Padded Underwear: A Guide for Padded Shapewear Shoppers

Updated: August 19, 2023

As the foremost padded underwear experts, Love My Bubbles is the #1 resource for anyone looking to boost their bum. From padded panties to butt bras, as well as our exclusive adhesive booty and hip pads, Love My Bubbles has a solution for just about any fashion goal our customers may have.

Here's a guide to help new shoppers learn boosting terminology - our own Bubbles lexicon if you will, to define and describe our innovative shapewear designs.

Have a question? Chat or call us at 1-800-401-5811 to connect with a personal shopper.

Watch this recently updated explainer video from our Owner, Karen Jones, or read below for answers...

 
Padded Underwear vs. Padded Panties

Is there a difference between Padded Underwear and Padded Panties? The answer is no - we use these terms interchangeably on our website to describe any underwear style that features padding in the back and/or the hips. Padded Panty and Padded Panties are also the same thing - one is just the plural of the other.

However, the term underwear is used more frequently to describe padded briefs for men. We never use the term "Panties" when referring to our men's padded styles.




Padded Panties with Removable Pads vs. Built-in Pads

We have two main types of padded panty: Panties with removable butt pads and panties with built-in butt pads. Our best-selling type is our Panties with Removable Pads. These panties feature pad-pockets to hold our exclusive removable booty pads in place.

Panties with removable padding are our most popular padded option because pads can be removed and therefore interchanged with different types of padding for different looks under different fashions. For example, a customer might like to have a bigger boost under bulkier clothing so that the boost doesn't get "lost" under the outfit. But a thinner boost might be more desirable under a tight pair of jeans so the boost isn't "too much".

Since we specialize in designing and offering a huge variety of Booty Pad styles, from Premium Silicone Butt Pads to Standard Foam Butt Pads, purchasing this option allows our customers to customize their panty/pad combination for an amazing perfect fit.

Panties with built-in booty pads had the advantage of simplicity - just pull them up and get dressed, like any traditional panty. The pads are molded to the shape of buttocks so they mimic the shape of  the body. There are no separate pads and panty parts to put together, which some of our customers do prefer. When you find a molded padded panty that has the right fit and thickness for you, it's time to stock-up with 7 pair - one for every day of the week, because when you get used to the boost, there's no going back!

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Top 5 Bubbles Bridal Body Shaping Secrets

It’s that time of year. Spring is almost here, the weather is warming and the sound of wedding bells are in the air. Brides, bridesmaids and Moms of the bride are planning their big day. For over 15 years Bubbles has been assisting bridal parties in finding the perfect bridal shapewear for their perfect bridal gown.

But the wedding dress silhouette we want to wear, is not always the one that flatters us most. Never fear...Bubbles is here to change that! With Bubbles as your secret weapon, you can fill-out the curves in your dress for a fully confident and care-free day (at least as far as your fashion goes).

Below we’ve gathered together the Top 5 Bubbles for Brides. These are the items most purchased by our “wedding guests”!

The Bootiful Full-back Padded Panty features super-sleek styling and fuller-shaped booty pads for a noticeable but ultra-realistic booty boost. These padded panties feature flat-leg-seams for a sleek look under body-hugging dresses. Designed to boost without panty or pad lines.

Our Hotcakes Padded Boyshort is a lowrise panty featuring hidden pad pockets that securely position our patent-pending polygon-shaped butt pads in place. Designed to realistically cover and mimic each cheek as you move under a sleek, body-hugging fabric.

Danger! Curves Behind. Our exclusive booty-boosting, body-shaping slip is made with soft yet strong stretch fabric that hugs your curves and holds you in for a sleek and slick profile. But the kicker is this...removable booty pads that increase curves only where you want them, on the rear. These special occasion padded shapers are perfect for strapless dresses and easy bathroom visits.

High-quality, Italian-made and uber-comfortable, this STRONG control Stretch & Perfect shapewear bodysuit features double-layer coverage over the entire torso for complete yet comfortable compression. Proudly featuring the newest technology in stretch fabric, this bodysuits start small but expands to 2-3 times its size to STRETCH and PERFECT your figure! Available in Light and Strong control, this bridal shapewear will confidently usher you through your special day.

Our Boobles! Foam Triangle Bra Pads are the perfect "pin-able" bra inserts. Pin this bra pad into a bra cup or directly into a dress for a secure, snug fit. Made of cotton and foam, these pads are lightweight, super-soft and versatile.

