 I am just, I just wanna cry. I was popping, welcome back to another vlog. In this vlog, I'm gonna be taking you guys with me through my first week of recovering from a BBL girl. This has not been an easy journey, but working in through it. But before I even get started in this video, I wanna talk about native. Y'all know I love native so much. Even before they reached out to me and wanted to work with me, I was so shocked because I've been using native. If you're not new here, you know like native is like my go-to deodorant. So I just wanted to talk about them, but before we even get started in this video. So, yeah, y'all know native is, it's poultry free and it's aluminum free, paraben free and also sulfate free. And it also includes my favorite, favorite skincare products, shea butter and coconut oil because it's very moisturizing to the skin. So, and that's very important, especially when it comes to underarms. So it's a non-sticky and it just glides on and it's just the best deodorant. And I'm gonna show y'all the three deodorants. I've been using the three scents that I've been loving right now during this season. And native lasts on me all day. Y'all know I have these foams and everything on. Girl, I'm sweaty and I be cool, girl. Like, and it's hot outside, but native helps me get through my long sweaty days because it literally lasts on me all day, has me smelling fresh even if I do, you know, sweat and go crazy. I'm gonna show y'all the scents I've been trying out from them that I've been alternating. But my favorite right now is the Sweet Peach and Nectar. Girl, this is the perfect summer peach scent. Like it's not too fruity because I don't like too fruity products on my skin. I don't like that. But this is very, a very subtle peachy scent. My second favorite is the cactus flower and poppy. Y'all are so dirty because I took it with me to Miami. I took all three and I was just arching it in through three. But this one is like a grown, sophisticated scent and I really like it. And I like smelling grown, sophisticated, put together and this is like that scent that will give you that, you know? This is literally sucking the life out of me but I need to compress. But anyway. So then I am using the apple and honeysuckle. This is a very fall harvesty apple scent but I really like it but my two top favorites are the Sweet Peach and the Sweet Peach and cactus flower poppy. And you'll be able to get your own deodorant pack. All you need to do is click the link down in my description box below and use my code. And normally the pack of three is $36 but when you use my code and use my link you'll get it for 24 and it's a definite steal. So you need to get it, try these scents out because I feel like they're the perfect fall scents and y'all know fall time is coming up. So yeah, native is like my go-to writer died deodorant. So I want y'all to check these out. Y'all been loving, y'all been loving native deodorants. Y'all tag me all the time in the story so I'm glad y'all are checking them out and I truly appreciate native for working with me on this video and also they have a wide range of scents. So there's literally a scent for you. Like literally, they have so many scents, it's crazy. So yeah, so don't forget to check the description box below so you'll be able to use my code and use the link so you'll be able to get your own deodorant pack as well. And thank you, native, for sponsoring this video. So let's just hop right into the vlog. Hey y'all, what's popping? Welcome back to another vlog. I am one week post-op this week and I'm on my way to my second massage here back at home. So hey girl, if you're new here, my name is Karen. Don't forget to like, comment, subscribe. So anyway, yeah, I'm a week post-op, I'm doing fine. I am just really excited to get into my stage too far because I'm over not seeing my waist subs. And like, my butt is fine, but I just need my waist to go in. Like I need to just shrink. So, but I have no stomach. But anyway, oh my God, my lip color is kinda bad, kinda sorta. But yeah, I'm on my way to this massage. I can't wait to go to my massage tomorrow. My massage tomorrow is in Chicago and I like the lady. I seen her Instagram, her results are crazy. But I'm really just trying out a couple of people right now, just one, one, one, not booking a whole bunch at once because I wanna see how I like these people first. I went to somebody yesterday, but she was going on a town or something. So, I mean, she was good, but I'm trying out somebody else today and then tomorrow I'm trying out somebody else in Chicago. So, yeah, I'm on my way there now. I am with my sister. She drive on reckless as fuck. It's no I'm not. Yeah, she is. No the fuck I'm not. Okay. But yeah, I don't know if I can record in here. I'm already late, so. Yeah. So, I'll see what I can do. Okay, girl. So, it's been a little bit later and home girl couldn't take me today at my massage. She was like, oh, it's only appointment. I'm here late, boo-boo-boo, whatever. So, it's all good. I'm excited for the girl in Chicago though because I looked at her Instagram. I mean, she has a few