Best Body Shaping Treatments For Tummy, Hips, Thighs And More
Maintain a trim silhouette
We all aim to eat a balanced diet and stay active, but sometimes life, work and family tasks get in the way. In trying to maintain a trim silhouette through practising healthy lifestyle habits, there’s one aspect that remains elusive: spot-targeting or spot reduction, especially when it comes to areas like your tummy, hips and thighs. That’s when science, in the form of non-surgical body contouring treatments, can be helpful to keep some unwanted bulges and inches in check.
Our testers valiantly tried a range of body-shaping and fat-targeting treatments around Singapore, to bring you the winners in The Weekly’s Spa Awards 2022. There’s even something for shaping and rejuvenating your vulva.
Inner Harmony Deep Sea Divine
This spa takes a holistic approach to well-being in face, body and wellness therapies that combine modern, cross-cultural and traditional techniques. The Deep Sea Divine is a wellness spa treat that involves being wrapped in warm Dead Sea mud that’s enriched with more than 26 different minerals, followed by a detoxifying yet gentle lymphatic drainage massage. Besides helping to relieve aches and pains, this lymphatic massage helps to increase circulation, bring vital nutrients to your cells, and expedite your body’s detoxifying process to reduce bloating.
$280 for 60 minutes
Inner Harmony Day Spa, 25 North Bridge Rd, #03-02/03, Tel: +65 6841 9926
Illumia Therapeutics Z Lipo 360
Designed to target stubborn fats, the Z Lipo 360 is not a weight loss procedure. It primarily targets stubborn, localised fat that doesn't respond to your fitness efforts.
Z Lipo 360 is a new FDA-approved treatment that uses vacuum and suction therapy plus 360° cooling technology for non-invasive body contouring and sculpting. The 360° applicators come in three sizes to target different body parts at the same time. A typical session begins with vacuum suctioning before the treatment area is cooled to very low temperatures to destroy fat cells without damaging skin and tissues. Over time, the body’s lymphatic system flushes out the destroyed fat cells.
The suction probes caused a slight pinching sensation at the start but our tester found it bearable.
$700 for 35 minutes
Illumia Therapeutics has three locations:
Wheelock Place, 501 Orchard Rd, #05-12B, Tel: 65 6464 6459 or Whatsapp +65 9656 5464
Nex, 23 Serangoon Central, #04-26, Tel: +65 6556 5565 or Whatsapp +65 9625 6565
i12 Katong, 112 East Coast Road, #03-05/06/07, Tel: +65 6518 4545 or Whatsapp +65 9645 9645
MODE Aesthetics EmShape
Here’s a tempting fact: a 30-minute session of EmShape gives you shaping benefits that are equivalent to doing 20,000 crunches or 20,000 squats. This technologically advanced body-contouring treatment helps to build muscle, reduce fat and sculpt your body. The treatment uses high-intensity pulsed electromagnetic energy to promote muscle contractions at their peak power and ability. This leads to the remodelling and enhancement of muscles, which encourages fat burn. It’s most effective at firming a pocket of lax skin or fat like a tummy pooch or love handles.
$588 for 30 minutes
Mode Aesthetics has four outlets:
Centrepoint, 176 Orchard Road, #03-33, Tel: +65 6737 4964 / 9465 4544
Bedok Mall, 311 New Upper Changi Road, #B2-37, Tel: +65 6386 5964 / 8223 2844
Harbourfront Centre, 1 Maritime Square, #02-65, Tel: +65 6256 4698 / 9018 8424
JEM, 50 Jurong Gateway Road, #04-19, Tel: +65 6694 4448 / 9232 9006
Simply Aesthetics Fat Freeze
For a streamlined waist, reduced bra strap bulge and love handles, consider fat freezing. Special cooling plates are pressed against the selected body area for about an hour to lower the fat’s temperature and destroy the fat cells, so they can be expelled by your body. The cold temperatures also stimulate your body to burn more calories. Effects are visible after two or three months after the treatment.
$1,000 onwards per package, depending on the target area. Each session takes about 90 minutes.
Simply Aesthetics, Capitol Singapore, 13 Stamford Road, #B1-28, Tel: +65 6384 2598 or Whatsapp +65 9179 6405
BottomSlim E-Matrix & Oxifat
BottomSlim focuses on inch loss without surgery, pills and sweating, targeting fat pockets in the tummy, hips and thighs. Simply lie down and let the machines do the work. The E-Matrix machine prepares the target areas, then a serum is applied and massaged in by the Oxifat machine for 20 minutes. Our tester described it as firm but comfortable pressure.
$300 onwards for 40 minutes, depending on treatment plan and areas
BottomSlim has five outlets:
Nex, 23 Serangoon Central, #03-31, Tel: +65 6634 4401
Square 2, 10 Sinaran Drive, #03-11/19, Tel: +65 6397 2463
Tong Building, 02 Orchard Road, #06-03A, Tel: +65 6235 1517
Paya Lebar Quarter, 10 Paya Lebar Road, #03-24, Tel: +65 6514 3318
JCube, 2 Jurong East Central 1, #B1-01, Tel: +65 6334 0788
Dorra Slimming Intense Fat Burning Slimming Treatment
Dorra, the "tummy, hip and thigh slimming expert", boasts a female clientele of over 50,000 successful customers. A cocktail of breakthrough slimming peptides and other active ingredients, Dorra’s highly attested fat-burning body ampoule is massaged into the problem area using their Infrared Hammer Roll. The slimming peptides are said to penetrate the deepest fat layers to boost the body’s natural metabolism. Customers can expect to see up to 5cm loss from their tummy, hips or thighs in one treatment session.
$450 for 40 to 60 minutes; $28 for first-time female customers
Dorra Slimming has seven outlets in Singapore. To find your nearest outlet, call +65 6881 8181 or visit dorraslim.com.sg.
Strip Rosebud Vajuvenation
Strip is known for its Brazilian waxing and other hair removal treatments, so it makes sense that the company has also pioneered a treatment specifically to maintain skin health for the vulva. The Rosebud Vajuvenation is recommended for those who regularly undergo waxing and laser hair removal treatments for the Brazilian area. It’s designed to plump up loose skin, minimise skin irritation and brighten skin tone in the vulva area. The treatment uses thermal O2 technology — a combination of radiofrequency, gentle vacuum suction and heat — to gently warm up and stimulate the collagen in the skin’s dermis layer. When half of the vulva has been treated, the therapist hands you a mirror so you can compare and see the result. Our tester found the treatment comfortable and was impressed with what she saw in the mirror! The treatment ends with a soothing and hydrating vulva mask so you’ll leave feeling ultra-pampered down there.
$250 for 30 minutes
Strip has 15 locations in Singapore. Call +65 6337 8747, WhatsApp +65 8940 4882 or visit strip.com.sg.