More Americans are getting Brazilian butt lifts: More Americans are getting buttock augmentations, commonly nicknamed Brazilian butt lifts, according to new data from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. “Last year, cosmetic surgeons across the country performed nearly 10,000 buttock augmentations, up from the approximately 8,500 done in 2012.” During a Brazilian butt lift, surgeons “liposuction fat from somewhere the patient’s got plenty of it — usually the tummy, thighs or hips — and inject it into the tush.” While breast augmentation procedures are still far more common, this amounted to a 16% hike in the number of butt lifts.