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

It’s nice to be on holiday and see local women looking normal, like we did 20-30 years ago. Yes there’s the odd one with fillers, but my God the number of British young women who have gone down the route of lip fillers (and false teeth) is bamboozling. They don’t look better.

I love watching documentaries and programmes from the 80s/90s where the women looked natural and all different.

Most women with big lips and big bottoms were African heritage, why the push for all of this?

Surely the standard beauty was the 90s supermodel, they were stunning without any ridiculous enhancements.

I dont follow anyone who has had work done as i have no interest in what they have to say

I follow a few people on social media who have had work done and at least at first, it has started out quite subtly and looked good, but it seems to escalate and now these very pretty women, who didn’t need to do anything in the first place, have almost become caricatures of themselves. I wonder what some women will look like in 20 years?

When was that?

I saw a lovely young girl in the shop the other day. She'd obviously had her lips done but it looked really quite natural and wasn't egregious or dreadful. Then she turned sideways on and I thought 'yep, THAT is how people can tell'. Her mouth stuck out at such an angle that I wondered how she could manage to drink from a cup.

Each to their own and, like I said, face forwards she looked great. I guess they like the look. Many fashions look ridiculous in retrospect and I'm sure many will cringe at their duck face pictures in years to come, much like we cringe at our legs squeezed into skinny jeans or the flat make up we used to wear.

It was ever thus.

Always makes me think of Ivy Brennan/Tilsley.

I have naturally big lips and got horrendously bullied for it at school... "fish lips, blow job lips etc"

It's bizarre that my old secondary school bullies all now have lip filler!

However, I think 0.5 or 1ml can look very flattering and add volume and symmetry. Anymore however I think can look obvious

I feel the same about those ridiculously long and thick false eyelashes that make the eyes look like slits, how can anyone see while wearing them?

You're about 5 years late to the party. Around here (SE) everyone is getting them dissolved.

I've often wondered why women do this too, especially when it's quite over done and they look as if they're going to have difficulty eating with them. See also huge fake attached eyelashes that have been stuck on and looks like a bad case of conjunctivitis...how on earth do they see with them on?

But people aren’t enhancing Their own looks they are trying to look like or imitate someone they admire

I forgot to add the woman’s eyebrows which are also massive and unnatural.

So it’s her hair, eyebrows, lips, breasts and bum that are over exaggerated and made to look bigger.

I have to say she seems a perfectly nice woman and seems quite introverted which is at odds with the appearance which looks to be screaming for attention!

My sister says she seems quiet and doesn’t say much probably because it’s painful to talk through those lips!

I want to start up a conversation with her about it but she always has at least one child with her.

I think they look awful but each to their own, it's definetly not for me.

When i see somene with massive lips I can't stop starring at them, not sure why but my husband has even told me to stop starring but i just can't help it

I wouldn't be bothered if it weren't for having to lipread. When somebody's lips, cheeks, eyes and eyebrows/forehead don't move or form shapes in the way a person who has not had any procedures does, they might as well not bother.

I do wonder whether an altered level or lack of expression can also affect child language and speech development - so much is communicated via expression, but it's been deliberately altered out of fear of wrinkles or to look different.

How is anyone or any industry convincing anyone fake lips look good? Apart from influencers people deliberately follow

Those are very sausage like.

This has been around for years now. I’m seeing less and less of it as celebrities, influencers) have stopped doing it so much.

I wonder what the next thing will be -we’ve had boobs, eyebrows, lashes, buttocks and now lips - maybe perms will make a comeback

“<insert judgy comment> but each to their own.”

If people want to spend their money on something that makes them feel better, more power to them.

We can have a separate conversation about why women choose to change their looks and how the beauty industry spends £billions on convincing them they should, if you like?

I regularly see a young woman who has had her lips inflated to comic proportions. They look like two glistening pink sausages. The lip gloss she wears always looks patchy, perhaps due to them being over inflated?

She has a uniform of pastel coloured outfits - pale pink, beige, cream and pastel blue that are matching top and bottom that are either skin tight or cropped sweatshirt and jogging bottoms.

she also has over inflated breasts and an unnaturally large backside which looks strange with her slim legs and waist.

She has long dyed matte black hair and massive fake eyelashes.

She has sported this look for at least three years.

Her husband looks like a normal bloke. I noticed that he has quite thin lips.

They have three daughters and it’s hard to see if there is any resemblance to their mother as she looks like a cartoon caricature but they do have a strong resemblance to their father including the thin lips.

I wonder if the girls will be influenced by her look and when they become teenagers will try to emulate this look.

People do stare at this woman as she’s quite startling to look at so I wonder if the children notice or she thinks she is receiving glances of admiration?

The lips actually make me wince, they look so painful and uncomfortable.

I found this photo online but they are identical to what this woman has except for this woman has patches of red. It must be the look she wants as over the years they look the same.

I imagine that if you stop then you would have strange, wrinkly, flabby lips because the skin and underlying structures have been deformed by the filler?
Not a good look I think 🫣

Absolutely

Laugh emoji please MN.

The beauty industry ( beauty obviously being subjective) is driven by women not men. If the money was spent on improving their self esteem at a roots level instead of turning themselves into a photocopy of someone else they’d seen this ridiculous trend would stop. Trends are for the anxious. It takes confidence to leave the house with an unadulterated bare natural face. Those are the ones that stand out.

Aah, I get it now. I can be such a dope!

Edited to change predictive text f-up.