“I have been involved in cellulite reduction and skin tightening for more than two decades and I have seen this hundreds of times: people (especially from oil-rich countries around the world) think that if they throw tons of money onto the problem at a famous surgeon clinic they can get instant results with a - usually very painful - very expensive non-surgical treatment, like they do with liposuction. However, cellulite reduction is not as simple as buying a Hermes bag or a Bugatti. It requires repeated multiple treatments over an extended period time (2-3 months) plus healthy eating and exercise. A $20k ‘lunchtime procedure’ will not cut it, no matter how painful it is or how many adverse reactions it causes. Read the facts below.”
What money can and cannot buy, safely and realistically, in relation to skin tightening and cellulite reduction
What being a billionaire can offer for cellulite / skin tightening?
Surgery for cellulite? A disaster. Surgery for non-severe skin tightening? Really stupid.
No non-surgical skin tightening / cellulite treatment works with 1, 2, 3 or 4 sessions, regardless of how much money one has
How many sessions are realistically needed for a treatment that stimulates change without damaging tissues?
After all there is one thing that money can buy: more sessions, the prerequisite for better results
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What being a billionaire can offer for cellulite / skin tightening?
It may not be a common question but it is a common thought:
“I can throw (tens of) thousands of pounds in an one-off (even very painful, even very unsafe) cellulite/skin tightening treatment. Can I get results in one session and then get on with my millionaire/billionaire life?”
Well, the honest answer to this very valid - yet perhaps somewhat entitled - question is:
“Nah, life doesn’t work like that. Your body needs REGULAR and REPEATED stimulation (treatments) as well as TIME to change. Throwing tens of thousands at the problem cannot violate the laws of physics and biology to provide instant results. Sure enough, a lot of money can buy you better treatments, more sessions and better results. But it will not buy you instant results or results in 1-4 sessions.”
Surgery for cellulite? A disaster. Surgery for non-severe skin tightening? Really stupid.
You may have liposuction for (subcutaneous) fat reduction which may indeed be one-off (not always, quite often a revision is necessary, even with the best doctors).
But cellulite is not subcutaneous fat and cannot be removed by liposuction. Furthermore, cellulite surgery (example, example) is usually either not that effective or a disaster.
The same applies to skin tightening.
For severe skin tightening, indeed you can do a thigh lift or a tummy tuck, with all the dangers and ugly scars this may entail (example, example). But for anything else than severe skin laxity, the scars and surgery dangers are not worth it.
No non-surgical skin tightening / cellulite treatment works with 1, 2, 3 or 4 sessions, regardless of how much money one has
Regarding non-surgical treatments, nothing works in one session, regardless how much one is willing to pay. As mentioned above, with non-surgical treatments, REGULAR and REPEATED sessions, as well as TIME between those sessions, are required for good results.
You cannot have good, long-term results in one day, one week or, in most cases, even one month. We are talking about 6-12 sessions over 2-3 months for most cases - and up to 24 sessions for the more severe cases.
Asking to build better skin in 1-4 sessions with an extreme treatment is like asking to build big muscles in a couple of weeks with a few personal training sessions with extreme weights. It ain’t gonna happen and the end result will probably be the same in in both cases: injury. Skin injury in the treatment case, muscle/joint/tendon injury in the training case.
In summary, results are not better when the treatment is extremely painful or dangerous. In fact, such treatments can actually cause more damage than benefit.
Throwing money at super-expensive, very painful, very unsafe treatments, which work by burning the deep skin tissues first (hypodermis, dermis) in order to theoretically build better tissue later (example, example) will not accelerate anything - except the chance of injury (unfortunately, the medium/low intensity, ‘vanilla’ versions of the above usually achieve nothing).
The extra money spent for the ‘instant miracleness’ of such treatments will be money wasted down the drain - and more money may be needed to repair any damage later. Trust me, I’ve seen dozens of such damaged cases (many of them indeed quite rich) and they are not very happy about said damage.
In other areas of life money does indeed offer instant gratification. Unfortunately this is not the case with cellulite reduction / skin tightening. For that, just like with gym training, one has to be regular and patient - just like the less rich person does - to see results.
