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

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Laurendelaney1987 · 19/08/2025 08:31

Everywhere I go I see women with massive lips. It looks like so many women are wearing lip fillers.

i totally get that if you’re someone with really thin lips then you may want to plump them up, but I see this look on lots of women from their 20s to 60s.

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InterestedDad37 · 19/08/2025 09:14

Laurendelaney1987 · 19/08/2025 08:38

It seems to be a particular type of look. Very groomed women if that makes sense (hair done, full make up, glam clothes). Footballers wives type of look maybe?

is it a status symbol?

do men prefer that look?

"Do men prefer that look?"
I believe I speak on behalf of all men when I say no we don't, we find it absurd. 🙂

MissyB1 · 19/08/2025 09:13

I just find it sad, along with the thick drawn in eyebrows and furry fake eyelashes, and stiff as a board foreheads, I’m sure all these women (and some are still just girls) looked just fine before they did all this shit to themselves.

unconditionalpurelove · 19/08/2025 09:11

FionnulaTheCooler · 19/08/2025 08:32

It's not to my taste but its their body, their choice I suppose. I do wonder what the long term health implications of people having all sorts injected into them will be though.

This. Plus I wouldn't want anyone but a doctor or highly trained medic injecting anything into my face.

Hillarious · 19/08/2025 09:07

Does anyone here think they look good?

MyDadWasAnArse · 19/08/2025 09:05

letsstartwithlife · 19/08/2025 08:35

Women are turning into ducks! 🤣

I saw a woman in Aldi yesterday like this. Sat a child in the trolley, pushing it with one hand whilst having a conversation on her phone. She'd got overinflated lips especially the top lip that was curled up and made her look deformed.

Topped off with stretchy nylonny leggings that scrunched up the crack of her (substantial) arse, and slides.

MellowPinkDeer · 19/08/2025 09:03

They look absolutely gross.

DarklingIlisten · 19/08/2025 09:03

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Dangermoo · 19/08/2025 09:02

It's just another example of women thinking all men love big lips - very much the same as thinking all men love big tits. They can say they are doing it for themselves, but it's trying to be alluring - to men. Very sad.

healthybychristmas · 19/08/2025 09:02

It's because of porn I think. Porn stars have their lips injected so they look better when they're giving a blow job. That's what the men want and that's what some women are delivering. In my opinion of course.

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Yachtingaroundtheworldiwish · 19/08/2025 09:00

It’s so called fashion but to be fair it’s not a good look.

Whatareyoutalkingaboutnow · 19/08/2025 08:59

Dupe.

Whatareyoutalkingaboutnow · 19/08/2025 08:58

wominzy · 19/08/2025 08:47

Do these lips collapse back to a flattened mess if not topped up regularly? If I ever had it done (I won't), I could see myself getting fed up with the fish pout and the cost of the extra lipstick required and would go back to nature. What would that be like?

I heard the tail end of an interview on the radio with someone saying just this. It makes sense if you stretch them with fillers repeatedly, once you stop they will look like empty balloons?

BlueEyedBogWitch · 19/08/2025 08:55

roses2 · 19/08/2025 08:53

What I don't understand is men who date women that look like this!

It’s the porn star look. A lot of men love it.

Overthebow · 19/08/2025 08:54

Swiftie1878 · 19/08/2025 08:51

Surely this happened about 5 years ago, and the trend is actually diminishing now?

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Yes I thought this too, it was fashionable a couple of years ago but less so now. Many round here are going back to more natural looks which is much prettier.

roses2 · 19/08/2025 08:53

What I don't understand is men who date women that look like this!

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MinnieCauldwell · 19/08/2025 08:52

The thing is once you have lip filler you get a shadow over the top lip. Looks like a moustache. Never seen anyone with filler who doesn't have that look. Plus looking sideways on you get the duck effect, their choice though.

myplace · 19/08/2025 08:51

It’s the boiling frog. Each tweak is just a little more than the last one, so you don’t notice if on yourself. But the end result is very exaggerated.

ThatCoolGoose · 19/08/2025 08:51

I think that men will think they are great for a particular type of sexual activity but I believe they are ugly on good looking people

Swiftie1878 · 19/08/2025 08:51

Laurendelaney1987 · 19/08/2025 08:38

It seems to be a particular type of look. Very groomed women if that makes sense (hair done, full make up, glam clothes). Footballers wives type of look maybe?

is it a status symbol?

do men prefer that look?

Surely this happened about 5 years ago, and the trend is actually diminishing now?

Cinaferna · 19/08/2025 08:48

LittlePineapple · 19/08/2025 08:35

I've noticed the adverts for this, sometimes on my town's page, and I kind of look at the after photos and think who wants to look like that?

Occasionally I go and work on my laptop in a coffee shop and notice often groups of similar looking people with the big lips. It's not often in my area but enough I really notice.

I see this - young women on nights out and they all look identical - iron-straight dyed blonde hair, botoxed foreheads, big brows, lashes like some furry creature has taken up residence on their eye lids, and big trout pout lips. You can;t tell what they really look like. The faces are like dolls or masks, devoid of expressions. I find it quite creepy even though they fit the current idea of prettiness.

wominzy · 19/08/2025 08:47

Do these lips collapse back to a flattened mess if not topped up regularly? If I ever had it done (I won't), I could see myself getting fed up with the fish pout and the cost of the extra lipstick required and would go back to nature. What would that be like?

hmmnotreallysure · 19/08/2025 08:45

I took my ds to the dentist last week and all the young women working there had it done, I was really surprised but then wondered if they offered fillers at the dentist which was why they all had fillers.

Isittimeformynapyet · 19/08/2025 08:45

Meredusoleil · 19/08/2025 08:42

I agree OP. I am noticing it much more frequently now. I think they look hideous tbh. Like they've had an allergic reaction to a bee sting! But each to their own and all that 🤷‍♀️

I've seen lips described as "beautifully bee stung" in women's magazine beauty articles, but they weren't talking about the lip filler craze. Artificially plump lips don't look anything like the real thing.