Author: The Beauty Nation

Make sure the tape measure is straight when you go around.

Breast Frame

The breast frame is the diameter around your chest just below your breasts. Using a tape measure, measure around your ribcage directly under your breasts. With the measurement, numbers add 5 to it. For example, if your frame measured 26 inches, when you add 5 to this you get 31 inches. You should round up to the nearest even number which is 32 inches. And since bras only come in even numbers, this will be your bra size, 32 inches!

Breast Size

The next measurement you need to take with the tape is breast size. Go around the chest over and include the fullest part of your bust (usually at the level of the nipples). This is the diameter of your chest plus your breast.

Breast Cup

To obtain the breast cup size, simply subtract Breast Frame from Breast Size (breast size – breast frame = breast cup).

The Bra Element

Is your bra the right size for you?

Besides support from mature nature, we also need material support for our breasts against the force of gravity. Over 80% of women do not know they are wearing the wrong size bra. Either too tight or too loose, too high or low, wrong cup size or old comfortable bras but doesn’t support breast, and so on. Our bust size changes with age, time, and weight fluctuations. Once in a while, we should also follow up with our measurements. If you are not sure, do not worry. Just visit the lingerie department and ask for sales assistance. Most big malls have friendly salesgirls to offer advice.

Are you wearing the bra correctly?

Tell signs that your bra is not right for you:

1. Your breasts are drooping or looking generally out of shape when you put on the bra.
2. Breasts pushed over the top of the cup.
3. Red marks on your shoulders, breasts, or back caused by your ill-fitted bra or bra straps.
4. The Center of your bra does not touch the breastbone.
5. Any or all of these signs could tell that you are wearing the wrong bra size and that’s not only uncomfortable. Over time, it may distort the shape of your breasts and cause a variety of health problems, from headaches to backaches and even migraines.

Did you put on a bra correctly?

This may seem silly to women who have been putting on bras for years but there is indeed a proper way to do it. We recommend that you try the following steps when putting on your bra:

Slip your hands through the bra straps over your shoulders, lean and bend forward from the waist to allow your breasts to fall into the cups of the bra. Then, fasten the hooks of the bra.

While still in bending position, with one hand holding the side of the bra, insert the other hand in between the breast and the bra cup and push/scoop the excess flesh from the underarm area up and into the breast cup. Repeat on the other side. Stand up and make sure the breasts snug comfortably into the bra cups.

Next, looked into the mirror and see if the nipples are in the center seams of the bra cups if the front under bra band and the back band are at the same level (between the armpit and elbow). Lift your arms up. A well-fitted bra should not move around when you make any movement.

You can experiment with this method with your normal way of putting on a bra. You can really see the difference it makes.

You should also check on:

1. The back of your bra does not ride up, otherwise, the under band may be too big, and you could need a smaller size.
2. Your bra straps are not falling down or digging into your shoulders. If they are, adjust them or use wider straps.
3. Your flesh does not squeeze over the top of your bra. If it does but feels fine everywhere else, the cup size is too small for you.
4. Run your finger under the bra stripe in front. Your bra should be comfortable but not tight, otherwise, you need a larger band size or you must fasten your bra at the next looser hook.
5. No, holes at the center of the bra and breasts. The middle of your bra lies as flat as possible against your breastbone for a comfortable fit.

Cup Size

Small breast, to make the most of a small breast, wears a soft or thin padded bra. This can give you an enhanced neckline, good uplift, and a lovely shape. Half-cup bras are also flattering for smaller busts, padding at the sides and under give a maximum lift to the breast, revealing sexy cleavages. Less endowed women should try to avoid bras that have square-cut, they only flatten your breast.

Big breasts or women with larger busts can get support from a bra with wider shoulder and back straps. Bras with full cups contain the breast better and give the breast a better appearance. Underwired bras provide better support under the bust while smooth, plain bra styles, without too much lace, help to make your bust appear smaller.

Different bra for different age

Breast sizes are growing in recent years as more women are having proper diet and breast supplements are the culprits. Bra-wearers are getting younger and larger too.

A child as young as 9 years old starts puberty. Significantly is her breast growth. Bra experts normally recommend cotton or thinly padded bra for young bra wearers as their breast development changes quickly and a soft bra allows breast tissues to stretch. For a mature female, a good comfortable bra to keep breasts in shape and support should be worn. Examples a sports bra, underwired bras, or padded bras.

Is it good to be braless?

Almost three-quarters of the day, a woman had her bra on. The good time for the breast’s skin to breathe and the breasts to rest is during bedtime. It is also a time for the breasts tissues to be fully relaxed. By going braless allows unrestricted blood circulation as well.

The entire sexual development of women in present-day society, from childhood to motherhood, is better educated and informed. But sex education for young children remains a dilemma for parents. We know the appearance of menstrual is a sign of puberty but, at the same time, it is also the beginning of sexual contact. All parents being protective towards their child, the word sex or subjects related to sex have been deliberately kept in ignorance, the small girl is hardly informed of the primary facts of sex.

