What are people doing to their faces?!

Are you struggling at the moment? Is that why your automatic response is hostility? It’s very difficult to search for a reply from a specific user within a thread which moves as quickly as this. If you can’t be bothered to retype it you could just copy and paste as it’s dead easy to find your own posts.

I have no problem with beauty trends, it's interesting to see what comes and goes in fashion. Looking back, our dream matte mousse too dark for our faces and sperm eyebrows must have been a talking point.

It's just the permanence of this current trend and the risks involved. I can't imagine letting someone with less training than a Clarks shoe fitter injecting god knows what into my face for the sake of beauty. Dream matte mousse washed off with no harm done thank god, what are these women going to do when fashion moves along?

This. I couldn’t agree more.

I'm totally with you, OP. I also have a young daughter and I hope this awful pornesque look will be old fashioned by the time she's a teenager. It probably will be - we have swung so far towards looking synthetic, the style pendulum will eventually swing back to a more natural look.

The thing I've always wondered... Those who choose to drastically alter their looks with injectables or surgery, and have children. Firstly they alter their looks because they are unhappy with them. Do they look at their children, who used to look like their parent and geel unhappy with their child's looks too? I can't get my head around this. Also, one of life's great joys for me is when I see a family resemblance or trait in my children. It makes me feel connected and part of something, yet you alter your face and that goes away. Finally, how heartbreaking for a youn girl, as an example, as she begins to wonder why mummy doesn't want to look like her?

Finally, worth mentioning this seems rife in the UK. But the UK has always been celeb obsessed. I've noticed in other cultures it's not the same, and consequently I think the intense botox filler look is less in other countries and cultures. Why?

But that’s not reversible?! That’s getting another trend to try and cover up the permanent effects of the first one

Living Kens and living Barbies, sadly.

A valid concern by the OP. Hopefully by example and conversation with her daughters her concerns will not materialise.

Some of the men look horrific too. Living Ken dolls.

I don’t know if it’s sexist but I find this weirder, some seem to want to look more masculine but end up looking more feminine.

Also it’s not empowering to change your natural looks so radically that you become enslaved to a costly cosmetic regime.

I know it’s not my business what people do and how they look but I can’t help but worry about who these people visit as practitioners.
My friends DD a few years back bought a groupon deal for some aesthetics and microbladed eyebrows and the woman doing her brows not only made them look shite, she was also unprofessional. I wasn’t there, but by all accounts she was vaping during the process. I’d be uncomfortable with that, it doesn’t show show masses of professionalism. And she did truly cock up the lassies eyebrows. Of course they were all ready naturally perfect. She wasn’t a victim of 90s over plucking.
But people who aren’t financially in a position to see a doctor at a proper clinic are at risk and that’s a concern for me, I think it should be only administered by medical professionals and semi permanent make up by actual tattoo artists. People who take pride in their craft, not injecting faces with a 3 hour course certificate under their belt.

The only person who getting upset about it is you, and it isn't your business.

Of course it is, or do you think all choices exist in a vacuum?

when even those with £££££ can end up with incredibly poor results, what's the likelihood of someone going to Gawjus Gals Nails & Lashes ending up with a great outcome?

Agree with this.

So many incredibly wealthy celebs have ruined their faces and now just look puffy, bloated and weird. Jennifer Aniston is one. What's her name that plays Olivia Benson in SVU is another. When they're presumably getting the best that money can buy there's not much hope for your average Jo Bloggs.

There is something going on. I’ve been really shocked by the amount of money young women in their 20s are spending on anti ageing stuff at work. There is one lady who can’t be more than 28 who is using 20 plus products and taking collagen every day. Once you’re on that sort of regime before 30 it feels inevitable that that’ll be progressing to more cosmetic procedures.

Depends what you consider “best”. Certainly rich.

Some of the men look horrific too. Living Ken dolls.

No, not so rude.
Moving on.

@Likewhatever does it mean these girls get the pick of the best men in their own social circle?

Wow, so rude.

For those wondering what it looks like over time, seek out any of the Real Housewives series, but particularly Beverly Hills. These women have all the money they need and access to the best cosmetic surgeons so they represent how it looks at best (which still awful in my book but that’s just a personal view).

For the worst examples look at TOWIE. These are young girls getting treatments on a budget.

I don’t see that look where I live but if I go to the city it’s everywhere. Working class girls trying to look like Kardashians. Also see it abroad so it’s not just Brits.

If this is your attitude why are you on a discussion forum ? OP isn’t telling people how they should feel. She’s expressing an opinion and her concern at her young children being exposed to all of this so early. And inviting, y’know - discussion.

No, I replied.
Moving on.

Not sure why you quoted me.

Debbie Harry had surgery as an older woman though to maintain her looks, - not in her 20's like women are using fillers now to completely change their looks! As someone in the entertainment industry and constantly photographed and in the media there is a huge focus on looks and staying 'young' and it's hard for women to not cave to the pressure of this.

The way women are using cosmetic procedures now is quite different- it's a way of completely changing their facial structure so they don't even look like themselves anymore. Yes, many women have done this with makeup over the years, but make-up washes away at the end of the day and you look like yourself again- fillers change you forever.