I'm getting married in a little over a year
And I want to get rid of my double chin.
I have not always had a double chin.
It's hereditary and it happens with age.
So my mother and her four sisters, they all have
a little bit of fat under the chin.
I know what I'm kind of destined to if I don't do anything about it.
In my family, after 40, the women
end up with a little extra under the chin
so I knew grandma and mom had it
I kind of always have had a double chin.
I've always had a little bit of fat under the chin
and it's something I'm a little bit self concious about
but it doesn't seem to be something that fluctuates
based on my weight, it's just kind of always there.
I could be a stick and I would still have this after 40.
Probably, I noticed the double chin
when I turned 30 and it's been bothering me since then.
So there are several options when you have a double chin.
Things that you can do in the office,
would be liposuction under local
or you could use Kybella or do something
more like a cool sculpting.
For me, I love a liposuction because I can really control it.
It creates an irritation underneath the skin
so that you get a skin tightening
unlike the other procedures
So I chose liposuction as upposed to kybella or
coolsculpt because it's a definitive procedure,
It's minimally invasive.
I have to get back to work as quickly as possible
so this is a kind of one time procedure
with the least amount of downtime.
I've heard about coolsculpt on TV
and I really wanted to see if it would work one me.
I think kybella and liposuction are a little too invasive and this is not.
Coolsculpting has the advantage over kybella
or liposuction in that it is not invasive,
it's not painful,
it's a very easy office procedure that
you can get done in 45 minutes.
You go home, there's no downtime, there's not pain
and there's certainly no discomfort.
I chose a procedure like kybella because
I'm very busy and
for example, I am going to the airport immediately after this treatment.
If I were to have lipo, there's a significant amount of downtime
and anesthesia involved
and this way, I can just go about my normal life.
with kybella we are using an enzyme that's specifically
formulated to break down fats
cell or adipocytes in order to
clear them from the area they are not wanted
It's much better tolerated as far as pain.
We've already gridded you out, in order to stay away from
the thyroid, I'm not going to go as low as here.
You will look worse before you look better.
We are swollen afterwards.
Usually anywhere between 2 days and 2 weeks.
So the way kybella works is that it's an enzyme
that we all make naturally in our body.
We use that to break down dietary fat
that we ingest.
So we inject the medicine into that area
and it breaks down or kills those fat cells.
So you don't go into the grid, into thoe marks
cause it can tattoo the skin.
I am going to mark the area that I want to liposuck
and the area that I really want to concentrate on
then I'm going to add a numbing medicine
called Lidocane. Next, I am going to make two
small incisions using an IV catheter.
What's different about this liposuction is that the needle
that I'm using is very very small.
So it's very well tolerated just using local anesthesia.
I'm going to remove the fat
and once I remove that fat, it can never come back again.
Here you're just going to feel a little bit of pressure.
You can see that we are starting to get our first little bits of fat.
This is to stabilize your head
so that you're upright and you can look straight ahead
but you can't move from side to side, okay?
Cryolipolysis mean basically that the fat cells get frozen.
When they get frozen they actually undergo cell death
and when they die, they get peed out of your body.
Cool Mini is very easy in the sense that you only have to do it once.
Maybe twice if there's a lot of fat.
You're going to sit here for 45 minutes like this.
You shouldn't have an pain or any discomfort.
I do feel like the machine is working. I can definitely feel
it pulling my skin and getting cool.
So I'm snapcatting right now.
Afterwards we are going to massage you
because when it comes out it looks a little bit like
frozen butter.
Two little stitches, just to make sure this heals
as beautiful as we can possible get it to heal.
Just really nice definition.
You are ready to continue your day.
I did notice an immediate difference when I looked in the mirror.
It looks a lot flatter and a lot more contoured than before
so I'm very excited.
All done.
Yay!
I'm excited and I'm happy that I just finished my first
treatment of kybella and I'm looking forward to the results.
So the doctor said that people usually get two to six
and she anticipated that I would probably have around three.
So it's been two and a half months
and I'm feeling great.
I definitely notice that it's much flatter.
There's really no scar there.
Just a teeny little dot, if anything.
So nowit's about two and a half months later
and I think we can already see that most of the swelling is gone.
But it takes about six months till you're really going
to ge tthat skin tightening.
I'm definitely really glad that I chose
liposuction over the other options
that are available because it was a one time
procedure and it was so quick.
It's been four months since I got my Coolsculpt and I feel great.
The recovery process was really easy.
There was really no pain and no downtime.
Okay, it looks really really good.
I think there's a tiny, tiny little bit of fat left.
And what I would do now is do a tiny bit of kybella
into the residual area here and that will tighten up.
I wasn't surprised by the results, it was pretty much what I expected.
I would definitely do coolsculpt again on my chin and other areas.
It's been 6 months since my first treatment and
and five weeks since my last treatment
and I'm really excited about the results.
So the first time I had it done, I had the most fat
so I had the most dramatic result
after the injections
that I actually went straight to Laguardia
from my first treatment and I had
so much bullfrogging that I had to wear like
a fur wrap all the way around myself.
I noticed a big change after my second treatment.
It started looking really good.
and then every treatment hurt less,
recovered quicker, and looked better.
People who didn't know I was having it done
have been responding on my social media the past 2 weeks
saying best chin ever,
which is really awesome.
I'm really happy with the results.
I'm so glad, I love it. I think you look great.
Even months after the kybella, the last treatment
you're still continuing to see benefit.
I noticed the results were amazing like 4 or5 weeks after.
Perfect.
I really liked kybella because
it was very easy to schedule it in my day.
In between appointments.
And it was literally no downtime, other than
some embarrassing swelling and bruising.
Honestly, to anyone considering getting rid of their double chin,
just do it.
Kybella is easy, it really doesn't hurt that much
and it doesn't take that long, and the results are like phenomenal.