pictures, but her pictures of the body she's been doing look bomb. Don't mind me, I look a mess. But I'm just chilling right now. I got my boards on, the booty, the booty. And so, I've been feeding my fat. So, I've been eating a lot of fish, salmon. So, right now for like a snack, I'm eating these crackers with this, who just checked me? This smoked salmon, I know it looks like uncooked tuna, but I promise you it's not. And if you do eat that, that's nasty. And this dill. So, look at all this work I got piled up. So, yeah, y'all. Yeah, so I'm just eating that. I'm been watching the game. Y'all, I finished season three on Netflix and it's crazy. Why would Netflix play like that? Why would they only put three seasons on there? Like, what? So, I'm like, oh my God, I need to continue this. So, I watched the game before, but I wasn't all into it like I am now because obviously I don't have anything else to do. So, yeah. So, I'm just gonna do that and drink some water and eat my food. Well, my little snack. And then, yeah, so I'm not doing anything. I just can't wait for tomorrow for my massage. I'm so mad I missed the ones today because I really don't want fluid to build up in my stomach. Even though before I left Miami, homegirl was like, you're good. You shouldn't have any issues. Your stomach is fine. She was like, you don't have no lumps, nothing. And I really don't. So, but I just don't. And today, I'm still in my stage one Faha and I have two custom Faha's on the way and I'm so excited for them to come. But today, I just got this taken in. Yeah, I just got this taken in. I just got my boards and this on. And I just got this taken in three inches because I really wanted it to be tight. You gotta compress, compress, compress. And then I got this taken in too. So, arms can be skinny. So, but yeah, I'm gonna check in with y'all probably tomorrow because I'm honestly not doing anything. So, yeah, I'll probably check in with y'all tomorrow. Hey y'all, it's been like a couple of days. I'm on my way back, on my way to Chicago to get my massages. This is my second one with her already prepaid her for 10 massages. So, we're about to be on our way there. I'm on my booty pillow right now but I might turn over and kneel. But, y'all, honestly, I have not been myself. I've literally just been in my room watching movies, healing and not, I don't know, work is piling up and like, I gotta get back to work but also I don't wanna put my body under stress. I want my body to heal and do its thing. And yeah, so I'm waiting for my stage two fire to come so I can be a little bit more, I feel like, I should say mobile as far as like moving because I can't move that much because I have my boards and stuff in and I just look like a big ass, I don't know, like, I don't know, I don't feel comfortable going places. I just feel like being in the house. I don't feel like moving out of my bed. I would just lay on the side of the bed and kneel when I'm eating or lay down face forward. But I just don't have any energy. But my fault, my camera is dying so I'm gonna put it on the charger and then I'm gonna bring my camera in so y'all can see what the massage lady is gonna do to me. But yeah, so. Well, I'm now in Chicago and I'm with Carmen, my masseuse, my massage therapist. She is like so good. This is my second time coming over and I already booked in advance so I know she gonna get me right. And this is her. Hey, everybody, my face mask on, hey. I know it's hard to talk. But she does a lot of the, what do you do again? You can explain this to them if you want. I do a lot of manual lymphatic drainage massage. I do regular massage too, but we're talking about manual lymph drainage today. I help a lot of clients post-surgery, tummy tucks, breast augmentation, liposuction, BBL. The massage is just speeds recovery, reduces swelling, pain, stiffness, and that hardness you might get post-surgery from scar tissue that sometimes turns into fibrosis. So yeah, so she is really, really educating me on a lot of this stuff because y'all know I'm new. So, and I will be leaving her Instagram in the description box if anybody is going through this and is in like the Wisconsin Chicago area because it was really hard for me to find a masseuse. And yeah, so all her information will be in the description box below. And I'm so excited to see how my process is gonna come. I'm only like two weeks post-op now, but this is my second time coming to her. Yeah, it's definitely gonna take some time about two to three months for you to really feel back to your normal self. Yeah, cause I have, I just told them I do not feel like myself. I've been like, uh, like just not even in the mood to do nothing. Now I'm just basically directing the fluid to where it should go, which is the front, the front groin area where the lymph nodes are. And up here by the armpit, I'm just directing, pumping the fluid where it needs to go. And it's gonna drain out manually through her urine, bowel movement or sweat. And it can be very tender. She has a lot of swelling, a little bit of scar tissue and that's normal post-surgery. That's just the body's normal