Why do people get massive amounts of lip filler?

I know someone who whenever is see them I think their lips will burst, that’s how much filler they have. But if they like it, who am I to judge?

@TomorrowTodayYesterday agree

@ChubbyBubbyBoo

Not everyone has millions of pounds but they don't go out robbing banks.

For me, I'm really not attractive, and I do care. But I care more about others. If that makes sense. So if I have spare money I will keep my scruffy hoody and dad's nose and help someone else.

I probably have bigger mental health issues. But I do think that kind of extreme lip fillers, is a strange one.

So, some people like it. Like using fillers or even too much make up, it's a few people's idea of beauty/mate-worth. Such a shame when naturally beautiful/handsome people alter their looks to suit a trend. Even more of a shame when looks=the best.

YES that that. ^

I honestly don't understand them at all. Not only are they massively impractical and very unhygienic but they are ugly as fuck.

Yes! The side profile! 🦆

I think it's for photos. 2 young girls I know aged 19 & 21 have excessive filler (and big eye lashes) and it looks pretty awful close up but in photos its less noticeable and perhaps does enhance photos.

They look as tacky as fuck don't they? There's no way you can go about your day and do chores and normal stuff with them. Just for show they are, and for a few instagram pics! What on earth is the point? Waste of money!

@CobaltRewind I agree! They very rarely look good. The worst ones I see are on the (female) Love Island contestants!

I've been saying for a while now that very thin eyebrows 20s/70s style will be back soon. These things always go on a cycle. And lo and behold I saw my first pair of very thin, drawn on eyebrows last week on a girl in her early twenties. Her own eyebrows were completely waxed off and the drawn on ones were very theatrical and flambuoyant in shape.

As someone else upthread also mentioned, the other thing I've noticed is that when lip fillers are too extreme they push the upper lip up in such a way that creates a dark sort of 5 o' clock shadow on the upper lip. It looks like a moustache. Not quite what they were aiming for, I'm sure.

I also agree that in a few years time loads of women are either going to have a lot of lumpy scarring to their lips, or if they stop having the filler their lips will probably never recover their natural elasticity and shape, but be stretched, droopy and lax.

I’m honestly sick of this cosmetic treatments and surgeries being the ‘norm’. The bright white gum shield looking teeth, the huge lips, the unattainable body type that is completely thin but toned in the ‘right’ places. Then there’s the eyelashes and the nails, then the hair having to be kept on top of and ‘perfect’. I’m so tired of seeing all these women morphing into one another and no one showing their quirks anymore. Someone with freckles, embrace it don’t cover it either foundation. Someone with a gap in their teeth, again embrace it don’t replace them.

its these ‘influencers’, social media and shows like love island that are changing how young people view beauty. The celebrity culture of celebrities in their 40’s still looking 20 that are making people terrified to age. I strongly believe if we wasn’t in this culture of social media, the world wouldn’t be like this.

Why does everyone have to like the way they look naturally? Not everyone is a supermodel and wanting to improve yourself doesn’t mean you have mental illness.

Some women really like the “just punched in the face” look.

I’ve never looked at lip fillers and thought “what lovely full lips”
They all look fake and pretty dreadful.

Why on earth are you ok with chopping bits off a body, but not ok with putting bits in?
What's your view on boob jobs, or bbl?

I wonder if it’s like Botox, in that you only notice it when it’s bad?

I can see why people might go for some stuff, like a bit of filler or botox.

The obvious treatments are a way of showing financial status, like a used car salesman sporting a thick gold chain.

It also sends a message to a particular type of man who likes his women to be malleable: "I will transform my face/hair/teeth/breasts for you. Let me be your doormat.

I suspect lots of people who you think have real lips don’t

Lip fillers always, always look awful. And anyone who uses the word "tweakments" to describe having gunk put into their face is kidding themselves that they look natural and fresh and that no one can tell.

I have naturally very full lips and a large sticky out bottom. I've been asked before by strangers where I got both of them done 🙄🙄🙄

It's very much the fashion these days. I know of ladies between 20 and 45 who've had them done. None look good, or natural, but if they like it, and it makes them happy, it's their money to waste---- spend as they see fit.

I disagree too!

Michelle keegans are lovely. Nobody could disagree that it’s an improvement. Keira knightlys are also good and tess dalys.

Where’s the individuality? They all look so generic. I think the slug eyebrow trend is fading, but the acrylic nails are unpleasant.

Some are actually really subtle and can look beautiful, you wouldn’t know.

We have the impression all lip fillers look shit because the ones that clearly are fillers really do look horrible - by that point it’s way too far. I wonder if it’s a body dysmorphia kind of thing?

It’s just fashion, like in the 17th century when they wore huge powdered white wigs with birds in.