At this stage, the child naturally and unconsciously perform masturbation or infantile masturbation which is part of a biologically natural character during this transition phase, they are curious about their new development. Occasionally, erotic dreams and daydreams lead to girls’ orgastic sensations.

Thus, safely say that masturbation constitutes an almost inevitable transition phase in the sexual development of the young girl or even boy in the present day. The practice is relatively harmless so long as it remains confined to this transition phase and it is a temporary character, and as long as it is not considered later on preferable to normal sexual intercourse.

It becomes harmful if involves permanent neurotic complications, is induced by warnings, scares, and threats of punishment, or disease resulting from masturbation. Once, the late Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, pioneer of sexology reported the experience of a young girl who, despite threats and warnings, could not but continue to obey the irresistible impulse:

“… I did it when I was at home, and lying in bed. I do not remember whether I thought anything of it when I did it. I only know that it was quite dark and quiet. I was doubled up under the bed-clothes. When it was over I often cried to myself. I went to bed frightened and could not go to sleep without praying. My spiritual condition went from bad to worse, and I kept on promising myself never to do it again until I finally comforted myself and went to sleep. I never kept my promise. It happened again, I do not know how long after, and I think not more frequently than once a month. A year ago, I gave it up as my mother caught me at it and gave me a lecture. So out of love for my mother, I gave it up until a little while before menstruation.”

Then I felt such a tickling and itching that I did it again with great passion. The next morning I found that I was bleeding and had pains in the knees and the thighs and could not get up. I told my mother that I had done it again and that I was bleeding, for I thought this was a consequence of it and cried bitterly. Mother comforted me and gave me a second talk. I was then thirteen years old.”

The child inevitably reacts to this with a mixture of curiosity and horror. The curiosity springs from the natural impulse, the horror grows out of the automatic reflection that these forbidden and “indecent” practices were and are carried on by her own parents and that in fact, she owes her very existence to this baseness of which the parents also speak with stern distaste.

Sexual Curiosity

In the earlier years of sexual studies, some scientists without exception acknowledge that nearly 100 percent of all men and women masturbated during this transition phase. This view is supported by statistical investigation we are quoting below statistics on the frequency of masturbation, as compiled by various senior sexologists (see Encyclopedia of Sexual Knowledge):

• Dr. Marcuse (Munich) 93.9%
• Dr. Deutsch (Budapest) 96.7%
• Prof. Duck 90.8 %
• Dr. Rohleder (Enquiry among students) 90.1%
• Dr. Dukes (Enquiry among English students) 90-95%
• Dr. Searley (Enquiry among American students) 85.3%
• Dr. Hirschfeld (Berlin) 96%
• Dr. Desider Hahn (Enquiry among workmen) 96%
• Dr. Brockman (America) (Enquiry among theological students) 99.3 %
• Dr. Young (America): 100%

It is also no exaggeration to say that the first arrived period also inevitably constitutes a minor emotional hurt to the little girl who is kept in unnatural ignorance. A feeling of being unclean, self-disgust, is nearly always connected up with the bad conscience which sees bleeding as punishment for actual masturbation, and “dirty thoughts.” Even at present, the young girl has sufficient knowledge to know that such a direct causal connection does not exist, there is still some vague conviction that bodily uncleanness is caused by spiritual impurity that is generally maintained in the subconscious. The widespread frequency of this attitude and its effects contribute a great deal to sexual misery, especially in conservative or religious cultures. The subject of sex is often to abstain in strict traditional families.

When a young girl questioned her mother about the origin of babies, she was told ‘You don’t need to know. Those are dirty things with which you must not stain the purity of your little soul,’ etc. Anna had no idea that she herself, her mother, and her little brothers owed their existence to those ‘dirty things’ the nature of which remained a mystery for her.

Always closely chaperoned by her governess she never even had an opportunity to discuss the subject with her friends. One day, in the course of a gymnastic lesson, she noticed that climbing up a pole gave her ‘a pleasant sensation’; then she found that she could induce the same sensation by pressing her legs tightly together. She would have mentioned it to her mother, but she vaguely suspected that her discovery was not unconnected with the ‘dirty things.’

One day little Anna woke up and saw bloodstains on her sheets and nightgown. She immediately concluded that she had defiled herself with those dirty things, and fallen ill. God had punished her, and her mother would learn Anna was an abject being. She decided to die, and going to the kitchen, turned on the gas. She was rescued at the last moment after she had already become unconscious.”

“The terror of the uninitiated girl at the sight of this inexplicable hemorrhage is such that she frequently regards it as a punishment for having masturbated and harbored impure thoughts. She often sees no other solution than suicide. Dr. Stekel cites the case of little Anna.

Persistent, recurrent problems with sexual response, desire, orgasm, or pain — that distress you or strain your relationship with your partner — are known medically as sexual dysfunction.

