Lipo Contour body former
Italy's best-kept beauty secret! Will help redefine the body, lift and shape the stomach, hips, thighs and buttocks!

If you want to improve your figure and don't like the idea of endless diets or painful treatments to re-shape your body, then Lipo Contour is the underwear for you!

Developed and clinically proven by leading Italian cosmetic surgeon Professor Marco Gasparotti, the Lipo Contour is an exceptional piece of underwear. Made from a patented, double layer fabric, the Lipo Contour garment has been specially designed to micro massage those problem areas, where the tissue is more relaxed and fatty. The constant micro massage increases circulation, helping to break down cellulite whilst giving specific support to the stomach, hips, thighs and buttocks.

Thanks to the optimal efficacy of this high strength body former, the Lipo Contour garment is also suitable to wear after lipo suction and lipo sculpture treatments, or after pregnancy to get the body back into shape.

Immediate visible effects:
The modulated compression is proven to instantly slim your silhouette and give you an incredible shape. Ideal for the special occasions when you want to look your best.

Long lasting effects:
To achieve the best results, the Lipo Contour garment should be worn for a minimum of 8 hours a day, for up to 8 to 12 weeks. The results obtained progressively improve and are usually visible after four weeks.

Available in two designs:
Lipo Contour Short
The shorter of the two garments, the short is designed to concentrate on the hips, thighs and buttocks. The top of the garment sits just below the waistline and approximately 3 – 4 inches above the knee.

Lipo Contour Body
Designed to concentrate on the stomach, hips, thighs and buttocks, with a higher waistline, a thicker elasticated waistband and a longer leg line to the upper side of the knee. This garment is also suitable to wear after pregnancy to get the body back into shape.

Lipo Contour is not just another compression garment, it has these key functions:
> Instant slimmer silhouette. Constant micro massage to those problem areas
> Firmer smoother skin, leading to possible inch loss
> Cool and comfortable to wear.
> Totally discreet, enabling you to wear it all day invisibly underneath your clothing.

PRESS ARTICLES/TESTIMONIALS

THE NEW CELLULITE-BUSTING PANTS
Yes, we were sceptical too!
Particularly when we saw the rather unsexy numbers themselves - a cross between a Victorian girdle and Bridget Jones's pants. They were dreamt up by cosmetic surgeon Professor Marco Gaspartotti, who gave them to his patients to help remodel their stomach, thighs and bum after lipo.

The idea is you wear them every day for at least four weeks instead of your normal knickers, although eight to 12 weeks is recommended. The patented-double layered fabric is to be worn tight, so tight in fact that breathing might not be the easy thing it once was. But who cares when it's providing a continual 'micro massage' which the makers say will break down cellulite?

The tester, who wore them for eight weeks, lost areas of cellulite, plus an inch off her waist, and thighs, and two of her hips. OK, so you'd get the same (if not better) results if you went to the gym, but if you've tried everything else and failed, they're worth ago. Just don't expect them to be comfy!

TREATMENT OF THE WEEK, LIPO CONTOUR PANTS
"I've been self-conscious about my wobbly thighs, tummy and bottom and dreaded wearing a bikini, so this summer a friend recommended I try out a new slimming undergarment, Lipo Contour. They were developed by an Italian cosmetic surgeon, Professor Marco Gasparotti, who initially advocated them as a support garment for patients post-surgery, but soon noticed they brought benefits of their own. He believes that the pants (which are more like cycling shorts than knickers as they extend from mid-thigh to the belly button) provide a constant micro massage because of the double-layered fabric of their design, which helps contour problem areas.
I wore the pants for eight weeks and the results were amazing – although I hadn't lost any weight, my thighs were reduced by four inches, I lost three from my hips and three from my bottom. I also noticed a dramatic reduction in my cellulite too. I went on holiday a couple of weeks ago, and my confidence has soared; finally I didn't feel the need to pull on my sarong every time I left my sun lounger."

Kate Holmes reports: I'm also wearing Lipo Contour which is like tight cycling shorts and suck you in and promise to take inches off. I'm halfway through my 30-day trial and quite happy with the results.

LK TODAY puts Lipo Contour to the test!
We put a pair of slimming underwear to the test to see if they really do work to help reduce cellulite. We asked Gina Grundy a Garden Designer aged 45 to put them to the test.
GINA REPORTS: At first they seem a little uncomfortable, but after the first week you forget you have them on. After only four weeks wearing Lipo Contour I can see an improvement to my cellulite more on my hips than my bottom. But I have lost inches, 2 inches off my hips and 1.5 inches off each thigh, the effects are brilliant!