All one can do about building muscle (or getting fitter in general) is get a better trainer or have more training sessions. And this is the case with cellulite reduction / skin tightening. Get a good therapist and have many sessions with them.
It’s not rocket science and it is much smarter than throwing all your money in one treatment with some ‘miracle worker’ machine operator at a hyped-up cosmetic surgery clinic (there are clinics that charge $20k a pop for such ‘miracle’ non-surgical treatments in Hollywood, where people have more money than brains).
How many sessions are realistically needed for a treatment that stimulates change without damaging tissues?
The fact is that, just like gym training for the muscles, the strongest SAFE skin tightening and cellulite technologies (currently deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency and deep-acting, high-power ultrasound cavitation), require multiple sessions to offer good, long-lasting results, in most cases.
As mentioned above, this involves a minimum of 6 sessions and a maximum of 24 sessions, in most cases.
This is realistic, 95% satisfactory and 99.5% safe (at least at our clinic).
After all there is indeed one thing that money can buy: more sessions with an intensive but safe treatment - the prerequisite for better results
So if budget is not an issue, forget about throwing tens of thousands of £££££ for 1-4 unsafe, ‘miracle’ treatments, and focus on having a realistic number of 6, 12 or 24 intensive-but-safe deep-acting, high-power RF/ultrasound treatments with an experienced therapist - something that mere mortals on lower budgets can only dream of (especially those more severe cases that require 24 sessions but can’t afford them).
Furthermore, having a higher budget can allow you to treat several body areas for 6-12-24 sessions, in order to tighten/smoothen the whole body, something that most people cannot afford.
And for faster results one can add high-power LED phototherapy to maximise/accelerate the results of deep, strong RF/cavitation (but still not in 1-4 sessions).
So, overall, a higher budget can allow someone to have more treatments, treatments on more body areas or combined treatments for better results.
What can I do if I do not have a high budget?
One does not need to be a billionera 😉 to get great results from a skin tightening / cellulite treatment.
You can maximise the results of our treatments with more effort in the nutrition / exercise department, in order to make treatments go further
You can perhaps only treat 1-2 key body areas, as opposed to legs, arms, stomach, waist, back, neck and face that you may want to treat
Stick to the key technologies only (i.e. strong, deep RF/ultrasound)
Apply a real cellulite cream, i.e. one with multiple, high-purity anti-cellulite actives in high concentrations, which will help maximise results at a lower cost
Follow our 100+ tips for cellulite reduction and skin tightening, for more results at zero extra cost
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At LipoTherapeia we have specialised 100% in skin tightening and cellulite reduction for more than two decades and 20,000+ sessions.
This is all we study and practise every day and have researched and tried hands-on all the important skin tightening equipment and their manufacturers.
As strong, deep acting radiofrequency and deep-acting, high-power ultrasound cavitation are the technologies of choice for skin tightening and cellulite reduction, we have invested in the best RF/ultrasound technologies in the world.
(Of course, we keep looking for new technologies every day and if/when a better technology materialises we will be the first to provide it. However, we will never follow the latest ineffective gimmick, just because it’s good marketing to offer the latest hyped up - yet ineffective and/or unsafe treatment.)
Furthermore, over the last two decades we have developed advanced RF and cavitation treatment protocols in order to make the most of our technologies, for maximum results, naturally and safely.
And for even better, faster results, we now combine our RF/ultrasound treatments with high-power red/infrared light LED treatment.
Our radiofrequency/ultrasound/LED treatments are comfortable, pain-free, downtime-free, injection-free, 99.5%+ safe and always non-invasive.
(No unsafe and ineffective RF microneedling or HIFU and no safe but ineffective acoustic wave therapy, superficial RF (bipolar/tripolar/multipolar etc), low power RF/cavitation, electrical muscle stimulation, lymphatic massage, cupping, dry brushing and no ridiculous bum bum creams.)
Our focus is on honest, realistic, science-based treatment, combined with caring, professional service, with a smile.
We will be pleased to see you, assess your cellulite, skin laxity or fibrosis, listen to your story, discuss your case and offer you the best possible treatment.
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