If somebody got here to you and mentioned that you could possibly drop inches of fats inside minutes, you’d in all probability be skeptical. Stephanie Barnes actually wasn’t shopping for the thought of non-surgical liposuction when it was delivered to her by greatest good friend and enterprise companion Morria Winn.
“I didn’t assume that it was actual,” she tells ESSENCE. “I didn’t assume that you could possibly change your life in a matter of weeks utilizing this service.”
Winn noticed the companies on social media and was all in favour of making an attempt them after seeing earlier than and after pictures. However such strategies of weight reduction, which require a number of periods, weren’t obtainable of their hometown of Philadelphia. The closest choices have been in Atlanta.
“The sunshine bulb simply went off in my head, like wait a minute, we are able to convey this to Philadelphia,” she says. “There’s nobody even in New Jersey or New York that’s doing this.”
She needed to promote Barnes on the thought, although.
“I introduced the thought to Steph and she or he’s like, ‘I don’t imagine this,’” Winn says. “And so we did our analysis. It’s very actual. And with consistency, you don’t want surgical procedure. You actually don’t.”
“We took a coaching after which that’s once I began to get the buy-in,” Barnes provides. “As soon as we began to actually dig in and see the way it might be completed and the science behind really carry out the companies, as soon as we received that, I used to be bought.”
In 2017, the chums opened Contour Body Studio in Philadelphia. It’s labeled as a day spa, however the enterprise companions name their studio a wellness middle. Contour makes a speciality of non-invasive physique contouring procedures together with common aesthetics like facials, massages and extra. The least costly service is the foot detox (round $35 a session) whereas the costliest is vaginal rejuvenation (at $1,500 a session). Their hottest companies are those centered round fats and cellulite loss.
“It’s a miracle however it’s not a miracle,” Winn says of the companies, that are completed in a number of periods. “We do cavitation, which is a tool that we use that makes use of ultrasound waves, just like when folks get an ultrasound completed. However the frequency of the ultrasound wave is stronger and it principally breaks down fats cells. So in a single 45-minute therapy, you’ll be able to lose as much as 4 to 6 inches as a result of these fats cells are being completely destroyed by this machine.”
There’s additionally a well-liked fats loss shot, which doesn’t require a needle, however as an alternative, makes use of a pressurized machine to shoot serums by the shopper’s pores. The therapy most in demand presently is their model of a BBL (Brazilian butt elevate). It’s an hour-long service that, with the assistance of vacuum remedy cups, gives everlasting outcomes over a number of periods.
“We place these cups on the buttocks for about 45 minutes to an hour. However we’re doing different issues as properly. We’re prepping the glutes for the service so we could put the EMS machine on the shopper, which stimulates muscle manufacturing. We could use some totally different lotions and serums to agency up the glutes as properly. And we additionally do a hand therapeutic massage simply to heat up the tissues, mould them and put them into place earlier than we put the cups on the buttocks,” Barnes says. “It’s one in every of our greatest companies, plenty of women prefer it and it brings confidence again.”
However earlier than you assume that Contour Physique Studio’s companies are all it’s essential have and hold the physique you’ve at all times needed with out surgical procedure, the homeowners say there’s extra to it.
“We’ve got plenty of purchasers that come weekly or biweekly, however once more, with every thing you must be constant and you must do your half as properly,” Winn says. “You continue to have to observe what you eat. And that’s nonetheless essential. And you continue to must drink water. Water is vital.”
No matter piques your curiosity on their roster, on the wellness middle, there’s no knives, no needles, however there are a lot of methods to see outcomes.
“We use ice remedy. We’ve got a machine that truly drops to sub-temperatures and it freezes your fats cells and destroys them,” Winn says. “We, once more, use warmth, which is the radio frequency that produces collagen by your physique, makes your physique stimulate collagen and tightens and tones you. We use ultrasound waves. We use the excessive strain machine. So when a shopper is available in, they’ve a variety of choices. We are able to use ice remedy. We are able to use Cryoskin. We are able to use frequency. So the choices are countless.”
And it appears, so are the purchasers. Barnes and Winn say that they’ve completed very properly amid the pandemic, as folks placed on weight throughout quarantine and flocked to them for a quicker method to assist cope with it. The success has allowed them to create extra Contour Physique Studios, together with exterior of Philly, and to rent a medical director to make their authentic location a full-fledged medical spa.
In a time when beauty surgical procedure has turn into extra standard than ever, Barnes and Winn are glad to be bringing extra choices to ladies to assist them really feel their greatest, and hope to take action nationwide.
“We’re within the means of franchising proper now,” Winn says of their enterprise’ development. “We’re opening up one other department on the Major Line in Philadelphia and we’re opening one other one in Atlantic Metropolis in December. In 10 years, hopefully, we’ll have Contours in each state.”
