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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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BruFord · 02/11/2024 23:32

GettingStuffed · 02/11/2024 23:24

For veneers only a tiny little bit of enamel needs to be removed. Most people think they're having veneers are actually having crowns and the only thing you can do if it goes wrong is have them removed and get dentures.

@GettingStuffed So the rather scary photos of prepped natural teeth (that sometimes look like points) are actually for crowns, rather than veneers?

Or is that if it’s done badly?

GettingStuffed · 02/11/2024 23:24

For veneers only a tiny little bit of enamel needs to be removed. Most people think they're having veneers are actually having crowns and the only thing you can do if it goes wrong is have them removed and get dentures.

GettingStuffed · 02/11/2024 23:16

5128gap · 01/11/2024 21:14

Most filler dissolves in 18 months to 2 years so if they stop having it they will go back to their old selves. That applies wherever they have the filler. The teeth I think are for good. I've seen pictures of the process and they grind the natural teeth down to put the veneers on so there'd be no going back from that. They'll just have to have crooked, chipped and off white veneers instead if the natural tooth look comes in. I'll be right there for that, ahead of the curve!

That's not correct. People who have fillers tend to have them years after treatment, and there are cases of people having more fillers than originally as it can absorb water from your body.

RampantIvy · 02/11/2024 23:15

ToriMJ · 02/11/2024 23:13

They are 24,24 and 25!!!

Wow. The one on the left looks much older than 24.

ToriMJ · 02/11/2024 23:13

ThePoshUns · 02/11/2024 22:49

I don't watch Love Island, so I'd guess that these women are younger than 40?

They are 24,24 and 25!!!

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DancingintheSpoonlight · 02/11/2024 23:05

ISeriouslyDoubtIt · 02/11/2024 20:17

I'm a woman but why shouldn't I comment on what other women look like? Why should I be nice about other women, whatever age or class they are?
I stand by any woman's choice to look however she wants, but they need to be aware that certain looks are going to invite comment and the lip filler and veneers look is one of those.
Age and class are inextricably intertwined with certain aesthetics and it's absolutely true that overly filled lips, bright white veneers, heavy fake tan etc are much more represented in young women of the lower classes.

Because the women in question didn’t ask for your unnecessary, judgemental quips.

And why are you so obsessed with class? Does it matter so much to you if someone LOOKS like they have lots or nothing in the bank?

I want my daughter to grow up with good self esteem and happy in her own skin…not a judgemental cow, influenced how she should dress and look by other people who have nothing to do with her.

redalex261 · 02/11/2024 22:58

Agree it looks just awful and will date terribly. Sharpie eyebrows, gigantic lips stretched to the point there are no lines or texture on them, huge bleached teeth and untrimmed double thickness lashes. Then add in the weird dead hair extensions (poker straight, middle parting, greyish balayage with black roots) and generous coating of fake tan, tattoos all over the place. Don't forget those mockit nails - reservoir of crud and germs, bleurgh!

It does seem skewed towards having nicely filtered and posed SM posts, making the person look impossibly sculpted and beautiful a la Kardshian but sadly looks horrible and harsh when moving around in broad daylight.

Never mind, after the fillers dissolve, the hair extensions have left baldy bits on traumatised scalps and gums have receded from the tombstone teeth they'll still have the lovely pics. Smile

ContactNightmare · 02/11/2024 22:50

ToriMJ · 02/11/2024 22:47

The love island women are a good example

Are you sure this isn’t Drag Race?

ThePoshUns · 02/11/2024 22:49

I don't watch Love Island, so I'd guess that these women are younger than 40?

ToriMJ · 02/11/2024 22:48

I think it's fed by insecurity and instagram- the elusive insta lifestyle. Beautiful faces being manipulated.

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ToriMJ · 02/11/2024 22:47

The love island women are a good example

To think in ten years all these huge veneers and huge lips will be seriously dated?
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ToriMJ · 02/11/2024 22:41

Blimey, yes so
Much better after

To think in ten years all these huge veneers and huge lips will be seriously dated?
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fashionqueen0123 · 02/11/2024 22:12

I’ve just looked up Molly Mae.

Wow she looks sooo much better (& younger!) without those awful fillers. I don’t keep up with her so I didn’t realise what she had done previously.

Bignanna · 02/11/2024 22:06

AllTheChaos · 02/11/2024 00:48

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

You do know that HE is now SHE and called Jessica, and now looks far more scary after many cosmetic procedures, don’t you?