Runners Up: These styles don't make the top five but are popular with bridal parties for their innovative problem-solving designs:

• Silicone Push-up Pads Cleavage Cutlets
• Everyday Nipple Covers - Ultra-Thin, Cloth & Disposable
• Foxy Fanny Mid-thigh Silicone Panty Shaper
• High-End Highwaist Butt Lifter
• Cleavage Covers in White Stretch Lace

Hip Dip Pads for YOUR Underwear

Hip Dip Pads are the perfect solution for those who want to fill a hip dip or add soft curves over the hip bone!


BACKGROUND

Over the years we noticed lots of videos on YouTube of famous drag queens teaching people how to make their own hip pads out of pillows or craft foam. Advice on how to wear these pad once made looked incredibly impractical - wear under 3 pairs of pantyhose! And careful when visiting the ladies room....the pads will fall out when nature calls. We thought, there's got to be a better way! Maybe Bubbles can help?

So we set out to create the newest addition to our Sticky Buns Adhesive Body Pads Collection. Introducing the Sticky Hips® Adhesive Foam Hip Pads! Our patent-pending Sticky Hips® feature an adhesive backing that is both washable and reusable. Simply slip the pads inside your own hosiery or shapewear for quick curves and cool confidence.

Sticky Hips® FOAM : The Stick-N-Go Self-Adhesive Foam Hip Enhancer Pads by Bubbles Bodywear (Item #9700).

When compared to our Sticky Hips Silicone, our new Foam Hip Pads are taller and thicker to provide for projection and volume.

Watch as Bubbles' Founder and CEO shows us the ways in which we can wear the Sticky Hips and how they look under jeans: Styling our Sticky Hips Adhesive Foam Padding

Styling Video: Sticky Hips FOAM Adhesive Removable Hip Pads from Bubbles Bodywear (Item # 9700).

STICKY HIPS® KEY FEATURES

• Creates noticeable hip enhancement
• Fills-in the "hip dip"
• Lightweight, comfortable and versatile design
• Removable, washable and reusable
• Sticks to your clothing, not your skin
• Wear under any of our seamless shapers for no pad lines
• Position anywhere you like for a look customized just for you
• Another innovative hip enhancer by Bubbles Bodywear!

Padded Underwear Bestsellers

The padded underwear FAQ we get most is "What are your bestsellers?". But just because many people love one padded style, doesn't mean that it will be right for you. So we have a few shopping tips for our "padded undies newbies":

1. Don't think about the padding yet.
   
   We have two main types of padded underwear styles: Removable and Built-in. For the most versatile boosting options, choose one of our padded panty styles with removable booty pads. This style category includes our panties that feature our specially engineered pad-pockets to hold our removable, interchangeable booty pads. That means that you can customize your boost no matter which style of Bubbles panty/pad set you choose.
   
   
   

   

   I Heart Curves Padded Panty (Removable Booty Pads)

   

   The Rio Padded Panty (Built-in Booty Pads)

   
   
   
2. First, choose the panty style you prefer.
   
   Look for the panty profile you usually prefer, or for a panty style that has the characteristics/features that meet specific goals (like a low rise style for wearing under a wedding dress with a deep-v back). For example, do you usually buy highrise shaper or a lowrise panty? Are you buying padded shapewear to wear under jeans or a bodycon dress?
   

   

   BubbleBuns Lowrise Padded Boyshort (Lowrise)
   
   

   
   

   

   Curves Behind Padded Half-Slip (Padded Bridal Shaper)

   
   
   
   
3. Then, when you find the right panty style for your purpose, choose your pad options.
   
   Most of our panty/pad sets ship with booty pads of moderate thickness. We refer to these pads as "thin" or "regular". The thickness of these pads will give a moderate but noticeable boost on  most body types. While these pads are perfect for some, others may want to customize their Bubbles Panty/Pad Set by adding thicker booty pads for a bigger boost, or Silicone Booty Pads for a more realistic look and feel.
   
   

   

   with Regular Booty Pads, with Thick Pads in Medium, with Silicone Booty Pads in 3XL

Padded Underwear in Retro by Bubbles Bodywear

Here at Bubbles Bodywear we just LOVE our RETRO! Retro everything! Between design, fashion and architecture, 50's style is always classic. That's why we'v designed several retro-inspired padded underwear styles including our bestselling Retro Satin Padded Underwear - today's blog spotlight shaper.