THE CELLULITE-SHRINKING PANTS
When it comes to keeping in shape, I've always stuck by the motto 'no pain, no gain'
So I'm sceptical that a pair of briefs could do more than a Spinning class. But with summer approaching I'm willing to try anything to perk up my droopy bits. I reluctantly pack away my La Perlas and unpack an unsexy Lipo Contour – a cross between a Victorian girdle and Bridget Jones's big pants – dreamed up by cosmetic surgeon Professor Marco Gasparotti. The 'god of lipo' would give a pair to his patients post-surgery to remodel the waist, stomach, thighs and bottom. His patients soon wore the Lipo Contour for longer to flatten their stomach and lift buttocks.
I wear the Lipo Contour for two weeks, and for the first few days, it feels like a boa constrictor wrapped around my waist. The patented double-layered fabric provides a constant uncomfortable 'micro massage' but apparently this breaks down cellulite and perks up circulation, so I suffer in silence.
THE VERDICT: After a week of wearing the Lipo Contour for eight hours a day, I even forgot I have them on. I feel an immediate difference in my posture, and my stomach appears tighter, thighs firmer and cellulite less visible. Apparently, if I wear the pants for 12 week and eat healthily, the results will be permanent. I wouldn't replace a vigorous workout with the Lipo Contour pants, but it can definitely complement your fitness plan.

The Daily Mail experiment
CAN THESE LIPOPANTS HELP YOU LOSE WEIGHT?
Clara Spencer, 23, a designer and PA, lives in East London. Clara lost an inch from her thighs and an inch from her bottom.
BEFORE: Waist 31in, Hips 37in, Thighs 24 ins, Bottom 43in
AFTER: Waist 31in, Hips, 37in, Thighs 23in, Bottom 42 in
CLARA SAYS: I gave the pants a try just to prove to myself and everyone else that they just couldn't work. I'm quite sceptical about all these weight-loss methods that promise results with a minimum effort, and wasn't expecting to see much of an improvement. I'm quite happy with my body although I'm not 100 per cent confident and wouldn't mind losing some weight.
I wore the pants for the recommended eight hours a day for a month. Initially they weren't comfortable at all – they rolled down at the waist and were too tight – so I started wearing them at night when I was asleep. It was a cunning way around the discomfort. The first thing my boyfriend Joe saw me in them, he had a good laugh, but I didn't mind, especially because my skin has become so much smoother over the past month.
The orange-peel texture has almost disappeared, particularly around my bottom, which I'm really pleased about.
I'm keen to stay in shape. The pants haven't helped me lose weight, but just seeing a difference in the smoothness of my skin has been a pleasant surprise. Considering I was expecting to see no change at all, I'm delighted to have been proved wrong.
Three other ladies took part in the Daily Mail experiment with the following outcome:
Alison Moran, 34 a PR account director, reported a loss of one inch off her waist and thighs.
Claire Gamble, 27. A nanny, reported a loss of 1 ˝ inches off her thighs and ˝ inch off her bottom
Karen Pennington, 44, operations manager, lost 1 inch off her thighs and bottom.

Clinical data

Prof. Marco Gasparotti
Specialista in Chirurgia Plastica
Docente di Chirurgia Estetica
UniversitĂ  di Roma Tor Vergata
Member of the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
The New York Academy of Science
Honorary Member of the Lipoplasty of North America