defense, inflammation, swelling, pain, stiffness, tightness. So all that's normal. Next I'm gonna go in with my ultrasound machine. And that's what really speeds the recovery, reduces swelling and reduces the scar tissue. So she's gonna feel much better after this session. How about all that stuff on in my room? I'm tired of everything. Yeah, summertime is the worst time to have surgery ladies wait till the winter time when you can just stay in the house and recover. Summertime you gotta wear the fa-ha. And then your clothes on top of the fa-ha is just miserable in the summertime. And a lot of ladies don't wanna wear the fa-ha during the summertime because it's so hot. That's fine, I don't need the house. It makes me just wanna stay in the house on the AC. So especially when I'm bad, like every time even if I feel like I'm covered over, it just really gets out. And because you're going through so much inflammation, like maybe 50% of your body is inflamed. So you're definitely gonna be hot. And with the inflammation comes that heat because you're so inflamed. So that's why you're probably a little bit hotter than normal. Or if sometimes if you're cold, your iron might be low. So look out for that if you feel yourself getting cold a lot. Did they give you iron pills? I got an iron syrup that I take every day. Yeah, okay, good, good. So this is the ultrasound machine I'm using. And like I said, it's really good for breaking up scar tissue. So I use this majority of the session because this thing penetrates deep, like a deep tissue massage, but without the pressure. So it's penetrating like three, four liters deep into the tissues and the muscles. Increasing circulation, doing tissue repair. This machine is strictly for recovery, pain, swelling, scar tissue, and it speeds recovery. That's one of the best things that it does. So if you recover, recovery takes like six months. I use this machine. It'll cut it out to maybe about three months recovery time. So this machine and your maximum compression, five, results will be amazing. The tender here, the scar tissues. I'm gonna take a picture of her arm because sometimes you can kind of see the scar tissue when you take a picture of it. And the scar tissue kind of feels like hard, like a leathery feel. You can sometimes turn your skin color a little bit dark. So that's what I mean. Sometimes you can kind of see it and it kind of just looks based the skin all deformed. Like Cardi B had it. That's why she wouldn't have more light bulb because she had light bulb on her abs, abdomen area. It just looked deformed. I thought she had fibrosis. That's what it is. That's what the scar tissue turns into if it's not treated, it turns into fibrosis. And you saw it look kind of deformed, right? That's how I'll have you look at deformed. She's still kind of got it, don't you think? She, I don't know, she must have just didn't know when to go again with the scar tissue. I'm not sure if she still has it now because I'm doing a lot of photoshopping, so. Everybody uses her as an example of fibrosis. Yes, because I saw a photo and you can see it really good. And I'm like, is that photoshopped or what? But later after that, she wouldn't have had more light bulb done. And sometimes people get more light bulb to break up the scar tissue. And a lot of doctors don't talk about the scar tissue. They talk about the fluid. That's all they talk about is the fluid, but they don't talk about the scar tissue. And the scar tissue can come wherever you had light bulb such as that. I've had some clients where they get 360 light bulb and that stomach back and flanks. Sometimes the light bulb was around that whole area. I mean, not the light bulb. Sometimes the scar tissue will surround that whole area. So it really just depends on your body, how much scar tissue you'll develop. It also depends on how much compression you have post-surgery. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I'm not gonna lie, I'm just trying to keep the vibe. So much better, y'all. I've been looking regularly. Please don't, excuse me. I know I was in there probably smelling crazy because I didn't take a shower, but homegirl is the truth, okay? And her Instagram will be in my description box below. And also, like she said, she's out on YouTube. So if y'all need like BBL information and stuff like that, I think that's what she's gonna be providing and more stuff. But I'm in Chicago, we in a red. And my sister wanted to get some gyms. If you're from Chicago, I'm pretty sure you're familiar with that place. It's like a size, but I can't really eat stuff like that right now. So I really have just been eating stuff, high in protein, fish, stuff like that. So I really want some shrimp or something. I've been eating shrimp, avocado, and I had a green juice this morning. I stayed in the car. I just cannot wait till my life is back to normal. Even though the world is like in shits right now, my life personally, it shambles because of my surgery. I'm gonna be coming here quite often to get my massages. So let me know in the comment section below, what are some healthy places to eat at? Or what