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

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PhelanGood · 12/09/2017 16:44

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.

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Twelvety · 12/09/2017 17:36

I always think they become ageless, in a weird way, like it's a separate category. So if you get stuff done at 23 you could be anywhere between 25-55.

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PhelanGood · 12/09/2017 17:38

Manic unicorn- that makes me beyond angry. The Judy Finnegans of this world should be celebrated. It says a lot about her that she hasn't succumbed like her peers, ie the loose women brigade. They should be renamed 'Tightened Trollops'

I've a good mind to start a blog in praise and veneration of such wonderful women as our Jude!

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libra101 · 12/09/2017 17:42

I'm in total agreement with everyone's views.

Lots of people ruining their looks, and unbelievably thinking they look great.

brasty · 12/09/2017 17:42

I am mid 50s. Wrinkles look a lot better than this.

FeralBeryl · 12/09/2017 17:55

The trouble is (I work in the industry) that a lot of non qualified people are 'training' in these procedures. They have no medical training, no knowledge of facial anatomy, structures etc and are taught a bog standard one injection pattern fits all path. This gives the fembot look.

It's truly depressing, add into that the amount of clients who have body dysmorphia and should be refused treatment (and are by us) and referred appropriately and you have a homogenous mass of very beautiful, very similar people.

A lot of practitioners are greedy and simply see pound signs rather than spending time to counsel and discourage unnecessary procedures.
I would literally be a millionaire if I'd done all the work that's been requested over the years Grin

Truly, if it's done properly, individualised - it is honestly not detectable.

Ravenesque · 12/09/2017 17:59

I sort of get it with older women. I think it's sad, but I know that sometimes I dream of lessening my jowls and being rid of the lines around my lips from smoking for far too long - four years of not smoking now, smoking is bad, mmkay! - so I'd be a hypocrite if I scoffed at it, because maybe if I had the money I'd do something. And then again probably not, because there's something so icky about it all.

The young women though! That's just sad beyond belief. Kylie Jenner is what? 19? She's had her lips done, her boobs, her bum, and from the looks of it a bit of a nose job. There was nothing wrong with her! She now looks older than her years and she'll probably keep on having work done to keep her face the way it is and eventually be ruined beyond belief. The whole Kardashian/Jenner crew are a car crash of fake looking faces and I'd happily never see any of them on my screen again. I really hate that young women feel the need to do any of this stuff at all.

3DGlasses · 12/09/2017 17:59

I find it sad that so many very young women are getting it done.

It seems to be a separate phenomenon to the 'women of a certain age' in the media getting scary fucking facelifts.

The younger lot just seem to want to totally change their whole face to resemble a sort of symmetrical, cyborg/doll - with fillers, implants, nose jobs, hairline lifts etc (see several of the Kardashians).

Its all a bit puzzling to an oldie like me Hmm.

NotAgainYoda · 12/09/2017 18:00

YANBU

It's becoming really unusual to see women my age (47) on telly who look like the vast majority of 47 year olds

Fiona Bruce is an example of someone who doesn't look like that naturally. She's really attractive, but she's had stuff done.

NotAgainYoda · 12/09/2017 18:00

3D

I agree about young people. It's worryingly dysmorphic

NotAgainYoda · 12/09/2017 18:02

Feral

Just saw your post. I don't know if you'd agree that Fiona Bruce has had stuff done. It's not "detectable" - it's not over the top, but she doesn't have the lines, wrinkles and sagging she probably would have naturally

expatinscotland · 12/09/2017 18:08

'I'm happy to look my age but when someone the same age looks 10 or 20 years younger and denies having any work done it makes you feel inadequate sad'

But c'mon, you know they're bullshitting about having work done! How can that make you feel inadequate? They're phonies whose foreheads don't move, everyone knows they've had work done.

My face looks a lot older than my body, mostly because I was very careless in the sun for many years and I used to smoke for years, too. But I was always very athletic and my body skin is in very good shape.

