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

I think some of it is about showing you have the money (or credit!) and time to look after yourself.

It was "rich girl hair" in the past, now it's fillers etc.

My old boss has had god knows what done to her face. She was perfectly pleasant looking before, now she has a face that doesnt move which makes her look angry all the time, an alien looking chin (possible jaw shaving?), huge lips and did something with her eyes. Plus poorly done extensions and scaggy nails. It really does look awful but she must spend thousands on this stuff.

The saddest part is that she still isnt happy with how she looks / her body.

Makes me think of QE1 in black adder:

But my nose is small and pretty!

nowt wrong with a big nose.

Wow so many women on here concerned and obsessed with other women and how they look!

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let’s hope you’re not all being judged for your looks

It boggles my mind that women are happy to let a "beauty therapist" with zero training beyond a hairdressing course at college yonks ago and watching some youtube videos inject god knows what into them.

I am not in the market for these sorts of "enhancements" but if I was, the only people who would be injecting anything into me would be a specialist nurse or a doctor. Possibly a dentist.

My local area Facebook page always has posts by.... what to call them? 'beauticians'? 'aestheticians'? and, without exception, they all look bloody awful.

The fake look is very strong around these parts. I think many younger women actually prefer the fakeness because it actually shows them they've got something for their money, as opposed to anything subtler that their equally puffed-up mates wouldn't notice.

I do so agree. She looks weird now.

And honestly, Jennifer Grey (Dirty Dancing) looked so much more attractive pre nose job. She's lost any distinction in her look since she had that done.

I get what you mean. Some women spend a fortune on these treatments and then let themselves down by their habits/behaviour.

I was waiting at the dentist and a young woman with the whole ‘business’ (massive lips, caterpillars for eyebrows, spiders for lashes etc) sat scrolling on her mobile and snivelling great quantities of snot back up her nose - over and over, like a pre-schooler might.

It was stomach-churning…especially since she was going in first and it just made me think of hygiene issues I try to put out of my mind.

It’s sad because I’ve heard a few women say that, looking back at photos from their youth, they didn’t realise at the time how lovely they were - they were hung up about their appearance and tried to change it.

But in those days you were talking about make-up and hair, not messing around with your flesh and teeth. I really hope these things are successfully reversible without recourse to the overburdened NHS.

I live quite rurally and it take ages for “the latest fashion” to appear here, so I’ve seen very little of the duck lips locally. However today I saw two shop assistants with it. One in Boots, a beautiful young woman whose top lip was bigger than her bottom lip. It looked ridiculous. The second was a woman in her 50s, again massive duck lips.

I don’t understand why they think they look good!

I think the other thing is that filled lips don't tend to look like naturally plump lips. Dd hasn't inherited my lips, or my long eyelashes, and I worry that unless the trend dies or she develops a stronger character, she'll want them too. But her face has it's own lovely features: a perfectly round head for ponytails and buns; great cheekbones; a small nose.

I think it’s a real shame particularly when young girls get ‘duck’ lips.

Why can’t they be happy with their natural beauty beats me.

My friend in her 50s has got them. She’s such a great looking woman without them, but I don’t think psychologically she could be without them now.

Oh no - I hope there was something she could do about that. It must have been embarrassing for her and her colleagues.

True!

Natural big lips are gorgeous - my daughter has them. They’re full but also have the vertical lines/grooves (don’t know how to describe these !) and aren’t super-pumped and inflated to the point of bursting, which some fake lips seem to be.

I believe the pp upthread who says hers are natural-looking. Yes, I’m sure some are but oh boy…the ones I see look really tight and ready to pop!

I wouldn’t say it was fashionable exactly, as in Vogue. It’s a current trend, a craze, really.

Fashionable is something different.

Right and those were people who had them naturally.

I have lip filler, the only person who's ever noticed it was filler was a gay man and even he wasn't sure.

It looks great on me. Fucking great. No duck lips. I will have it done again when this dissolves in time.

I'm not doing it for men, in the same brrath I'm not going to stop doing it for the people on here who find it ugly or despicable in some way. I'm doing it for me because I like it, and I don't give a shit what anybody else thinks - particularly the small minded and judgemental.

Yep- I am hearing impaired and fillers/botox make it very difficult for me to lip read. I struggle to hold a conversation. I first noticed about 15 years ago when I couldn’t understand one of the school mums I hadn’t seen in a while.

films I have to increasingly use subtitles as I can’t lip read most of the young actresses. Men fine though.

many of the young women I work with have all this done. Lips, Botox, fish sperm on their eyes? All sorts. Hundreds of pounds a month. They see it as “preventative” and believe they won’t age.

Personally I am expecting the opposite- Botox will paralyse your muscles, the muscles will waste if not used, then what will hold your skin up?

The "average girl" never seem to have been influenced by high fashion models

That's because fashion models aren't sexy. What do you want as a teen? To be desired. And if you aren't quite there yet, you want to look like the popular girls. And the cool girls want to be desired. So you all look like that.

It's been a look here for a good few years but It's the number of very young girls with the works that get me. I just want to shout:"WHERE'S YOUR FACE?" Because it's not theirs, is it? It's someone else's idea of beauty. And yes, I know, makeup etc etc, but there's room for playfulness and individuality with makeup. And sometimes I do the full hit and sometimes I don't. But it's always my face.

It's called a lip flip
A perfectly normal lovely woman in her 40s had it done at work.
It was horrific, she had to chair meetings, present data and she was slurring so badly and saliva kept coming out.
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I love them too.

So fucking judgement but wouldn't expect anything less from an older mum...

I’ve never heard that phrase - was it from another poster?

I love them 😍