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

Haha, no. I somehow posted twice so deleted one!

Not long ago this thread would have been full of angry, presumably lip-filled women accusing us all of being insufferable snobs - "how fucking dare you judge other women for making the best of themselves, you vile bitch!"-type stuff.

I'm glad the tide has turned.

Please let this be true.

I always wonder how this might confuse their kids in the future, wondering why they haven't grown up looking like their Mum's. Family photos must be a joy.

As the parent of a DC who has anaphylactic reactions, I have to stop myself from offering medical assistance to the owners of some of the swollen looking, over-filled lips I see.

A woman on a Facebook group Im in regularly posts look at me pictures. Amongst other things she has huge lips that are tattooed (I dont understand how that works tbh). She spends a fortune on her look and clearly loves it so it's none of my business (and Id never critice soneone personally on their looks) but I think she looks a mess and quite scary tbh.

Injected lips might be on the way out but I have noticed women doing the trout pout on photos again, regardless of their lip size. Why?!

It's quite odd for those of us who have naturally full lips thanks to our ethnicity, and were first teased for it in our teens, and now asked where we got such natural filler. DD is in that position!

do men prefer that look?

Straight out of porn - all the better to blow you with. There's a reason those old blow up dolls had huge lips like this, isn't there?

I think it's really sad that these porno looks are infiltrating the mainstream. Many women won't stop and ask themselves why this is a look, which is also sad.

What are you talking about now?

D'you mean the people with fillers have been duped? Or is this a new way of saying that the OP is duping us?

A lady I see in a coffee shop, cant open her mouth properly because of her lips so she lisps when she talks. I have to question the ethics of the practioner who did that to her. I guess it's what she asked for but surely when it makes your mouth unusable you have to say enough?

A lot of the younger women I work with get injections and fillers like I'd get a hair cut.

Genuine question - what happens when lips are dissolved or the fillers absorbed? Surely your skin has stretched so you are left with sagging lips? Like if soneone loses a lot of weight they are left with excess skin?

It's regarded as pretty? No, Pretty ugly definantly.
Where I used to live there were several young women who were attractive but they all seemed to go down the trout pout thing at the same time, the results were a joke, So much so I wondered if the provider was actually trained to perform the service.

I know two women who have their lips so inflated it looks painful.

One can't close her mouth properly and they're so full that the wet inside part of her lips is visible on the outside of her face. It forms part of her lips and has a weird puckering. I don't see how she or anyone else can look at her and find it attractive tbh.

I think people just lose sight of what it actually looks like eventually.

I find the super-smooth, very plump lips look quite unattractive. Lips are supposed to have creases in them so we can stretch our mouths. It must be so uncomfortable when your resting face includes lips stretched to the max already.

I agree with you and the comment you're responding to.

I've often wondered what the quality of these relationships is like.

Is there a correlation is between women who do it for this reason; men who choose these women for this reason and women who find they are in relationships with (young) men who cheat, are porn obsessed etc

It's just a musing really because, I know there's no guarantee in any relationship but we seem to have seen a rise in some young women presenting themselves in highly sexualised ways and equally a rise in young men who treat young women badly and who see them as merely highly sexualised 'objects'.

It's purely anecdotal but my daughter is 19 and so I see a range of young women through her from the totally wholesome 'girl next door' types right through to lip fillers, eye lashes, boobs out and everything in between and the more 'girl next door' type they are, the better their relationships seem to be. The more these young women do to adopt this particular look, the more likely they are to be in a crappy relationship with a man who doesn't respect them or women in general.

I think it’s because it makes them look like a blow up sex doll.

God I hope so, it’s absolutely quackers!

Those eyelashes!!! What the fuck is that all about?

Women are trained early to become their own oppressors

That's it exactly! It's like everyone wants to be a clone. What happened to being an individual?

I agree!
I got castigated on here yesterday for saying a woman shouldn’t dress ‘to please a man’ !

I saw someone the other day that I haven't seen for 3 years. She was unrecognisable. When she spoke to me, I had to use contextual clues in her chat to understand who she was. My response to her was probably weird too.

No idea why she needed to do that to herself. She was much more attractive before.

Hopefully…along with whatever superglue stuff they use on their foreheads that makes then shine….think of that mechanic woman in coronation street!

I see it a lot on Instagram and just scroll past. I used to think it was for men, the whole look. But I wonder if it's not a kind of way of fitting in with a particular type of woman. I don't know. It's a mess.

Someone said if you can get women doing a lot of labour to make themselves look a particular way, you've got them oppressed in a way. Imagine all the hair straightening, contouring, pedicuring, all the money on tweakments, fake tan and gym membership and status handbags. I do see it as a form of oppression.

The irony with lip filler is that it generally looks better on people whom already have larger lip compartments to accommodate it. Thin lips can only accommodate very small amounts, else it simply migrates (duck pout).

Done well (modestly) I think it can look nice. But there are an alarming number of crap practitioners out there. I watched the Chloe Ayling documentary recently and was shocked at how badly her lips had been filled. How does a model get to that level without one person telling her it’s completely migrated? It’s such a shame as she is stunning and just doesn’t need. It detracts from her natural beauty imo.

Its definitely not a look I'd go for. Once you get up close, it really does look awful. A lady served me in a shop and her face was so over inflated with cheek and lip fillers, it really did look bad and she couldn't talk properly because her lips were too big.

I dont see how any professional doing these fillers allows that.

I have noticed older women getting it done too but overly done, and it really doesn't look right. I can understand that getting older, your face sags and ages (I would seriously think about doing my tear troughs if I was brave enough!) but it really has to be done right.