In the past, the socio-cultural requisite that the female dissembles her sexual feelings did not lessen general interest in female sexuality.

The nature of female sexual response has been interpreted innumerable times, with each interpretation proposing a different concept or variation on a concept.

Interestingly, more than 95 percent of these interpretive efforts have been initiated by men, either from the defensive point of view of personal masculine bias or from a well-intentioned and often significant scientific position, but, because of cultural bias, without the opportunity to obtain unprejudiced material.

Even the small numbers of women combining research expertise with their own firsthand awareness of female sexual behavior have been disadvantaged by cultural limitations on the scientific investigation of human sexual response.

Conceptually these women also have shared cultural bias with their male professional peers.

Even though definitive research findings have emerged in the field of sexual behavior, the handicap of cultural bias has so constrained progress that there has been little professional concurrence in a final definition of female sexual function.

There are three apparent reasons for this stalemate in the definition of female psychosexual expression:

1. Until recently there was a failure to develop a directly related body of biophysical information.
2. There has been little interest in the duplication of physiological investigative procedures to validate research findings.
3. There has been little or no effort to incorporate established laboratory findings into the clinical treatment of female sexual dysfunction.

A psychophysiological interpretation of female sexual response must be established and accepted, for it is impossible to consider sexual dysfunction with objectivity unless there is a base for comparison afforded by an acceptable concept of a woman’s sexually functional state.

In an effort to establish such a baseline interpretation, the female sexual response will be contemplated as an entity separate from the male sexual response is not, as might be presumed, because of any vast difference in their natural systems of expression.

Beyond the influence of fortunate variations in reproductive anatomy and their individual patterns of physiological function the sexes are basically similar, not different but because of sex-linked differences that are largely psychosocially induced.

A separate discussion of female sexuality is necessary primarily because the role assigned to the functional component of a woman’s sexual identity rarely has been accorded the socially enforced value afforded male sexuality.

While the parallel between sexes as to physiological function has gained general acceptance, the concept that the male and female also can share almost identical psychosocial requirements for effective sexual functioning brings expected to protest.

Only when a male requests treatment for symptoms of sexual dysfunction, and possible contributing factors are professionally scrutinized in the clinical interest of symptom reversal, are the psychosocial influences noted to be undeniably similar to those factors which affect female responsivity.

Then such factors as selectivity, regard, affection, identity, and pride (to name a few of the heterogeneous variables) are revealed as part of the missing positive or present negative influence or circumstances surrounding the sexual dysfunction.

It is obvious that man has had society’s blessing to build his sexual value system in an appropriate, naturally occurring context and woman has not.

Until unexpected and usually little understood situations influence the onset of male sexual dysfunction, his sexual value system remains essentially subliminal and its influence more presumed than real.

During her formative years, the female dissembles much of her developing functional sexuality in response to societal requirements for a “good girl” facade.

Instead of being taught or allowed to value her sexual feelings in anticipation of an appropriate and meaningful opportunity for expression, thereby developing a realistic sexual value system, she must attempt to repress or remove them from their natural context of environmental stimulation under the implication that they are bad, dirty, etc.

She is allowed to retain the symbolic romanticism which usually accompanies these sexual feelings, but the concomitant sensory development with the symbolism that endows the sexual value system with meaning is arrested or labeled for the wrong reasons, objectionable.

The reality of female sexual function today, aside from its vital role in reproduction, still carries an implication of shame, although such a dishonorable role has been rather difficult to sustain with objectivity.

The arbitrary, social assignment of the role of sin to female sexuality has not contributed to a desirably consistent level of marital harmony. Nor has society always found it easy to eliminate recognition of female sexuality while still supporting and maintaining the male’s role of tacit permission to be sexual with honor, or even praise.

Especially is this true of a society that continues to celebrate events before and after the fact of sexual expression (marriage, birth, etc.), and mourns the female menopause because it is presumed to signify the demise of sexual interest.

PID (Pelvic Inflammatory Disease) is a generic name for any infection of the uterus, tubes, and ovaries. These are normally germ-free. Their position keeps them safe from infection, with added protection from the cervix, and its mildly antiseptic mucus.

The sexual disease is very dangerous once it reaches the cervix because this often starts with a cervical infection that travels to the uterus lining, then to the uterus muscle, then the tubes (salpingitis), the ovaries (oophoritis), and out into the pelvic cavity (peritonitis).

Consider the extent of damage that can occur. These normally germ-free areas, organs, and tissues are now inflamed, swollen with pus and disease. Symptoms include fever, chills, lower abdomen pain, irregular bleeding, spotting, pus-filled discharge from the vagina, and pain during or after intercourse.

The more severe the infection, the worse the pain and other symptoms. About 100,000 women each year become infertile as a result of PID.

Visit the clinic or physician promptly. Therapy is urgently required to reduce the extent of the damage. Hospitalization is necessary for the first PID attack so that antibiotics can be given intravenously (IV).

