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.

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Jolie looks OK, and obviously has had very little done

Jolie has had a ton done, in fact her surgeons taken it to the edge, she even has filler in her chin to elongate and smooth out the jaw line.

As yes, Anderson has had a load done too, I personally think she looks very useful.

My opinion is done well it makes you look better not younger
Done badly, aka Courtney COX, and it's awful.

Jane Fonda and Helen mirren have also got it right.

Good not useful!!!

How did GOOD autocorrect as useful.

Anyhoo. I personally don't think that Jolie looks like she had much done but Gill Anderson DOES look like she has. Guess it's subjective.

Gill does look OK though, don't get me wrong.

@PhelanGood

I should have supplied a bingo card in the OP

Yep.

The sad thing is that people who have these procedures think it makes them look great/younger/prettier.

More often than not, it doesn't.

A woman I know, who I saw the other day (who is 48,) has been botoxed to the hilt, and it is soooooo obvious. Her face is pulled and contorted and just looks so weird. She flirted so bad with a young trainee the other day. She clearly thought she was in with a chance, when she was old enough - (and looked it) - to be his mother.

She literally looked like an Alien. Yet she claims people think she looks 29 now.

She really, really, really does not.

And I have heard no-one say it.

Are you kidding about Gillian Anderson??? She looks horrendous in the new x files and I thought she would age gracefully

I don't know about anyone else @Queen, but I wouldn't say Gillian looks 'horrendous.' However, she sure looks like she has had a fair amount done to her face (to me anyway,) and she does look so different now.

Gillian looked great in The Fall. Though I think even good work doesn't necessarily make you look younger.

I haven't seen X Files but thought she looked amazing in The Fall. Such luminous skin. Such shaggery pokery.

I'm 35 and had my first botox a couple of months ago. I don't want to look younger than I am, I just resent looking much older than I am because a shit few years has made me age quite significantly and quite rapidly. I don't want to look 25 when I'm 35, I just don't much want to have the wrinkles of someone who's 45. My face isn't frozen and I still havecreases around my eyes, I just don't have deep crows feet any more. I don't want to stop the clock, I just don't want it going on fast forward. I'm bloody thrilled with the results!

The desperate housewives programmes are the ones to watch if you want to see bad plastic surgery.

I remember watching Geraldine James in Utopia on channel 4 sometime last year/year before (I think she was about 60) and loving that I could see her lines. She is really beautiful though. I don't know if she's had anything done since though.

It's not just women...anyone seen Eamon Holmes recently

YANBU and I'm glad you started this thread. I'm mid forties and at least half of my friends have had botox. I think its easy to spot on most. They keep telling me to which is pressure, its not easy seeing wrinkles and sagging but I think make the most of it as in 5 years it's all gonna look worse. We're all getting older and its better than the alternative. I don't want certain parts of my face to be plastic while the rest sags and wrinkles so that I end up having to get more and more done and looking progressively more weird. Also now I want to be valued for more than looks and just come to terms with ageing and everything that means. I'd rather focus my time/money on keeping fit.

I cannot stand the duck lips and can't wait for the trend to die (will it?). It always looks fake.

I stayed in the Beverly Wilshire in Bev Hills a few yrs ago & OMG some of the older ladies faces! it was hard not to stare & as other posters have mentioned it can look ok in a selfie but in real life it just doesn't translate.

I think it can work if subtle. I read that Yasmin le Bon just does her forehead & leaves the eye wrinkles. I think if someone has a good bone structure originally it works better e.g. Angelina.

What the hell are Charlotte & Kylie going to look like in 20 yrs time?!

Not Eamon Holmes! Thought there was something different about him lately but thought it was because he was finally pain free after having hip replacements.

So true, OP.

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I was watching a new episode of Secret Eaters the other day. The presenter (Anna Richardson) I believe had had so much "work" done her eye brows were nearly at her hairline, and forcing her eyes to point upwards. It was so weird, it was mesmerising. She looked younger, yes, but getting that weird Cruella look.

Its all so shallow. I mean, she's not a movie star. Just some average TV presenter. Honestly, I am beginning to think all women in the media are mad.

I am upset by the state of poor old Heather Locklear. She was so beautiful and now she's got one of those awful puffy plastic faces. She truly would have looked better with wrinkles.

Maybe the first time it's done if done well it isn't noticeable

But by the third or forth time it certinaly is botox the skin look too taunt fillers or often looks like well odd

I think most just look like women of their age that have had work done I know a few who think it isn't noticeable but it is their face is just well different in the way it moves

I think one reason I hate it is that these women almost stop looking like humans - you can't see the thought processes or feelings because their faces can't move.

They really do start to look like robots with blank doll faces, like Stepford wives.

Its really quite creepy IMO. And its everywhere in the media.

Also I don't think you start aging until your 40s. I certainly didn't look much different in my 20s and 30s. Once you hit 40 though oh my!

I think the reason people who have surgery look so odd is that our brains recognise it as unnatural. So it stands out. Might look good when posing for photos but in real life distinctly odd.

Um. Angelina Jolie doesn't look like the picture posted up thread anymore. In fact she recently claimed to have Bell's palsy which is widely rumoured to be a cover for plastic surgery going wrong.

She is so thin you can see the implants in her cheeks and chin.

YANBU OP. It seems as if every time I see someone (male or female) on the TV I say 'what have they done to their face' out loud.

I do remember the first couple of people I saw in RL with botox, they looked so odd - shiny, almost hard-looking faces. At the time, it really stood out.

Years ago (before the botox craze) I went to NY and I saw people with face lifts (so young-looking faces) but you could tell by their bodies and the way they walked that they were old so that looked a bit odd too! It's always gone on in some form or other.

I hate this too. Especially when people say when it's done well it's undetectable, well what's the bloody point then?!

I have female relatives who use botox and fillers and I find it sad I can't see their actual faces any more, which would be yes lined but beautiful to me because I love them. Instead they are line-free and shiny and weird and unnatural. I think once you start having work done it's easy to lose sight of what actually looks normal.

I've always loved this.

Beebee perhaps I was a little harsh. Just thought she looked very odd in the new x files and that it was a shame because she's such a beautiful women but not in the perfect flawless conventional sense in a more quirky alternative way - which is why succumbing to generic surgery surprises me more