It came to about a month before I went on holiday that I started to panic over the fact that I still had a lot of work to get the perfect bikini body. This meant I got desperate. So desperate in fact that I succumbed to buying this Nip + Fab cream which claims that it can improve skin tone and texture at the abdominal area whilst sculpting and firming. In other words, it helps to tone your tummy.
Like a lot of other people I was skeptical, can a cream really help tone your tummy? Well, seeing that I was desperate I thought it couldn't hurt to give it a go. So after a trip to my local Boots store, I picked up a 100ml tube that came to the cost of £19.95. Luckily, I had around £10 worth of Boots club points to use, meaning that I only spent £9.95.
I used this cream religiously. Every morning and every night I applied this cream in circular motions onto my untoned stomach for that last month before my holiday. And I will admit right now that I am one of those people who wants results fast. So every time I did apply the cream I would look in the mirror to inspect. However, I knew I could not judge this cream without doing a before and after photo, so that is exactly what I did. I wish I could put those photos up on here for you to see, but unfortunately my photos were wiped off my hard-drive a few months ago, so they are no more.
My thought on this cream? Well in hindsight I wish I saved my money and club card points to buy some new nail varnishes instead. I remember when I first looked at the before and after photos to compare and I was so disappointed. There were no differences in the photos at all. And it's true, every time I looked in the mirror I couldn't see any changes except for the fact that my skin felt smoother. I still had obvious cellulite, my skin was still no close to being firm, and I basically just looked exactly the same.
Maybe I saw no effects because I only applied the cream for just a month, or maybe it was because I didn't have any major problems (many mums who have just given birth swear upon this product helping fix their after pregnancy belly). But from my experience with this cream I unfortunately won't be recommending it to anyone, especially at £20 a tube.
It is fair to say that after this experience I am willing to accept that the only way I can lose weight, or to firm out my hideous cellulite is to diet and exercise. There are no quick fixes. Before my Cyprus holiday last August I was blind to this, which meant that I did indeed go on holiday without that perfect bikini body.
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