What are people doing to their faces?!

@Anotherparkingthread your post is quite hillarious. Just for the record, I think women who inject fillers and have super heavy eyebrows & make-up etc look ridiculous and awful. And I will say it because I think it. Or should we all just shut up and say nothing about anything? 🤔 hmmm. Exciting life you must live

I'm in my 40s and DO have Botox and a tiny bit of filler (in my forehead, to fill a dent caused by my 11s).

My aesthetics doctor doesn't inject anyone under 35 - that's her policy. And she also will not do giant trout pouts etc. or "three areas for £100" nonsense.

I'm all for people doing whatever they want to their faces. But what I find alarming - and what I believe is partly driving the trend for extreme work - is random people with no medical training offering fillers and Botox, frequently in unsanitary environment and for very little money.
IMO we in the UK need to follow the lead of countries such as the US where only medical professionals (doctors, nurse practitioners etc.) with specific training in aesthetics can inject. That not only makes it massively safer it also makes it more expensive - making more people think twice about what they're having done.

Many younger people don’t like it though. My kids are all uni age and they and their peers dislike the trend too.

I am glad it is discussed. My daughter hates fillers but said she wonders what it’s going to be like when she is my age. Will cosmetic procedures be the norm for her generation? It’s a valid discussion point.

The young adults I know are very into their degrees and career plans as well as socialising. They are not remotely tempted by this cosmetic stuff, and actually many think it looks dreadful.

We are all heavily influenced by peers. If those around us are doing something, it normalises it and then becomes aspirational. Presumably Love Island contestants think they look great.

My friends and I are in our fifties and only one has forehead Botox. None of us have fillers and wouldn’t touch our lips. We are all still looking great though I think ;-)

When you says it’s their choice I do wonder though. When social media is full of adverts and influencers who heavily influence brands / surgery / injections / treatments (mostly for the financial rewards they get for doing so) …. What choice is it when that’s what they are surrounded by. It’s manipulation really. It stens from the porn industry which is also now all over the internet and widely available . It’s all very sad. This is why kids on social media needs regulating

I’m planning to have my eyebrows henna dyed this week! Eek! Will this lead me down the road of adding more stuff?

This post isn't quite as clever as you think it is.

I'm not clued up on the brands of skin creams pushed to teen girls (under 16) I think it was something elephant does young skin need the chemical gunk and is it perhaps this is when the pressure starts in using products and looking a certain way ?

This is the millionth thread I’ve seen putting women down for their aesthetic choices under the guise of concern.

I’m from northern Europe currently visiting the UK. It’s like walking around among young
cartoon people all trying to look the same. So fake. So weird. The lips and teeth must be the worst. What happened. It will be like a breath of fresh air going home.

Exactly what happened to everyone having a personality it's a shallow world we live in.

I'm 53 now but when I was 35 I had botox, lip injections, gel nails and also facial filler. I was working in an industry where appearance was everything and I was so insecure I followed suit. I did that religiously for 10 years.
Granted I went to a doctor for it, paid a fortune and the results weren't Jordan-esque thankfully.
I ended up leaving the job when I was 45 and reinventing myself after experiencing a massive breakdown. Not one injectable, fake nail or tan or lash has come into my orbit since.

@Errors EMface & similar, a natural, if very ££ lift, fairly regularly & laser peel & RF. The lit & lifted from within look. Expensive derms.

I do think that the pressure to look ten years younger than you are is bollocks though. Look at Jessica Alba. She is 43 and still looks 30. How???

I have also noticed a couple of actresses with more natural faces in their recent Netflix releases. Like Keira Knightly in Black Doves. I thought fair play to her, she looked beautiful. Then must have hit the Botox again after filming in time for the promo.

I don’t think it is. If my daughter was to go down the route of Botox and fillers at 25, frankly I’d be concerned.

Not because of how it looks, but because this is the first generation of this being cheaply available.

Tbese women could be permanently damaging their faces- we don’t know yet.

You are not being unreasonable at all, it's so sad to see beautiful girls ruining their lips and faces, wish they could see they don't need it. Does no one remember the state of some celebrities ruining their faces some look like monsters now, Lesley Ash ruined her face.
I know people can do what they want with their bodies, but I think a little bit more info needs to be given to people

WTAF that's a child's face!
Who gives a child lip filler?
That's utterly appalling on the salon and parents .

There’s two notable examples in the US:
The ”Mar-a-Lago face” and
The ”Real Housewives face.”

Mar-a-Lago is Donald Trump’s Florida home and even women in their 70s have tweaked themselves to appear like they’re in their 30s & 40s. The photos they post online show them always dressed inappropriately.
Very bizarre.
The Real Housewives are basically the same, although not as severe as the MaL women.

I had no idea she’d ever looked so beautiful. What a tragedy

Lordy. The irony of having "work" done to wind up looking older.

Why on earth are you assuming that not modifying your face is frumpy?

Why on earth would be as yourself be frumpy? 😳 That's revealing more about how YOU think than anything.

I know it's a trend, I know it's all personal choice blah blah blah, but the long term implications of these kinds of body modifications are all speculation. I honestly hope there are no long term side effects, but I worry that there will be a lot of scarred lips and reconstructive surgery needed eventually.

I mean, the long term impact of 'turkey teeth' is problematic, the crowns need to be replaced after a certain amount of time, and the natural teeth are filed down to skinny stumps, so you can't just stop getting them done.

In the NHS we already see botched surgery, infections and complications of work done abroad on the cheap, as well as issues from cosmetic work done privately in the UK, and I suspect that will only increase.

Oh dear this is the extreme why was she allowed to keep on having surgeries that ruined her face it's so wrong !! It may start with a little this and a little that but the reality is once you start down this road where does it end at which point do you have acceptance that you are getting older you can still be mature and look amazing by making the best of yourself that's what confidence is.
How you carry yourself nice clothes natural make-up even those things called personalities.

Of course she will have her natural look back, as soon as they disolve. I know it's disappointing to many on her that women aren't disfigured for life, but except for face lifts, it can all be undone. I take it, it was passed to the safeguarding lead?

And you don't pull them up on being so derogatory? Do they come out with the shit about women smelling bad if they have sexual partners and wizards sleeves? It all comes from the same agenda of policing women's behaviour. While paying for only fans/chasing women who do have work done.

Let's face it! There's a classist element to putting down some chosen looks. Although I remember feeling sad when Marnie Simpson (Geordie Shore) had work done, she was naturally beautiful, just didn't have the sex doll look going on. It was after she went on Big Brother, alongside women who did have a lot of work done.