To say that women look bloody weird ….

Talking to people who have overly fucked with their face is like talking to someone with a mask on. I find myself distrusting them

Ok what is one positive thing about faking yourself to look good? is the end result ever achieved where someone genuinely looks better than being natural, and I am not speaking of corrections due to medical conditions or surgery but having a ''standard'' body before and then faking it?

@CherrieTomaties remember …all that scowling is bad for wrinkles

I don’t bash other people for their appearances.

I think that is a rather extreme, narrow minded view of people who find the relatively recent trend of injections, filler and surgery on people under 40 as concerning.

the ‘they’re just jealous’ response to anyone who might be even mildly critical sounds a bit playground and lacks nuance.

im almost 50 and can say I’ve never needed to consider plastic surgery, or Botox until the last couple of years. I’d happily sign up for it now.

im also not sure that it’s only ‘the bitterly insecure’ who comment on other people’s appearance. Surely there would be no beauty industry if we all just walked around appreciating people’s inner souls?

and maybe all these old ‘bitterly insecure’ women have been round long enough to see beauty standards change completely. Ask anyone who plucked their brows in the late 90’s/00’s how bloody annoying it is having hardly any eyebrows in 2025! It makes me wonder how people will rectify their look when a more natural aesthetic becomes fashionable ( and it will, as fashion and beauty industry needs things to constantly change to keep us buying stuff)

The substance and Dorian grey are satirical cautionary tales. The patriarchy as always has a hand in this stuff as well as ego, vanity and in my opinion the primary driver is fear, of being over looked or left behind or not seen at all.
It’s no surprise when you see many before pictures that the women and girls were often naturally more beautiful in their before pictures yet somehow they’ve become convinced that they are not enough as they are.
sad times. And even sadder seeing the botched cheap jobs .
around town I see people who look truly terrifying , out with their kids, body builder tan, tattoos on make up, weird shape lips, lashes for days and I think they probably only look good in a filtered pic and full make up. Without make up the looks don’t work.
with make up it’s a caricature.

I’m cringing for you. How childish and daft you’re making yourself look.

What were you hoping to achieve from this thread?

Do you genuinely want a discussion on aesthetic treatments or did you just want to be goady and invite equally unpleasant women to agree and bash others on how “bloody weird” they look with their “fish lips”? Ghastly terms btw, you sound absolutely delightful.

I actually feel very sorry for women like this. Imagine being so delusional and vain that you pay good money to wreck your face.

Add dirty looking hair extensions to that list!

Blimey, you haven't just touched some raw nerves here OP.

You've positively rubbed salt into them by the looks of some of the defensive replies 😳

I think you feel you’re saying something positive here but, in reality, there are way too many comments on here around female beauty without any awareness of how this feeds the aesthetic industry.

Should women only be on TV if they’re pretty as opposed to being talented, interesting, knowledgeable etc? And then we’re outraged that many men see women purely as sex objects.

They look awful, thing is normal people are doing it too. I've noticed since my youngest child started school this year the proportion of mum's with facial paralysis and fish lips has soared compared to mums in my 2 older children's classes (there's only a few years between them all). The thing is it's the younger ones who are doing it more than the older mums.

I love it when I see women on telly aging gracefully, they look so much better. I do wonder why actors and actresses do it, it doesn't exactly help them act when their face is totally frozen.

It’s only the bitterly insecure and unhappy people who feel the need to comment on other people’s appearances.

I think this says more about you tbh.

I think it's fairly reasonable to ask what it is about our culture at this point in time that has created this as a beauty standard, and why it's more prevalent in Britain than in other countries - in the same way as it's sensible to question other beauty trends.

I'll totally uphold any woman's right to do what she will with her body and her appearance, but that doesn't mean blind acceptance that beauty standards are in a particularly healthy place right now, any more than they were when I was a teen and heroin chic was aspirational.

exactly! And if people are entitled have freedom to think and act how they wish without restriction, it works both ways. Someone is allowed to get fish lips, I'm allowed think they are an idiot.

Of course it impacts others. Can you think who, and how? And why that’s not a great idea?

Why don't you talk about the real problem- is it your insecurity? Deep seated issues you repress and project? Maybe try some therapy and stop trying to drag women back to the 50s.

I read about Emma Stone having some 'tweakments' then I went to my Pilates group and we had a coffee and chat afterwards. All the women are aged 60+, none of them have had any botox or anything and I just thought they are lovely just the way they are because every single face was full of character and life and humour. It's terribly sad to see women plumped full of fillers with all the distinctiveness drained from their faces. If you're doing this to your face, stop it. It looks terrible.

Ok I will ask outright, who genuinely thinks fillers/beauty surgery, and fake breasts, tan and nails, eye lashes and brows, hair looks good, not I will just say it looks nice to keep them happy

and yes on men too

Who really thinks fake looks good on anyone?

You think its a shame when a woman doesn't look as beautiful as she could?
Interesting. Because that's exactly the thinking that drives the cosmetic industry.
You're part of the problem.