Honestly, I'm on the heavier side, so I worried a lot that my arms would end up too thin and look out of proportion with the rest of me. But there's nothing artificial about it at all, it blends naturally with my overall body shape while still being noticeably slimmer, so I'm very satisfied. I have no particular side effects, and occasionally I get a tingling feeling in the surgical area, but that's a normal part of the nerves coming back during recovery, so there's no real inconvenience in daily life. Early on the swelling seemed to be going down so slowly that I was quietly worried, but once I stopped fixating on it, at some point it had visibly settled. I'm really learning that time is the medicine for recovery. These days the line looks so natural that I sometimes forget I had surgery at all, and then I put on clothes I used to wear and get startled every time. Feeling how much roomier the once-tight upper arm area has become makes me really register the change: 'ah, they really did get slimmer.'