If the infection is widespread, PID may not respond to antibiotics. Surgery is then required to drain an abscess or pus-filled cavity or to remove infected tissue. One attack of PID gives no immunity against further attacks.

Other causes include miscarriage and abortion. Surgery is required to remove fetal or placental tissue still in the uterus. The infection is associated with intrauterine devices, and the IUD should be removed.

Birthing and endometrial biopsy also open the cervix and increase the risk of PID. Some women are more vulnerable to PID after a period. In others, the risk seems higher after intercourse. It is thought that germs on sperm proteins might be carried through the uterus and out to the pelvic cavity via the tubes, but this is not proven.

The cervix is the last defense against PID. Use barrier methods such as condoms and diaphragms where there is any risk. A significant number of PID cases are due to gonorrhea; keep in mind a partner can be asymptomatic. Chlamydia, which breeds on the cervix and causes PID, can also be asymptomatic. Protect the cervix.

Molluscum Contagiosum: There are two kinds of warts, simple and genital. Both can infect the genitals; it is crucial to recognize the difference. Simple warts are the kind that appears in the hands of children. They are small, dimpled papules, which look like spots with a drop of pearly fluid inside and are highly contagious. They can be transmitted to the genitals by self or partner from warts on the hands and elsewhere. The virus enters the skin through invisible lesions that occur during sexual activity. Warts appear some 30 days after contact. Attacks of simple warts on the genitals are rare, being most likely in the teens and 20 to 30 age group.

If the penis is infected with genital warts, some men try self-therapy. This is not advisable for women. Simple warts can be painful if rubbed, otherwise, a woman is unaware of them. They are not life-threatening, nor do untold damage, but they are highly contagious. Visit the physician or clinic. Therapy varies.

Human Papilloma Virus: HPV is specific to the genital area. It is transmitted by direct sexual contact. Warts appear 3 weeks to 3 months after contact, but the incubation time can be up to 8 months, even more. Warts can be single; usually, they grow in clusters like grapes. With their raised, bumpy tops, they look like miniature cauliflowers. They grow on the labia lips or anus, inside the vagina, or on the cervix. In many cases, they are asymptomatic, and the woman is unaware that she is infected.

The warts are painless, but easily irritated by rubbing, and sometimes they itch. If there has been anal contact, they can grow inside the rectum and around the anus. More rarely with oral contact, they infect the linings of the mouth. If warts breed in colonies on the cervix, the disease may not be detected until a Pap smear is done. Women with HPV have a five times higher risk of cancer of the cervix.

Larger warts, especially on the cervix, maybe vaporized by laser therapy, but it is difficult to know if they have all been destroyed. The healing process takes 6 weeks. Repeat therapy is necessary if they flare up again; avoid losing patience as laser therapy usually works. Other therapies include burning warts off by electric cautery or freezing them with dry ice. The physician then snips them off. External warts can be painted with the drug podophyllin. It takes 3 or 4 weekly treatments for warts to dry up and drop off.

HPV infection is also called condyloma. The prescription drug Condylox has just been made available for home treatment, which means that patients no longer need to have a physician apply the therapy. At least 56 different types of the virus have been identified.

How you care for your breast will tell how they looked? Spend a minute and looked at yourself in the mirror every day. How does the breast appear to you is what your friends will see?

Correct Your Posture

If by chance you faced a mirror or window display while walking, check yourself sideways from the reflections. Are you walking with your back straight, shoulders open apart? Or you see yourself hunching with dropping shoulders? If you are slouching your way, perhaps it’s time you correct it. Good posture helps to lift up the breast, giving it the right support. A good poster can also make the breasts look bigger and larger.

Weight Control

Weight fluctuations affect the breasts probably more than anything else. Avoid miracle slimming diets. Instead, be ‘slim smart’ and eat a sensible diet and exercise regime helps.

Exercise With The Right Bra

It is important to wear a bra that fits you and gives adequate support for the breast when exercises are being performed. Bra manufacturer did researches on sportswomen. The bras that they wear have to allow maximum stretching, comfort and yet gave the wearer very good frontal support. By wearing a good sports bra, it minimizes breast movement, the breast is held in place, and is less bouncy. Constant breast movement without a bra can result in permanent droopy breasts.

Breast and Bath

Shower the breast with warm or lukewarm water. Use circular and upward motions when bathing the breasts. If you shower with hot water, remember to give a run with cold water. This is to avoid rashes or acne outbreaks at the breast and chest area (open pores at breast area are exposed to dirt settled after bath). A hot bath also dehydrates our skin easily.

Moisturize Your Breasts

The breast area is often more delicate than our facial skin. During the hot season, it is the best time to head down to the beach and get a good tan. We put on layers of suntan lotions and thereafter we apply body lotions. And in harsh winter, our skin dehydrates even faster! The breast skin, exposed to different seasons, gets dried, wrinkled, and sometimes freckled. In order to keep breast skin taut, smooth and glowing pink, moisturize with breast care products to preserve the breasts looking youthful and perky.

