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Karen the Before & After of M&S Firm control Waist Cincher Shapewear
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On today's video, we're going to be talking about shapewear. Now I did a video, I think
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it was last week, it was an Halara leisure wear haul. And one of my subscribers asked
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if I would do a video showing what clothes looked like with shapewear and without shapewear
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because she wasn't sure what it did for you or which ones to buy. So I thought I'd try
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and talk you through it. What I'm going to do is I'm going to talk a little bit about
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shapewear. I'm going to show you which shapewear I wear and then I'm going to show you some
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photographs of what I look like without the shapewear with just ordinary pants and then
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or knickers if you're in the UK and then with the shapewear. And I've taken photographs
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from the front, from the side and from the back in three different outfits. So I've used
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a dress, a pair of jeggings and a pair of the Halara pants that I tried on last week
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just so you can get an idea of what it looks like. Now, if you've never been to my channel
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before, I am five foot four, I'm a size 18 to 20 and I do have a large stomach. Obviously
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I'm overweight, but I also have a diastasis hernia, which makes my stomach stick out just
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around the belly button. For me, shapewear just gives me that little bit more support
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because I do have quite a jiggly belly and it just smooths things out. So I'm going to
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show you the shapewear that I wear and these are the Marks and Spencer's Body Define Firm
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Control Waist Cincher Knickers. Now, they don't have these exact ones on the Marks and
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Spencer site. They are very similar, but they're obviously an updated model. I have
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had these for about three or four years now and you can see they are a little bit stretchy
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but they do have a lot of control. They've got a panel down the middle and two panels
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down the side and they also have a panel at the leg and these do go up to just underneath
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where my bra is and they come down to where the top of my leg is so there's no gap at
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the sides. They're not a kind of a high leg shape. I will put the link to the similar
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ones of those shapewear in the description box below if you want to go and have a look
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at them. They do them in the size 8 to 24 and mine are in a size 20. Now, I think when
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you've got a big stomach, it makes you feel a little bit self-conscious, especially if
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I'm going for a night out or say I was going to a wedding and I wanted to wear something
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nice and you maybe want to dance or something like that and you don't want the belly jiggling
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all over. I do feel a little bit self-conscious and it can be a little bit uncomfortable as
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well when you've got a big stomach, especially if you have got a dress on. It can just make
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you feel self-conscious because you might feel it just doesn't look right. It's not
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the way you want to look. You probably look fine to other people but if you don't feel
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happy in yourself, then there's nothing wrong with wearing some shapewear to make you feel
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a little bit better about yourself. So, shapewear isn't going to make you two sizes smaller
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My stomach without my shapewear is, the biggest part is 51 inches. So that is quite big. Now
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with the shapewear, it is just under 50 inches. So it's only going to take an inch off. But
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that to me is well worth it because what it also does for us, it smooths everything and
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you'll see that in the pictures that I'm going to show you. It just feels like it holds everything
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compact and I have a little bit of support. And as well as having a big stomach, I've
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also got what they call an apron belly. I think in America they may call it a lower
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belly pooch. But here I think they call it an apron belly. So you've got a bit of stomach
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that kind of, it doesn't sound very nice, but it kind of hangs. And if you've got one
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you know exactly what I mean. That can make me feel a little bit self-conscious if I'm
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not wearing shapewear because in some clothes I've got, it is noticeable. So I like to wear
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the shapewear just to kind of pull that up a little bit and just to smooth things out
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And it just makes your clothes hang a little bit better as well. It gets rid of, if you
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get the right shapewear, it gets rid of the panty lines that you might have. And it does
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just make you feel better about yourself, but it isn't going to make you two dress sizes
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smaller. So beware of that. If that's what you're looking for, it isn't going to do that
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So if you Google shapewear and what it's supposed to do for you, it does say it'll make your
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clothes fit better and accentuate your natural silhouette, which hopefully that does. There
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are lots of different kinds of shapewear on the market. You've got the tummy control and
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the thigh control. So they're going to look more like shorts. You've got a body suit that
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you can wear with your own bra. So it comes up to here and then it's got straps going up there
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So you wear your own bra with it. You can also get a body suit that looks like a swimsuit
