https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-upper-arm-smooshage Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:06:35 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-upper-arm-smooshage#post-702532 Sat, 25 Aug 2012 03:21:45 +0000 KathyL 702532@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Isis, you are too funny.</p> <p>And, IK, I see no smooshage either, just great definition! Wow, you have fantabulous arms and biceps! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-upper-arm-smooshage#post-702315 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:08:39 +0000 Anonymous 702315@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That's your bicep, not smoosh! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-upper-arm-smooshage#post-702120 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:38:18 +0000 Jonesy 702120@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Okay, Dana, I think you are totally fab, but you've gone around the bend if you think that is "smooshage"!!! LOL! That is muscle, woman! You have some amazing arms going on'!</p> <p>My own personal smooshage tale of woe: When I met Sveta for the NAS trip, I wore a terrible top for ITs (sort of an extended tab sleeve with a tab). I knew it was horrible on my arms but I liked it anyway. In all of the pics in which Sveta is trying on boots, I am seated with my arms smooshed against my chest, grasping my knee with my hands. Of course when I was sitting like that, making my arms as big as possible, I wasn't even thinking that her hubby was taking pics. Then I saw the pics on Sveta's thread and was appalled! But whaddyagonnado? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-upper-arm-smooshage#post-702113 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:27:55 +0000 April 702113@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>IK, I'm convinced that the only way around this is to be born male. </p> <p>My son is beanpole-skinny and tall at 15, but that darned testosterone gives him amazing biceps without ever lifting anything as heavy as oh, say, a laundry basket. ;)</p> <p>Pretty sure even Michelle Obama gets smooshage. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-upper-arm-smooshage#post-702095 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:10:59 +0000 Isis 702095@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What Una said. I see delts, triceps, biceps. Nice definition. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-upper-arm-smooshage#post-702090 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:07:28 +0000 catgirl 702090@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That's muscle you're smooshing, girl. It's defying gravity, therefore it is not flab. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-upper-arm-smooshage#post-702079 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:48:30 +0000 ironkurtin 702079@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Guys, look though!</p> <p>#1 - Gun show!</p> <p>#2 - SMOOSH show! Ugh! Right above the elbow! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-upper-arm-smooshage#post-702074 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:39:12 +0000 catgirl 702074@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What Isis said. LOL.</p> <p>My arms are my favorite part of my body, and it makes me sad to live in a place where I can't show them off. I'll flex for you at home too, now that Isis has shown the way! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-upper-arm-smooshage#post-702072 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:34:12 +0000 kellygirl 702072@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lol! Isis, you crack me up. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-upper-arm-smooshage#post-702029 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:41:10 +0000 Isis 702029@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Seriously, I think someone here pointed out that arms always look artificially big when we take pictures with our arms by our side. But in real life, we are moving around....</p> <p>Even rail-thin models pose their arms away from their bodies, case in point... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-upper-arm-smooshage#post-702027 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:40:03 +0000 Sylvie 702027@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think Isis has the right solution. I also stick my hands on my hips a lot so that my arms stick out from my body.</p> <p>In all serious though, our arms aren't made of rocks. I know there's muscle definition there so I don't worry about them looking "soft' if they aren't flexed. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-upper-arm-smooshage#post-702023 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:33:40 +0000 Diana 702023@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Isis, look at those guns!!!! Wow!</p> <p>I just remembered that a couple of days ago I did not post one of my photos (the one with the green top and white skirt) from the side because my arm looked SO HUGE in it. Plus, I had a mosquito bite right in the middle of it which just made it look all that much worse. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-upper-arm-smooshage#post-702022 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:32:57 +0000 Suz 702022@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ha ha! I am with Isis! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-upper-arm-smooshage#post-702020 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:31:51 +0000 celia 702020@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I feel your pain IK.My arms have been getting more definition(and less flabiness underneath) but on photos they just seem bigger than before.</p> <p>Isis, that is both impressing and hilarious. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-upper-arm-smooshage#post-702019 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:31:27 +0000 Parsley 702019@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Haha, Isis- Great solution!<br /> You are too funny!</p> <p>I feel your pain, IK, and I wish I could tell you that it gets better. My arms were always one part of my body that I thought I could count on to look decent, but sadly, I was wrong...<br /> Time does take its toll.</p> <p>Honestly, though, your arms look great, and I would try to just not worry about it! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-upper-arm-smooshage#post-702010 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:28:02 +0000 Isis 702010@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I work out with weights and have large arms....the solution is to NEVER press your arms against your torso. </p> <p>In fact I walk around like this as much as possible.</p> <p>(OK- I've GOTTA log off, go for my run and then get to work!) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-upper-arm-smooshage#post-702002 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:22:15 +0000 rute 702002@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I had the same problem! For me the solution was crossfit, now after almost an year doing crossfit I see changes for the first time in my life.<br /> So weights and the solution! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-upper-arm-smooshage#post-701990 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:17:55 +0000 Anonymous 701990@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes -- I don't have big arms, and they are muscular, but in photographs they look horrible and flabby, when I know they are NOT! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-upper-arm-smooshage#post-701966 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:56:18 +0000 Mo 701966@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>IK, I think it's just how it goes . . . and to add to that, the skin gets a little less, um, taut, under the arms as 40 recedes in the rearview :/ </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-upper-arm-smooshage#post-701961 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:51:20 +0000 Diana 701961@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have this problem too. Unfortunately I know of no solutions. Will be keeping an eye on this thread for sure! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-upper-arm-smooshage#post-701957 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:48:14 +0000 ironkurtin 701957@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Poll! I have been working out a LOT and I admit it - I am enjoying my nice arm definition. But still - when I press my upper arms against my torso, SQUISH. Suddenly my upper arms turn into smooshed sausages. Does this happen to everyone? Is my dream of forever losing teacher-arm doomed?! </p>