Why do people get massive amounts of lip filler?

I notice. That's the point

@Catza that's a strange list, new house provides a roof over our reads and other benefits, shaving legs, painting nails etc is mostly due to other people seeing, new underwear feels good. What's the benefit to lip fillers if they were so subtle someone's own mother doesn't notice?

I think the lips look best when accompanied by 1inch fake lashes.

It could be said for anything. What’s the point of buying a new house? New underwear that nobody can see? Cutting your hair? Painting your nails? Shaving your legs? Having a slice of cake? Going to see a movie when you can just watch something at home? We live in a world where choices are available to us and sometimes we do things because “I wanna!!”. I am sure you are not entirely virtuous if you think deeper about the choices you make every day.

But if your mother couldn't even tell, what was the benefit really? You obviously looked fine before.

Yes I have a recently divorced 50-something friend who recently turned up to a coffee date with massive lip fillers. No-one mentioned them but as soon as she left and I closed the door behind her, I went back into the sitting room to my other two friends, and all at once we all said Oh my God, WTF has she done to her lips?! They look dreadful!

The filler went all the way to the corners of her mouth, top and bottom. So instead of just replacing lost volume and giving her mouth a nice shape, she looked like she'd had two of those long sausage shaped draft excluders that you stitched into lips. It looked ridiculous.

I think they look awful, especially when they can't move their lips properly when talking because they're so stuffed full of crap

Doesn't help all the "influencers" (a word i hate) and love island types have it, so that age range are left thinking in order to be seen as attractive you need these awful over inflated lips.

Someone at work is so young but already getting botox and fillers and extolling their virtues to others in the office, who are now also looking into it!

Molly Mae looks so much more naturally pretty after she got rid of the lip fillers, so many of these girls don't need them, and it almost turns them into caricatures

I wonder if in ten/twenty years time any health issues will come out of this wasn't there similar with some of the silicone that was used for breastfeeding implants?

I'm another who doesn't get the trend for the stupid pouting in photos, like why? Just smile it looks so much nicer!

This. The reason people think “they never look good!” is because the one’s that do look good they would never be able to tell.

Near where I work there are a lot of wealthy residents and the shops are filled with puffy faced puppets with rubber lips of all ages. I think as long as they think they look good when the camera phone is turned on them that’s ok. They don’t seem to care about the other angles. Filler doesn’t ever completely dissolve and it migrates around the face. Dread to think where it will end up.

I don't feel they look natural but would never tell someone that. Everyone can do what they want to their own body. Some of the Russian style lashes make peoples eyes look smaller imo but again I wouldn't share that. If you feel yours are natural and like them, great it's your lips and up to you. From a side profile even more subtle ones protrude since the way they inject. Ultimately, what does it matter?

I think what a lot of people don't realise is you've never seen 'nice looking filled lips' because you wouldn't know you've had them done. I once sat and listened to a colleague saying she can always tell, they look awful, all the stuff being said on here, when I told her I'd had mine done two weeks before (I don't work in the same office as this woman had only met in person once before) she looked shocked, told me I hadn't, took some persuading then said 'oh yes now you say I can totally tell you've had them done... hmmm
To the prev poster who asked why nobody has taken me aside to tell me I look awful, presumably because they don't think I do, or aren't spectacularly rude?

I think the nose job made the difference.

Not the lips. Newly divorced woman friend turned up for brunch recently. Always looked lovely, lots of money (her choice to divorce), looks like fucking duck!

My colleague had a very small amount done in her top lip to balance her mouth as she had a much thicker bottom lip and it actually looks quite natural as it’s such a small amount. I see a young girl every day on the train who had ridiculous over the top puffed lips. I feel sad seeing her as she is actually very pretty but the daft lips ruin it.

Just watching the Outnumbered special, look how skinny Karen's eyebrows are!

This is rude. Badly done or over done lips can look terrible but tweakments you wouldn't even notice so perhaps this is what the pp had done?

Surely it’s more to do with social media/ societal pressure.
The more normalised, the more women do it.
Same as fashion. I’ve seen some things and thought hmmm that’s an odd choice. Then see other people wearing the same thing. Then even more people. Then it kind of becomes acceptable and before you know it the majority of people are wearing those items.

Low self esteem/mental illness

But I don't get it and the huge eyebrows.

This look is dying out now, just need the brushed up eyebrows to have their day and maybe we'll get some semblance of normality...

@Coalplay they don't look awful after, but your lips were absolutely lovely before, you've traded a natural look where you've been blessed with lovely lips to lips that people will know are fake?

Here are mine right after. Before top obv

straight after they’re swollen then reduce over days . I liked them as they made me look less “pinched”

Each to their own!

But I don't get it and the huge eyebrows. I would never say anything to someone, but I just don't see how anyone thinks it looks good.

I'm a single parent too...I'm not saying single parents get lip filler, I'm saying the women I know with lip filler tend to be younger, single mothers, anecdotally

This.

Low self esteem issues maybe. I imagine with lip filler they all think it looks great that's why they have it I suppose?

As long as it doesn't hurt others, let them get on with it.

YABU to say it shouldn't be allowed. Everyone is entitled to do what they want with their own bodies, just like you're entitled to do what you want with your own. I've never had any cosmetic surgery, fillers or anything like that but if other women (or even men) want to because it makes them feel more confident then that's completely up to them! :)

I’ve had it.
can really see how it gets addictive