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

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ToriMJ · 01/11/2024 21:08

Eek, watching tv these days it's a sea of huge symmetrical bright white veneers.
So many of them look like they have got a teeth guard in when they are sucking on them.
Most of them just look really terrible and I dread to think what their long term teeth issues will be.
Add in the huge lips and filler faces and really it's a bit black mirror with all these faces looking the same. I know the lip filler can be dissolved but is that the same for all over the face? Will people be able to go back to how they were before once the filler blindness passes?
I've been watching old movies and the difference with natural teeth is quite something, it changes the natural shape of your face and everyone looks more individual .
Aibu or will it all look so dated in ten years and all these huge horsey veneers go out of fashion?
Or am I just getting old Grin

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lavenderlou · 01/11/2024 21:52

Hopefully. What would have been the equivalent 10 or 15 years ago? Boob jobs? They do seem less of a thing now.

ToriMJ · 01/11/2024 21:51

The cakes on, layer upon layer upon layer of makeup is another bugbear. That 'perfect' look where skin has no texture or god forbid imperfection. Glowy on camera but it must look absolutely dreadful in the flesh.

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boulevardofbrokendreamss · 01/11/2024 21:51

Probably. But I had a perm, skinny eyebrows that have never recovered. I try not to sound like my mother to my kids.

FfsBrian · 01/11/2024 21:51

NoisyDenimShaker · 01/11/2024 21:49

Thick black drawn-on eyebrows, thick rubber lips, caked-on makeup, flat centre-parted bleach-blonde hair with tonged waves, veneers, and maybe face filler...they all look EXACTLY the same. The whole look just screams "not very bright." 😂

wow

RichardOsmansFreakishlyBigHand · 01/11/2024 21:50

Theres only a certain sector of society who want all the fakery and turkey teeth. Noveau rich or pondlife or both basically.

FfsBrian · 01/11/2024 21:50

VeryGoodVeryNice · 01/11/2024 21:11

They already look shite, and I think the trend will pass quickly. Last year fake lashes were all the rage, this year they already look dated. My hairdresser who is also trained in beauty said that unless you just get a tiny bit of lip filler, you either have to stick with it forever or lips just look terrible whenever you stop.

My friend who sells Tropic also said that she heard the face collapses when you stop having Botox.

Both women are wrong. The body is incredibly good at healing and believe it or not they go back to their natural shape. Same with the new fillers - not Leslie Ash style filler though.

I agree with the teeth. The older ones will need replacing in ten years and its whether people can afford it. My daughter had hers done in Dubai and they actually look very subtle and lovely, you cant tell - looks like she just had a brace when she was younger. People who get them on the cheap in Turkey are most likely going to regret having them done or maybe they wont! If it suits the wearer - bugger the starer!

u3ername · 01/11/2024 21:49

Someone mentioned Rylan. And I respect him for being a hardworking man - he was all over tv at some point- however as soon as he took over It Takes Two I stopped watching as I couldn't understand what he was saying.
I think the way his teeth were done had a negative effect on his speech.

NoisyDenimShaker · 01/11/2024 21:49

Thick black drawn-on eyebrows, thick rubber lips, caked-on makeup, flat centre-parted bleach-blonde hair with tonged waves, veneers, and maybe face filler...they all look EXACTLY the same. The whole look just screams "not very bright." 😂

ToriMJ · 01/11/2024 21:48

Appalonia · 01/11/2024 21:39

I was watching the Top of the Pops shows tonight from the 70s - 90s singers like Martika, Cathy Dennis, Debbie Harry etc and was struck by how individual all the women looked. Pretty, natural, lots with shorter hair and their own sense of style. The aesthetic today seems to be blow up sex doll!

It's really Noticeable isn't it. Just seeing individual faces, with natural variation. I love it. So many little striking differences that make someone's look, but today is eroded in search of the uniform same faces look.

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BobbyBiscuits · 01/11/2024 21:41

They've had perfectly healthy teeth shaved down to stumps so that will never ever be the same again. They'll just have to keep having more veneers stuck on there. I don't think some of these people can even floss. They look like boxers gum shields! 🤢

This is what I always wonder about... Basically they've got no teeth left, apart from those tiny vampire-looking pin things. So every eight to ten years or so, they have to spend thousands on a new set of gnashers? Who in the fuck has the money for that, especially with the way the world is going!?