What is Phytoestrogen?

The three major hormones affecting the breast are Oestrogen, progesterone, and prolactin. The breast is influenced by the female hormones (Oestrogen and progesterone) whose levels vary with the menstrual cycle and decline at a later age.

These hormones are responsible for breast and female body development. Diets that include soy (isoflavones ad phytoestrogen), protein, and calcium could be beneficial not only to the breast but also to the bones. Most knew about soy but hardly knew about phytoestrogen.

Phytoestrogen is an active plant cell that is a compound of isoflavones or estrogen-like properties found in some plants and plant products (soy food or legume plant). Isoflavones are structurally similar to estrogenic steroids and thus have been shown to possess both estrogenic and anti-estrogenic activity.

Phytoestrogen is weak estrogens, isoflavones may act as anti-estrogens and for binding to the estrogen receptor. This has important implications for reducing breast cancer risk. While not all studies agree, epidemiologic evidence indicates that women in Southeast Asia who consume diets containing high amounts of soy have a declining risk of breast cancer as compared to European women, who routinely consume negligible amounts of this legume (1-3 grams/day).

Many post-menopausal women who have chosen not to take hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are currently using complementary and alternative therapies for menopause, and these include taking phytoestrogen supplements. Most of the supplements contain natural isoflavones derived from the soy plant, red clover, and some botany plants such as black cohosh or Pueraria Mirifica.

The main advantage of taking phytoestrogen supplements are the reduction of menopausal symptoms, promotion of cardiovascular health, bone health, and increased breast health. Phytoestrogens may also have anti-cancer.

You can make them appear bigger, firmer, and shapelier by building the breast tissues up and supplementing the breasts with nutrients.

Phytoestrogens may have some benefits to your health, but take them with caution. This is especially the case with long-term and high doses. While they may seem safer than synthetic estrogen, this may not be the case.

The various structures which make up breast tissue are listed as follows:

• Arteries, which branch into tiny arterioles, bring fresh blood rich in oxygen and nutrients.
• Veins, which are closer to the surface, remove the used blood, and waste products of metabolism.
• Nerves, which branch into tiny nerve endings, increase the sensitivity, especially in the nipples.
• Lobules, which are part of the mammary gland tissue, produce milk.
• Ducts, which are the other part of mammary gland tissue, bring milk to the nipples.
• Muscle fibers, which line the lobules and ducts, squeeze out the milk.
• Connective tissue, which is woven throughout the breasts, made up the support system.
• Fat, which plumps up the breasts, is woven throughout the mesh of connective tissue.
• Erectile fibers, which are in the areola-nipple complex, respond to erotic stimulation.
• Lymph channels, which are part of the immune system, drain breast tissue of extra fluid.

The Squeeze Syndrome

In one study, women of varying ages had breast pumps attached to their nipples. When the breasts were gently squeezed for a sufficiently long time, 83 percent of the women produced some milky fluid, whether they were young, old, mothers, previously pregnant, or never pregnant. Squeezing sends a message to the pituitary gland in the brain, which translates this into a call for prolactin. Prolactin is the hormone that stimulates the breasts of a nursing mother to produce more milk. The more her baby sucks at her breasts, the more milk is produced. Milk is synthesized, not from blood, but from the nutrients carried by the blood.

During nursing, the breasts will start leaking if the mother only thinks of her baby. She cannot stop this; she can only try to stop thinking of her child. The fibers lining the milk ducts are smooth muscle, like the fibers for nipple erection. They are not under the control of the conscious will. These two kinds of muscles are the only ones in the breasts.

Keep in mind that if the nipples are squeezed for long enough, they will produce fluid.

The Mature Breast

• At puberty: The duct tissue grows and branches out like the twigs of a young tree, forming lobule buds. The connective tissue grows and spreads in a network, and fat builds up within the mesh. The breasts feel dense, very firm, and packed with lobules and ducts.
• At pregnancy: The breasts grow rapidly. Breasts that were almost flat will also grow to a very large size. The areola-nipple complex darkens, and the nipples become more erect. The blood supply increases and the veins become more noticeable.
• After childbirth: Breast tissue returns to its pre-pregnancy state. But the areola-nipple complex stays larger, and the darker pigment remains. The veins also remain noticeable, a delicate bluish tracery running lightly across the breasts.
• At menopause: The gland tissue shrinks to nearly its pre-puberty state. In under-weight women, breast size can shrink considerably. In women who put on weight, though the breasts increase in size, the contents are mainly fat tissue.

At each stage of a woman’s reproductive life, the breasts respond to estrogen output. They also respond each month after mid-cycle, when there are breast swelling and tenderness before a period.

To Bra or Not to Bra?

