off, get twisted up with your other laundry, or get misshapen.
I haven’t tried one yet, but I have to admit I was a little intrigued by watching the commercial, since this does often happen to the expensive bras I buy, and it’s really frustrating because you basically can ruin a bra with one washing and drying if you’re not careful.
The Bra Smart product comes in all cup sizes, because it does have cones that are designed to adhere to the shape of the cups of your bra, which is part of the technology that helps them keep their shape, and the cups to keep their integrity.
It’s also vented as I mentioned, so that the air flows freely and you don’t get that uneven drying that causes the bra to wrinkle and bunch. Don’t get me wrong, if your bras easily wrinkle and bunch in the dryer, then they are probably cheaply made to begin with, but also expensive bras can lose their shape over time, so it might be wise to try this or something similar to it, to reduce the bras you have to buy.
Who knows, it probably also helps to extend the life of your bras, so that you don’t have to go out and waste your hard earned money to make your breasts look the best they can all the time. I hate buying bras, as you know if you’ve read any of my past posts, so anything that will prevent me from having to buy more, unless they are fun kinky ones, I’m all for it.
How has Pamela Anderson become sort of a parody of her own image? Well, I’m not sure, but I feel like at this point, she needs to sort of tone it down and class it up a bit. I know she’s never been known as a particularly calm, low key kind of gal, but her shows of baring it all and sometimes loopy behavior is just not becoming, and I think she could benefit from taking a step back and understanding that these fashion shows where she is wearing next to nothing are making her look ridiculous, and aren’t going to revive her career.
Her latest show of wildness, and mind you, this is the mother of two children, was at a fashion show where she wore a bizarre (granted, the whole fashion show showcased bizarre fashions on much younger models), criss cross type of silver bathing suit outfit, where her large breast-implanted and painful looking breasts were barely covered, maybe the nipples were.
She’s still a beautiful woman, but she needs to adhere to the principal that the mystery many times is what’s sexy, not the showing it all to anyone who cares to come within a fifty foot radius of you, and oh yeah, all the cameras too.
I’ve seen this happen to a lot of women in Hollywood that just can’t seem to stop seeking the spotlight, even when they may not be quite as famous as they used to, or have passed their “fake prime” that Hollywood has set forth as a standard for what is young in Hollywood. I think that women are under a TON of pressure in Hollywood. Pressure to have large breasts and get breast implants, yet to maintain a svelte figure at the same time, which is a physical impossiblity if you have large breasts naturally, pressure to have perfect hair, skin, and the whole nine yards.
I like the idea that women are allowed to age gracefully, but when I see someone who is clearly trying to relive their youth and quite frankly making themselves look a bit silly, it’s kind of embarrassing. I’m not saying we have to give up our sexuality as we age as women at all, I just think there’s a classy way to go about it. I know some people might have differing opinions, and that’s fine, that’s what freedom of expression is all about
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Apparently, aspirin, that cheap little pill that has fallen our of favor as a pain reliever of choice, but now has many other favorably viewed health benefits for your heart purportedly, may actually help you survive and avoid another recurrence of breast cancer if you are a breast cancer survivor. The study that was carried out was the first of it’s kind directly aimed at looking at how aspirin intake on a regular basis may help or hinder breast cancer patients. I’m not sure why this study started, or what the basis is for aspirin being a potential breast cancer deterrent though.
The study has spanned over thirty years, and involved nurses who had a wide span of health issues, so the study was multi pronged. What happened is that, sort of accidentally, they noticed a correlation between women who took aspirin for heart health and also as a preventive measure against stroke, since aspirin helps to thin the blood and prevent these problems which are caused by thickened blood, but also happened to have had breast cancer, had a higher survival rate, and less of a recurrence rate for their breast cancer, if they took aspirin several days a week.
However, if you are not a person who likes to take aspirin, or perhaps, like many other people, it upsets your stomach, there were similar effects observed with the same family of pain relievers called NSAIDS, non steroidal anti inflammatories, but there was not enough data on these to actually make any conclusions as to whether they had the same extent of benefit as aspirin for breast cancer patients. Also, you have to consider that this study was carried out over several years, most of which aspirin was still the popular choice for preventive measures against heart attacks and strokes.
Who knows, it may be prudent to take aspirin if you are prone to heart diseasea and stroke in your family and you have also been a breast cancer survivor, however, they are careful to point out that you should not take it regularly without talking to your doc first, since it can cause stomach bleeding, and also you usually should not take it in combo with chemotherapy or cancer treatment because it may have adverse side effects.
MRI's Not Needed?
MRI’s are very expensive, and even if you have insurance, you can find yourself paying out the wazoo if you have to have one for a specific health problem or suspected issue.
