Home About the site Advice User profiles FAQ Reflections Forum Links Search this site		These comments are the opinions of the individuals cited, and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the website developer. You may find additional comments on the Bravargh blog. Please visit the Bravargh blog if you would like to add a reflection. (Make sure you click the link on the right marked "Reflections.") I'm 5'7", 120 lbs, AA, no kids, mid-thirties, and after 11 weeks of extremely dedicated Brava wear (up to 16 hours per day), I've got absolutely nothing extra to show for it! --NoGrowth, Brava user You are most likely not going to get 100cc of growth with the Brava, especially not if you wear it only 10 hours per day for 10 weeks. Brava refuses to disclose how many women in their study actually grew 100cc or more, and they excluded almost 1/3 of the women in the initial study from the results. Most of the women in the study wore the system more than 10 weeks. How well does Brava actually work? They're carefully concealing that information from us all, but our experience is that it doesn't work well at all. --RinMaitlan, Brava user I wouldn't do it again. I'm still wearing the same bras; just fill them out a little better. I have put in 16 weeks and well over 12 hrs/day on average and it's not worth it for such little gain. --Kellak, Brava user Put succinctly, my experience with the Brava can be summed up in two words: it sucks. It sucks up your time, because you have to have it on for so many hours and are still not guaranteed results. It sucks opportunity because it prevents you from being out and about. It sucks your personality because it doesn't let you express yourself the way you normally would (by embracing someone or picking up your child). It sucks your attention because you worry whether it's working (especially after you've seen paltry results by week 10). It sucks your mood because you may become depressed when you realize all the effort you've wasted on it. And it sucks out some of the contents of your wallet. As a husband I have tried to be supportive as possible in something that, frankly, I see no reason for existence even if it did work. But I was willing to go along if it was going to make my wife happy. What husband doesn't want to see his wife happy, and doesn't get excited about something she's excited about even if he doesn't see the use of it? We made the best of it for those first 10 weeks. After 10 weeks it was obvious to me that the Brava is at best not nearly as effective as advertised. At worst it is possibly a scam. The blush was definitely off the lotus by week 15 and as we approach week 20 with little visible difference I am growing bitter and wondering how much longer my wife is going to keep herself locked in the house, nursing the lesions on her skin, delicately washing and protecting this piece of equipment that promises what it cannot deliver. If the results had been half of what had been promised, the pain, aggravation and money might have been forgotten. But with ridiculously minimal results, the negative experience of using the Brava really sticks in one's craw. I must also add that this flimsy equipment is barely designed to last 10 weeks and when it breaks, do not expect the manufacturer to try to get you replacement parts in a way that will allow you to continue using the system in the way they tell you it *must* be used to produce results. That's very convenient because if you are forced to stop using the Brava because of equipment failure, you will be blamed for poor results because you had to stop using it while you sent equipment back for repair at your own expense. You'd best be prepared to repair the equipment yourself, as we did. --RinHubby, husband of Brava user It's NOT about big boobs: It's about looking like a woman and feeling like a woman when you are a woman who looks like a little girl. It's about proportionality. I am a size 0 or XS (although even these are often too big) on top and a size 6 on bottom. You try finding clothes that fit. It's about the humiliation of the dressing room, where the bust either gapes like the maw of hell or sags all the way down to your waist. It's about shelling out a lot of money to get my suit jackets altered so I'll look like a professional and not a little girl dressing up in her mother's clothes, and having them still be enormous in the bust (because there's only so much the tailor can do) and having to wear super-padded "false advertising" bras (as I like to call them) in a hopeless attempt to try to fill them out, meanwhile they are still ill-fitting in the bust but fit nice and snug at the waist. It's about the humiliation of puberty when i only started wearing a bra because everybody else was already wearing them. It's about the disappointment of puberty, when I was looking so forward to becoming a woman and never did (not to mention the pain of breast growth for so little result). It's about working hard to look your best but always this one thing is in the way. Exercise is its own reward, and I truly enjoy working out. I also love the results I get, and if I am unhappy with my body I work hard to improve it. There's nothing that I can do about the size of my breasts in the gym (except shrink them even further, if that's possible). I work hard and I feel I deserve to look my best. It's about self-esteem. Right or wrong, I am self-conscious about my breast size--how can someone with no breasts feel feminine or sexy? I feel good about myself in many ways, and this is one more thing that I would like to feel good about. It's about being treated like an adult. It's so frustrating to graduate at the top of my class in law school and do great work and still get condescended to because I look like a child. It's about spoiling myself with something I've wanted for a really long time and have worked hard to be able to get. I am a small AA (and I don't mean that as a redundancy, I mean I am on the small side of AA). Before you criticize a woman for wanting larger breasts, I am just asking you try to see it from my perspective; if you haven't gone through this you really cannot understand it. Don't get me wrong, I am so grateful to have this wonderful, healthy body that truly is beautiful. But it is my body and my heart and I want to look and feel my best. I love being a woman, and I want to look like one. --NiceGirl Top Ten Reasons Why I Love My Brava Number 10: Sleep is greatly overrated. Number 9: Patience is a virtue which is tested every time I speak with Brava customer service. Number 8: My Brava is my plastic fortress of solitude. Number 7: My children are now more independent since I can't do anything for them. Who says a four-year-old can't do the laundry or cook her own meals? Number 6: I have reevaluated my friendships and divided people into two groups: those who are worthy of my non-Brava time, and those who are not. Number 5: I probably would have put that $2500 to ill use anyway, joining a health club or receiving psychiatric care for my body-image issues. Number 4: I never did fully appreciate how beautiful my skin used to be. Number 3: Once I purchase a wig, I will own a $2500 Dolly Parton costume which will last for many Halloweens to come. Number 2: I have finally learned the metric system, since I can only measure my progress in millimeters. And the number one reason that I love my Brava: My husband appreciates the new skill I obtained when my Smartbox died and I started sucking the air out of the domes by mouth.
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