

- Concern
- Abdomen
- Protocol
- Lipocavitation, a series
- What the photos show
- Both photos are taken lying down, from the same angle and at the same spot. What they compare is the line of the flank.

The area that did not move while everything else answered. Forty minutes of ultrasound on the flanks, stomach or hips.

TYPE OF CARE
Esthetician's treatment. No medical procedure.
A treatment using low-frequency ultrasound, applied to a specific area with a probe and contact gel.
The ultrasound causes microscopic bubbles to form and collapse very quickly in the fluid between tissues. The phenomenon has a name, cavitation, and the mechanical agitation it produces acts on how the tissue under the skin is organised.
The sentence to keep before you book: this treatment works the contour of one specific area, it does not make you thinner and it is no match for liposuction. It replaces neither training nor food. What it aims at is the local appearance of a spot that holds on. The skin may also feel different, but that is a possible extra, not what we are after.
What concerns a man of thirty-five in particular: male fat settles on the flanks and the abdomen first, and it stays there more stubbornly than elsewhere. That is the area that refuses to follow once your weight has gone stable again, and it is the reason behind most men's appointments here.

The treatment works on the look of one specific area. It does not make you thinner and it replaces nothing.
It is for you if:
Your flanks are the last thing that has not moved
You lost weight, your face changed, your legs did too, and the love handles are still there. It is the most common case by far.
Your weight is not moving much any more
This treatment works on an area, not on a trajectory. If your weight still swings by several kilos, the change will be hard to judge and hard to keep.
You want one area worked
The lower stomach, one flank, the hips. The treatment is local by nature, and the price follows the number of areas.
You have no downtime to spare
Forty minutes, no downtime, and nothing visible on the way out but passing redness.
Are you trying to lose weight?
This treatment does not do that, and saying so here saves ten sessions of disappointment. Write to us. Naturopathy is a more useful conversation on that.
Conditions, implants and medication can close the door. Your cardiac, liver and kidney history is reviewed before the first session, following what the maker of our device sets out. A clotting disorder or an active cancer get named there too.
Implantable defibrillators included. Declare it when you book, no exception.
A pin, a plate, a prosthesis: that area is excluded, the others remain treatable.
A wound, a rash, a tattoo under six weeks old: the session waits.

Two men do not get the same session, and three things explain why.
Here is how a lipocavitation runs at Béa, from the first word to the door.
WE SAY WHAT IT DOES NOT DO
This treatment does not make you thinner and it is no match for liposuction. That is written here, before you pay.
A FREE BODY CONSULTATION, AND OPTIONAL
It exists to check that this is the right treatment, including when the answer is no. If you already know what you want, book straight away.
NO DOWNTIME TO PLAN FOR
Forty minutes and you leave. It fits into a lunch break.

Their experienceat Béa
Beautiful Spa that is a one stop shop for all your beauty, body and aesthetic needs. The staff is skilled, warm and inviting and the zen decor makes you want to never leave. I have loved all of my services thus far, and I will continue to come back to discover new services.
Kim B.
Fresha review
These photos are published for information only and are in no way a guarantee of results. Every skin responds differently. Published with the written consent of the clients.


Everything people ask us before a first session, answered plainly.
The word "lipocavitation" hides several devices, set differently, whose effects are not the same. Some ultrasound technologies aim at the thickness of subcutaneous fat; others do far less. We pitch what we expect on the device we actually own, not on the slogan of the trade. What is certain: this is not a way to get thinner, and it is not liposuction, which belongs to a physician, in another setting and at another price.
Because an area that holds on is not solved by the same route as your weight. A man can lose it everywhere else and keep flanks that refuse to follow: that is where this treatment sits, on one spot rather than on a whole silhouette. It is also why it gives the most to someone whose weight has already settled: it finishes a job rather than starting one.
Several low-frequency devices produce a hum or a whistle you notice mostly during the session. It is not painful, and it goes when the device goes. The sensation is strange the first time; most people stop noticing after ten minutes. If it genuinely bothers you, say so: the session can be split into shorter passes.
This treatment is not judged on a single session, and you should know that before starting. It is judged over a series, at a regular rhythm spread across several weeks, and the esthetician will tell you what makes sense for your area at the body consultation. What we will not do is sell you a series at a first appointment or promise a result after a given number of visits.
Redness and warmth on the area, passing, for a length that depends on your skin and on the settings of the day. You get dressed and you leave: it is one of the few body treatments here that fits into a lunch break without anybody noticing.
Most men take the treatment well. Redness, warmth, a tender area or slight swelling can show up and go on their own. As with any ultrasound device, poor use can also burn or irritate the skin further: that is why the contact of the probe and the settings are watched from start to finish. Pain or excessive heat gets reported on the spot.
Because it is our instruction, and we would rather put it that way than invent a mechanism for you. Keep well hydrated through the day, leave the alcohol alone, and follow what you are told for your own protocol. It is the only instruction on this page and it lasts twenty-four hours.
They work on different things. Slimwave contracts your muscles by electrical stimulation, so it works tone, and it runs 1 h 10. Lipocavitation acts on the tissue under the skin with ultrasound, so on how an area looks, and it runs forty minutes. If your subject is a stomach lacking firmness, Slimwave is better placed. If it is a flank whose shape you dislike while your weight is steady, this is the one.

Send us your questions and we will guide you toward the treatments that suit you best.