to be freaked out by the frozen, filled faces littering our media

[PhelanGood]

Seriously. And I bet they all think nobody can tell! Will this trend ever end?

I'm often too distracted by the botoxed plumped juvedermed visages on display, to concentrate on what the bearer of said face is actually saying! Doesn't help that they can no longer engage viewers with natural facial expressions.

I find it fascinating and alarming that paying to have the world's deadliest poison injected into you is becoming the norm, especially when all it achieves is a face that doesn't move, and ultimately a weakening of the muscles, which surely are the thing we should be strengthening to prevent wrinkles long term..!? And concentrating on eliminating toxins!

(Obviously I'm not talking about its medicinal uses such as preventing migraines.)

Fillers are even worse, they look absolutely repugnant to me. Especially in the lips! Who wants to kiss a pair of plumped up plastic lips that look like you've had an allergic reaction.

Am I being unreasonable, and am I alone in finding this trend so disturbing and weird... do I need to get with the times? Are injectables just today's "whalebone corsets"? It's got to a point where I actually adore seeing lovely wrinkled faces on the screen as it's so rare now.

Haven't RTFT since I posted a few pages back, but I thought you might be interested in this. I think there is definitely a case if it's done well you don't notice it, you just think they look good. Although I am bit depressed to hear Millie Macintosh has had stuff done - she's in her 20s! And already v pretty.

www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/frances-prenna-jones-went-cardiologist-a-list-face-fixer/

Will do Phelan Our local Boots happen to have some with the circle grip.

Denise Van Outen's face appeared in my inbox this afternoon (yes, I get emails from Matalan ). I genuinely had no idea she looked so different. That peculiar smile is definitely a sign that she can't move her face properly. Or, by the look of it, open her eyes. Yikes.

"That hair removal cream burns like hell and doesn't even work on my thick dark hair. There was a funny review I read once from a man who tried it 'down there'. Put it this way - at one point during his agony he was praying for a gay snowman to appear"

Yasmin Le Bon looks amazing, but it's too good to be true. As pp said, it's a well-maintained / groomed look that wealthy women like. I'd love to see certain what certain celebs, over 40, would look like natural. Gorgeous, I'd bet. But, sadly not acceptable to Hollywood / TV / Fashion standard.

Helena,

This one?

www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3GDDEL1SC1QQ5?tag=mumsnetforum-21

Denise van outen looks like Renee zellweger when she started to look weird!

Wow those two photos of Julia Roberts are real eye openers.

I recently saw a middle aged woman in my local M&S who has obviously had extensive plastic surgery. It looked so out of place in a 'normal' environment.

Its not just faces where women are feeling the pressure either.

www.the-pool.com/news-views/opinion/2017/38/zoe-beaty-on-this-morning-designer-vagina

I think there are only three of us mums in the playground without silicone boobs.
I'm feeling quite inadequate and non-perky

I fell over yesterday and landed on face. I now have a swollen lip - I feel like I have been in for lip fillers. When you think about it what a strange thing to do, inject your lips. I am desperate for mine to go down.

Whatever about mums getting breast augmentation after kids, I really don't understand when young women get it done. They had lovely boobs to begin with... It's like saying "I'm just a pair of tits". All of the Love Island types are just boobs, bums, lips & lashes... At an age when those things look naturally good. Kylie Jenner is the worst case!

YANBU. It especially annoying when they lie about it. I find it interesting that Cheryl Cole had a flat chest when she was on Popstars, she loses about 2 stone and gains 3 cup sizes 🤔

OP why do you think this is a 'new' thing? Beauty has always been a valuable currency, as has youth - women have always wanted to look young and beautiful. So have men. Botox is new because it was discovered fairly recently. Fillers look bad on some people. Most people feel they look better without wrinkles. I have never in real life seen such hate directed towards women who choose to have botox - only on MN. The smug coy and judgey comments. Why do you care so much? Also anyone who has had anything done feels they have to justify it, why? 'I had fillers because i had an accident' - why does it matter? Your face your choice. Just pathetic that people are made to feel ashamed. I don't have botox because I don't need it but I know people who do and I categorically do not care. I'm worried about my own face - not remotely interested in anyone elses. Get down off that pedestal you've placed yourself on.

