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.

Apart from thinking I look fine as I am, I don't want young adult DD to look at me and think she needs to do that. Sanctimonious as it sounds.

If very thin lips ever come in, I'll be gorgeous!

I have absolutely no intention of having lip fillers though. I have seen a couple of very subtle ones (and yes, you can tell, even if it's a good job), and they didn't look too bad, but 98% of them are overdone to the point of hilarity.

I agree OP. Courtney Cox, Meg Ryan, and Lindsay Lohan all come to mind—beautiful actresses who (imo) ruined their faces with very obvious fillers that look jarringly unnatural.

The idea of needles stuck into my lips make me wince. Doesn't it hurt?

I got 0.5ml a few weeks ago and love the result. Nobody noticed in real life and I definitely have friends who wouldn’t hold back if they did! I agree that some people can go overboard though

I think also, they can look ok from the front in a mirror/camera lens (although there's often that ridge around the lipline which is a dead giveaway), but from the side - where most of us look at other people - they project too far forward and look decidedly odd.

I stand by it.

Are men getting this stuff done? A small handful, but hardly any.

Women are constantly being told by society they’re not good enough, that ageing is failing, that they need these vitamins, these creams, these potions to stay acceptable. What else is it except misogyny and manipulation by the beauty industry (to make money) and influencers (to make money) and the patriarchy (to keep women down so they get to retain the power, and make money off all the bullshit women to do conform)?

This isn’t happening to men.

I work with predominantly younger women, and most of them have preventative botox, lip filler, eyebrow tattoos/laminated eyebrows, and fake eyelashes. It's a fashion trend, that's all. I probably looked equally ridiculous with my turquoise eyeliner and mascara, ultraglow blusher and skinny eyebrows when I was their age.

Lots of people I know have them and they do look very obvious but it’s also a fashion/fad a way to look. I just couldn’t be arsed with the maintenance of it all.

When I worked in a North Somerset coastal town there was a boob-job 'clinic' in the same business park and we used to spot their customers walking over the car park. Sometimes they'd come to our place and have to be redirected.

I do not believe makeup and fillers are the same. And the various posts on here panicking about lumpy filler and wonky Botox have not done much to convince me otherwise.

If you get 1ml or under they look fine it's when people get so much of it put in, the filler migrates and gives the duck lip effect.

Surely the tears wouldn’t reach the coffee, they’d pool at the top lip?🤣

You look lovely, sod what anyone else thinks and if it makes you happy then go for it. I don't think your lips look 'done' and so fucking what if they did eh?

Hopefully people will read your post and think before they type next time.

Best of luck

Some women like looking as though they have two sausages for lips

Personally I think it looks horrendous

They can look good. I've seen brilliant results. I've also seen terrible ones too

Exactly! Onlookers see all the angles - it’s a dead giveaway.

Theres also a blur tones to the top lip line - as unwittingly illustrated by one of the posters on here.

I agree they look horrible.

I always laugh at the 'oh you'd never know I've had it done' type comments. I've had botox and can tell anyone else who has had it instantly. Mine is quite subtle - I can still move my eyebrows up and down and have a few lines left alone, but still, I'm in my 40s and I think it's probably fairly obvious I've had something done.

Same with the lips, no judgement - do what you like with your own body - but it's usually obvious it's been done. I don't personally like the look, think it's very rarely an improvement and, same with everything like that really, it can be a gateway to getting more work done and sort of losing sight of how it actually looks to other people. I say that in the full knowledge that if I could afford it I would probably get more stuff done, and I'd never have felt that way before botox.

Personally if they are undetectable and nobody can tell, I think "Then why get them at all?"

I think we are going to see more research on the harm done by fillers, just as we are now seeing more research on how harmful boob jobs are in the long run, and why more women are opting for explants.

Most likely because they can't drink their coffee due to lip volume.

As I said, the vast majority of aesthetic doctors and nurses performing and promoting these procedures are women. And 100% of the influencers are too.

You’re blaming women for the choices some women make that you happen to not approve of.

Sounds like misogyny to me.

And you obviously haven’t stepped into a gym recently if you think men don’t take measures to conform and look a certain way. Never heard of steroids? Muscle boosting supplements? Heavily restricted protein-loaded diets?

But it’s only the women who are being ‘manipulated’ to want to change the way they look, of course.

I agree with you. There Is "girls" that went to school with My 20 something Dd that I don't recognise because their face and lips are so full of fillers!

I hate them they are so ugly and make women look like porn stars.

@MonumentalLentil touché!