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Your waist shape is also determined by the integrity and position abdominal wall muscles and your abdominal skin. Liposuction isn't great at managing either one of those and procedures like tummy tucks can help there. The compression garment helps with skin retraction and minimizes swelling.
For temporary waist shrinking a waist cincher may be better. If you would like to achieve an extremely tiny waist circumference, the more narrow the cincher is, the tighter you will be able to make it. If you even replace it with a normal waist belt 1 or 2 inches wide, you will be able to reach extreme results.I can pull in my waist to about 19 inches with a belt, while my normal waist circumference is 29 inches...!aking the world better, one answer at a time. It depends on wether you want to shrink your waist permanently, even when you don't wear a corset, or just temporarily to get the minimum waist circumference you can achieve. For permanent shrinking a full corset worn 24/7 will be best.