The average weight of each breast is between 150 and 200g. This increases to 400 to 500g during nursing. The combined breast weight of the average C-cup bust is 8 to 16 pounds. With the average D-cup, the weight is 15 to 23 pounds. With a DD-cup, it can be 30 pounds. Women who are full-figured appreciate the comfort and support of a well-fitting bra, as do nursing mothers. The debate is for women with neat pert breasts, for younger women, for all-size women who cannot find a bra which really fits without pinching or riding up, or without the straps digging into the shoulders and underarms.

Some smaller breasts, even when supported by a bra, drop early in life. Some larger breasts remain high and pert with no bra support. It seems to be the luck of the genes. The majority of women wear bras; they accept that the force of gravity could have some effect on their breasts. “The pull from a hanging breast…”

Some suggestions for wearing a bra include: if the breasts weigh over a pound each if the lower part dips to touch the chest wall when taking exercise, during pregnancy, and while nursing.

The findings from one study suggest that 7 out of 10 women have fitting problems with bras. The general recommendation is to have a cup size measured by a bra-fitting specialist every few years. Though the body weight can stay the same the distribution of breast tissue changes. The following tips might be useful when considering buying a new brassiere:

• A bra should feel comfortable when fastened on the middle hook.
• The breasts should be separated and completely contained within each cup.
• The cups should fit snugly over the breasts, with no pleating or creasing.
• The straps should be wide enough to protect against shoulder strain.
• Once the straps are adjusted, they should neither slip off the shoulders nor dig into them.
• The bust line should rest midway between the shoulders and elbows.
• The band should fit snugly under the bust line, and not cause a midriff bulge.
• The elastic should provide enough “give” to allow for easy movement without digging or cutting.

Breast Skin

Study the skin of the breasts. Become familiar with the size, shape, texture, and colour of any moles, freckles, or lumps. In teen girls, these are few. As time passes, most skins tend to get a little freckly, and more moles appear. Bras and moles together make hazardous conjunction. This is because a bra, no matter how well-fitting, can rub the mole if it is at the shoulders, and cause friction if it is under the breasts or across the back.

• Regular friction is an irritant.
• Irritants can be carcinogens (cancer-causing substances).
• Carcinogens are serious hazards in areas of constant friction:

Check to make sure there is no mole along any of the bra straplines. Some physicians consider it is a preventive health measure to remove any mole which is on the line of a bra strap before it can give trouble. This is an issue of personal choice. If deciding against removal, avoid anxiety with the decision. Forget the mole. Simply check at regular intervals for the following:

• Any change in the shape, size, or thickness of the mole.
• Any redness surrounding the area.
• Any inflammation near or actually on the mole.
• Any alteration in its colour or texture.
• Any new mole or other growth which suddenly appears.

Consult the physician promptly if any of the above occurs.

Pimples and spots on breast skin are fairly rare. But they can occur at the cleavage, and in the skin creases under the breasts. Take care that these areas do not become sites of infection. Check out personal hygiene. Daily washing with soap and warm water may not be enough. Increase this to twice a day.

Pimples and spots on breast skin can be treated like spots on the face or left to heal by themselves.

Tender Breasts

Each month, the breasts are prepared for a possible pregnancy. This phenomenon begins when the egg is released at mid-cycle. The tiny lobules swell up with fluid, and the breasts feel larger. In the week before the menstrual flow starts, even smooth breasts can feel lumpy, or grainy, or full of tiny bumps. There is a general feeling of heaviness and tenderness, the nipples tingle or itch. It has been estimated that this cyclic swelling causes discomfort in 50 percent of all women.

If no pregnancy occurs, the flow begins. The fluid in the lobules then drains away. The swelling, lumpiness, tenderness, and itching stop. The breasts return to their pre-period size, but they do not shrink back completely. Each month, there is a tiny increase in mammary development. This continues until about age 35. By then, it seems that the lobules and ducts have grown to their maximum (pre-pregnancy) size.

Keep in mind that breast tissue changes during each month.

Gynecomastia

Gynecomastia means “female-like breasts” in men. It happens to some degree in 50 percent of all boys at puberty and is due to the surges of the female as well as male hormones at this time. This type of gynecomastia is harmless and disappears within two years. However, the swellings can become large in boys who are overweight, and cause acute embarrassment. Gynecomastia can also occur in overweight men. A reduction in diet is the appropriate answer. Cosmetic surgery is another option.

A few men with no weight problems develop breasts as they age. This is due to a drop in testosterone production, so the effects of estrogen can show through.

Do You Know Your Breast Shapes?

Is it round like an apple?

Is it smooth like a pear?

The average breast shapes is like a tear.

Many a tear has been shed over the average breast tears of pride and pleasure, tears of panic and pain. It is not difficult to understand the tears of pride and pleasure. But what of the panic? And wherefore the pain?

For some women, breasts are the most anxiety-provoking area of the body. This is partly due to their prominent position. They cannot be kept entirely hidden from view, like the vagina or penis. Breasts are out there in the open, the unmistakable statement of a woman’s sexuality.

It seems likely that it is this exposure that makes a growing girl feels so vulnerable about her breasts.

