Push-up bras, breast enhancement creams and capsules, breast surgery and pectoral exercises aside, what's a lady got to do to give her breasts a little lift?
Pricey topical products swear to provide that extra boost, giving you back the perky, firm breasts you may have left behind when you had kids. But do breast enhancement and firming creams really work?
How Bust Firming Products Work
Many breast enchancement creams and gels aren't claiming to actually enlarge the cup size and shape of your tired, sagging breasts. Instead, they're working to give you a more firm and youthful-looking bustline by reinforcing the collagen and natural support mechanism of the bust area's soft tissues.
Top Breast Firming Creams
Although bust firming creams have received mixed reviews, the following warrant the most amount of praise.
Clarins Bust Beauty Extra-Lift Gel
To no one's surprise, Clarins has hit our top spot for chest-enhancing topical formulas. Among the top of preventative and restorative skincare, Clarins provides Bust Beauty Extra-Lift Gel to promote firmer, more toned skin.
How to Use It: Apply preferably in the morning for an immediate tightening effect using light sweeping upward movements from the base of the breasts to the chin. The non-sticky formula means you don't need to wait before getting dressed.
Beauty Bag Review: The gel claims to contour the "natural bra" - explained as the triangle of skin from the base of the breast to the chin - aiming to create an immediate 'lift' effect and protect the tone and resistance of the area, ensuring that breasts appear higher on the bust line and hold a better shape.
This product, which is recommended by the ladies over at Victoria's Secret, includes stimulating, moisturizing, firming and protecting ingredients like Vu Sua extract to strengthen collagen fibres and provide firming and anti-free radical benefits; oat sugars to provide plant based tightening agents intended to create a supple and invisible support film; and katafray bark extract to deliver dual skin hydrating and softening action.
A dual firming and moisturizing formula is supposed to improves bust definition day after day, but many reviewers only rave about its skin-firming benefits. Devoted Clarins Bust Beauty Extra-Lift Gel users have claimed their skin looked firmer and brighter, and felt smooth, toned and soft.
Even if you don't experience a dramatic breast lift, Clarins Bust Beauty Extra-Lift Gel, may also work to combat visible signs of aging and revitalize the delicate skin of the neck and bustline. The gel is ideal for addressing the first signs of skin slackening, commonly experienced immediately after pregnancy or weight loss.
1.7 oz - $58.00
Sisley Phytobuste Intensive Bust Compound
Working the hardest to firm up the bust and neck area, Sisley's Phytobuste aims to give you skin that feels more supple and better toned.
How to Use It: Sisley recommends that you apply the product morning and night in sweeping, circular movements, extending coverage from the breasts up to the neckline, across the shoulders, and down the inner arms. They reccomend to use as a one-month intensive program, every morning and night (after a period of breastfeeding, dieting etc.), or once a day for maintenance.
Beauty Bag Review: With botanicals such as horsetail, ivy, tormentil, yarrow and red vine, as well as algae extracts and essential oils with toning properties, this intensive bust compound works to give the "natural bra" a firmer look and give skin back its tone and resilience. Those hooked on Phytobuste say the quick-absorbing gel provides instant firming, gives the skin a healthy visible sheen, and works to lift and firm the breast area.
1.6 fl. oz. - $185.00
Elemis Pro-Collagen Lifting Treatment Neck and Bust
Bending over backward in the name of breast enhancement, British company Elemis has concocted a royalty-worthy pro-collagen lifting treatment which they claim will solve the problem of slack skin, reduce the visible signs of aging, and give your neck, decollete and bust area a smoother, firmer and more youthful look.
How to Use It: Apply morning and evening to the neck and bust area by massaging with light upward strokes.
Beauty Bag Review: Elemis Pro-Collagen Lifting Treatment blends such marine ingredients as padina povanica (brown algae) and European samphire with royal jelly, propolis and milk protein to create a lifting treatment for optimum results. Elemis says the product has been clinically proven to reduce skin crêpiness by up to 33 percent and increase skin firmness by 17 percent, with a 14 percent increase in elasticity. Users of the luxury product have raved about a reduction in crêpiness, a perkier set, firmer skin, younger and healthier look to the chest area, as well as a (bonus) reduction in the appearance of stretch marks.
1.8 fl. oz. - $116.00
Yves Saint Laurent Total Fitness Ultra-Lifting Bust Spray
Coined as the "spray-on bra," this product uses a plant-based solution to mould the skin with a bio-network of proteins that tightens and supports the breasts.
How to Use It: Spray it on. The bust spray is equipped with technology that allows it to gradually improve the lift and firmness of your bosom through an accumulative process of continuously diffused soy peptides deep within the skin. These restructuring peptides strengthen the skin's internal framework. This "second skin" spray is a combination of Cyto-Energizing Complex and re-sculpting ingredients, acts as an effective "coach" to instantly lift and firm the breasts on a lasting basis.
Beauty Bag Review: YSL claims the Total Fitness Ultra-Lifting Bust Spray leaves breasts perfectly curved, smoothed and tightened - visibly re-sculpted, lifted and re-shaped. That claim may be a bit far fetched, but hey, after a month, the small busted among you - B cup and under - might achieve the firmness to go confidently and comfortably braless under that down-to-there ensemble. The jury is still out on what effect the treatment might have on the long-term health of your breast tissue.
3.3 fl. oz - $67.00
