If somebody got here to you and mentioned that you could possibly drop inches of fats inside minutes, you’d most likely be skeptical. Stephanie Barnes definitely wasn’t shopping for the thought of non-surgical liposuction when it was dropped at her by greatest buddy and enterprise associate 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 providers on social media and was concerned with attempting them after seeing earlier than and after images. However such strategies of weight reduction, which require a number of classes, weren’t out there 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 will 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 essentially dig in and see the way it may very well be completed and the science behind truly carry out the providers, as soon as we received that, I used to be bought.”
In 2017, the buddies opened Contour Body Studio in Philadelphia. It’s labeled as a day spa, however the enterprise companions name their studio a wellness middle. Contour focuses on 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 most expensive is vaginal rejuvenation (at $1,500 a session). Their hottest providers are those centered round fats and cellulite loss.
“It’s a miracle nevertheless it’s not a miracle,” Winn says of the providers, that are completed in a number of classes. “We do cavitation, which is a tool that we use that makes use of ultrasound waves, much like when individuals get an ultrasound completed. However the frequency of the ultrasound wave is stronger and it mainly breaks down fats cells. So in a single 45-minute remedy, you possibly can 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 preferred fats loss shot, which doesn’t require a needle, however as an alternative, makes use of a pressurized system to shoot serums by way of the consumer’s pores. The remedy most in demand presently is their model of a BBL (Brazilian butt carry). It’s an hour-long service that, with the assistance of vacuum remedy cups, supplies everlasting outcomes over a number of classes.
“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 might put the EMS machine on the consumer, which stimulates muscle manufacturing. We might use some completely 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 considered one of our greatest providers, loads of women prefer it and it brings confidence again.”
However earlier than you assume that Contour Physique Studio’s providers are all you should have and preserve the physique you’ve all the time needed with out surgical procedure, the homeowners say there’s extra to it.
“We have now loads 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 look at what you eat. And that’s nonetheless crucial. And you continue to must drink water. Water is essential.”
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 have now a machine that really 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 way of your physique, makes your physique stimulate collagen and tightens and tones you. We use ultrasound waves. We use the excessive stress system. So when a consumer 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 limitless.”
And it appears, so are the purchasers. Barnes and Winn say that they’ve completed very properly amid the pandemic, as individuals placed on weight throughout quarantine and flocked to them for a sooner manner to assist cope with it. The success has allowed them to create extra Contour Physique Studios, together with outdoors of Philly, and to rent a medical director to make their unique location a full-fledged medical spa.
In a time when beauty surgical procedure has develop into extra widespread than ever, Barnes and Winn are glad to be bringing extra choices to girls 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 Most important 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.”