Can anybody who has had this done answer if this worries them?

Blinkingbonkers · 01/11/2024 21:48

I’ve seen a few media reports recently referencing the number of 30 somethings needing facelifts because of stretched skin post fillers. Sooner it goes out of fashion the better.

Clingfilm · 01/11/2024 21:48

It is a bit sad how identikit young women (and increasingly men) are looking but I think trends will change and something else will take its place.

My money's on thin 90s eyebrows and big hair being back by 2035...

It's the current caked on make up that bothers me most, I just imagine dirty orange towels and pillow cases.

Aposterhasnoname · 01/11/2024 21:48

It looks hideous. The long term issues with veneers doesn’t bare thinking about.

StoneofDestiny · 01/11/2024 21:48

They already look utterly ridiculous

JudgeJ · 01/11/2024 21:47

Edingril · 01/11/2024 21:18

And the same hair look and fake tan

And the Kardashian lard arses too. I once worked with someone who had a very prominent derriere and I've often wondered if she is now feeling very up to date, because she hated it, would never where a tight skirt or trousers!

StarDolphins · 01/11/2024 21:46

Even my DD 8 is noticing lip fillers, slug eyebrows etc, it’s depressing.

I just spend every day saying how natural beauty & looking different should be celebrated & I’m happy with my own style/lack of enhancements in the hope it catches on.

The young & gorgeous girl that lives opposite me was telling me all her friends who were avid lip filler/black eyebrow friends are turning their back on it so I live in hope.

Its so nice to see different faces & looks.

Gummybear23 · 01/11/2024 21:45

LynetteScavo · 01/11/2024 21:36

There's a white teeth, big lips, boobs and bum, fake tan and tattoos look that already looks dated, but is going to look really funny in several years time.

It's not even like a fashion like a perm and white stilettos that can easily be changed, so they're going to age a person.

Oh the tattoos too!

u3ername · 01/11/2024 21:45

I think it's so sad how women these days are pressurised into making themselves all look the same.

I don't think it's pressure in the same way as it was decades ago for women to maintain a certain look. I think women back then were judged a lot for not attracting a man to settle down with etc.
Women are meant to be in their golden era - when they have much more freedoms than before, real independence.

It's crazy why so many are going for this look, risking long term damage of some degree.
If you ask them - they'll say it's not for anybody but themselves, so some misunderstood perception of self-care?

JudgeJ · 01/11/2024 21:44

VioletCrawleyForever · 01/11/2024 21:09

They already look dated and hideous.

Did many of them ever not look hideous?

ACynicalDad · 01/11/2024 21:44

An American friend of mine has done the teeth and looks awful.

Game0fCrones · 01/11/2024 21:43

I was watching an 80s episode of Top of the Pops the other day and Kim Wilde looked stunning, slim and so natural and the audience all looked lovely too (thin, pretty, normal teeth and eyebrows).

Howdidtheydothat · 01/11/2024 21:43

My DS (13) cracks up when he sees Botox lips. He thinks that from side-on, they look like ducks beaks 🤣🤣 . However, he has commented that his teeth are yellow (they are not) as he thinks UV white is the colour that they should be.

TheBunyip · 01/11/2024 21:43

I just can’t fathom that clearly pretend teeth have become not only acceptable but desired. It’s peculiar. Just a few years ago we’d be rolling around pointing and laughing, thinking of poor Lesley Ash here. Remember how we were horrified / appalled / intrigued by Michael Jackson and now look what these people are doing to their faces??!!!

Shoppedatwoolworths · 01/11/2024 21:42

I always think this when watching old tv shows and movies. Julia Roberts in her older films was stunning, slightly yellowed and crooked teeth, which ironically added to her beauty. Now her teeth look like she’s wearing a mouth guard.
….The friends cast with their very slightly imperfect perfect teeth.

I found some old magazines from the 90’s, all celebs inside (spice girls, backstreet boys, boyzone etc etc) all looked SO natural. They all looked human!

BobbyBiscuits · 01/11/2024 21:41

They've had perfectly healthy teeth shaved down to stumps so that will never ever be the same again. They'll just have to keep having more veneers stuck on there. I don't think some of these people can even floss. They look like boxers gum shields! 🤢