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 see a lot of lip fillers on my morning commute and do wonder why young girls in their twenties go down this route. Is it because they see it so much on SM it becomes "normal"?

The worst I saw was last week - a woman in a card shop, I'd place her as early to mid sixties. Her lips were so exaggerated, and it seemed totally at odds with her very lined face. It must give her some confidence, but it looked really awful. 😞

I have thin lips and there was a point years ago where I was tempted with the idea of filler but I'm not taking the risk of looking like a cartoon.

Good for you! You haven’t gone crazy and you’re not trout pouting 😁 As a fellow (former) cancer sufferer I say live your life as you want.

I’ve had a bit of Botox and a bit of filler before and the result was great. I can’t afford it now though and don’t really have a lifestyle anymore that would justify it. I don’t think my dog or my garden give two hoots about my thinning lips 😐

Same here - a girl that DD went to school with (they're both 24) is now unrecognisable. DD showed me a photo of her recently and I had no idea it was the same person. Scarily, she now runs her own 'aesthetics' business for women who presumably also want to look like they're wearing creosote and who can't move their faces or speak/eat properly. 24 years old - it's awful.

Urgh such snobbery and judgement on here!

newsflash! Women can do what they like with their bodies and whether you like to look at it is completely and utterly irrelevant.

I'm 41 and have lip fillers, however, I have had 0.5ml and topped up a little. You 100% cannot tell I've had fillers as it's subtle.

I think once you go above 1ml it's noticeable but can look great....anything more looks too fake IMO! But each to their own 👄💉

No, women can do what they like, and I can judge. We all judge. They are no doubt judging me for my wrinkles and unBotoxed forehead.

What happens when the filler wears off though. And I am referring to the younger 20somethings that are having too much injected in?

Are they going to have premature wrinkles in the area from them being plumped so much. Which I assume they will as that skin will have stretched. So it is going to have to be a permanent thing going forward surely?

It really is unsettling I had to ask Dd who a particular girl was !

They are a "thing" with a certain demographic. If everyone around you has these massive lips, then that becomes your norm and you don't stick out from the crowd.

In my social group it is not normal to have lip fillers, so you would stick out. Literally.

They do look awful, they are noticeable, people who think you really can't notice are kidding themselves. Why do you want to look like a blow-up sex doll toy?

How much do you think is put in? Lol. Some people go way too far, but under 1ml and you can't even tell the difference they just look hydrated (very fine lines gone). That's not enough for any noticeable change. I had 0.5ml to start with and not one person could tell, not even people who knew. I then had an extra 0.5ml the year after. The issue is that a lot of people get addicted to the swelled look straight after and are disappointed when their lips then go way down so chase that and end up with too much.

Our faces are so full of our character and our quirks and expressions - l think even dainty 1ml fiddling removes so much personality. Fillers rob people of so much, it rarely makes us more beautiful, just a bit bland really.

I'm not a fan, but it's none of my business. My eyeballs aren't going to self destruct by looking at lip fillers.

When my mum started having carers in, it was during the pandemic and all the carers wore masks. When things started to relax and masks weren't worn, I was pretty shocked at how many of the young women had lip fillers. It was strange, because my brain had formed a particular image of each face under the mask and the fillers just leapt out as being very obvious, as opposed to the shape of their chin or their nose etc. A couple of them were really very exaggerated, the rest you could tell, but they looked ok if you like that sort of thing.

It’s just fashion at the moment isn’t it? Some women obviously like the look. Personally I don’t like it but there is probably a lot about my face other people don’t like.

I know 2 people who have it. One a very very small amount. I didn’t even know until she told me and she looks lovely. The other has the overstuffed look. It’s not so much the swollen lips I notice, it’s the weird dark moustache she has acquired which is apparently when the fillers goes over the lip line and is visible under the skin.

Fwiw you can tell if someone has a "small "amount of fillers I know you might not think so but you can tell .

I am so done with the "women can do what they want to their bodies" discourse. Yes, they can, but some especially the young, are uninformed as to the risks. We should keep talking about it so there is regulation. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-65457473

I think Angelia Jolie unwittingly started the craze although her lips are natural. Remember Leslie Ash and that nightmare? And now it’s Kylie Jenner. Seeing lip filler in the wild is weird. I can’t stop staring at them as when the person talks their lips look like they are independent of the rest of their face. It’s so weird!

I really want my lips done!
And have done for about 10 years.

But I’ve never seen anyone’s lips whose had fillers that actually look nice and so until they perfect it I’m not going to have it done.

My lips look ok now, I just want them to look better.
But if I have them done then there’s a big chance they’ll look worse.

I also pride myself on not having anything fake on my body (apart from temporary things like make up).

Love mine. Not even my mum noticed it was my lips that had changed but I got loads of ‘you look really good, have you had a haircut’ etc

I really want people like you to post a pic of your lips alongside 3 or 4 random others that's don't have filler so we can see if we can identify which are yours because I always wonder if there really are people who have filler when you can't tell. To me both of those who've posted so far are pretty obvious, but of course that's easy for me to say when that's literally why they've posted. Totally up to them if that's the look they like of course, I just don't think they can say they look natural.

If you think they look amazing that’s all that matters. Would it bother you if someone you knew told you they didn't look amazing though?

(I have a tattoo which obviously doesn't look natural and I'm sure there are plenty of people who don't like it, but I like it and that's what matters)

I agree they look dreadful on most people, but I guess the people who have had a good job done keep quiet about it and we don't see it.

There's a woman on my Facebookwho is a practitioner and also HAS a lot of work done, she looks good in a photo but I saw her in real life on Friday at an event I was working at and she looks awful. Really thick brown makeup, huge lips massive eye lashes glowing white teeth tattooed on makeup and white clothes that were grubby from touching her fake tan. What a difference a Facebook filter makes.

They can look amazing when it's done subtly, but unfortunately nearly every person I've seen who's had it done has gone OTT and ended up with big blubbery shapeless lips. Halloween at our local farm was an absolute horror show of awful lip jobs. I would love to get my lips plumped a little bit but I'm so scared of it looking awful that I don't dare.

Someone I know well has started getting fillers in her lips they are not oversized but she has the over the lip line thing. I mean her lips look fine but there was nothing wrong with her lips before.it just seems really an expense to her purse and health.

Yes, I completely agree. But we also have freedom of speech and can therefore discuss how bloody awful it looks (imo) as well.