CLINICAL EXPERIMENTS ON THE SLIMMING AND MODELLING EFFECTS OF LIPOCONTOUR SHEATH
PRELIMINARY REMARKS
Lipocontour comes from more than 20 years of clinical practice and experience in the field of liposuction and liposculpture.
It was used as an elastic and compressive sheath after liposuction and liposculpture operations in more than 4.000 clinical cases performed by prof. Marco Gasparotti in Italy and in different countries in the world, where he went to surgically demonstrate his technique of superficial liposculpture and by numerous plastic surgeons from different countries.
The sheath was presented in international magazines of Plastic Surgery and in the book Superficial Liposculpture (Gasparotti - Lewis – Toledo) published by Springer-Verlag, New York, worldwide best seller in this field, as well as in the main Worldwide Congresses of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery of the last 14 years.
Particularly, the Sheath, which has been progressively improved, has got very distinctive features:
• flat seams in order to avoid signs on the skin
• graded and differentiated compression for the different parts of the body it is intended for, thanks to special supports which allow, on one hand, the lifting of the glutei and, on the other, a specific bearing of the lateral portion of the thighs, of the sub glutei area and of the abdomen.
The clinical observations of liposculpture cases, treated during the years, demonstrated that the properties of the sheath go beyond the mere effect of compression and support of the regions treated with liposculpture. They clearly show the typical effects of the sheath in regions not treated with surgical operation that is to say a reduction in the circumference of the parts of the body clothed with the sheath in order to better the conditions of the so-called “cellulitis”. Results were observed after only 6 days and they were improving with the passing of the weeks and were still present many months later.
They obtained all this without a diet, which is besides what is forbidden for the first 2 months following operations of liposculpture.
And moreover, patients noticed a great increase of diuresis without taking diuretic remedies, an improvement in the heaviness of lower limbs and a better cutaneous tone.
THE PURPOSE OF THE CLINICAL STUDY
Thanks to the clinical results gained with the twenty years use of the sheath after liposuction, they wanted to test the clinical effectiveness of the uninterrupted use of Lipocontour sheath clothed for 12 hours per day for 8 weeks in subjects who didn't undergo any lipoaspiration operation.
To this end they chose 22 female subjects, aged from 23 to 55, in good health, not pregnant or nursing, not following estrpogestinic or thyroid hormones therapy, not being on a diet or under pharmacologic therapy. The purpose of the study was to consider the slimming and modelling effects of the sheath through the reduction of the circumference of thighs, glutei and abdomen, and the lifting of glutei obtained by clothing it at least for 8 weeks, 12 hours a day.
They evaluated the effects of the treatment even 1 month after the removal of the sheath itself, in order to consider the lasting effects of the results.
More than that, they studied the negative effects of the sheath in patients with varicose veins at their lower limbs. All this through a Doppler study (15/03/02 - 20/05/02) WITH OTHER 10 PATIENTS (group C) not pregnant or nursing, not following pharmacological or hormones therapy, (3 of them had a serious varicose syndrome) which clothed Lipocontour for 8 weeks without changing their food attitudes and sedentary life habit.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
The 22 chosen subjects suffering from oedematous or fibrous cellulites from stadium 1° to stadium 4° were divided into 2 groups of treatment called A and B.
The patients of group A were invited to clothe the Lipocontour sheath for 12 hours each day for 8 weeks without following a diet or changing their sedentary life habit.
The patients of inspection group B didn't clothe the sheath, didn't follow any diet nor changed their sedentary life habit.
Both groups underwent a clinical examination before and after the treatment through these testing:
CLINICAL TEST: medical examination in order to exclude pregnancy, any pathology in progress, hormones therapy or pharmacological treatments, and to point out the corporeal weight, the presence of possible cellulites and its stadium ( 1° - 4°).
PLICOMETRIA: they used a manual plicometre to do 3 consecutive measuring in upright position of the regions they afterwards sent to an ecographic examination in order to consider the subcutaneous thickness (see ecography).
MEASURING OF THE CIRCUMFERENCES of hips, thighs, abdomen and glutei in the same areas used for the ecography and plicometria (see ecography).
ECOGRAPHY OF SUBCUTANEOUS: they tested the thickness and the ecogenicitĂ  of the subcutaneous tissue in the following areas:
• Hips (front upper iliac spine)
• Front thigh ( 23 cm below the front upper iliac spine)
• External thigh ( 9 cm below the cutaneous projection of the head of the femur)
• Internal thigh ( 6 cm from the inguinal fold at the Hunter)
• Epigastrium abdomen ( 5 cm above the navel)
• Hypogastrium abdomen ( 5 cm under the navel)
• Glutei (13 cm above the subgluteal fold and 9 cm sidewise the intergluteal groove)
TOTAL BODY MOC-DXA:radiographic test of the corporeal composition ( DXA: Dual X-ray Absorbometry) and of the ratio between thick/thin mass of each corporeal area (head, trunk, abdomen, upper limbs, lower limbs).
DOPPLER OF THE VENOUS VESSELS OF THE LOWER LIMBS AND AN ANGIOLOGY MEDICAL EXAMINATION to test the condition of superficial and deep venous circulation system, the presence of declivous oedema, of subjective sensation of heavy legs, of pain under finger pression and the eventual worsening of the clinical situation in a patient with varicose pathology at the lower limbs ( 1 patient).
CAPILLAROSCOPY of the nail-bed of the big toe. The test, by stereomicroscope Olimpus 20X, showed: the circulation speed, the texture of the bed, periangio, calibre, ansa, number and morphology (normal, minor dystrophy, telangiectasia, mega capillaries and/or microaneurysm).
STANDARDIZED PHOTOGRAPHIC TEST: digital photographs, Polaroid and slides of the patients before and after the treatment, in 4 different projections.