This classic and sexy satin mesh shaping panty combines the best of 40's lingerie design with modern underwear technology (and booty pads, or course!).

Reminiscent of glamour-age pin-ups like Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable, this padded shaper is the perfect satin-trim hip-hugging brief for all bombshells-in-training!

Padding is designed for a moderate, realistic boost. The booty pads are removable and interchangeable so you can customize your look. Optional Lightweight Silicone Booty Pads and/or thicker foam butt pads can be added.

• Sexy, mid-waist, hipster styling
• Retro satin detailing and tummy smoothing panel
• Removable booty pads
• Pad pockets securely hold pads in place inside the underwear

Get our Retro Satin Padded Underwear and view all our Padded Underwear options at LoveMyBubbles.com!

5 Rules for Wearing Butt Pads

Bubbles Bodywear's Owner and Lead Designer, Karen Jones, styles our Bootiful Padded Boyshort with our patent-pending Polygon Lite Silicone Butt Pads under a slim-fitting dress, a tight pencil skirt and a pair of seamless leggings. See what to do (and what to NOT do) when wearing butt pads to ensure that no one will know your butt pad secret!

The product in the video can be found here: Bootiful Full-back Padded Boyshort - The No-Panty-Line Padded Panty

Rule #1

Choose Bubbles Bodywear Butt Pads for the most realistic booty pad designs.

Rule #2

Choose butt pads made of silicone for thinner edges. Thin pad edges are concealed better by our pocket-panties (and by your clothing), resulting in a super-realistic undetectable booty boost. 

Rule #3

It's all about proportion. If padding is proportional to your figure, it will look more realistic.

Rule #4

Wear Bubbles' Butt Pads inside our pocket-panties (panties we design specifically for our booty pads) to hold them securely in place on the body. Or choose one of our Sticky Buns or Sticky Hips padding styles that feature adhesive to hold the pads in place against your shapewear or clothing.  Wearing booty pads or hip pads inside your own undies or pantyhose will inevitably result in the pads moving around and/or completely falling out. Yikes!

Rule #5
All above rules apply to wearing Hip Pads too!

Bubbles' Award Winning Customer Service

We hate to brag....OK, maybe we like to, just a little bit!

What I DO love to brag about is our amazing team here at Bubbles. They are always prepped and ready to help our Customers who are looking for problem-solving solutions for whatever their situation may be: a wedding dress in need of curves, unexpected weight loss, the cruel nature of gravity on our bums, and the plethora of other reasons people visit LoveMyBubbles.com for a confidence boost.

 

Bubbles With Your Festival Garb

Festivals are all about music, art, fashion and for the hotter months, there's usually a lot of skin showing.

We usually look much better at the beginning of the day than we do by the time we're heading home! But as long as we get some good selfies early-on in the day (while we're still lookin' pretty and fresh), that's all that matters ;)!

Here at Bubbles we've seen our share of festivals. Everyone on our team has contributed valuable nuggets of advice to this blog post. Some are tips for the best Bubbles to wear under your festival outfits. Others are just good tips to make your day(s) more comfy while looking your best:

1. When wearing short shorts, grab our Lite Silicone Bubbles booty pads.We recommend pairing them with our BubbleBuns Bikini Panty. These padded undies have a small profile that will disappear even under short shorts. And our Lite Silicone is more comfortable in warmer weather (compared to our Traditional Silicone Booty Pads).
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. Evey girl needs a good pair of nipple covers for festival halter and tube tops, body paint or whatever you dare to wear. Try our water-resistant Everyday Pasties. With a special type of adhesive and material, these concealers stick better and longer in sweaty conditions.
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Any outdoor event inevitably and regrettably involves a porta-potty. Come prepared with disinfectant hand wipes, because you won't have a sink, soap and running water available to you when you exit. Wipes that smell nice are an added bonus. And if you have space in your bag or pockets, a pack of tissues is a good idea too - TP runs out quick (if ever stocked at all).
   
   
4. If your outfit doesn't have secure pockets, bring a lightweight drawstring backpack. Shoulder bags can be stolen, forgotten or left behind easily in all the fun and mayhem.
   
   
   
   
5. Be safe. Keep good track of your drinks, and if possible, buy/carry drinks in a cup or bottle  with a lid. Don't give anyone an opportunity to slip an unwanted drug in your drink.
   
