How to Make Your Butt Look Sexy

Co-authored by Laila Ajani

Last Updated: September 29, 2022 References

Looking sexy is all about accentuating your curves confidently. Making your waist look smaller than your hips and your hips smaller than your butt will accentuate your butt. This gives you the illusion of a sexy butt. You can exercise, dress to accentuate your butt, or use some quick fixes to get the sexy butt you desire.

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Exercising For a Sexy Figure

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Build up your leg and butt muscles. The best way to give yourself a sexy butt is to build a sexy butt. This takes a lot of time. Once you start lifting, you won’t see a noticeable difference for 3 weeks. Other people won’t start to notice until 6 weeks into working out. There are many exercises that will help you tone your butt.^{[1]
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Try some basic exercises like bridges or donkey kicks. Bridges can also be done with or without weight. Lay on your back with your knees bent. If you wish to add weight, have a partner place a bar across your hips. Lift your butt toward the ceiling and then slowly lower it back down. Donkey kicks are a basic exercise too. Find an open area and get on all fours. One leg at a time, lift your heel up toward the ceiling. Hold at the top for 3 seconds and then slowly bring your leg back down to match up to the other one. To make it harder, add some ankle weights.
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Go for some more challenging exercises like squats or explosive lunges. Stand with your feet shoulder width apart. Keeping your back straight, bend your knees to a 90 degree angle. Rise back up. Performing them properly with weight on your shoulders is one of the best butt exercises. Explosive lunges require balance, coordination, and patience in order to get them right. Stand with your feet together and hands on your hips. Lunge forward with your right leg. As you come up from the lunge, jump, switching legs in midair, and landing a forward lunch with your left leg in the front.
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Shrink your core. Doing core exercises will help cinch your waist. This gives the illusion of sexy curves. The smaller your waist, the sexier your butt will look.^{[2]
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- Planks are a great way to build up your core muscles. You can easily hit your glutes with this exercise at the same time. Start in a pushup position, on your hands and toes with straight arms. Hold this for as long as you can. Keep your back straight and core engaged the entire time. Squeeze your butt for an easy bonus.
- Supermans are another great way to shrink your core while you grow your butt. Lay on your stomach on the floor, arms outstretched in front of you. Squeeze your core and butt to lift your arms, shoulders, and legs off the ground so that you’re balancing on your hips. Hold for 5 seconds and release.
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Stay away from cardio. While cardio is known to help you lose weight, it is detrimental to any work that you’ve done to grow a sexy figure. It eats away at your muscle before fat. This will make you lose the curves that you’ve been working for. Stick to strength training. If you want to do some form of cardio, you can do circuits with intervals of body weight exercises.^{[3]
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Try butt toning sports. Volleyball, gymnastics, rollerblading, and basketball are all great sports to help tone your butt. They focus heavily on the glute muscles and they’ll help tone your core for better curves.
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Work on your muscles as you walk. This is another double benefit move. Focus on your posture as you walk. Keep your shoulders back, core engaged, and back straight. Doing this will naturally accentuate your butt. Walking like this will naturally tighten your core as well, helping you obtain a smaller waist.

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Dressing to Accentuate Your Butt

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Define your waist. The most important part in having a sexy butt is showing the difference between your waist and your butt. Give yourself curves by defining your waist. Make your waist the smallest part of your body by belting it. Wear clothes that naturally accentuate your small waist because as your clothes flare from there, the eye is naturally drawn to your sexy butt.^{[4]
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Add eye-catching detail to your butt. Once you’ve made your waist appear smaller, you need to be sure that you’re making your butt look as good as it can. To do this, you have to start by choosing the right bottoms. There are many options out there, and what works best for your friends probably won’t work best for you.^{[5]
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- Find the right fit. Baggy pants are going to hide your butt. If you have a small butt, skinny jeans are going to be the best way to make your butt look bigger. If these aren’t comfortable, you can also try boot cut jeans as long as they fit you well. Make sure they don’t have a saggy crotch—this means there is too much fabric and they’ll sit in an unflattering way on your butt.
- Wear jeans with pocket flaps. This is an easy way to add volume to your butt. Make sure that the flap hits at the widest part of your butt. Anyone looking at you will see your small waist and their eyes will move over your curves down to your pocket flap.
- Be sure pocket placement flatters you. The easiest way to portray a “mom butt” is by wearing jeans with pockets that are way too high or way too low. Small, high pockets will make your butt look larger. They should sit directly on the top of your butt.
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Wear heels. The higher the heel, the higher the sex appeal. The design of heels naturally changes the curve of your spine when you wear them. This causes your butt to protrude while you walk, giving it a sexier shape. They also help because they make your legs look more toned, which tricks people into believing you have a stronger butt. Heels exaggerate the difference between male and female gaits, creating sexual arousal in males.^{[6]
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Using Quick-Fixes

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Wear body-shaping undergarments. Body shapers are a great way to fake it until you make it. You can buy undergarments to help accentuate any part of your body. To look like you have a sexier butt, you want core-cinching undergarments. Body suits or waist trainers will help you out.
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Try butt-enhancing shapewear. These are available for both men and women. It is underwear that you slip on just as you would regular underwear. As an added bonus, there’s a padded bottom to give you a rounder, bubbly, curvy butt. These are a great, instant way to give yourself a sexy, curvy look.
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Buy some butt-lifting jeans. Butt-lifting jeans are a somewhat new idea. They have elastic in the fabric that helps lift your butt to enhance it by 1-2 inches. They are around the same price as other jeans and available online and in some stores. The best way to find the ones that are right for you is to try them on. They have different levels of lift. Try combining these with one of the other quick fixes for a drastic improvement in how sexy your butt looks.

Expert Q&A

Question

What's the best weightlifting exercise for your butt?

Laila Ajani
Fitness Trainer
Laila Ajani is a Fitness Trainer and founder of Push Personal Fitness, a personal training organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Laila has expertise in competitive athletics (gymnastics, powerlifting, and tennis), personal training, distance running, and Olympic lifting. Laila is certified by the National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA), USA Powerlifting (USAPL), and she is a Corrective Exercise Specialist (CES).

Laila Ajani

Fitness Trainer

Expert Answer

I think deadlifts are probably the best bang for your buck. However, if you're new to lifting weights, this isn't the most beginner-friendly option out there. I'd definitely recommend having someone more experienced spot and help you here with this.
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How do I measure my waist?

Laila Ajani
Fitness Trainer
Laila Ajani is a Fitness Trainer and founder of Push Personal Fitness, a personal training organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Laila has expertise in competitive athletics (gymnastics, powerlifting, and tennis), personal training, distance running, and Olympic lifting. Laila is certified by the National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA), USA Powerlifting (USAPL), and she is a Corrective Exercise Specialist (CES).

Laila Ajani

Fitness Trainer

Expert Answer

Measure around the smallest part of your waist, which is usually a little higher up than you'd think. It should normally be a little bit above your navel. Just use a tape measurer to do this.