To wonder what’s going on with all the big lips

Vacuous

They look like plastic sex dolls.

It looks vile.

I’m seeing more of the “clean girl” look where I work - natural nails, minimal makeup Etc.

Now, if we could only ditch the hair dye, it’d be great to see people looking quite normal again!

I was walking on a busy trail in the US recently and a girl in front of me kept getting her, approx. 8 year old, brother to photograph her arse in minty cycling shorts (she'd lift up her top and pose). It made me feel pretty ill TBH!

And there are men speaking out against this like James smith- pointing out that “six packs” often mean an unhealthily low body fat.

they aren’t labelled “sexist bitches” as per pp though, for “bringing other men down” or judging their looks.

Why is it only women....
Many men are at the gym some taking steroids to build a bigger body, having hair transplants, teeth cosmetically changed, going on sunbeds, some going to the extreme of having legs broken to have them increase in height. I work with young adults I wish I had a magic wand and could give them all better self esteem.

Like I said upthread- personal anecdata but as a lip reader I think it definitely changes how people speak, as I find it very hard to read filled or botoxed lips.

Subtitles on most film and tv now. I wonder if this will mean actresses move away from it more as on a big screen I think it’s really noticeable that their mouths don’t move right- Florence Pugh is the most recent one. I couldn’t watch the film it was so distracting. But I wonder if that’s just me as a lip reader.

My 24 year old daughter follows trends, but luckily needle phobic. Takes a teddy to the dentist! We were talking last week and I was trying to explain to her that when I was her age we wante yo be straight up and down figure wise and she said she loves her big bum! (Relative size 10)🙄. There has always been trends and probably always will be, what's next any young person know?

Big lips, dark brows, rigid plastic eyelashes, fake or sunbed tan, tattoos, plastic nails like talons, bust and/or butt jobs ... Is this "beauty"? I know women have enhanced their looks for thousands of years, but these current trends are awful.

I wonder if it alters the sensation in the lips at all? This post’s made me wonder if it changes how people eat/speak/kiss? You’d think the ones with massive lips must be knocking food off their fork until their proprioception adjusts. I wonder if there’s any speech pathology research into the changes 🤔

Speaking of baboon bums, have any of you noticed BBLs much? I'm not sure if they've taken off as much in the UK, every second woman in the US seems to be walking around with a weird giant pillow arse though including Madonna!

Respectfully, where have you been?

What is 'going on' is that a whole load of common or chavvy women have decided that having duck/ blow-up doll lips makes them look more desirable.

In reality it labels them as common or chavvy.

Is all the artifice a way of having control over something in lives that are otherwise a bit hopeless? I see babies clutching tablet screens being pushed around by overinflated and tattooed girls with improbable hair and impractical nails. Vape on the go and phone attached to the pram handle. Each to her own, but I think it’s very sad.

I'm waiting for the long body/short leg trend!

Quite a few reality star ‘celebs’ are getting their fillers dissolved now so hopefully the trend will gradually go away. I expect it’ll take a few years though.

interesting to read that the next trend might be small lips like anime

I am like a pp wondering when a big nose might be fashionable? I got a big nose and thin lips in the genetic lottery! Big eyes and small ears though 😆

I was teased about my thick lips as a young girl. I'm so pleased I had them now that I'm almost 60 and still have decent lips.
Considering all the stuff I have had injected into my face ( which no one has ever commented on), I have been asked 3 times if I have my lips filled 😂

Its so fugly and so obvious!!

Very normal look here, too. Mainly younger women. Not an affluent area, but botox etc are becoming so normal. Both in my new and old hairdressers, these sorts of enhancements are offered.

We've all got to live according to our own values, and I don't want to go down that route because I wouldn't want my children changing themselves in that way. I want them to understand they are gorgeous as they are, and more than just their packaging. So I have to walk the walk and talk the talk. Not easy though.

I have - naturally - big lips and a big bum. I thanked JLo in the early naughties for changing the world’s perception of what was considered beautiful. As a teenager I used to get all kind of nasty comments which only stopped when the MTV girls started to look different.

However, 25 years on it’s like the general population no longer have to accept what ‘God gave them’. It’s all a bit weird and over the top and I suspect this is the future.

It's not just about looks
If you read my posts then you will see that it caused my collegue distress.
There is also research coming through that altering the ability to move facial muscles causes disruption to neural pathways similar to those experienced in PD.

There is also the issue of erasure of women being able to express themselves and to show emotions facially -good little dolls, pleasant and making no demands .

It doesn't look like it round here.

Melanie Griffiths is just one example of someone whom looks worse from cosmetic surgery especially on her lips 💚😢💚

You can usually tell as the side profile is ridiculous. I can’t say I notice it loads around here though. The fake eyelashes seem to be going away too which is good.

My dentist sent me a text message survey and it mentioned cosmetic "enhancements" and teeth whitening so it is something dentist are considering doing or are already offering the services. I thought the survey could plant a seed of doubt about certain individual's body image and make them seek unnecessary procedures.