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

What is older mum hype?

Sometimes I think lip fillers end up making your lips look like hemorrhoids. You have to be careful.

In that case - many apologies, MapWall.

It’s totally a feminist issue. The pps saying “It’s none of your business’ just don’t get it. Either that, or they take pride in sacrificing their beauty and individuality to keep their gruesome men happy.

I just hope these sad women won’t be expecting the NHS to fund their corrective procedures in the future.

Wow! You win the misogyny prize on this thread.

I’m guessing you have ‘the look’ being discussed here?

For ‘plain and boring’, I’ll read ‘natural and understated’.

Say what, now?🤔

I was on holiday in Turkey. One day in the pool there was a woman with MASSIVE lips and an unnatural looking bum. She looked like Jessica Rabbit. I couldn’t stop staring. I think she’d originally have been very attractive. But she looked bloody wierd.

Glad to be of service

Not true at all! What a strange comment.

Well if grown adults are following this dreadful trend, I am not sure there is much hope for the many younger people surrounded by this stuff.

have encourage friends what have higher intelligence The irony of this poorly-written phrase has amused me though!

So parents should be encouraging children not to be sheep and have encourage friends what have higher intelligence

It’s more subtle though. If everybody around you has these lips, and all the people you follow on social media do, even if they’re not pushing them, you may think it is the look to go for. It will change your idea of beauty I guess and make you want to achieve that look.

It has always been thus with beauty standards. Of course not everyone is affected. I am in my 50s and I’m happy ageing as I am, and my young adult daughters for now want to stay clear of ‘work’ . But it is because of none of us are surrounded by people who have this work done. If we were, maybe we would also be tempted.

I have 19 and 22y daughters. Busy with university and new jobs. They don’t have any fillers or procedures and neither do any of their friends. Not one. They like dressing up and putting makeup on for nights out and that’s it. They also do not like the look of the fillers at all.

I think if kids are busy and have other big aspirations, they may not see cosmetic procedures as a priority. And also it’s peer pressure. None of their friends are doing this stuff so they are not tempted to either.

And all the young people I see going in and out of my house look absolutely gorgeous with no need for these fillers.

You got the wrong poster. It was a different poster saying ‘yawn’ etc.

Agree, not a new thing.

It’s not a good look especially when they are so plumped up they can’t close their lips. It makes them look gormless.

This might be one of the most misogynistic comments on the thread.

I have not seen any 'pressure' where they show trout lips looks good, so where does the pressure come from?

people keep on blaming 'society' when they cant think for themselves but never tell us where advertisement, influences, models etc. just doing something connects the general public to feel they have to do it too

People use ''well I feel pressure to make ridiculous choices to my body because I follow people who do it and can't stop reading fashion magazines or have friends who do or watch endless tv with people who look like manequins on them, I can't think for myself' but really?

They look awful.

I actually think the pressure to inject chemicals into your face to adhere to a beauty standard is everyone's business. Most beauty standards are a direct consequence of patriarchy, and this one is harmful and imo akin to things like corsets and foot binding.

It's not about blaming women for how they want to present, or judging women. It's about considering the wider impact, and thinking about it through a feminist lens. Surely people don't want their daughters growing up feeling they need to inject crap into their lips to look good? Don't we want women to feel comfortable with their normal appearance, as men do, without the pressure to completely change their face? Normalising normal faces is good for everybody.

Men (unless you're a celebrity perhaps) don't do half as much of this crap. It's a feminist issue.

I think they look awful, but it's not my lips so 🤷🤷

Like all beauty trends, it will die eventually. I genuinely think this is one of the ones we'll look back on and think 'wtf were we thinking'

I've noticed that there's a lot more businesses (?)locally popping up offering lip fillers for cheaper prices. It seems to me those who couldn't afford it before can afford it now so are having it done. More people seem to be having eyelashes , nails , lips etc done. It seems to be less people go out to pubs and clubs and instead spend their money on beauty treatments. It's seems so in my area anyway.

Not the men I know, but perhaps the men who watch a lot of porn.

There are a couple of girls I went to school with who've had them done and I just want to give them a hug and tell them they were so beautiful before. It's ruined them. There's 3 of them who've just gone completely OTT with it, and it is absolutely awful. The person who did the treatment needs to be stopped.

I worked with someone in the industry as a content creator a few years ago, who said that the best kind of treatment is so subtle you can hardly tell it's been done. Just slightly enhancing your own looks, rather than completely overhauling things. She's completely right. She said there's no way she would ever allow anyone to leave her premises with a "trout pout" or a forehead they couldn't move.

There's a lot of money in this industry, and people are preying on those with low self esteem and bleeding them dry.