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To think that BBLs, massive boob jobs and overdone face filler in your 20s and 30s do not age well?

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VelvetRealism · 09/01/2026 14:23

Honestly, I don’t say this to be rude but I’ve seen so many people go heavy on cosmetic procedures way too early, and by the time they hit their 40s or 50s, it’s not aging gracefully at all. Some tweaks can be subtle and well-done, sure. But the overfilled cheeks, the stiff lips, the extreme proportions, it rarely holds up long term.

AIBU to think a lot of people are setting themselves up for regret?

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Christmaseree · 09/01/2026 14:43

VelvetRealism · 09/01/2026 14:38

I’m not talking about people who had procedures in the 90s. I’m talking about people who had significant cosmetic work done in their 20s and 30s once it became widespread, and how it appears as they move into their 40s and beyond now.

This is based on what’s visible publicly (media, social media, reality TV, influencers), not on inspecting friends’ bodies. My point is about long-term outcomes of heavy, early intervention, not when the procedures were first invented.

Maybe change your thread title as you mention people in their 20’s and 50’s.

Catdrama2 · 09/01/2026 14:39

If they continue to have money, they can reverse and update. I mean look at the Kardashians.
I think bad face lifts are harder to come back from.

VelvetRealism · 09/01/2026 14:38

5128gap · 09/01/2026 14:33

I'm in my 50s and we'd never heard of BBLs in our 20s. I googled and they didn't really hit the UK until 2010 or so. I don't know anyone who had fillers back then either. A few boob jobs, certainly. But not on anyone close enough for me to be looking at their breasts to see how they're doing 30 years on.
Who are all these 50 somethings you know who somehow accessed all these procedures at a time when they were very niche?

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I’m not talking about people who had procedures in the 90s. I’m talking about people who had significant cosmetic work done in their 20s and 30s once it became widespread, and how it appears as they move into their 40s and beyond now.

This is based on what’s visible publicly (media, social media, reality TV, influencers), not on inspecting friends’ bodies. My point is about long-term outcomes of heavy, early intervention, not when the procedures were first invented.

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Resilience · 09/01/2026 14:38

in my life this applies to only a very small amount of people I know. I don’t know anyone who has had a BBL or a ‘massive’ boob job (only know 2 people who had boob jobs, and while I think both were unnecessary, they look proportionate and not at all fake). I’m not aware of anyone who’s had facial filler, but know a few women my age or a bit younger (I’m 50) who’ve had Botox and see quite a few people who’ve had lip filler, all of whom bar one were under 35. The weird/sad thing is that I don’t think any of them needed it and already looked fabulous as they were.

I guess only time will tell, but I wonder if having your lips artificially inflated in your 20s will mean that by the time you’re my age they’ll be so stretched they’ll need an amount of filler that would take them to cartoonish proportions to fully iron out the lip wrinkles.

Usernamenotfound1 · 09/01/2026 14:36

Yes I see some younger women and from my aged point of view wonder what they’ll look like when their youthful skin no longer stretches so easily and becomes thin and inclined to wrinkle.

do you just go more and more like Madonna and Katie price? Accepting that the bloated plastic surgery look is “better” than looking your age.

i don’t like the “tweakments” look at all. But obviously some do. I don’t like the lip filler/botox as a hearing impaired person as it makes it hard for me to lip read.

5128gap · 09/01/2026 14:33

I'm in my 50s and we'd never heard of BBLs in our 20s. I googled and they didn't really hit the UK until 2010 or so. I don't know anyone who had fillers back then either. A few boob jobs, certainly. But not on anyone close enough for me to be looking at their breasts to see how they're doing 30 years on.
Who are all these 50 somethings you know who somehow accessed all these procedures at a time when they were very niche?

Bluebluesummer · 09/01/2026 14:29

I got absolutely obliterated for saying similar a couple of years back. I will be very interested in how this one goes but I completely agree still. Over done plastic surgery has been around for decades and it does not age well at all. There are former what were called “glamour” models who had this extreme treatment years ago and it has done nothing but age them.

MayaPinion · 09/01/2026 14:26

The puffy glistening fish lips are awful. Everyone I know with them tells me how natural they are, but they all look like big strips of rubber blubber.

Christmaseree · 09/01/2026 14:25

I didn’t even realise all that stuff was around 30 years ago.

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