Stuck with armpit rolls forever?
Sigh... I’ve been scooping and swooping and wearing the correct size for about half a year now, and the results do show. I wasn’t wearing a horrendously wrong size, so I haven’t gone up more than one cup size, but even that shows as noticeably smaller back rolls. I do get slight bulges under the band, but that I suspect is just plain fat that I can’t blame on ill-fitting bras
However, my armpit rolls are still very much present, even when I’m wearing a well-fitting bra (band tight enough, cups right size etc.) and have s&s’d. They are especially awkward under tops and tight shirts...
I have shallow breasts that sit very high up on my chest, which of course means that my bra sits very high up and the band is almost in my armpit, as you can see in these pictures:
http://i.imgur.com/HVMNqmj.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/3DDMpZu.jpg
The instant I lower my arm, I already start getting a bulge: http://i.imgur.com/lUZdRaR.jpg
And it’s at its worse, of course, when my arms are down or facing forward/over my chest:
http://i.imgur.com/e3UJ6Mm.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/jd91jo9.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/A7q3uM2.jpg?1
I suspect the bra sitting as high as it does is the main culprit. But is this just fat tissue whose existence I’ll just have to live with, or is there something I can do about it? I know I’m not especially skinny and will probably always have lumps and bulges here and there, and that’s not really a problem. But the armpit rolls are just so unaesthetic and basically look like a textbook example of MBT...
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I think it's a mixture of both breast and actual body fat. Most women I've seen have the armpit roll you refer to. The funny thing is, I am probably very skinny (I weigh around 100 lbs at 5'3) and I -have- armpit rolls too.
What if you try a larger cup size with wide wires and try to scoop it all in?
I have very little fat on my upper body, no migrated breast tissue (as far as I can tell anyway) and I also have high-set breasts. Bottom line: I get almost exactly the same effect when I have my arms forward. It's virtually gone when I assume correct posture but when I reach forward or cross my arms it looks as if I have a fatty ridge in that exact same place. I'd say it actually got a lot more noticeable with wearing otherwise better fitting and better quality bras and no amount of swooping and scooping seems to make any difference ...
If anyone has a solution for this 'problem' I'd be very glad to hear it, but I'm attributing it to the fact that my bra bands literally sit right underneath my shoulderblades. They kind of 'pop' over the edge of the band when I reach forward and for some reason create this soft and squishy 'ridge' of skin -- I really don't know anything can be done about it :(
Edited To Add:
Anyway, to make a long story short, I actually doubt it's migrated tissue. I personally think it's for a large part simply 'ease' in the skin that is necessary for movement -- wearing a fitted bra band in that place restricts the 'natural flow' of the skin over the underlying frame which results in the skin 'bulging' in certain places and 'pulling' in others. The only solution I can think of myself is a bra or vest with a way higher backs that literally smooths over the shouldersblades.
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