RESULTS
1) PATIENTS OF CONTROL GROUP B:
CLINICAL TEST: in one case they had an increase in the weight of 3,5 kilos and in 2 cases they lost 1 kilo and 2,1 kilo respectively. They noticed no alteration in the cutis morphology.
PLICOMETRIA: the increase and loss in weight correspond to increase and reduction of subcutaneous thickness of the tested areas ( see ecography in methods and materials). The patients who didn't change their weight (65%) didn't change the thickness above mentioned.
MEASURING OF THE CORPOREAL CIRCUMFERENCES: the increases and losses in weight correspond to increases and reductions in the studied areas (see ecography in materials and methods). In the cases of patients with constant weight, circumferences didn't change.
ECOGRAPHY OF SUBCUTANEOUS: the thickness of the subcutaneous membrane in the studied areas did change in accordance with the variations in the weight of the patients, keeping almost identical in the cases of unvaried weight.
TOTAL BODY MOC-DXA: a variation in weight corresponds to a variation in the fat mass homogeneously in all the tested corporeal areas. Nothing changed in the patients who kept their weight.
DOPPLER OF THE VENOUS VESSELS OF THE LOWER LIMBS AND ANGIOLOGY MEDICAL EXAMINATION: neither significant variation of vascular flux, nor of declivous oedema (35%), of eventual sensation of heaviness at the lower limbs (25%) and of pain under finger pression (35%).
CAPILLAROSCOPY: the test of the nail-bed of the big toe didn't show any prominent variation.
PHOTOGRAPHIC TEST: no change in the patients who kept their weight at the beginning of the experiment. An increase in weight corresponds to harmonious increase in the corporal image in each photographed areas, with a slight worsening, in one case, of the orange-peel look.
2) PATIENTS OF GROUP A
CLINICAL TEST: 6 patients in a group of 11, lost their weight from 0,5 to 2,8 kilos, 5 patients had an increase from 0,5 to 2 kilos.
8 patients (75%) in a group of 11 did improve the orange-peel look of their thighs and glutei, with bigger improvements in the subjects with adipose and fibrous adipose cellulites (stadium 1° - 3°).
Such an improvement was also seen in the patients who had an increase in their weight:
The other 3 patients did improve (25%) all the parameters (see below), but didn't significantly change morphology (see photographic test).
There were neither cases of allergic reaction, nor skin inflammations caused by an extended use of the sheath.
PLICOMETRIA: all the patients had a reduction from 2 to 5 mm of the subcutaneous adipose membrane in the areas covered by the sheath. The same reduction was also observed in subjects who took weight.
MEASUREMENT OF CORPOREAL CIRCUMFERENCES: all the patients had a reduction of the circumference in the areas covered by the sheath with the following values:
• Hips: 1 - 2,7 cm
• Fore thigh: 0,5 – 3 cm
• External thigh: 1 – 2,1 cm
• Internal thigh: 0,5 – 2 cm
• Epigastrium abdomen: 0,3 – 2 cm
• Hypogastrium abdomen: 0,5 – 4 cm
• Glutei: 0,5 – 3 cm
ECOGRAPHY OF THE SUBCUTANEOUS:
All the patients had a reduction of the subcutaneous adipose membrane going from 2 mm to 1,7 cm in the areas covered by the sheath.
The less significant reduction concerned the epigastrium, an area with a smaller elastic compression, while the most important one concerned the hypogastrium, the glutei and the lateral region of the thighs, areas in which the sheath exerts a bigger elastic compression and has got a double layer of fabric with the greatest effect of connective and lymphatic micro massage.
3 patients (25%) had a reduction in the ecogenicitĂ  of the adipose membrane with a reduction of the fibrous component of the interstitial stroma.
TOTAL BODY MOC-DXA: 6 patients in a group of 11 had a reduction of the fat mass of the lower limbs. The patients who took weight had an increase of the fat mass in the other tested areas (head, trunk, abdomen, upper limbs) while the fat mass of the lower limbs increased with a lower percentage and, in 2 cases, it did slightly lessen.
DOPPLER OF THE VENOUS VESSELS OF THE LOWER LIMBS AND AN ANGIOLOGY MEDICAL EZAMINATION:
The Doppler test of the venous flux in the lower limbs didn't show any change in the patient with a varicose pathology who clothed the sheath.
7 patients in a group of 11 (65%) had an improvement of the oedema from stasis they presented before the study and a reduction of pain at finger pression.
CAPILLAROSCOPY: the test of the nail-bed of the big toe didn't show any change. In one case there was an improvement of the calibre of the capillary vessels (irregular before, normal after) and in an other case there was the disappearance of microaneurysm and more evident vascular ansa (insignificant data on the other hand).
There was no case of worsening in the microcirculation.
PHOTOGRAPHIC TEST: it showed a notable reduction of the corporeal circumferences and an improvement of the orange-peel look of the skin in the areas covered by the sheath in 8 patients in a group of 11 (75%) with best results in the patients with cellulites of degree 1° - 2° - 3°.
It is important to point out that there was an improvement of the orange-peel look of the skin and the lifting of the gluteus even in the patients whop were overweight and who had, a fibrous cellulites and didn't show an objective and photographically taken reduction of the circumference of thighs, glutei and hips, even though it was shown by the clinical tests.
3) PATIENTS OF GROUP C
The specialist angiology medical examination and the Doppler test before and after the use of the sheath for 12 hours a day for 8 weeks didn't show any change of venous flux and of the morphology of the lower limbs, even in the 3 patients suffering from serious varicose syndrome (see enclosure F).