do you think I should try? What do you think, you know? So we're gonna be on our way back home. And I guess I'll talk to y'all when I get home. I gotta, when I get home this morning, I was organized in my life because like I was telling y'all earlier in the vlog, I think my work is finally up and I have a lot of emails and stuff like that. So I've just been trying to get organized and also I gotta edit my BBL video tonight. I gotta start it tonight because y'all been, y'all been really concerned about me. Thank you so much, but I'm fine. Like y'all were like, where are you at? Are you doing well? It's so funny, but yeah. But yeah, I'll probably talk to y'all once I get back home. Because my stage two five, my masseuse lady suggested this so I don't have any like full buildup. I do have a little bit, I'm not stunning, but she said it's gonna go away naturally. It's not like, right, bro, she didn't say, but it's only a little bit, I think it was left over from my last massage in Miami. Oh my God, I look like a fucking man. But this is what I'm talking about. Y'all is so tight. I can barely get any fucking sleep. Like I am just, I just wanna cry because I wanna get on my side, but I can't. Like I can't sleep on my side. I can't sleep on my back. This is just so irritating. Like I'm about to take a bathroom break. And then also when I go to the bathroom, I have a little hole right here. And sometimes it's a little bit of pee we'll get in my garment. So it'll be like smelling left over in this. It's just annoying, okay? It's just fucking annoying. And I just be, ugh. And then it's just irritating because then I have to rewash this, get in the shower, put all the stuff back on. And it's just irritating. And look at the fucking pain in my eyes. Like I need to get sleep. Like I can't wait to soar off for a fucking ass. Look at me. I look, ugh, I just don't wanna look myself. And it's just irritating. But I'm about to get some water. And I think it might make me a bowl of cherries. When I tell you this healing process is taking everything out of me, it really is, like I'm not even fucking playing. I'm not playing. All for a fucking booty. I'm thinking I'll get some water. And so, and then also when I have to go number two, I have to take everything off. It was so irritating. But anyway, I'll be right out. But hey, I'll be fine later on, okay? So yeah, I'm about to go do some water and watch something. I don't know. Hey y'all, so it's been a little bit later. I took a shower. I waited for my fire hydra to get done cleaning and, well, washing and I'm just drinking my green drink. And then also Missy Lannis also had a BVO done. She reached out to me and I looked on her story and she was in this, if y'all can see me, she was in this BVO pillow. But she was in like this BVO pillow right here on her story. And I was like, maybe I should get one of those. But then again, I don't want to fuck up my butt. But I mean, if she uses it, I'm pretty sure it's not that bad because girl, I'm telling you, it's so, like I've been losing so much sleep. So yeah, and I need my beauty rights, honey. Okay, because it's very essential. I don't get no bags or nothing, but right now I'm just like in a T-shirt and then in my binder and these foams. I don't have no pants on, so. But y'all haven't been wearing underwear for like two weeks. But I am, it's only like 10 o'clock, but I'm about to eat my green juice and eat some breakfast so I can get fueled up so I can start editing my video because y'all have been writing me. I haven't been uploading on Instagram because I just didn't feel like it. I don't feel like uploading nothing on my story. Am I doing anything? So yeah, but yeah, girl. So I'll probably talk to y'all. I'll probably check in with y'all later, but I'm not really doing anything right now. But yeah, so. And I'm about to eat it, I'm late and I can't wait, I'm excited. Look at all these PO packages and I know I have more. Y'all love me, but anyways. So it's been a couple days and I got on this shirt. Y'all, I've been really just out of it, okay? Just due to this, wait, I'm trying to sit you down. Just due to, ugh, I'm just so irritated. Okay, just due to this, you know, surgery. So I just wanted to show y'all like, so y'all know how in my BVL video, they took my hemoglobin in and it was lower than a 13, it was like a 10. So she just wanted to rave my blood pressure up. So she told me to get this syrup right here to raise my blood pressure up and you can only take this twice a day. And this also has a vitamin B, it's rich in iron and B vitamins and y'all know that she gave me a B12 shot, which is the ash shot to preserve my fat cells. So I do still drink this even though my blood pressure is fine. And I do still consistently take, go get B12 shots to preserve the fat in my thighs and my hips. Sorry y'all. These swarms is crushing me. Man, I look a mess. So yeah, so this is the syrup that I take every morning. I only do it like once a day, but this is what it looks like. It's like brown. And yeah, I just drink this to preserve my fat cells because I need them. But yeah, it's about 10 o'clock. I'm