From these early anxieties can start a lifetime of breast-worry? Why do my breasts ache? Why are they lumpy? Should I wear a bra? Why do I dislike the idea of breastfeeding? What are my chances of avoiding breast cancer? It is hard to love any structure which causes so much anxiety.

Yet breasts are to love and to celebrate: By a partner, by a baby, by the owner of them.

Breast Size

There reigns in our culture a tyranny over the size of the sexual organs. In particular, breasts must appear large, the fuller the figure the better. It seems that it is a quantity that matters, not quality; the popularity of breast implants clearly demonstrates this. Yet implants can be felt; they are a means of “show and tell.”

This tyranny over sexual size does not only affect women. Men suffer from it too, and often more painfully. Studies suggest that men are even more worried over penis size than women are over breast size. The following is from a questionnaire into male problems of body image: All the male respondents, except for the most extraordinarily endowed, expressed doubts about their sexuality based on their penile size.

Yet size and sexuality are in no way equated. Such muddled perceptions are very sad. No man or woman should “express doubts about their sexuality based on sexual organ size.” Women with smaller breasts may perceive that they are less attractive to a certain type of man, but that is not the same as doubting one’s sexuality.

Breasts, like other body parts, are not perfectly symmetrical. Each has its individual shape and structure. Almost invariably, one breast is smaller than the other, the right one usually being a little smaller than the left. Asymmetry is so slight that it is not noticeable. Bra cups fit well enough on both sides. The condition runs in families. Some women enjoy their quirky, unequal state. Others are embarrassed by it.

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Run the fingers down the center of the chest. Feel the hard sternum (breastbone), and the ribs attached to it. Breast tissue is present from the sternum and right into the armpit. Feel the ribs under the breast tissue. The chest muscles, the major and minor pectorals, cannot be felt. They lie underneath the breast tissue. In some female bodybuilders, the “pecs” can be almost as developed as those of a man.

There is no voluntary muscle (the muscle which can be worked) in breast tissue, so exercise cannot develop the breasts. Yet it does develop the pectorals and helps keep them firm. Pectorals which have been effectively exercised give a slightly raised pad beneath the breasts, and this can make breasts of all sizes more noticeable.

Breast tissue is soft, pliant, and naturally droopy. Support is provided by a covering of strong, elastic tissue, which lies just under the skin of the breasts. This support is an extension of the tissue which covers the pectoral muscles of the chest wall. The firmness of this covering gives the young breast its high, pert look. When the elastic weakens and relaxes with age, or is stretched after many pregnancies, the breast drops.

The Areola

An areola is any colour part around a central focus (like the iris of the eye around the pupil). In breasts, the areola is an extension of the nipple, from which it spreads out in a radius of 1 to 2 cm. The areola and nipple are both heavily pigmented. As they are both parts of the same system, they are sometimes called the areola nipple complex.

The skin covering the breasts is smoother, thinner, and more translucent than skin over the rest of the body. Areola skin is particularly thin. At puberty, the areola and nipple darkening. In sexually-active Caucasian women, the colour can be grape-red, a royal purple, or a sepia-tinted brown. Eurasian and dark-skinned women have nipples that run the entire palette of lovely creams, cafe-au-lait, brown-as-a-berry, black.

Montgomery’s Glands

Look for the little bumps sprinkled over the areola. These are sebaceous glands. They are called Montgomery’s glands because that is the name of the physician who first described them. Sebaceous glands produce sebum, an oily, waxy fluid that is secreted in small amounts. Sebum keeps the skin soft, supple and the hair shafts glossy and clean.

The sebaceous glands of the areola do not start producing sebum until puberty when they are stimulated by estrogen. It is not unusual for the pore of a gland to become blocked. The trapped sebum dries, hardens, and forms a waxy, yellow plug. To avoid this, use a towel to rub the areola-nipple complex after a bath or shower to remove any oily deposits and keep the pores open. The waxy plug can be removed by gently popping it out, and applying a very mild antiseptic; it can be left to surface on its own and get rubbed away naturally in the normal course of events.

Nipple Shape

Is it long and prominent, a wise Roman nose?

Is it cute and cheerful, a small rosy button?

Or is it inverted, a shy bashful maiden?

Why are nipples so appealing to men?

Find the openings at the center of the nipple. This is where the milk ducts come together inside the breasts. From puberty onwards, a trace of milky fluid is exuded from the nipples. If not washed off, it can dry and form a tiny crust. Nipple skin is wrinkled and has elastic properties, so it can be lengthened. If a woman wishes for more prominent nipples, she can pull gently to stretch them. They will become longer, though this takes a fairly long time.

An inverted nipple is usually the result of a minor birth defect. For some unknown reason, scar tissue inside the nipple has built up. Scar tissue is inelastic, with no give or stretch. The milk ducts cannot grow down to the tip. The tough scar tissue acts like a bow-string, pulling the nipple inwards, and tethering it in place.

