Just had a press release through flagging up a ‘new’ SmartLipo treatment (a form of liposuction, where fat is surgically drained from the body) called Thigh High Boot Lipo and it promises to hoover up ‘calves, fat ankles or chubby thighs’ in order make your thigh high boots look nicer. Chances are though, that if your legs are so weighty that you need the fat sucked out of them to work a fashion trend, then surely your top half will be on a par with the offending bottom half? And that cannot be a good look. I absolutely hate this kind of marketing, where implied inadequecy is billed as a reason for surgery. I don’t hate lipo – I’ve had it myself – but the stupid, stupid suggestion that being able to fit into thigh high boots is reason enough to part with thousands of pounds and will somehow allow your less than acceptable shape to be fashionably dressed is, well, vile. I’m absolutely not pro being overweight, but neither am I fond at all of this drip-drip system of perceived imperfections by the cosmetic surgery industry. Shut up, people.
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This kind of post makes me laugh yet extremely angry and worried all at the same time. I am not against lipo-suction either but people, it is a very serious procedure: many people die from complications post-surgery every year! Give it the gravity it deserves. Marketing it as a simple procedure to accompany a fashion trend is just wrong wrong wrong.
just out of curiosity, what were your reasons for having lipo if not to perfect a perceived imperfection? Sam x
Must say, I don’t have the slimmest legs in the land, and last year I bought a pair of thigh high boots. They were so flattering on my legs that I have bought two more pairs this season. Thigh high boots are a good reason NOT to have to have liposuction. But whatever works for you I suppose. Strange concept imo though.
Ditto xburchox.
If someone wants to lipo their leg how is it any different from any other area of the body. Just because they are using trends to market the procedure doesnt really make it much different in my pov. A small waist and a flat stomach is a trend as well. The idea of being slim is a trend. There was a time when women stuffed their gowns to look pregnant because that was the trend.
You tell ’em honey!
couldn’t agree more!!! xxx