Botox, frozen faces and big lips

Very true.
The irony is all the young people will still be part of the work force when they are old. Society will need them to keep slogging away at work. So in one respect society devalues age, whilst in another way will be reliant upon it.
I see people with lip fillers, fake eyelashes, and Botox everywhere around where I live.

They don't seem to realise the symbolism behind the huge lips either. It's what porn stars do to look good on camera performing a certain act.

I'm okay with the botox look (just not my cup of tea) l, it's all the fillers that look grotesque to me.

This.

I believe in my wrinkles (53). Being happy with who you are is so much more attractive to people than a rubber face.
Think of all the thousands of £s spent over the years on fillers and botox and all the amazing life-changing things you can do with money like that.

However when I was 15 I would have changed EVERYTHING about myself lol.

You won't know they are laughing because they won't be able to move their faces.

Also there is research emerging that botox use is altering brain structure and function
Not in a good way

It's definitely not just a UK thing. Very popular in the US. Blame influencers.

I'm noticing a shift to 'preventative surgery' where younger women are having blepharoplasty (removing skin from upper eyelid for more open eyes), brow lifts, face lifts, neck lifts, etc. in their late 30s/40s to preserve their looks longer.

i was in a meeting a few weeks ago when I was introduced to a professional I hadnt met before and when she walked in she had absolutely massive lips , a very strange stretched wrinkle free face and blonde hair extensions. I live in an area where people generally don't have the money to spend on such things so I haven't seen anyone as extreme before and it was hard for me not to show my shock. I tried my best to hide it but I am sure it crossed my face and I spent the rest of the meeting trying to work out how old she was because I genuinely had no idea. She could gave been anything from 20s to late 40s . She was like an exaggerated characature of a woman . V strange indeed .

I think it's all to do with SM
It looks amazing on Insta/ FB but awful in RL

Agree plus there’s a hide thread option

Luckily I don’t see too much of it in the area I live (countryside), but yes, it does look awful. I really don’t understand the appeal. unless done very minimally (which it rarely is as I guess it’s addictive for those who begin getting it done), it just looks so fake, robotic, and ruins any natural beauty.

Come to Essex, it's everywhere. I stayed in a touristy university city recently, and only saw one woman with fillered lips (she stood out). Back on the train to Essex, and they were everywhere. It was really noticeable and startling. I find it baffling, it distorts the face.

I'm far too risk-averse myself, even for Botox.

I was watching MTV 90's last night and all the music videos from the time. All the women looked so different from eachother, different hairstyles a lot of them shorter, no big lips or overly contoured faces. They also wore clothes like jeans and tee shirt, combat pants etc and didn't have their boobs and arse on display all the time. They looked great, and so individual to eachother.

Made me a bit sad that the fashion now involves altering the face to just end up looking identical to everybody else.

It also makes me sad that I'm now so old I'm now writing 'in my day' posts.

What about new people coming to MN? Are they allowed to post threads on previously done topics?

Why click on a thread that bores you?

Don’t worry, these threads will cope just fine without you. If you ‘CBA’ please don’t comment. Your input isn’t that important!

I watched some reality stuff with my 19y daughter eg married at first sight and love is blind. We were quite horrified at what some women had done to themselves, esp the lip filler. It looked like a freak show. These were beautiful young women who had ruined their look with duck pouts. It was so depressing. The men has nothing obvious done of course.

It must be education or peer pressure. ‘Everyone’ is doing it so you think it looks good? Thankfully my daughter and her friends are happy to look natural and none of them would go near this stuff.

Don't mind the botox but it's the lips that I find really odd looking. Very unnatural and uncomfortable even.

I don't think it's going away any time soon. I know many people in their late 20s and older who get these procedures on a regular basis. The lip fillers rarely look good.

I can understand people getting things done when they get to an age that they start to look older. The young girls that get all of the fillers and other procedures done will regret it in future. Its just classed as normal now for young men and women and the temptation of getting cheap procedures in Turkey. I have seen teens under 18 with lip fillers it is too easy to access them and advertised on facebook groups and forums.

Probably look like 2 tyres slapping together.

If someone wants to go ahead and wreack their faces with cosmetic surgery and make themselves look ridiculous in watever ways let them,

I think personally they need to have therapy 🤔

Our son has a hearing impairment, he couldn’t work with the TA in his UK primary school class as her lip fillers meant her lips couldn’t move properly, so he couldn’t understand what she was saying.

No-one is forcing you to write anything on any thread.

Because the more people without wrinkles the more frozen everyone looks. Then everyone starts to look the same.

Celebrities have the best access to plastic surgeons and very few look younger. They mainly look their age with Botox.

I think people like it because it can look good in photos, and don't care if it looks bad in everyday life