Lip fillers?

[Lilllypad11]

I’ve been contemplating for AGES, I would love ti get them done because it’s something I’ve wanted for 4 years and I haven’t ever changed my mind.

I’ve done lots of research and I’ve found a clinic I think I’d like to visit.

my sister believes that it’s a bad idea to start so early. But I just want a bit of plumpness in the lips. Nothing fake looking.

can anyone advise?

@PersephonePomegranate23 What a brilliant poem! 😁

Those before and afters are DREADFUL - it looks so bad in the second photo! I can’t believe people would pay for that. It looks truly shit.

Don't do it unless you want to look like a blow up porn dolly and like the idea of premature "smokers" wrinkles round your mouth unless you keep it up for the rest of your life.

Blown up porn dolly?

Aren't you a lovely misogynist.

@PolizeiobermeisterWache @Abracadabra12345

Glad you both liked that 🤓

Hm. I'd have been in the 'absolutely always obvious' camp until recently when two friends mentioned they'd had theirs done in the summer. I really hadn't noticed! On inspection, there was no plumpness though, just a smoothing out of wrinkles. I was impressed, to my surprise.

I just worked somewhere were everyone had lip fillers even chin filler, it is now popular now and it's mad how creepy it can look very quickly. I used to get lip filler in my early 20s. Sure it can look more natural but every time you get it done it's swollen, sometimes gastly bruising for a week! I went to the 'best of the best' but it's still trama to your lips. So even if you get a 'perfect' result 1/2 weeks after you will be spending at least a total of one month of the year looking like you been battered or had an allergic reaction.🤣 Now I have two daughters and turned 30 I just don't want them to see that. My partner is mixed race and one my daughter's has his volumes lips and the other has thinner lips like me. So I stopped as don't want my daughter's growing up having the same insecurities. For me Instagram and Kylie Jenner influenced me at the time it was all I was consuming online and I just associated big lips with being more attractive. It's genetics due to where people originate from their features generally fit a certain profile. Smaller lips and noses etc colder countries. Warmer countries the opposite it was evolution to protect us better from weather conditions. I'm butchering this but if you look it up this is why a lot of us have the features we do and it's not 'wrong'. Most people who are getting filler are really young and it's just so sad.

@cornonthesnob having things done as a reconstruction process is different to altering a healthy face for vanity though.
I'm sorry you've had such severe health challenges, I hope you're doing well now.

Thank you.

I agree they are, but the result is the same. The aim is the same. To improve / enhance something already there.

But for PP to shame women for doing this regardless of the reason as 'blown up porn dollies' is horrible.

Everyone judging doesn't know the reason as to why that person may have had work done. It shouldn't matter. But to be smeared like this so much is horrible.

It's nice to know that when I'm walking down the street that's what I'm thought of. When I was just trying to fix something that deeply upset me.

But I'm happy with my results on my face for the work I've paid for and I'm grateful to be able to access treatments like that. Thank you for your well wishes :)

It looks fake because it is fake

Out of curiosity, from my picture I posted below, what looks fake on my face? (Genuinely asking)

Agree also. In those photos it actually makes the lines look deeper in my view.

I think we’re just very good at seeing the uncanny valley, so even quite small adjustments can look very unnatural in the context of one’s face.

there's a Mum at school who had "subtle" fillers. She looks like she's walked into a door. At speed.

Some of them look very nice. Especially now that the newest way to do them involves Russian flat profile look. This avoids the duck look.

The people saying they all look terrible- yes the ones that stand out clearly haven't been done well.

If you find a great practitioner they can be amazing.

You look beautiful

There’s a ‘ridge’.

Also the top lips don’t taper, they’re the same width all the way to the corner. When people with lip fillers talk I find it really distracting because it doesn’t move naturally.

Obviously people should do what they want (I’m covered in tattoos), but it’s disingenuous to say they look ‘natural’. They look like filled lips, if you like the look then do it.

Utter rubbish.

Nope, just googled the Russian technique, still bad.

@cornonthesnob I honestly don't think anyone is going to be judging you, regardless of what is said on this thread. You're a very beautiful young woman and that is what people will notice.

Love that poem!! Who knew they had fillers back then!!

I’ve just thought of one person who I assume has had lip fillers, and that look good, IMO, and that’s Kate Middleton

It always looks awful, I know you’re getting lots of responses that you won’t like to read, but it’s always obvious and it always looks really horrible.

Kate Middleton has had lip fillers??

She folds her top lip up inside her mouth when she smiles, is that why?

@SomeCatFromJapan
@MyopicBunny

Thank you very much, that's so kind of you.

They really don't.

I personally wouldn’t get fillers, there’s a few plastic surgeons on YouTube talking about the implications of the trend.

Why don’t you try this Lisa Eldridge tutorial to make the most of what you have?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EHOqJLHZqD8