CONCLUSIONS
The study in order to know the effects of Lipocontour elastocompressive sheath in the circumference reduction of hips, abdomen, thighs and glutei and in the improvement of so called cellulites proved the effectiveness observed in previous clinical analyses and the total absence of pejorative changes in superficial and deep venous circulation in subjects suffering from varicose disease at the lower limbs.
The sheath is made of thin elastic fabric with areolae stitches helping perspiration and, during the daily movement, it induces a lymphatic and connective micro massage for 12 hours per days during a period of 8 weeks. It allows the re-absorption of oedema from the staunching of the interstitial liquids peculiar to the genesis and to the autokeeping of the so called "cellulites", helping the drainage through compressions gradually decreasing, oriented in caudal cranial direction, following the lymphatic vessel course and showing, very clearly, the typical effects of the sheath in the areas it treats, with significant changes in what concerns the circumference reduction of thighs, hips, glutei, and the improvement of the orange-peel look of the skin in 75% of the cases.
In the remaining 25% (fibrous cellulites and cases of strong over weight) the reduction of the subcutaneous tissue ecogenetics, the reduction in the adipose membrane thickness, seen through ecography in the areas covered by the sheath, even in the cases of increase in weight during the study, anyhow demonstrate and prove the clinical effectiveness of Lipocontour.
After all the modelling effect with maintenance and/or increase of cutaneous tonicity of the areas submitted to elasto-compression, seen in all the treated patients, could be explained by the micro massage effect of the connective fibres of derma and the distribution-alignment of the same, following the tension lines of the Langers skin, lines followed by the pattern support of the sheath itself that hold up the reduction of the subcutaneous thickness with a tension towards the up, in order, only to avoid prolapse, but also helping the vertical distribution in particular at the glutei level.
At the best we can also suppose an effect on lipolysis of modulated elastocompression; it would be the consequence of a minor staunching of the interstitial liquids and so of an easier reaching of lipolitic hormones (thyroid-catecolamine…) from the vessel bed directly to the adipociti.
It follows that the sheath operates on the etiopatogenesis of the pannicolopatia fibroedematosclerotica, also called cellulites, that is nothing else but a "Modification of the adipose connective tissue due to a reduced lymphatic and venous microcirculation in the subcutaneous area, with oedema and consequent constriction of the adipociti for the increase of interstitial liquid of the intercellular fibrous septa". (Bartoletti)
The improving effects from the use of the sheath kept steady, even one month after its disuse with constant food and life styles.
In future they will study the effects, at a longer distance, of the interruption in the use of Lipocontour, even if they already studied the effects on patients who underwent an operation of liposuction.
The typical effects of the Lipocontour sheath will be published in the most important and worldwide spread review of Plastic Surgery "Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery" edited by Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, Usa, official organ of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Important Instructions for best results and garment care:
Always wear the Lipo Contour garment directly onto the skin.
Never machine wash the garment.
Dry naturally, not over direct heat or in the tumble dryer.