I'm okay with that, I'm proud of what I've done with my body and being fit is a big part of my life.

It's sad that so many pump their faces full of crap whose long-term effects are unclear.

DingDongDenny · 12/09/2017 18:09

Did anyone see Ulrika on Masterchef - there's an advert against Fillers

ethelfleda · 12/09/2017 18:12

Well I certainly wouldn't do it to myself...

But don't have a problem if that's what other people want to spend their money on. It is their body after all... no matter how ridiculous I think it might look!

HeyRoly · 12/09/2017 18:13

I've said this before, but I had to leave the Mrs Gloss group on Facebook because it was full of really young women posting about having lip fillers and moaning about "having no top lip" etc. They all looked totally normal to me.

Nogoodbye · 12/09/2017 18:16

Judy Finnigan who is one of the few celebrities who has aged normally was referred to as looking as if she has dementia by several posters on that thread the other day.

Timefortea99 · 12/09/2017 18:17

Ultimately has perversely made herself look older. She looks awful.

It is not just on telly though. I live in Surrey and you often see ladies who lunch who look ridiculous - faces don't move, lips plump enough to plunge a sink.

Today I visited Windsor and saw a small boy with a woman I assume was his grandmother. Her face was wind tunnel taught, lips the full on platypus. Why on earth would anyone think that was a better look than natural ageing. It is pitiful and smacks of desperation.

Timefortea99 · 12/09/2017 18:18

Should have been Ulrika!

Timefortea99 · 12/09/2017 18:18

Should have been taut!

FruitCider · 12/09/2017 18:19

YABU. Juvaderm is a type of filler and doesn't not give you a frozen face!

(I have botox btw, but I have a private practice in botox/fillers so it's expected!)

FruitCider · 12/09/2017 18:20

The trouble is (I work in the industry) that a lot of non qualified people are 'training' in these procedures. They have no medical training, no knowledge of facial anatomy, structures etc and are taught a bog standard one injection pattern fits all path. This gives the fembot look.

Hear hear! Are you a member of BANG by any chance?

grannytomine · 12/09/2017 18:32

Just saw your post. I don't know if you'd agree that Fiona Bruce has had stuff done. It's not "detectable" - it's not over the top, but she doesn't have the lines, wrinkles and sagging she probably would have naturally

Probably is quite important there, some people do age better than others. I've not got the face I had 40 years ago but I have few wrinkles, just a few lines at the side of my eyes. Genetically I think I'm lucky as my mother and grandmother both had good skin right up till they died. I don't like the sun so I have no sun damage, I don't smoke so when you add it up I don't have the lines and wrinkles you might expect at my age but I haven't had anything done.

Unfortunately my neck seemed to get someone else's genes. It is awkward because I think it makes people more likely to think I've had something done to my face as it doesn't match my neck.

Never mind I can always wear high necks or scarves.

grannytomine · 12/09/2017 18:35

To those in the business is there anything that can be done for necks. I'm too much of a coward to have surgery but I have those horrible vertical lines running down my neck. Don't know if they have a name but I hate them, I can accept the crepey look gaining ground but I do hate those ropey lines.

FruitCider · 12/09/2017 18:38

The muscles? Yes you can botox them!

BigFatGoalie · 12/09/2017 18:43

OP I couldn't agree more, and was thinking exactly that today.
What sparked it for me was watching This Morning today, where Phil and Holly were interviewing a man who had invented a sex robot (a whole other thread entirely Confused ).
They had a psychologist on alongside him, and her face NEVER MOVED. not once. Not even when she was incandescent with rage and indignation, there was not a wrinkle in sight. I was mesmerised!
She looked absolutely awful, with dark eye make up and lipstick...
Does anyone know who I'm talking about?!

grannytomine · 12/09/2017 18:43

Thanks, I didn't realise they were muscles. They seemed to suddenly appear almost overnight. I might look into that, I do hate them.

Do you think it is too late for me, mid 60s?