Glossary of Terms
- Adhesive Pads
- The trademarked name for adhesive butt pads is Sticky Buns and for adhesive hip pads is Sticky Hips. These pads have self-renewing adhesive on the dome-side of the pads. The adhesive sticks to the inside of your underwear or jeans (rather than sticking to the skin). After hand-washing the adhesive-side of the pads, the stickiness will renew. Pads can be washed about 75 times before stickiness will begin to fade.
BBL
- Acronym for Brazilian Butt Lift. This surgical procedure is one of the most dangerous of cosmetic surgeries. Fat is transferred from one part of the body to the butt cheeks for a dramatically rounded look. Often BBL surgeries are sold by unscrupulous med spas and surgical centers and are even performed in unlicensed offices with dangerous/toxic materials causing deformity and death. This procedure has one of the lowest post-surgery satisfaction rates amongst patients.
- Butt Pads
- Padding that enhances the look and feel of the derriere, available in 3 types of silicone and lightweight polyurethane foam. Booty pads must be worn inside a Pocket-Panty to ensure that the pads stay in place. Only Adhesive Booty/Hips Pads can be worn in your own shapewear.
Our booty pads can be purchased in two ways:- In a set with a Pocket-Panty.
- As Replacement Pads. Replacement pads are booty or hip pads that are sold separately. People buy Replacement Pads when they need new pads for the pocket-panties that they already have, or when they want to try different types/sizes of pads inside their Pocket-Panty
- Boyshort
- An underwear style the resembles snug-fitting shorts, extending down the leg slightly with an inseam of approximately an inch or less. Variations can include high-waisted boyshorts although the most common style is lowrise or super-lowrise. The best benefit to boyshorts is that they can be designed to prevent visible panty lines.
- Bra Cutlets
- Silicone push-up pads designed to be inserted into a bra cup to make boobs look bigger.
- Brief
- An underwear style with a midwaist rise and full coverage over the derriere. Variations can include briefs that extend down the leg (referred to as mid-thigh brief).
- Fake Bum
- Many refer to butt pads as a fake bum, or padded panties as fake bum pants. These phrases are particularly popular in Great Britain where a booty is commonly called a bum. But rest assured, they are all the same product.
- Latex
- Latex is a form of rubber that has been stretched and flattened to make sheets of fabric that is then sewn into shapewear. The natural qualities of this high quality shaping fabric makes for a comfortable yet highly effective maximum control body shaper.
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- Pad size
- Pads increase in thickness as the pad size increases (for example, Small pads will be much thinner than the XX-Large pads). There is a small difference from one size to the next, but skipping-up 2 to 3 sizes will show a noticeable difference in booty enhancing effect (and will still fit into a pocket-panty of a smaller size).
- Pocket-Panties
- A panty with pockets in the back for derriere enhancement padding. When purchased separately, a Pocket-Panty does not ship with pads. A person would buy a Pocket-Panty if they want extra panties to use with booty pads they already own. Buying the Pocket-Panty separately (without pads) helps to save customers money when they need additional panties but don't need more pads.
If you don't have Booty Pads or a Pocket-Panty already, we recommend visiting our "Padded Underwear" department and first shopping for a "panty/pad set". This is because we design and match a pad's shape, style, weight and thickness to the style of the Pocket-Panty so you know you'll get panties and pads that fit together perfectly.
On the other hand, our regular customers might like a particular panty style, but would like to match it with a pad set other than the set that is sold with the panty. So purchasing a Pocket-Panty (without the pads) and Booty Pads separately allows customers to Customize Their Curves by mixing and matching Pocket Panties with booty pads that work best for them.
To find all our Pocket Panties styles sold without the pads, go to our Search page and search for "Pads not Included".
- Silicone: Traditional
- Traditional Silicone has the texture, firmness and weight of the silicone you have always known and loved. This silicone is used in both booty and breast enhancing padding (like silicone "cutlets").
- Silicone: Lite
- Lightweight Silicone is silicone that has air infused into the material during the manufacturing process. Because the pad is half air / half silicone, it's half the weight of traditional/clear silicone pads. These pads are slightly firmer than traditional silicone.
- Silicone: Clear Jiggly
- Clear silicone is the smushiest silicone available on the market today. We developed this type of silicone to be a bit softer than the traditional NUDE silicone pads, creating a more "jiggly" effect. We also made these pads slightly thicker than the NUDE traditional silicone pads. Because the pads are softer, they can sink down into a pocket panty if the panty is not designed to hold the weight of the pad. So make sure you are pairing these pads with the proper panty listed here: Clear silicone booty padding.
- TPU
- The thin plastic outer skin of our silicone pads. The acronym stands for Thermoplastic Polyurethane, a versatile elastomer with highly functional characteristics for the apparel industry. TPU is thermoplastic (a material that becomes flexible when heated and solidifies when cooled). It's flexible elasticity offers ideal resistance to puncture, impact and abrasions, making it the perfect material to create the encasement for our silicone pads.
- Waistline
- Shapewear and regular undies are made in a variety of rises called Lowrise, Midwaist, Hi-rise, Highrise and Highwaist.