Some women are not bothered by inverted nipples. Others feel great distress. There is often an inability to breastfeed. One option is to have the condition reversed by nipple extraversion. The tough, restraining tissue is cut away, freeing the nipple, which is then sewn down so that it stays in place. However, the procedure does not always work; surgery can leave external lumpy scars, and the inversion can return on its own accord. If opting for surgery, discuss these factors with the surgeon.

In most cases, inverted nipples are no cause for concern, if they have been inverted since puberty. However, if either nipple starts to turn inwards at any age after puberty, particularly after age 35, visit the physician promptly. It could be a serious symptom.

Nipple Erection

When breasts start to develop, they gain a special degree of sensitivity. This special sensitivity is even stronger in the areola nipple complex. Before a period, some women find the entire breast area feels exquisitely tender. In a few cases, she cannot bear to have her breasts touched; even her bra can cause a feeling of irritation. This extra degree of sensitivity subsides once the period flow starts. All this is perfectly normal.

Upon sexual arousal, extra blood flows to the breasts. It causes the nipples to swell, harden, and become erect. This is known as spontaneous erection; it is not under the control of the conscious will. The woman cannot stop it, even if she tries to. However, the nipples also spontaneously erect at non-erotic forms of stimulation: cold, fear, tension, or another non-erotic touch. Men are acutely aware of nipple response. A woman who dresses so that her nipples show through her clothing creates a magnet for male eyes. It does not matter that the nipple is erecting in non-erotic response, e.g., in response to the chilly wind. It is the fact that the nipple is seen to erect which is fascinating to men.

From puberty onwards, men must learn to cope with spontaneous erections of the penis. It takes a while before these can be got (almost) under control. Men can feel very vulnerable when unwanted bulges show through their pants. Perhaps part of the pleasure they get at viewing women’s nipples is linked to their own vulnerable state. In an erotic situation, it is not only exciting but immensely reassuring for the man to know that his partner is responding to desire.

The excitement men get from nipple erection is one of the main reasons why breast size is far less important than some women, (and a few men) think. Breast action is what men value, a nipple that responds and erects eagerly for love.

Related Article – > Know Your Breast

How much do most women really know about their breasts?

Most likely very little. Unless they develop breast problems (sagging, small breast, heavy droopy breast, etc.). Women usually are not motivated to learn about the inner structure of this intimate feminine part but yet one needs to be more familiar with the normal anatomy and physiology (function) of the breasts.

With this knowledge, you will know how our breast enhancement changes your breasts.

Here, breast information is simple and straightforward. It offers women a baseline for knowing their own breast and breast health care. Additionally, it provides assistance for women interested in breast enhancement, a crucial routine for alluring cleavages and youthful breasts.

Breast Anatomy

The breast is one major body area for which the relationship between size and satisfaction, body image, and psychosocial functioning, appear to be more complex. As documented, in a review of trends in feminine beauty, conceptions of ideal breast size have tended to fluctuate rather dramatically. In this century, preferred breast size grew continually to having “bosom mania” as compared to the early 1960s.

Although the idea of staying slim to extreme thinness is always been sorted after, the preferred breast size has not changed at all! Just looked at the ideal female body portrayed in magazines appealing to men (e.g., Playboy), while taller, leaner, and nearly hipless, but continues to be relatively large breasted. Similar ideals are purveyed in movies, on TV, and in some fashion magazines and clothing catalogs. Experiencing oneself as failing to meet societal standards for physical attractiveness has repeatedly been implicated in body dissatisfaction and body image disturbance.

Now more women are more conscious about their breasts as much as men do. How you feel about yourself is how you present, carry and show yourself towards your friends, colleague, or in any environment.

The actual breast is a mound of glandular, fatty, and fibrous tissue; composed of hormone-sensitive mammary glands, blood vessels, and connective tissue (milk glands or lobules. Each female breast has about 12 to 15 breast lobules) and ducts. The breast itself has no muscle tissue. It is surrounded by a layer of fat, which in turn is covered by the skin. This fatty tissue gives the breast a soft consistency and gentle, flowing contour. Milk is produced in the milk glands and collects in the small ducts called terminal ducts.

These terminal ducts joined together to form larger ducts, which eventually drain to the nipples. There are also sensory nerves that give a feeling to the breast. These nerves extend upward from the muscle layer through the breast and are highly sensitive, especially in the regions of the nipple and areola, which accounts for the sexual responsiveness of some women’s breasts. The ducts end in the nipple which protrudes from the surface of the breast where the milk is secreted by the glands and suckled by a baby during breastfeeding.

Beneath the lower and outer portions of the breast, is a large muscle, the pectoralis major, which assists in arm movement, and it is where the breast rests. Also found, is a rich system of blood vessels that supply nutrients and hormones to the breast. The breast is responsive to a complex interplay of hormones that causes the breast tissue to develop, engorge, and enlarge. This breast enlargement is achieved when blood flow is increased and blood vessels are ‘fatten’.