Are you a candidate? The honest checklist

Five gates decide it — donor fat, weight stability, skin quality, health and expectations. Here's each one, plainly, so you can pre-assess yourself before sending a single photo.

Donor fat: pinchable reserve at the flanks, waist or thighs — the modest volumes make this slim-friendly, but very lean bodies can genuinely lack material, and you'd be told from photos.
Weight stability: ~6 months at your settled weight (GLP-1 and post-bariatric journeys included — surgery waits for the plateau, because grafted fat behaves like your fat, in both directions).
Skin quality: good elasticity lets modest volume read smoothly; significant laxity after major weight loss may need its own conversation first — honestly flagged at assessment.
Health & habits: anaesthesia fitness, controlled chronic conditions, and no nicotine four weeks either side — the absolute rule of all fat grafting.
Calibrated expectations: smoothing a line, not rebuilding a skeleton; 50–70% survival; verdict at 3–6 months. Patients who want this specific, honest thing are the ones this surgery serves brilliantly.

And the sixth gate — wanting it for you

Pressure from anyone else, a contour panic sparked by filtered photos, or hoping surgery fixes something surgery can't reach — each earns a slower, kinder conversation first. Hip dips are normal anatomy; correction is an informed preference, never an obligation.

The page that says so

Pre-assess me from photos

Are you a candidate? The honest checklist

And the sixth gate — wanting it for you

Pass four gates, unsure on one?