The 'Vampire Breastlift' is here and it has nothing to do with Halloween
The procedure takes 15 minutes, with results supposedly lasting between a year and two years.
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Your support makes all the difference.A cosmetic procedure has been designed to help give women with ageing breast implants a fuller bust, as well as helping to return sensation often lost during augmentation to the nipples.
Charles Runels, who has a fan in Kim Kardashian, has adjusted his "Vampire facelift" technique and developed it into a Vampire Breastlift.
Supposedly giving a perkier and fuller bust, the surgeon claims the procedure works by drawing blood from a patient’s arm, putting the blood into a centrifuge to separate the platelets and red blood cells and mixing the platelets with hyaluronic acid fillers. The filler/platelet mix is then injected back into the breast.
As well as providing a lift to the breast, the injections are also meant to help reduce breast and nipple sensitivity – a common side effect of breast augmentation.
The procedure takes 15 minutes to perform and Mr Runels says the results can take up to two months to take full effect, but will last for between one and two years.
Speaking to the Metro, Mr Runels explained the procedure was not for "elderly women" or younger women with "hanging breasts".
He said: “It does do miracles for women who have lost sensation after breast implants, and for women who have still a nice shape but the implants are five to 10 years old - or even recent - and there’s some shortage of tissue so that there’s not quite the beautiful contour that’d you’d see without implants in a younger breast.”
Breast augmentation is a popular cosmetic procedure among women in the UK. A survey compiled by YouGov shows, if money was no object, 29 per cent of British women would opt for surgery to give them larger breasts. Of the 29 per cent, 27 per cent of these women were aged between 18-24 years old.
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