That is why some scoffed when MRI’s began to be used as scans for breast cancer, or returning breast cancer, but because of their more thorough nature, or at least their perceived more thorough and less intrusive nature, many were applauding them for the new way to thoroughly scan for breast cancer, and foregoing or eschewing the idea of getting a traditional mammogram which can be painful and intrusive, especially if you happen to have breast implants.
I even thought it was a great thing, and I still do think that the MRI has some great benefits over other types of breast cancer detection because it is by it’s very nature a more thorough and comprehensive way to look for abnormalities in the human body.
However, apparently there are studies now that are showing that MRI’s are really not doing any better than any other form of breast cancer detection, and are not causing women to get another surgery.
They are really used when determining whether women need further operations for already existing breast cancer, and since the incidence of women needing further surgeries found was so low, they have deemed that since it is such an expensive and lengthy process, it may not be necessary. I’m not quite sure that the expense should be a factor when you are talking about the difference between life and death though – thoughts?
We talked last time about how man boob operations have skyrocketed in the last year, especially in the UK. This is an operation that would be like breast implants for women, except instead of putting an implant in, they are making incisions and sucking the fat out, sort of like liposuction for the male breast. After all, most men do not want to see breasts on themselves, unless of course they desire to have female breasts, which is more common than you think.
The most obvious reason for when men develop man boobs is that they have excess fat on their body, and it just so happens to store it in the breast area. This can vary from man to man of course. Some men may be more apt to store excess fat in their abdomen, which is actually far more deadly since stomach fat is dangerous. It’s the whole body shape thing. Some men may store it in their rear ends, although that’s rare, but some men deposit their extra fat into their breasts.
There is an actual disorder called gynecomastia, where men typically deposit most if not a large portion of their excess fat in the breast tissue area. These are the men who really generally are the ones who have to get an operation to remove the fat instead of just going on a diet and losing a lot of excess weight.
Your age is definitely a factor too. The older men get, the more likely their bodies are to rearrange how they store fat, and their upper chest just happens to take on that lovely new role. Often times, you will see even thin men have excess breast tissue, it’s sort of an unfortunate hallmark of getting older for men that comes with the territory.
Some medications can also affect whether men grow man boobs as they can change the chemistry of the body, making their female hormones more dominant. The same goes for certain types of drugs. Actually, steroids have typically been pegged in the growth of man boobs, and men are hyper aware of this, especially since most men on steroids are looking to look better, not worse, and grow man boobs.
If you can’t get rid of them by dieting or exercise, then often times they can be removed via surgery, or at least dramatically reduced this way.
I wanted to add some new testimonials for a breast enhancement gum called Zoft, but thought it best to just link you to the page where you can get some written ones, and also if you’d like, you can hear recorded testimonials (see link below) from women who have used this gum and seen results as well. Breast enhancement gum is not a brand new idea, it’s been around for almost a decade now, originating in China with a gum that was made with herbs which helped to release natural chemicals in the body which lead to breast expansion.
The good part about the gum is that it really is just like chewing gum, so you are slowly breaking it down with the saliva in your mouth, which is one of the best ways to slowly and consistently release any type of herbal compound, no matter what it’s purpose is.
Plus, it doubles as a breath freshener, and you don’ t need to worry about it not being broken down properly by your body since a lot of the breaking down and absorption occurs right in your mouth, where it is broken down and absorbed into the blood stream, and the rest goes down your throat, where it is broken down in the stomach and then released into the blood stream.
Think of the purpose of nicotine gum, it’s kind of like that, it releases a steady stream of breast enhancing compounds basically. Again, if you’re interested, take a look at our Zoft breast enhancement gum review page, and you can see more information for yourself and if this is the type of product that you might be interested in.
Bountiful Breast On Sale
Hey, just for those of you who are interested, my favorite natural breast enhancement product, Bountiful Breast, is having a stellar sale on their patent pending product for enlarging your breasts naturally, but it’s not going to last much longer because it is, after all, a Valentine’s sale. For a review of this product, which I’ve discussed many times before on this blog because it is an excellent product that I myself have had a very positive experience with, see Bountiful Breast review.
There are so many women who are not happy with their breast size today, but they really either don’t want to spend the thousands of dollars to get breast implants, or they are simply not willing to undergo such a surgery to achieve larger breasts, or they believe it may be too risky for them. Well, this product is a great alternative to breast enlargement surgery. If you use it as instructed, and especially if you get the protein shakes along with it, you should start to notice a difference in a few weeks. Of course, it varies per your individual chemistry, but many women do notice a difference in a few weeks.
Again, for a full review of the product see our page here : Bountiful Breast Review
