Saline vs. silicone vs. gummi

November 7, 2006 8:53 PM

NaNoWriMo-filter (okay, and I'm just plain curious): What do saline vs. silicone vs. cohensive gel ("gummi bear") implants feel like? Does it feel like flesh on top with a discernable lump beneath, or do the two intermingle subtly? I'm most curious about the cohesive gel, as these are touted as being realistic but they're new enough (still in clinical trials in the U.S.) that personal accounts are rare.

I realize there is a built-in bias from the guy's POV: the obvious ones are obvious, but if a certain percentage are natural enough they may fly under one's radar and be classified as "real." So I'm most interested in people who knew the breast had been pimped afore they groped it (this would include recipients of said enhancements).

I read this thread, but the gummis are left out of the discussion. And yes, I suppose I should find some friends who will let me find out for myself.

posted by Humpable Prose to clothing, beauty, & fashion (4 comments total)

Well I cannot offer a comparison of all three but the first implants I encountered were oldschool huge incision under the breast silicone that seemed as hard as a vollyball. since then I have felt a few that varied between unnaturally firm and able to pass for very firm natural breasts. I did not ask what kind they were. As far as feeling the implant beneath the breast I never noticed it.
posted by Iron Rat at 10:00 PM on November 7, 2006

I have an ex who has 36C saline implants. They looked spectacular (they cost $8K) and for the most part felt pretty good. The only downside I found was this: if you take a plastic bag and fill it with water, the underside of the bag will not be smooth - it will wrinkle. This is what I could feel on the underside of her breasts: smooth skin on the outside, but with the wrinkles on the bottom of the saline "bags" under the skin layer. This in turn caused minor confusion and dissonance in my mind which was processessing the visual information that the breasts looked real, but the tactile information that they clearly were not.
posted by forallmankind at 10:18 PM on November 7, 2006

I've only handled the saline variety, and they felt fairly decent. Too much give, a little displacement far under my fingertips, and a problem with the texture on the bottom-- there's enough breast tissue over them to obscure a lot but the bottom of the breasts felt off. I could tell that they're not quite real, and I'm certain that I would have noticed even if I hadn't known they were there. But it wasn't that far off.
posted by Mayor Curley at 3:31 AM on November 8, 2006

I cannot believe I'm answering this, but...

Cohesive gel implants "intermingle nicely". They are designed to be more natural in shape. They've been in use in Europe for about ten years and are currently available in Canada with special permissions. They are, in my opinion, the nicest I've ever felt. They appear natural and have a nice "give".

The silicone implants I've felt have been very hard and unforgiving to the point of "ow, what the heck..." when hugging.

The saline implants are as reported above.
posted by FlamingBore at 3:36 PM on November 8, 2006