boobies

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do you like your breasts? do you feel that they are good enough? are they too big, too small, too saggy, different sizes, huge nipples, tiny nipples?? what makes your breasts special/different?
do you ever wear a padded bra?
would you ever get breast implants?
what do you think about the women who do?

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[hissyfit.livejournal.com]

my breasts are fairly large, and not the same size (one d, one dd) with large nipples and aerola. i used to hate them. i thought they just got in the way and were going to do me absolutely no good what so ever... then i got my nipples pierced and that awoke a whole new feeling in them. my nipples had never been very sensitive, so i never understood women's love for nipple-sucking, but now i totally understand. that's all.

34 C's

[sweetalyssm.livejournal.com]

I love my breasts....Probably one of the very few parts of my body that I like. They are fairly symetrical and ample. The nipples are the right size, and color. Yes, I'm quite happy with them.

Are you happy with yours?

Lane Bryant is my friend

[afb.livejournal.com]

I have 38Ds (although when I was younger, they were 36Cs), and I do like them. I bought two really wonderful bras from Lane Bryant this weekend, which are comfortable, attractive, and *fit well*. Nice.

My nipples aren't particularly sensitive, though. It's mainly the underside of them...that's a sensitive spot. *sigh* Men don't seem to understand that the nipple isn't a bulls-eye...

[kimatha.livejournal.com]

I like my breasts. They are medium-small (34B) and very cute and perky. One is a little bit bigger than the other, with a bigger areole. My nipples and areole are light brown. I never wear padded bras. Sometimes I don't wear bras at all. It is very difficult to find a bathing suit in my size that doesn't have padding. This pisses me off, since there seems to be an assumption that women with my size breasts must not be satisfied with them.

I would never get breast implants, unless I had to have a mastectomy. Then I'd probably want reconstructive surgery. I guess I would wonder why women would want to get implants when they already have perfectly nice breasts. But then, I have always been happy with mine, and I think most natural breasts are attractive (and find fake breasts kind of weird looking), so maybe I'm not a good person to be commenting on it.

[look.livejournal.com]

my breasts are quite similar to yours. i'm a 36B, very large nipple/areola area. right one is a little bigger than the left. i have had a constant battle with being unhappy with them until recently i've started to love them more and come to terms with the fact that this is it, they are mine forever and i might as well be friends with them. my boyfriend is always telling me how much he loves them so i must be insecure for other reasons.
i wear padded bras on occasion. i agree about the bathing suit issue.
i would never get implants. they frighten me.

[(Anonymous)]

i have good breast and bad breast days. Sometimes, I love them. Sometimes I hate them. I have how they look and i wish for new ones. my bf loves my breasts. :) which is great! I like wearing a padded bra under shirts with the potential for cleavage. otherwise, whatever. i wouldnt get implants. implants are ok for ppl who have nothing. but i wouldnt want em.

[firecat]

My breasts have bad posture. They are always trying to hide under my armpits instead of looking like sitting-up-and-begging-puppies like Playboy says they should.

Other than that I'm pretty happy with them. They're a reasonable size and they have the right degree of sensitivity in the places folks expect them to.

I sometimes wear underwires or corsets to improve their posture but not padded bras, and the whole idea of implants bugs me tremendously (although I know some people have to get them for their work).

[00goddess.livejournal.com]

Some days I like my breasts, most days I don't.

I think they droop too much. My mom didn't want to acknowledge that I was an adult, so when I was in 8th grade, after I'd been wearing supportive bras for years, she forced me to switch back to training bras that had NO support. As a result, my breasts were pretty damaged.

Then, when I was 16, I had a tumor removed from my right breast. It was already my smaller breast, since the surgery it was much smaller, and lower. It is very ugly.

My breasts have improved since I stopped wearing underwire about three years ago- I found out what underwire was doing to my breasts, and when I stopped wearing it, I really saw a difference within a few months.

Things I like about my breasts: they are very sensitive, especially the nipples, which I hear is unusual for women with large breasts. I also have nice cleavage, and my breasts feel very nice; I love holding them and touching them.

I've never worn a padded bra, because I've never felt the need, but I don't think there's anything wrong with it. Likewise with plastic surgery. I believe that anything that makes someone feel good about themselves, and doesn't hurt anyone, is a good thing.

I know that eventually, when I can afford it, I will have my breasts lifted. I want to look in the mirror and see breasts that I like. I don't think it's a lot to ask.

00goddess

[kimatha.livejournal.com]

What was underwire doing to your breasts?

I do think breast lift surgery is pretty amazing. If I weren't satisfied with the perkiness of my breasts, I'd certainly consider it.

[00goddess.livejournal.com]

Underwire does two things to your breasts that are bad:

1) it reduces circulation to your breasts, and to your lymph glands near the breasts, resulting in an increase in fibroid cysts. Although these cysts are not life-threatening, they can be extremely painful. Caffeine is also a leading cause of fibroid cysts.

2) Underwire actually weakens the muscles that support your breasts, and the breast tissue itself, causing your breasts to sag even worse. About three months after I gave up underwire, I could visibly see that my breasts were perkier. So I'm completely converted.

Right now I'm wearing a bra that has a cloth "framework" that is shaped like underwire, but it doesn't press into the breasts in the way that undewire does.

