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.

@Mrsjayy A lot of people saying they "don't like looking at them", which is quite different from concern imo.

Being 'concerned' for someone who chooses to get lip fillers is a bit patronising- assumes you know best yeah?

Personally, I think societal expectations of aging women are misogynistic, not those who think lip fillers look awful. It's completely back to front.

So you obviously are on a thread to bash women 🤔

I see a lot of fillers where I live and honestly, as much as I want women to be empowered and do what they like with their appearance, it makes me sad as I really don't think they look good.

Like with many things that are beauty trends these days, they might look good in 2 dimensional pictures on instagram with lots of makeup on top and a filter, but in real life they push up the skin outside of the lip and it looks odd and not like having full lips at all.

I was going to get them done when I turned 18 and I am SO glad I didn't. The irony is I already have full lips, but they are more trouty/rosebud type full than wide/glam full.

I think you look lovely, but I also don't think you look like you have filler, you just look like you have nice lips. So there probably is a sweet spot that can look good with fillers, if done properly. But nobody will know as it looks natural. And sorry about your cancer, if you wanted duck lips you'd deserve them too! 😊

Couldn't agree more.

Good one, Sherlock 👏

I suppose at least my Seasalt coat won't impact my health or migrate to the other side of my face. Keeps me dry too.

Your filler looks amazing. Thankyou for the photo.

So you just did exactly what you’re complaining about? Excellent🤣

I know someone who has them and I hate to say it but they look like a blow up sex doll.

At the end of the day you could wipe the turquoise mascara and bronzing blusher off with some cleanser. Injecting chemicals into your body is more permanent (and less creative).

I haven’t read the whole thread but my thoughts are these:

I think they look awful and would never have them, but isn’t that always the way with fashion? (I’m 50). Previous generations hated showing ankles, flapper haircuts, thin brows, thick brows, too much makeup, too little makeup, beauty spots, women in trousers, beehives, mini skirts, men with long hair etc. There are also class differences in terms of what people think looks acceptable.

Most men my age and class also think that lip fillers look awful. I don’t think it is men in general who are forcing women to make themselves look like ducks.

Exactly what I was just thinking, I was teased at school for my eyebrows and full lips and now the girls who did the teasing are women with lip fillers and eyebrow tattoos.

You aren't alone. They're awful.

I know, hun. Hence my writing, ‘That said.’ It’s a concessive statement often used for comedic value. Geez.

All the lip filler photos I've seen on this thread look nice.
Unfortunately all the ones I've seen IRL look fake and very obvious.

I find myself in a state of fascinated terror when I see them on TV- on MAFSUK, Laura, Peggy, Ella, new blond girl, and Shona and one of the boys had lip fillers. All young and,pretty enough faces. They all seemed to be doing some funny lucky thing with their tongues, but from the inside out. Like licking their lips but,licking the inside of the lips rather than the lips themselves.

In real life, I become even more fixated when I see them and have to remind myself not to stare. Correcting thin lips because you think they are too thin- fair enough, but to do it to perfectly normal lips- just why?

It’s a drag queen aesthetic. Unfortunately the women getting the lip fillers don’t seem to realise this.

Hilarious hun

I hate so many modern beauty trends.

Out for dinner the other night, 2 young women came in and sat at a nearby table. They both had hair extensions, orange faces, HD brows, massive fake eyelashes and lip filler. Plus really long fake nails. The result was grotesque.

Young women getting preventative botox baffles me more than the fillers. I started getting light botox in my 30s when fine forehead lines began to appear and they've faded completely so I don't understand why women in their early-mid 20s are getting it.

Spot on. Because it’s a large group of people following this trend, they seem to have lost an objective view of how ridiculous it looks. The look is just normal for them now.

Same I spend a fortune going to an actual doctor. My aim is for it to absolutely not look like filler. People don't like to believe it on here though as it's much more fun to belive it's all duck lips!

We are slightly obsessed with the awful
lips on MAFS too! And the level of artifice - when Ella takes off her makeup she looks like a completely different person.