To think in ten years all these huge veneers and huge lips will be seriously dated?

I'm one to talk, I'm
Sure we all are. Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror or old photos, I'm
Filling my eyebrows in every day because I plucked them to nothing a la Pamela Anderson in the 80's & the poker straight hair & the Mac spice lip liner with paler lipstick.
Yuck.

It's the fashion. They'll grow out of it.

Thankyou for this thread @ToriMJ you wrote what I have been saying!

I cannot believe young people are doing this to themselves! As you said the white mouth guard teeth that look too big for their mouths, the hair, the lips, the fake tan... UGH.

They don't look nice! What are they enhancing?? Makes me sad to think people want to look like this when I bet they look perfectly fine in their own way, naturally!

Sigh.

This. I worked with a woman who had hers done OS ( cheaper), they looked awful . Like oversized dentures and you couldn’t help but just focus on them .

@SatansBobbleheadedDashboardOrnament it's awful isn't it. A decent registered UK dentist would be struck off for doing some of those extreme turkey teeth treatment. Sometimes they do crowns, so take practically the whole healthy tooth off. For no fucking reason.
Dental treatment should be conservative. You do not want to lose tooth volume or teeth in general unless there is severe decay or very bad misalignment.
The owner of my wonderful dental practice is Turkish, so I certainly don't mean anything against that nationality as a whole when I mention 'turkey teeth'. But it's just crazy young people doing this to themselves!

I don’t personally have any of these things or like the way they look, but it’s pretty anti-feminist to assume anything about someone’s intelligence based on their hair.

Well why are you on Mumsnet if you can't cope with it? How dare you come on here and tell us what you deem 'inappropriate' to talk about. Your arrogance is astounding.

Huh? But it's ok for you to say this? Oh the irony.

honestly i think you all sound old and miserable. let people live ffs. the girls with botox and fillers probably think your wrinkles and thin lips look crap too

Honestly I think you sound really young and clueless. Let people talk ffs. The women on Mumsnet are allowed to discuss the ridiculous looks of some young people.

I was delighted when enormous fat arses became fashionable, I was very much ahead of the curve on that one.

Horse like teeth & clown like lips are more or less permanent if repeatedly spent on hard earned money. A day at a spa is a totally different concept.

Mind you how much do people of our age spend on salons, sun beds, getting their nails done, wanting a girl so they can do 'girly' things together, buy make up kits, hair straightners, have spa days as presents?

The teeth generally look they have been transported from a horses mouth. The lips generally look like they have been transported from a circus character. If you put them both together you are left with people who genuinely think they have improved themselves. It's sad.

I honestly don't care. People are free to do whatever the hell they want to their faces, bodies and teeth. I'm not a fan of these massive lips, so I don't have them. Some others like the look, so they do it. No skin off my nose.

As for the 'natural 80s', ha. There would have been just as many people trying to look younger, more flawless, like a Barbie, etc back then IF these sorts of procedures existed at their current form. What did they have back then? Massive hard breast implants and maybe some other stuff for the rich. But it wasn't as advanced as it was now. If botox, fillers, facelifts, veneers etc were as advanced and as cheap as it's now (well relatively), there would have been PLENTY of women and men who would have done it. Let's just not pretend that people were somehow intellectually superior, erudite and bigger 'personalities' than now. It's just that those things weren't accessible for the vast majority.

Ah, and Pamela Anderson looks truly shit, IMO. The Ultimate Plastic Barbie went the whole other way and styles herself as some sort of Mother Earth type. She looks like a washed out, faceless dishrag. There's a middle ground between the massive bolt-ons and the rest OR the bare-faced washed out blob look. Get some eyebrows woman, put a little bit of makeup on. Sure, she doesn't have to, but I'm definitely not going to pretend she looks 'amazing' just because she's 'natural'. She doesn't.

This is like me, finally feeling fashionable!

I’ve always had a naturally big, pert derrière and was called Jo-Lo arse as an insult at school.

I have always had naturally full lips and was teased at school and called ‘fat lip’ by this boy who relentlessly teased me.

Face dimples on cheeks… always told at school that it looked like I’d been shot in the face with a potato gun.

I have been teased about face freckles too and now I see people having them tattooed on.

I cannot for the life of me fathom why anyone would do those things to themselves but at least I no longer stand out, so there’s that!

I have veneers on my 2 front teeth to fill a gap. Had them probably 30 years, since back before they were a thing. It was easier than orthodontic treatment to move the teeth to fill the gap.
I don't think they look fake, just a bit on the big side..... Which they have to be to fill the gap. The colour looks natural as they were matched to my own teeth, which are always more yellow than you would expect!

If I could afford it I would love to veneer all the fronts so that they were a more equal size as my other teeth are quite narrow.
If my fronts ever fall out I will totally die! Or sell my children to finance new ones as I just cannot go back to the gap!

This with bells on!

I hope it's a passing trend. The amount of damage people are doing to themselves long term by going to turkey to get their teeth done is shocking.

DH is a dentist and he has seen many horrors first hand.

Mine were thick and dark, they're not so thick now but still dark. My hair isn't though that's silver. I never went for the thin look after an older colleague at my Saturday job said just don't because they'll go sparse like mine. So I only tidied them up occasionally after that.

I'm sure they suit your face perfectly. Eyebrows tend to if people leave them alone.

If it’s any consolation I absolutely adore thick dark eyebrows. I’m so jealous whenever I see them as mine are sparse, odd and a completely different colour to my hair 😂

What the ever living f*ck did I just see?!!!

Some of us poor sods were born with them and I'm not paying a woman to inflict pain on me once a month so I do the odd tweezer. So some of the big dark eyebrows brigade will still be around😁

The rest of it is pretty horrible and I don't know why this particular generation of young women have taken to it with such alacrity!

My husband’s ex had veneers done years ago like 30 years ago and they look absolutely awful now. The veneers are coming away and she can’t afford to get them redone. I had my boobs done 17 years ago. I have capsular contracture in the left one. It’s solid, like a rock. I can’t afford to get it sorted, only option is to get them removed which I will but I know it’s going to look terrible as the implants are quite but and the skin will no doubt be really stretched. Some of these procedures absolutely will not last so these people need to make sure they have the funds to get it redone if it all goes to pot. As for lip fillers, they can look ok if subtle but all the girls on TV shows just seem to go way over the top and they look ridiculous. Also if you keep getting lip fillers surely the skin will start to stretch and you’ll end up with wrinkly lips?

I don't know what #bekind is, but seeing pages and pages of mostly women, talk about "slug eyebrows" and "blow up sex doll lips" on ANYONE (but mostly other women, let's not pretend), is gross. That's my opinion!

I think it depends on where the surgery is done and the skill of the surgeon/dentist
My 2 friends have veneers, one spent a hell of a lot of money and had them done in the Uk, they look lovely, just like nice normal straight teeth
My other friend went to Türkiye, spent around £1800 and they look a mess, big white gum shields. Plus they botched them and now you can’t tell which teeth at the top are her 2 front teeth

Plastic surgery has become so accessible nowadays, people flying to Türkiye having surgeries that aren’t even approved in the uk for little more than the price of a good holiday. Scary times. I feel sorry for the teenagers today that are consuming all this.