Botox, frozen faces and big lips

Why are you planning on getting Botox in the future? I'm curious about people who have already decided to do it.

My 22 year old sister gets ‘preventive’ Botox. Cheeks and lips full of filler too. It’s ridiculous.

I’ve got some filler in my lips and will definitely get Botox in the future. I get O.5ml every 2 or 3 years as I have no top lip and when I smile it vanishes completely. I look 100% better with the filler and feel so much happier and more confident. I have never had anything done to please other people and do it to make me happy.

It looks mad.

You can't appreciate bone structure in these faces as the bone is obscured by filler. The eyes are reduced in size due to the plumped up cheeks. The profile is distorted due to the outward lip projection.

It's nothing like you would ever encounter in the natural state. It looks bloody mad in real life. Perhaps it reads better on camera but most of us aren't a Kardashian so it's rather jarring IRL

I agree its very much a UK 'thing.'

I was recently in Thailand. I was checking in for a flight back to Australia. The next check in counter over was for BA heading back to London. It struck me that a lot of the woman all had the same look - plumped lips, massive eyebrows, lot of makeup - everyone looked like some version of Kim K. It did look very odd tbh, almost clownish.

I think its a trend that will die out.

I'm well aware of that look. I instantly recoil in horror when I see it in the flesh

I see it everywhere in London

but now even with my friends (late 30s)- I’ve been told I’m a bit of a prude for not wanting to consider Botox (apparently it’s the norm and I’m very late to the party in not doing it yet)

Well the people who have 'this look' obviously like it, and more power to them. I loved messing about with my appearance when I was younger, and I cared about as much for what other people thought of it then as I do now.

I don't have anything like botox or fillers, but then I'm tight as fuck and I hate needles

It looks horrendous.

I recently watched a documentary about Fat Boy Slim's party on Brighton beach that went wrong when 250k people turned up.

Everybody looked so natural - no fillers, etc.

I honestly don't know why this 'look' is popular. Who likes it?

Botox is nothing to do with lips, it's not a filler

Credit cards

My thoughts exactly. Regular treatments are not cheap and yet the average UK income is crap.

Whats going on??

It's a very U.K. thing though. No other country I've lived or been in recently has the universal slicked hair/ overdone faces thing

I moved to the U.K. and was bewildered that everyone looked the same- big lips, filled cheeks, massive eyebrows, no wrinkles, loads of foundation, fake lashes. I live near a city and honestly it is everyone... everyone! My obsession is- how does everyone afford it..?! I briefly thought about joining them 😂 looked into lip fillers thinking a little might be nice... it's so expensive! I can't afford it as a middle aged professional, how is everyone else getting so much done?!

Can’t stand those Botox lips especially on younger women - I can understand older ladies as your lips get thinner but on young girls its really not necessary and looks odd - not attractive

And yet despite being so sick of these threads, you’ve decided to repeat yourself 1 more time? Instead of just not clicking into it? Excellent🤣

I am picking YABU because I agree with @EmilyTjP ... I am sick of this same thread coming up every week. Yes I think it's a shame these girls/women are doing this, (having fillers and botox and collagen and the like,) but I CBA to repeat myself over and over.

I agree op. I have no desire to look the same as everyone else. I accept ageing. Everyone just looks exactly the same & it’s such a shame. I loved it when everyone looked different! I like unique.

Out of my friendship group, there’s me & 3 others that are Botox/filler free and if you delve into their personalities, it’s the insecure ones that the work done. They were all much more beautiful before too. Obviously this is my opinion of course.

Your OP makes no sense.

How does having your wrinkles reduced make you look like 'everyone else'? You're still just you but a bit less wrinkly!

This isn’t a new thing though is it?! The look may be different but think back how many potentially damaging beauty procedures have been de rigeur in the past. Sunbeds in the 80’s, starving yourself in the 90’s. Way back to lead based make up and corsets.

People can do what they like with their faces/bodies. They always have despite severe consequences. People say how terrible this new fad is but at least it’s not giving them skin cancer or lifelong disordered eating

I'm not keen on the look. My DM wasn't keen on my 90s Siouxsie Sioux inspired make up. Her own DM didn't like her late 60s face painting and only wore lipstick for special occasions. Anything else was 'fast'. Her DM used face powder that contained lead.

In 20 years time, women who went in for fillers etc. will be tearing their hair out at their own daughters appearances.

I judge society for putting vulnerable women into the mindset that they need to.

Women often look like a parody of themselves. Men just get to be themselves.