Why do people get massive amounts of lip filler?

My lucky to be blessed with trend was/is wide shoulders - problematic in the 80s when I had to pick out the shoulder pads to get a garment to hang off my body rather than my neck - decades later finding clothes to fit my body is still problematic, the rest of my body being slim.

Good thing is that into my 60s I can still lift up and climb shit that I see people half my age can't do.

Not sure what the good thing about having big lips is; but probably loads of blokes can advise me.

IME it seems to be young women, often single parents, who like to look like they've spent money. So the natural look is no good as no one would know they'd had it done. Same with overly dark tinted brows and long acrylic nails. I don't know why they need people to think that, an insecurity I suppose. Same reason a colleague on minimum wage has just nearly killed herself with stress to spend £1k on her 9yo for Xmas, including a £350 Boss jacket - madness!

Because they think it looks good and it saves having to keep trying to pout when they are putting photos on tik tok or whatever it is nowadays . For some reason lots of teens / young women think that they have to pout in photos, no idea why .

A friend of mine got it done. She's very quiet and introverted and I wouldn't have thought she'd be into that type of thing but apparently she wanted her lips to look more balanced or something. The funny thing is the previous week I'd been talking about lip filler and how ridiculous it looks and then she got hers done lol. That was last year, her lips are back to normal now, not sure if she'll get it done again.

I think there has been a shift so now people want to look like they’ve had work done. In the past it was a little embarrassing to admit to having enhancements whereas now it seems to be something to show off about.

I had 0 lips. As in no lip at all to look at.
When I smiled I had teeth only.

Thats why I have filler and I feel so much happier with it.

Because they love 🐤

Low level body dismorphia.

Badly done lip fillers look ridiculous. Well done ones are imperceptible. As with all work.

As to the point of the OP - I go to a clinic for regular tweakments. The doctor I see specialises in natural looking work, maintenance rather than alteration. However other doctors work with people who actively prefer to look fake and probably have frozen face Botox, fox eyes and bulging fish lips. You pays your money and you takes your choice.

I'm not a fan at all. My lovely colleague has her done and tells everyone how natural they look (and she really thinks that) but they really don't. She's a really attractive woman but is fast getting that generic look, which is a shame.

I was in a cafe recently and two of the three girls on the next table had such obvious filler in their lips. You could see the needle marks from where I was sitting.

If it makes someone feel better then great, I just think it's a shame that so many young women think they need to pump themselves full of this stuff to look/feel better. That's the issue IMO.

I don't like the look either, but each to their own.

Funny how trends change though, I used to get teased in my teens for having full lips, now I feel lucky to have them.

I'm with the previous poster who mentioned fake nails, from a hygiene point of view they must be quite grim really.

Maybe it doesn’t look bad?

@Bluebellsnbowbells good question. Why do some see 'fuller lips' as being more beautiful? It's a trend obviously but doesn't answer the wider question of who sets the barometers of 'beauty' and why do so many people feel the need to follow it.

I think nowadays the aim is for a look which to my eye is a bit strange looking. I used to think that was it having gone wrong... but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore, it seems that must be there intention. But even when I think it looks a bit more "natural", it is still very obvious in profile and always looks unnatural.

I have a colleague who has it done. Seriously, it looks terrible. There's a weird crease just off centre of her top lip. Bizarre.

I blame filters. People get used to filters that exaggerate their features into whatever is deemed to look 'hot' at the moment, so they want what they see in the mirror to match the selfies on their phones.

Lip fillers are the worst of all tweaks . They are rarely done well and look ridiculous.

Why pay money to have fuller lips though? It just looks terrible. Does no one take you to one side and say how bad it looks? I have never seen any lips ever that have thought need to look fuller.

I have lip fillers, not massive amounts, the woman who does mine is a registered nurse and has been doing fillers 20 something years, she's super conscientious, she actually won't put 'loads' in anyone's lips. The vials usually come in certain doses, say 0.8ml or 1ml, she stops when there's enough regardless that I've technically 'paid' for it. And I'm just fine with that
I think the issue is you can qualify to stick this stuff in a few days, no medical training required and they undercut more experienced practitioners but then also I suppose some celebs don't to these high street ones and are still over filled.
I'm just saying it's a mix of people who want them to be massive and people going to very inexperienced techs

They always look to me like a woman has been hit by something or someone and given a fat lip.

It’s an awful look. Goodness knows why people bother.

It's a vicious cycle. The more people have it, the more people think they have thin lips. So they get it. And so on. I've always been told I have beautiful full lips. They don't look so full in comparison these days. But I don't care!

They get it because they like the way it looks.

And filthy. The germs lurking in those things. Absolutely disgusting.

I hate the fake "art and craft" nails more, just so weird!

There's one of these threads every week. Have you honestly got nothing else to do or think about on Christmas eve? 😉