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.

The whole point is that they are meant to look natural and never, ever do. We saw a shop assistant with some the other day, she had the biggest pout, she reminded me of my old goldfish! And the girl that's on MAFS, hers are dreadful.

I don’t like them either OP. It’s a trend amongst a particular group and will pass. TBH, I’m already seeing less of it around than I was a year or so ago. Maybe that’s to do with people’s finances in the worsening economy, or it’s a sign that things are moving on in terms of fashion amongst that demographic (or both), either way, I’ve seen less of it.

Thing Is once you start it's the up keep and I assume practitioners play on insecurities so they keep coming back.

I think mine look pretty natural 🤷‍♀️

Women often post pics on here after having 0.5ml and they don't look bad to be completely fair. Probably fairly natural. How many women stop at 0.5ml though? Given the numbers of women with awful obvious fake lips it can't be the majority. Who knows I guess. The ones that are blown up with the weird ridge/moustache just look horrible to me but some women must want that look!

They can sometimes look good from the front, but as soon as you see someone's face from the side it looks really odd. Also when people with these type of fillers smile, they often have a weird horizontal line between their nose and top lip. But on the other hand, if people are happy with they way it makes them look, then they are not really doing any harm apart from perhaps to their own self esteem.

While I agree that women's bodies are their own and they can do what they like to them, I still think filled lips look awful. It's possible to hold both thoughts simultaneously.

Definitely this.

I have tiny, thin lips and I have had mine done before, I got compliments saying I looked nice quite often but nobody knew why. You can only see it has been done when women go all out for that 'swallowed a lifeboat' look.

Yours do look nice Barbie but the obviously overfilled lips and the long fake lashes - look awful - clones!!! 😁pretty young girls all look the same - leave yourselves alone - your lovely as you are.

I agree that they look stranger from the side than the front. It's like they are a separate attachment to the face. Re the horizontal line though, I have naturally full lips and I get that when I smile so that isn't necessarily a sign of having lip fillers. Julia Roberts get that too for example.

They aren't big but they have the ridge. Obviously filled!

This is it. It’s perpetuating the idea that our faces must be fixed. That women (who already get paid less than men for the same work) must spend money regularly having painful, invasive procedures done so that they can look a certain way and this is now the norm. Any faces aging normally, beyond topically applied things like SPF or skincare items are ‘weird’ or look out of place in a world of drum-skin foreheaded 60 year olds.

I can almost always tell someone who’s had them done, even the subtle ones.

But then again I can see why people get them done. I’ve always had full lips but my best friend as a child/teen had thin lips and didn’t like them.

I think it's just fashion.

It reminds me of the obviously fake boob enhanacements of the 90s. The fakeness of them was, for some people, part of the appeal.

I am guessing lip fillers are the same right now.

In 20 years time, those people may well look back and wonder wtf they were thinking. A bit like I do with my pencil thin eyebrows of yesteryear

I agree with you on the filled lip "look", which is what I believe you are talking about rather than lip fillers in themselves, because you can usually only tell when it has been overdone, intentionally or unintentionally. But then, that's mostly because I think it is very ageing! I'm old enough to assume that people only get fillers when they start to look older, so when I see a woman with visible work, my mind instantly puts her about 10 years older than she may well be. But each to their own.

HOWEVER, when I hit my mid 40's, my already really thin lips vanished into thin (hah!) air and it felt like it had suddenly added years to me, and after wringing my hands about it for a few months, I got 0.5ml of Juvederm at a place in my town that specificially goes in for the "your friends will never know" look.

Overall my lips are still pretty thin and nothing to write home about, to ME the difference is enormous. I'm completely fine with other signs of ageing like the lines around my eyes etc, but this tiny bit of filler has given me enormous confidence in my appearance and my smile.

It's cruel to sweepingly say that everybody with fillers looks awful/vile/dreadful/gross. There's a lot of meanness as well as pretty thinly veiled class snobbery on this thread, really.

Horrid horrid horrid. Has anyone seem the instagrammer Gemma Louise Miles, she has awful saggy lip folds hanging down onto her teeth from over pumping her lips and then they've gone saggy, makes me heave. I think she hides it on insta but it is so obvious on her youtube videos. I've never known a single person who it looks good on.

Couldn't imagine giving a hoot what someone else chooses to do to their own body.

Some real horrible misogyny on this thread.

Those women who had implants in the 90s a few of well known women have had them taken out as they said they were making them ill or they hardened or even leaked. Your body can't process silicone I think we might see these young women in 20 years with similar things going on.

I think it’s often not that the filler looks bad but you can still tell they’ve been filled. There’s that kind of line running along the top lip or the little marks round the lips (similar to what you get if you’ve had dry lips or a cold etc).

YANBU.

The only time I'd get them done is if I find out who does Liz Hurley's. Hers are the only ones I've seen that look very natural.

How is concern for other women misogyny? Nobody has really said they shouldn't do it but wonder why they do it . I don't think that's misogyny which imo Is thrown about far too easy when it suits when it's just disagreement or questioning.

Imagine starting or joining in with a thread that bashes women’s appearances. Fucking grim. Have a word with yourselves.

That said, I can’t help but laugh to myself that some of the women making these vile comments are doing so while wearing something from Seasalt or Boden 🤣

Strange how ideas of beauty change - when I was young, to have full lips or a big arse or heavy dark brows was enough to get you taunted. The older a woman is, the deeper and darker the indentation caused above the top lip seems to be, perhaps because of skin thinning naturally with age. Just looks odd and very obvious.