What is with lip fillers?!? They look so fake and awful

[Fanofan1]

i’m probably showing my age (I’m in my 40s) but am I alone in thinking the lip filler look is just awful?

I see them all over social media and in real life when I’m around people in their 20s. Why? They look so fake.

I know it’s not our fault as women. We’re manipulated into thinking our bodies and faces are never good enough. But lip fillers are so ubiquitous and look so, so bad, I just don’t get it.

YANBU. They look like ducks 🦆or trout mouth….

I had to ask a patient the other day 'have you had lip filler or are you having an allergic reaction?' it was filler but apparently she hadn't had it done for "ages"
This was clearly not an example of a subtle enhancement to the existing lip shape! It looked very swollen and painful tbh

Lip fillers often look lovely from the front but odd from the side and dont move in a natural way when talking.

You have a shelf on your top lip though?

100% saw someone on the train last week who looked like this….fillers, lashes, hair extensions. All of it awful.

Just the last photo has filler but well spotted. The other two are 6+ years old. Once I hit 45 i lost quite a bit of volume in my lips and I just wanted them like they used to be.
I had my first filler last month.... and yes it hurts!

YANBU. I hate the lip filler trend. Most go OTT and look horrible.

I have a friend who I've only recently met and she has got lovely full lips. I could tell they were natural. A group of us were talking about having work done and she said they were natural.

Another friend met us one evening and I could tell she'd had hers done (for the first time) and it didn't look right. I didn't know what to say when she mentioned it as I didn't want to lie. She's not had them done since so I don't think she got many compliments. She's attractive and IMO didn't need it.

Oh interesting! Not as easy to spot as I thought then

I've name changed for privacy, but I've had lip fillers for a couple of years now. No more than 0.5 at a time. Nobody has ever noticed, not my ex husband (who would be sure to comment), my mother, sister, or friends. Nobody.

However, I wonder if that's because I have naturally 'ducky' lips; a short upturned philtrum and curved upper lip and had such a tiny amount injected.

I think I can tell if someone has it done though (upper shelf especially if their lips aren't the best shape for filler). The side view is often a good indicator, or when they speak.

It definitely hurts. My eyes usually stream.

Probably done well it can look nice and just like someone has slightly fuller lips. But a lot are just so bad, and on really young women as well. Looks like a couple of pink tyres.

Most look obvious and not good. Some are subtle. I have always had big lips so when they lose volume I'll have a little put in as the skin is already there.
The ones that look fake have no skin to fill.

I was watching Danielle Lloyd on SAS who dares wins. She's such a strong gorgeous woman but all I could focus on when she was speaking was the lips full of filler .
I don't get it either

I think the fact that it’s ‘obvious’ in some people is often deliberate. People want you to know they’ve spent good money on them, along with the lashes, fake tan, nails etc… It’s buying into ‘the look’ and the lifestyle. I think many devotees think it projects a glamorous self-image of someone who can afford to take care of themselves.

I think it's sad when women, mostly women, feel like they "have to", as opposed to just wanting to look a bit better.

The same way some women feel they "have" to cover themselves in make-up and desperately need their face done to venture out, as opposed to women who enjoy make-up, even get it done professionally before an event, but are just as happy to have a fresh clean face on other days.

@ManateeFair
"definitely do teach them not to be judgy little bastards about the harmless choices women decide to make about their own faces."

I'd prefer to caution them against gross over-exaggeration 😉 - and to be able to judge when an opinion is okay to air (eg:anonymous Internet forum) and when it is not (eg: direct to someone's face). I also teach my kids to not worry about the opinions of others. Whatever you do - do it for your own good reasons. People can say and think whatever they want - if you are happy with your choice, that is what counts.

FWIW I've had both fillers and botox. I'm not the slightest bit bothered that other people have a negative opinion of those choices. I'd far prefer they are able to express a view than are cowed into silence by the #bekind brigade.

I don't like it and that's even the very subtle ones which I can still tell but they don't impact me so I don't really care. I do worry about the younger generations with massive lips and what the long term effect might be. I feel the same about most fillers, I often think its so normalised now I wonder if I should have something then I do the school run and am overwhelmed by the hair, eyebrows, lashes and filler combos and think it's a risky slippery slope I don't want to start on!

Donkeys years ago, women used to have their hair washed and set weekly and people of my grandma’s generation (or just my rather judgemental grandma!) looked down on women who didn’t keep up with having their hair done, or let their roots show etc. Couldn’t go outside unless she’d powdered her nose and put on a bit of lippy.

i think the current beauty regime of filler, Botox, brows, lashes, nails etc is just the modern version of being “done”. It’s not an aesthetic that I like or aspire to, but a woman’s body is her own. I’d never criticise someone for having it done, but I may privately have an opinion if it’s not done very well or doesn’t suit them.

And yes, you can always spot filler in real life and usually in unfiltered photos depending on the angle. The line where the upper lip meets the skin is a dead giveaway.

Yes, I think the noticeably fake look that some people want.

Everyone thinks theirs look nice but with something like this I think a neutral opinion is required 👀

I think theres three basic groups of people here.

Those who have minimal lip fillers that genuinely do look natural.

Those who absolutely intend to have excessive lip filler so it looks filled, thats the point of it... They don't look natural but thats ok, they didn't want to.

Those who think they look natural but some mental health issues or other reasons (peer group, not seeing anything else) mean they are wholly unaware that they do not look natural at all.

What people want to do with their faces is entirely their business - but I do find huge unnatural looking filled lips rather repulsive to look at.

YANBU...although it's each to their own.
I saw a young woman in the supermarket a few months ago and she'd had so much filler put into her lips it reminded me of a blow up chair that used to be in the Argos catalogue.

Same with people and long fake eye lashes, the one's that when you're in a queue and the person who's face they're on in front of you turn around and practically tickle your own nose with them.

The line where the upper lip meets the skin is a dead giveaway.

That's possibly the vermilion border I think. If I recall correctly.

I think it can look good until people go way over the top and have so much they can’t close their mouths. I notice when watching MAFs, 2 of them are constantly running their tongue around the inside too to like separate their lips from their teeth. What’s worse is lip liner outside of the lips on a really obvious way. I’ve got 2 daughters and thankfully neither of them like the look either.