   
6. Get a small tube of sunscreen. A sunburn makes a hangover even worse.
   
   
7. Rain possible? Bring some re-closable plastic baggies to protect anything you want to keep dry.
   
   
8. Don't forget to eat food and drink water. Drinking alcohol (especially beer) may make you feel full. And without water to hydrate and food to soak up the booze, the next day will not be a good one. We also like hangover patches to get needed vitamins without taking a pill.
   
   
9. Make sure your phone has a full charge. If you have space, bring an solar powered charger. Or just plan to not use your phone much during the day to preserve your battery of you really need to use your phone. Better yet - leave your good phone at home and get a burner for the day.

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A SUMMER MUST-HAVE

Dare to bare with Bubbles Everyday Pasties! If you like to show some skin, or you just want dim the headlights in your bikini, halter or tank tops, our water resistant nipple covers are a must-have!  

These handy little concealers feature a strong adhesive and water-resistant design that help to resist wet conditions like swimming and sweating...great for pool parties, Slip‘N Slide, body paint artists, see-thru tops, muscle tanks, bikini tops and all your slinky, sheer or sexy summer ensembles.

Water Resistant Nipple Covers

 

Throwback Thursday!

If you've been boosting your curves for a while, you might remember the old “Four-Pad Panty Girdle”. It was your grandmother's girdle - very bulky and cumbersome. but never fear! Bubbles Bodywear has developed revolutionary alternatives to the four pad panty girdle....the Hipee Hip and Butt Padded Brief and the Glamour Gal Padded Hips and Buttock Panty.

Our Hipee panty/pad set combines the hip and butt padding together into 2 pads - each pad covers one sode of the body from butt to hip.   Having only two pads makes a smoother and more natural transition all around.  The Hipee comes with the specialized pocket-panty and a set of foam pads that provide a light to moderate boost. But as always at Bubbles, we offer additional options: (1) a thicker foam pad set and/or (2) a set of pads made of natural-feeling silicone (which also provides a more noticeable boost as compared to the foam padding).  

Our Glamour Gal panty/pad set features our patented silicone hip-to-butt pads that not only look real, they feel like a natural extension of your own body. And we designed the Glamour Gal with a high-quality, strong-control powernet material that securely holds the pads in place while also slimming and smoothing the midsection.

As our regular customers already know, here at Bubbles we are all about innovation and options!

If you still have questions about which product might be right for you, contact us so we can help you decide what will work best for you. 

We even have lots of options for reaching out! Give us a call, send an email, start an online chat or chat-by-text from your mobile phone: https://goo.gl/CM6aFy

Italian Stallion

We can’t get enough of our luxurious Italian-made booty-lifting body shapers!  Have you tried one yet? We guarantee that you won't be disappointed. 

What you get in every one of Bubbles' Made in Italy booty-lifters...

• High-end manufacturing
• Quality seamless & sleek, stretchy fabric
• Targeted, comfortable compression
• Incredibly soft and comfortable 

Here are a few of our bestselling Italian-made shapers:

Bella Bottom Footless Tights

High-End Highwaist Shaping Short

Stretch & Perfect™ Strong Control Bodysuit

Bang for Your Buck

When ordering Bubbles padded underwear, save big when by ordering a panty/pad set!

For seasoned Bubbles Customers, purchasing our booty pads and pocket-panties separately will always be an option. It's a special way of shopping that only Bubbles Bodywear offers for those who want to customize their panty/pad sets, need additional pairs of Bubbles Pocket-Panties or require  alternative or replacement Bubbles Booty Pads. 

But, especially for first-time padded underwear buyers, we recommend reaping the many benefits of shopping our panty/pad set department first:

• Get it right the first time. We design our panty/pad sets to match in size, weight and circumference so you can be guaranteed to get a booty pads that fit properly and comfortably in the matching panty.
  
• Takes the guesswork out of shopping. Bubbles Bodywear offers lots of options, which can be overwhelming for a padded undie newbie. So for first-time buyers, purchasing a panty/pad set eliminates any worry that the panty and pads received won't fit or work well together.
  
• Save some dough. We offer our panty/pad sets at a special "Set Price" which always makes buying a set more economical than buying the pocket-panties and booty pads separately.

If you still have questions about which Padded Underwear style is best for your shaping needs, don't hesitate to contact us for guidance regarding which panty and pad combination will work best for you!