@Sheridanflamingo

Firstly you'd better get that frown off your face, hold it too long and you might get a dreaded wrinkle 😉

Why don't you care about other people's faces? I care greatly - after all, they're the ones I have to look at! And lots of the owners of said faces have spent hundreds, or thousands of pounds - and as a result now look weird. Some are unrecognisable, they have ruined their natural beauty. Their right, yes - but isn't it a shame? Isn't it sad? Isn't it time someone spoke up about the elephant in the room? I'd love to start a movement encouraging older women to step out proud of their natural skin.

I haven't seen any hateful messages in my thread, dislike of the trend for injectables isn't limited to mumsnetters, haha. Many of us in fact have even had procedures done, and been warmly received on this thread unashamedly sharing their experiences, and different viewpoints.

It affects whether actresses can act well.
It's encouraging young kids to disfigure themselves trying to get lips like Kylie Jenner (she claimed for some time she got her lips without fillers 😂)
It creates unnatural standards of 'beauty' - leading to beautiful women like Judy Finnegan getting bullied for not conforming. Yes this has always gone on on some shape or form, I agree) just that this is supposed to be a progressive feminist society and I for one would prefer to live in a world where it wasn't the case that ageing was seen as something to take desperate measures to avoid signs of.
It doesnt make people look younger usually anyway. I appreciate that it's unrealistic to expect this would ever happen but I can dream!

@michelgarnier - thanks for the article, I read it and it was quite interesting, sorry I forgot to come back and comment! I agree that less is certainly more, and the more skilled hopefully the less chance of things going wrong. However I don't personally think the woman is a very good advert for her work..also in that pic of Louise Redknapp her lower face looks unnaturally lopsided which I'm guessing is probably due to fillers. Before I have to start throwing water over flamers again- I'm commenting on the procedures, not the women or their beauty.

Oh god - boring. Another anti cosmetic surgery thread on mn. Most people lose their natural beauty after a certain age anyway. Some people take it too far. I think most people look better. You sound like a little girl 'lets start a pure no enhancements movement' fuck. Off. Painful. It's not a 'shame' or 'sad' it's just what some women want to do - it's their private decision to try to look younger, however that goes for them. You need to get a real problem and stop trawling for photos of fillers gone wrong. Not your face = not your problem.

I do think the generic duck lipped stiff face look is awful, they all look the same.. not younger, just weird. Ulrika Johnson couldn't smile properly on Masterchef and just looks odd. I'm pro surgery though and will definitely be having something done one day. Hopefully facelifts will be cheaper Joan Collins looks amazing with whatever she's done.

I think we all have the right to do what they like to our faces.
I also think we all have the right to express an opinion about it.

@floisme fine but why is it always the same vibe on here that if someone has something done they are to be pitied or they need a campaign to help them not to manage their OWN face. It is sooooo smug and patronising. I've seen it a lot. OP seems to think she knows best - she doesn't. I think it is rude to think that your opinion of how someone looks should be a cause for some type of intervention. I'm sure the people who have had bad surgery know they have had bad surgery - and the ones who have had good surgery definitely wouldn't tell for fear of being 'pitied'.

Also i think some of the photos of women on here are - in my opinion- of people who probably weren't that attractive at any age. Average maybe. But suddenly they have wrinkles and they are 'oh gosh so gorgeous' lovely lovely let's all be lovely and embrace ourselves. Vomit.

@userlav

Why all the personal insults? E. G. 'You sound like a little girl' 'fuck off' 'get a real problem'

Fuck off my thread. You sound like a bully. Would that be a reasonable request, or would that make me look like a rude person who can't defend my point of view so I resort to personal attacks.

If their emperors new clothes, altered, plastic looking face might affects my daughter's perception of herself it is my problem. And if you have an issue with someone who longs for a movement celebrating the beauty in naturally ageing women - who you've been brainwashed to consider, lose their 'beauty' after a certain age - you have a serious problem mate

@phelangood no YOU are a bully and you have a problem - you are personally insulting millions of women because you don't agree with them and feel they might contaminate your attempts to make sure your daughter thinks like you. I disagree with you - you can't defend your personal view. My personal view is that yes you do sound pathetic and judgemental and i wouldn't listen to you bleet on about what you 'long' for in real life so i won't on here either. Deal with it - same way women who have surgery deal with being analysed by you.

Also - why would anyone care about your daughter? There are millions of bad and good things in the world. If you can't parent your child that is your problem - stop expecting people to be 'role models' who conform to your views.