ISeriouslyDoubtIt · 02/11/2024 22:04

Bignanna · 02/11/2024 21:50

How can they afford these treatments?

It's an area with cheap housing and I suppose they prioritise spending on what they look like over everything else, presumably they spend a high proportion of their income on these treatments.

Gummybear23 · 02/11/2024 22:02

Bignanna · 02/11/2024 21:50

How can they afford these treatments?

How they afford anything else like food or rent etc.
It is another essential.

Bignanna · 02/11/2024 21:50

ISeriouslyDoubtIt · 02/11/2024 14:25

This is definitely true and it can vary even within towns a few miles apart.
I recently went to the opticians and somehow got talking about this very subject. She is based in a pretty well off area but had to spend some time working in a much poorer place about ten miles away( more up the South Wales valleys), she said there was a huge increase in the number of women there with obvious lip filler, fake tan, long pointed patterned nails etc.

How can they afford these treatments?

ISeriouslyDoubtIt · 02/11/2024 21:37

ForPearlViper · 02/11/2024 21:23

What I hope will be dated, and indeed die out, is women slagging off other women for their fashion choices, with includes body related fashion choices. I am now in my 60s and it has being going all my life and I strongly suspect long before. Social media has made is worse as a whole pile of people can pile on anonymously.

Aren't there a whole load of things women should be appalled by in this world without picking on other women who have chosen to fill in their eyebrows in a colour of which you don't approve?

Mumsnet makes me despair with the small-mindedness of the opinions. If only the energy spent in slagging off other people was spent on trying to make the world a better place..... Shouldn't it be about women supporting all women?

I'm 60 and have never yet been given a good reason why I should support all other women, simply because they are women. That seems ridiculous to me. Being a woman doesn't mean that I would automatically support the choices of half the population. There are plenty of awful women around whose lifestyle and life choices are completely opposite to mine, I don't see any reason why I should support them. If they've made choices to do with their body eg fillers, Botox, tattoos and I think they look awful, why shouldn't I say so.

Alottodoaboutssomething · 02/11/2024 21:37

NoisyDenimShaker · 02/11/2024 20:24

😂😂😂

I feel sorry for YOU because you have a much higher lipstick bill than me! 😂💄💄💄

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I doubt the poster needs much lipstick, because her lips sound full and beautiful, no need for overlining and fakery.

fashionqueen0123 · 02/11/2024 21:37

Well it makes people look a lot older for a start. It’s very odd seeing women in their 20s looking like women in their 50s who’ve had a dodgy face lift or something. I don’t get why you’d aim for that.

JudgeJ · 02/11/2024 21:35

HalloweenHaribo · 01/11/2024 22:40

YANBU OP

I caught the end of Big Brother the other night and some of the housemates actually had teeth so white, they looked 'blue' 😳

Fluorescent tombstones is my name for them! I remember way back there used to be lighting in clubs etc which caused white shirts to glow, I wonder what it would do to these teeth?

Alottodoaboutssomething · 02/11/2024 21:33

mustardrarebit · 02/11/2024 21:26

I don't want to post pics of my kids, but yep, it is. They've invented an entire character and write funny stories about her.

That's worrying that you think it is okay for your dcs to imitate others, each to their own.

mustardrarebit · 02/11/2024 21:26

Alottodoaboutssomething · 02/11/2024 19:59

Because this is true... 🙄

I don't want to post pics of my kids, but yep, it is. They've invented an entire character and write funny stories about her.

ForPearlViper · 02/11/2024 21:23

What I hope will be dated, and indeed die out, is women slagging off other women for their fashion choices, with includes body related fashion choices. I am now in my 60s and it has being going all my life and I strongly suspect long before. Social media has made is worse as a whole pile of people can pile on anonymously.

Aren't there a whole load of things women should be appalled by in this world without picking on other women who have chosen to fill in their eyebrows in a colour of which you don't approve?

Mumsnet makes me despair with the small-mindedness of the opinions. If only the energy spent in slagging off other people was spent on trying to make the world a better place..... Shouldn't it be about women supporting all women?

NelG43 · 02/11/2024 20:50

Omg I wondered what would happen when it does,I have a friend who went from normal small lips to massive over blown looking ones she gets her cheeks filled also I told her to stop it's way OTT but she won't and I said what happens when you can't afford it or get fed up does your face sag way down and your lips but she said it gets dissolved and shel be fine I personally don't see how with the amount of filler she's had.