Does DIY cupping work?

In my experience so far - and I am surprised myself - YES, it does.
I've been using silicon cups for exactly a week now.
I purchased them to remedy my life-long sluggish lymph flow. That was it.

Well, the lymph flow got worse - MUCH worse - before it got better (more on that on some other occasion).
But I have noticed something unexpected: my cellulite seems to be disintegrating.
(The cellulite also doesn't hurt as much as it did at the beginning, and I doubt it's because I got "used" to it - you don't get used to certain pain - or because the cups became weaker. When I apply a cup to a place where I haven't used it before, the cellulite still hurts.

There is also a very visible - totally unexpected - result: the cellulite around my navel (belly button) and abdomen has smoothed out, and my waistline actually improved. This I was not expecting. Ever.

But the most exciting result to me is my face and neck.
Again I bought the cups "just" to remove the lymph (it accumulates even in my nose!).
After two days - I kid you not - I noticed my jawline becoming tauter. And by that I mean, other people seem to be noticing it. Like, strangers on the street. (And no, it's NOT because of the bruises.
Kidding. :)
I did have some bruising, but that's because I let a cup sit on my face for HOURS while I read.)

Oh, how I wish I had this YEARS ago!


Please note: I AM NOT SAYING YOU WILL GET THE SAME - OR COMPARABLE - RESULTS.
Then again, you may.
You may get even better results.

In case you're interested, I bought this kit.
(And no, I hereby formally declare that I am in no way associated to the company, nor was I paid or received any benefit whatsoever to toot their horn.
In fact, I paid through the nose for the postage and the Amazon "insurance", in addition to the kit, because it's not yet available in Europe.)

There are many other brands, including the Bellabaci system which seems to have been the first silicon-made cupping kit for home use. Based on their Amazon (and other) reviews they seem to be very good. Had I not found that other system first, I would probably have gotten the Bellabacis (especially since they are readily available in Europe).

A caveat, though.
It seems some silly webmaster/mistress at Bellbabaci.com has created a series of positive reviews - but neglected to pay attention to the timestamps... :)

http://www.bellabaci.com/does-cupping-therapy-hurt/

Please. Do you really want us to believe that all of the six happy customers posted their reviews on the same day, two-three minutes apart?
(To give them the benefit of doubt, I thought at first that the time stamps reflected the time of  comment approval. But that doesn't make sense. Comments, no matter when they are approved, reflect the time at which they were posted by their authors. Besides, why would one need several minutes to approve each of these short comments one after the other?)

This is how companies hurt themselves. The Bellabaci cups seem to come highly recommended by actual customers - why would you risk your own reputation?


That's it for now.
More in the Self-Made Beauty section of this blogo-fleet when it is updated in a few days (after more than two years!).