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.

I think definitely photo 5 and possibly photo 3?

The sound they make on keyboards in an office!

Yes, synthetic - not naturally occurring
. The fact that it’s produced by our bodies is irrelevant, a synthetic form of anything is not a natural thing to stick into our bodies.

It is not your age. My teenagers find these things as source of amusement. Thdt decorated a Mexican skull with "filler lips" and "lash extensions".

I think they look beautiful and very natural.

My daughter is 17.

She doesn't like the fake aesthetic either and thinks lip fillers look ridiculous.

Long may it continue!

Hopefully this age group will grow up to be more natural.

I am still perplexed by the brow thing. For years it was the thing to have them thin and shaped nicely and then all of a sudden girls were getting these huge thick ugly things. Just bizarre!

I can always tell when someone has fillers. Even a tiny amount

Behold, the amazing and preternatural @Daffodilsandtuplips

FFS

There are a few on here, I think, yes. Lips look very dry and with lots of vertical lines all the way across. which I guess is what happens if you stretch something and then empty it - there is loose skin which has to sit somewhere.

Well obviously in many cases the sort of man they want. We know from the media that women with fillers can attract partners of men who are young, good looking, well off, famous, including premiership footballers, boxers etc. I'm fairly sure these women aren't hankering after Nigel from accounts who (tells his wife) he thinks filler makes them look awful.

Yes that's the definition of synthetic, Sir. 👏🏻
Well done for stating the bloomin' obvious.

They're considered quite safe and complications are rare.

Have you ever taken a moment to consider why you believe the things you've listed (full lips, full eyebrows, long lashes, non-grey hair, straight white teeth etc) are the definition of 'good looking' and should be aspired to?

I have that ridge and I’ve never had lip filler (or any other filler/Botox), it’s just the shape of my face.

Saying that though the intelligent famous men like Cillian Murphy and Keanu Reeves aren't going for this look.

Also the name Nigel has a new meaning to me since Nigel Harmen hit the dance floor.

I see this too, speech impediments seem to follow too much lip fillers, constant lip licking, just a sad indictment on the state of female confidence.

it’s incredibly patronising to suggest the women opting for this look don’t know their own mind and what they like aesthetically and are just being “manipulated”

Hahaha, @Usernamen! Don't ever try for a job in marketing/advertising, will you? £34 billion in the UK alone, totally wasted as people can't be "manipulated" 🙄

The worst thing about some filled lips is that they're also done with "lip blush". Now they DO look like vulvas.

An actual vulva on your face for 300 quid

I don’t work so I don’t tap and annoy anyone (apart from my wife- but she whistles so it serves her right!).

What on Earth is a lip blush?!

I had mine done twice a few years ago to even out my lips- they’re quite asymmetrical and I love lipstick, but not the faff of essentially drawing on a symmetrical lip line before applying it! I loved it, bloody sore though. Don’t love yet another thread bashing women’s appearances, it’s a bit tired at this point.

The profile from the side is always awful

If you don't like the look of lip fillers just don't get it done, simple as that.

I do think it is interesting so many women who have it done think it isn't noticable. It is always very obvious to me when the natural lip line has been blurred with fillers. No, not everybody has a trout pout, but the way the top lip line join with the filtrum and is rounded in people who have had filler is clearly not 'natural'.

I do think it is fine to want that aesthetic and is nobody's business what a woman does with her body. However, I don't think many women with platinum blonde hair/lilac grey hair or fake tan are trying to pretend it looks 'natural'. It is clearly a cultivated aesthetic, and it is odd that there is so much insistance that nobody can tell who has had lip fillers in the face of so many people telling you they can.