00goddess

[galateadia.livejournal.com]

i guess its a good thing that i only wear sports and day-type bras then! :)

[00goddess.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is!

[cmndrcuddles.livejournal.com]

my problem is that I am 42DD and they sagggg. If I *don't* wear underwire, the band rolls up under the "girls" and I have to dig it out. Very uncomfy. Not that underwire really does anything anyway.

[00goddess.livejournal.com]

What you need are better bras. I have very large breasts. A good bra makes all the difference.

Try visiting an upscale lingerie shop.

I am very serious: I stopped wearing underwire for three months, and I SAW the differencein my breasts. There was much less sag.

[cmndrcuddles.livejournal.com]

yeah I need to look into that cause I am tired of bras that never fit right.

[00goddess.livejournal.com]

I also want to add that I would never get implants, not because of a judgment, but because of the health risks. Even saline implants are very dangerous. Almost every woman who gets them has to have them removed or replaced at some time, and they are prone to bacterial and fungal growths. This means you would have a fungus growing IN YOUR BODY!

I recently read some articles lately that sealed my idea that implants are very unhealthy. So I would never do it.

00goddess

[burgundy.livejournal.com]

I'm generally quite happy with mine. They're just about the right size for me - small enough that I can go bra-less comfortably if I want to, large enough that they can be quite impressive if I dress right. I'm honestly not quite sure what size they are - it seems like I buy a different size bra each time I go shopping for one. And it depends how expensive the bra is. But we'll say the small end of 36D, and maybe that'll cover it. Sometimes I wish they were larger, at least in comparison to my stomach (I would like my top half to stick out further than my lower half), but a lot of that depends on how I dress.

I've gotten paranoid about sagging recently. You know the pencil test? I've never been able to hold one unless I slouch, and I like that, but I know it won't last forever, and each time I look in the mirror, I'd swear they were a little bit droopier.

The only padded bra I have ever owned, I bought to be part of a Halloween/Renassiance Festival belly dance costume. I feel like wearing it at other times is cheating. But then, I originally felt the same way about push-up bras.

I feel the same way about breast implants as I do about other forms of cosmetic surgery - if someone wants to do something to their own body that makes them feel good, it's none of my business, but it bothers me that this is usually used to try to meet an unrealistic societal ideal (no one makes their noses larger, for instance).

Oh, and as far as sensitivity - does anyone else have a much better time with a satiny fabric over them than with nothing at all?

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Oh, and as far as sensitivity - does anyone else have a much better time with a satiny fabric over them than with nothing at all?

Two and a half years and no one's answered that? Well, I certainly do, fwiw.

[banshee.livejournal.com]

I used to despise my chest in high school, and wear baggy clothes to hide the fact that I had small breasts and was thin. (hahahaha!) The 'popular' girls were well-endowed girls with big soccer-player thighs. And they weren't tall - I'm 6'0! I felt like a freak. Now they're busy with unhealthy diet patterns and liposuction, and I'm the happy one. Funny, that.

Ok, we're getting off the boobies.

Anyway, they're about 34A 1/2, small nipples, very even and rounded. I'm pretty happy with them.
I wear a padded bra only when the outfit I'm wearing makes my hips look out-of-proportion. And for the most part, I avoid underwire and wear a cotton training-type bra, or none at all.
Whee!

[look.livejournal.com]

i used to hate my boobs when i was younger too.
lately, they've been pretty good to me. when i get my period they increase by one whole number size! other than that, they can sometimes bore me.

[absolution.livejournal.com]

very very small, like a little boy maybe. :/ i don't wear a bra most of the time, just an undershirt, cause there's no need, seriously.

vanessa mentioned nipple sensitivity. i relate. for a while i couldn't understand why women seemed to have such sensitive breasts when i never did. but lately that's changing. i don't know...maybe i'm just slow developing.

i'm not dissatisfied with them at all, however. i really enjoy not having to worry about--do i need to wear a bra? my back hurts! dammit they're getting in the way, etc. (laugh) not that ample breasts are "in the way," just...i'm used to what i have (or don't have, perhaps), and i'm very comfortable.

one thing i wonder about sometimes is the "posture" of them, as someone already mentioned. i have zero to negative cleavage; my breasts aren't angled at all towards each other/the center. rather they point outward. i'm not sure what to make of that.

average size nipples and areole...dark, brownish. not pink at all--that's another thing. my breasts never feel like they fit the stereotypical '"feminine" ideal--they're not pale and rosy pink, or pearl tinted. i resemble more someone who was made of clay and soil. hm.

still trying to decide how i feel about it. but not "sad," at all...just curious. wondering how it all fits in. i'm fine with them--but will someone else be, etc. the typical insecurities.

swimming topless is divine, just as an a side.

[cat666.livejournal.com]

I have 36 C's. I dont like them. Only cause I have strah makes. I know that if I was not as fat they would be alot smaler. Because of them people always seem to think that im older. Im 16 but people always think that im 18 or 19.
They dont really get in the way. Only once did I find that they got in my way. I was playiny paint ball with some friends (All guys) and I was laying on the gound, I found it kind of hard to get close to the ground like I wanted to do becasue they were in the way. Thats the only time that I found them to have been "In the way" other than that the only pro I have with them are the strah makes.