Buttock Augmentation (BBL)

Buttock augmentation reshapes and adds volume to the buttocks, most often through a Brazilian Butt Lift (fat transfer using the patient's own fat) and sometimes with implants. The before-and-after photos here show one patient's contour before surgery and again after swelling resolves and grafted fat stabilizes, which can take several months. Results depend strongly on how much fat is available, how much grafted fat survives, your body shape, and weight changes afterward, so the same technique can yield different volume and projection from one person to the next. The evidence reports high aesthetic satisfaction but also takes safety seriously: fat grafting to the buttock has been linked to fatal fat embolism, and major task-force reviews have driven safer techniques such as avoiding intramuscular and deep injection. Photos cannot show fat-retention over time, the chance of a touch-up procedure, or the importance of an experienced surgeon following current safety guidance. View these images as realistic examples while recognizing that your result, and your risk profile, are individual.

Results vary from person to person; these photos show individual outcomes and are not a guarantee of your result.

1. Report on Mortality from Gluteal Fat Grafting: Recommendations from the ASERF Task Force
   Mofid MM et al. · Aesthetic Surgery Journal · 2017
   ReviewPMID 28369293DOI
2. Determining the Safety and Efficacy of Gluteal Augmentation: A Systematic Review of Outcomes and Complications
   Sinno S et al. · Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · 2016
   Systematic reviewPMID 27018670DOI
3. Fat embolism following fat grafting: A systematic review of reported cases
   Chaghamirzayi P et al. · JPRAS Open · 2025
   Systematic reviewPMID 39650861DOI
4. Litigation and Complications Arising from Aesthetic Body Surgery: A Systematic Review
   Mussabekova SA et al. · Aesthetic Plastic Surgery · 2026
   Systematic reviewPMID 41091202DOI
5. The Role of Fat Grafting in Buttock Augmentation
   O'Neill RC et al. · Seminars in Plastic Surgery · 2020
   ReviewPMID 32071578DOI

Compiled from peer-reviewed medical literature indexed on PubMed. This overview is for general education and is not medical advice. · Last updated 2026-06-15