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That is a shapewear. You can get the waist cincher and the thigh slimmer, which cinches
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in your waist and it can pull in your thighs as well. If that's something that you want
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you can get a full slip. So if you wanted to wear shapewear with a dress, a full slip might
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be better for you. I think you can get half slips as well, but I haven't actually seen them in the
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shops. You can get just ordinary full briefs, which have got a firm control and you can get
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full briefs, which have got a lighter control as well. Now, I don't wear my shapewear all of the
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time. I only wear it for like a special occasion or if I'm wearing something that particularly I
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feel makes us look a bit bulkier or a bit bumpier, should we say, then I will wear that out
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I do have some lighter control shapewear that I got from Primark that really are just a little
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bit like ordinary knickers, to be honest, and don't really hold anything in at all, but they do make
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me feel a little bit more comfortable if I wanted to wear shapewear through the day. Otherwise
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I'll just wear my ordinary underwear and be quite happy about it. I don't have to look
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streamlined all the time. So let's look at the footage of me with and without the shapewear
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and see what we see on there. So, like I said in the beginning, my experience of wearing shapewear isn't to make us look
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you know, I'm a size 18 to 20. I'm not going to look like a size 12. That's not what I buy it for
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and that's not what I wear it for. I wear it just to make me clothes flow a bit smoothly
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a bit more smoothly over my body. They pull me in a little bit, like I said, there's a little bit of
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they pull me in a little bit, like I said, there's only about an inch difference
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but I do feel with the apron belly part, they do kind of disguise that a little bit
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They just make me feel more confident when I'm out. So I'm happy with that
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So some tips for when you go to buy shapewear. So measure yourself before you, you know
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if you're buying online, check your measurements before you actually buy online. Check your
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measurements before you go and buy them in store. I'm not sure if you can try shapewear on in store
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It's not something I've ever done. So you would have to check with the store if that was possible
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and if it is, obviously all the better, but that may not be possible. So take your measurements
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so you get the right size. Don't just go off, you know, is it size 18? Is it size 20? Is it size 16
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Take your measurements so you know exactly what you're buying. For me, the size 20, which I am
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on the bottom was the right size for me. Make sure you get the right style of shapewear you want
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If it's, you know, your thighs you're wanting to have a little bit smoother, then you want the
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shorts type. If it's, you know, all over, you may want the whole body shape. It's like the swimsuit
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or if you're wearing a dress, it may be the slip style. So make sure you know which style
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that you want. Have a look at them all and see which one would suit you best
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And when you're putting your shapewear on, don't try and put it on when you get out the shower and
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your body's still, you've dried yourself off, but your body's still a little bit, you know
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damp and maybe warm. That's not a good time to put the shapewear on. Wait until you've cooled
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down a little bit and then put it on. I have to say it's not a struggle really to get the
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shapewear on. If you've got the right size, it won't be a struggle to get on and it shouldn't
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if it's a waist one, or in fact, if it's any kind of one that, you know, ends around your waist or
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up here, it shouldn't roll down if it's the right size. If it's rolling down, it's too tight
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Never buy shapewear that is too tight for you. Don't buy it in a size, you know, if you're a size 20
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don't buy it in a size 16 thinking, oh, well, I'm going to look two sizes smaller. All it's going to
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do is cause you real discomfort and you won't enjoy the occasion, you know, that you want to
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wear it for. And it can also cause problems. It can, you know, if it's too tight, you may not want to
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go to the loo. So if you're holding on and not going to the loo, it may cause you to have like a UTI
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or something. And it can also make you feel a little bit bloated if it's too tight. It, you know
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can affect your digestion. So that might make you feel bloated. So buy the right size. Don't try and
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get it smaller. So to make yourself look smaller, because that's not going to work. And don't get it
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too big for you either, because that's just not going to work at all. Make sure you get the right
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size. So I hope you found that interesting. As you can see, the shapewear that I'm wearing did make
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me or did make the clothes look a little bit smoother than I was wearing, which I was very
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happy with. If you like clothing type videos, I regularly do try on hauls. So if you do like that
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kind of thing, hit the subscribe button and then the little notification bell, and then you can see
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what I'm, what videos I'm bringing out coming up. So that's all I've got for you today
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Thank you so much for watching. Bye for now
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