about to be on my way to my massage. It's Monday, I do Monday and then Thursday, Friday for my massages because they in Chicago. So I don't get them every day. And after your surgery, after you get like consistently six every day, you don't need to go every day. But yeah, so I just get three a week for right now. But I'm gonna be on my way there and I'm gonna show y'all how I put on my foams and stuff because she was really impressed on how I'm compressing my waist. Cause right now I'm waiting on my stage two five seconds. I don't know why my lips look like this, sorry. But I'm waiting on my two five seconds, my stage two ones. They haven't came in a mail yet cause they're custom made and they take a while to come. Hopefully they come this week, fingers crossed. But I've been, this is the same, if the surgery place gave me, this is a three XL and it goes over my butt. So, and I don't want anything compressing my butt. So I just went ahead and when I got back home, I just took this in tighter and then I ended up getting like a binder. I'm gonna show y'all. I ended up getting a binder cause my masseuse was like, girl, you just get a binder so you can compress as much as possible. So that's what I did. And I'm gonna show y'all how I put, this is the binder. And I'm gonna show y'all how I put everything in there after my massage. So yeah, so I'm about to be up my way there now and I'll check in with y'all once I get there. So I'm gonna show y'all how I put my foams under my thigh. So I take three foams as a base because I want the highest compression on my sides and on the front of my stomach. And then also I cut the two ones on the side just so, because the foam is long, but I don't want it to compress my thighs. So I just cut it so it's not sitting on my thighs. And then I also take one and I fold it and I put it on one side of my stomach, like so to get that extra, extra compression. And my masseuse, my massage therapist told me to do this and literally like she's so impressed with my stomach and like how far it's come, it's so flat. She's like, girl, you have no problem, you need to show them this. So I'm so, like I said, I'm so grateful that I met her. And then also I take the app board and then I put that and I took that in in front of all the foams. And then as you can see under my boob, there is a little space. So I just fold another foam and I took that in that space area because I was experiencing swelling in that area and I told my massage therapist, I was like, oh my God, what should I do? And she was like, just put another foam right there and then it just went away. So like I said, this method just really just helps with a lot of extra compression. So after all that is in place, then you need somebody to help you do this. So she's gonna wrap this binder around me and make it as tight as possible. And this really helps make everything just, it just helps mold your body, keeps all the foams and everything in place. And I'm just like this method, it just helps because I'm not in the right fire right now. But like I said early in the vlog, I did get this fire taking in three inches, but I'm waiting on my custom made fire hives. I have two of them coming and it takes a while for it to come. And I highly recommend you order a custom fire hive with no thigh compression. I know there's the fire hives on Amazon you can get, but I really wanted to invest in my fire hop because this is gonna help mold my body. And yeah, and I wanna see the maximum results, so. And this all just sets in place and then I just buckle up my fire hop and then put on my arm compressions and this is literally what I'm in for the rest of the day, the day. Okay, y'all so busted. Like I look so busted. But anyways, I'm back at home and I'm gonna end this video off and I'm just gonna be watching this 90 day fiance. And when I don't feel like laying down, I just kneel for a while on this little triangle thing. But I swear, y'all, this has been the most painful, uncomfortable thing that I have ever done. And I just can't wait until week six because week six is supposed to be like, I don't know, I feel like it's gonna be, I will feel a little bit more comfortable and mobile. I don't know. And I don't have to wear my, these extra foams because hopefully my fire hop, my second stage fire hop will come this week. So yeah, but I'm just gonna end this video off. I'm just so, I just cannot wait to get myself back together because I just don't have no energy to do my hair. I don't have no energy to do anything. I need to do brows, everything. I need to give myself a facial. I need to get myself, I don't know, girl. But excuse the way I look for right now. I can't wait to do a whole 180, 360, whatever. And yeah, so yeah, so that is it for this video. I hope you guys, so that is it for this video. I hope you guys enjoyed and don't forget to like, comment, subscribe. And thank you so much for all the love y'all have been showing me. I truly appreciate it because y'all don't have to send me any messages, but y'all do because y'all fuck me and I fuck with y'all. So yeah, so I will see y'all in the next video. Bye.