Why Corset Training Should Be Part of Your Beauty Routine

Do you have beauty hobbies, routines, or strategies you implement to maintain your beauty, inside and out? Have you ever thought about adding corset training as part of your beauty routine?

Some beauty hobbies can be done daily, weekly, monthly, or even annually in order to maintain your beauty. I know I have routines that I absolutely love doing. A few of them include doing my weekly or biweekly DIY press-on nails, taking my daily hair supplement, and even getting my teeth cleaned twice a year, and of course, corset waist training.

Maybe your beauty schedule includes procedures such as:  putting on a hydrating face mask or peel after doing your skincare routine, purchasing an at-home laser hair removal and doing it every 4-8 weeks, giving yourself a hot oil hair treatment, doing a brow and lash tint, having a consistent workout routine and ensuring you get your daily 10k steps in, eating healthy, giving yourself a pedicure and foot massage, dry brushing, oil pulling… the list goes on!

Well, why not incorporate waist training into your routine?! I’ve been wearing corsets and training my waist since 2013 and I wholeheartedly believe that corset waist training should be added to every beauty-lover’s hobby list and routine.

Yes, I know, I know…. “Another thing to add to my never-ending list??? When does it end?!!”

Girl, maintaining your beauty will never end, so get that out of your pretty little head. 

My Experience With Corsets

But before I go any further, let’s quickly wrap up a few negative ideas you may have about corsets. In my own experience, I have not experienced any of the following:

• No harm to my organs: maybe shifts them a bit temporarily but that’s it. I’ve been wearing corsets since 2013, and while a corset can obviously put some temporary pressure on your midsection, I personally haven’t experienced anything that has made me believe my organs were being harmed

• No shrinking, damaging, or breaking of my bones: my corset puts pressure around my waist and ribcage, but I’ve never experienced the kind of bone damage people sometimes warn about when they hear the word “corset.” (If anything is going to hurt your bones, it’s you not getting enough calcium, baby girl.)

• And no, it has not stopped me from breathing, eating, or having bowel movements: I can still breathe, eat, use the restroom, and go about my normal bodily functions while wearing one. In fact, in my own case, wearing a corset seems to get my lazy bowels moving sometimes, LOL.

Of course, my experience is just that–my experience. If a corset causes you pain, difficulty breathing, numbness, or other concerning symptoms, take it off. Just like you would stop a skincare product if you had an allergic reaction to it. Not everything is for everyone, and that’s okay.

Why I Started Waist Training

Back in 2013, I was working out hard in the gym, weight lifting and doing lots of cardio on the elliptical. After I lost nearly 30 lbs, I started looking for ways to tighten up my waist even more. I have naturally wide hips and a small waist, but I wanted to accentuate my curves just a bit more. I was looking to “spot reduce” and asked all the trainers how I could accomplish this.

And of course, their response was, “Spot reduction is a myth, it’s impossible!” 

I begged to differ and began researching “how to spot reduce your waist” online. That’s when I found Lucy Corsetry (back then known as Bishonen Rancher). I binge-watched her videos, bought my first corset from Orchard Corset, and started my own corset training journey. I record my Corset Diaries for YouTube channel members, but I also love looking back and watching them myself.

If you want to learn more about my corset training journey, check out this blog post: Corset Waist Training Lifestyle.

Adding Corset Training to Your Beauty Routine

When it comes to adding corsets and waist training into your beauty routine, I’d say that’s a smart move. Especially if you’re 18+ and you’re someone who enjoys beauty hobbies, I think corseting can become a fun habit to incorporate early on. For me, it eventually became such a normal part of my routine that I genuinely noticed when I wasn’t wearing one.

Regardless of how old you are when you decide to start wearing a corset, I think it can become a rewarding long-term beauty hobby if it’s something you genuinely enjoy.

Corset Training Takes Time

In my experience, corset training is something that takes months and years—not weeks—to really appreciate. I started noticing changes after consistently wearing my corset, but the longer I trained, the more familiar my waist became with the shape I was working toward. Everyone’s body is different, so I wouldn’t put an exact timeline on when someone else should expect to see results.

It’s like any other beauty regimen: it takes time and dedication to see results. The more consistent you are with wearing it, the faster and better your results will be. When you start a new skincare product, you don’t judge it the first time you use it. You wait 1-2 weeks before making up your mind about whether or not you want to return it and write a bad review, or keep using it and tell all your friends and family to try it out. 

Well unfortunately with corsets, you need to wait at least 2-3 months before you can “make up your mind about it.” Why?

Well because you need to “season” your corset for at least 2-4 weeks, which is when you get your body and your new corset acclimated towards one another. Your body needs time to see how it feels with the new garment you’re wearing, and your new corset needs time to mold to your body. 

Consistency is Key

Once the seasoning process is over, this is where the fun begins! You can gradually start tightening your corset as your body gets accustomed to it, and over time, you may start noticing your waist taking on more definition.

Again, consistency is a big part of my own corset training routine, and the longer I’ve trained, the more I’ve noticed changes in my waist. But just like any other beauty hobby or routine, maintenance is 100% required.

Corset Training Requires Maintenance

Let me repeat that for the people reading fast: MAINTENANCE IS REQUIRED. Just like with your hair masks, nails, skincare, healthy eating and exercising, and all those other beauty treatments you do to MAINTAIN your beauty, your waist requires a maintenance of training as well.

Let’s say you start a new skincare routine and you are glowing! But then you forget to repurchase one or a few of the products, or you get lazy about doing it every night.

What’s going to happen? I’ll tell you what’s going to happen!

Your skin is going to slowly go back to its “natural state”. If you’re acne-prone and you stop using your acne-fighting products, you’re naturally going to get a breakout. If you have dry skin and you stop using your hydrating lotions and potions, your skin could start to flake or get dry patches.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if you stop wearing your corset for a very long period of time (after only wearing it for a short period of time), your results will slowly fade and your waist will return to its “natural state”. 

I get comments all the time with girls saying they wore their corset for a month and saw absolutely no results… yawn, sigh, shrug.

Who’s going to tell her?

Not me, I’m done yelling and screaming about maintenance on social media, LOL.

What Happens When You Take a Break From Corseting?

If you have consistently worn your corset for years, taking a break of 1-2 months from wearing it isn’t going to be the end-all be-all. I’ve taken year-long breaks after consistently wearing my corset. And although my waist wasn’t as snatched during that break as it usually is, it still had definition and curvature.

You know when you wear a rubber band around your wrist all day and then you take it off and there’s an indent? But your skin slowly expands back to its natural state, right? Just imagine wearing that rubber band on your wrist for a month, or even a year. How long do you think it would take for your skin to expand back? A silly anecdote I admit, but you get the idea!

Have I convinced you yet into adding corset training as part of your beauty routine? I hope so! Take care and stay waisted.

♡, S