I can't wait for the big butt fashion to be over.

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I'm more 'straight up and down', and slightly apple when carrying a few extra pounds, so the current trend for bottom-heavy hourglass figures is totally unobtainable for me.

I'll be glad when it's over, selfishly!

I'll also be glad to see the back of the massive lips with tiny pointy chins.

Aibu to expect the trend to die soon?

YABU to care. Fashion is in itself fairly stupid, but undergoing surgery to achieve the latest fashion in face or body shape is beyond stupid. Does that sound judgmental? Well tbh I'm happy to judge people who are vain enough to risk their health and life in order to have a particular shaped bum or have toxic stuff injected into them to achieve a ridiculous duck pout.

I know only one person that has had cosmetic work done (botox). It isn't a thing in RL ime.

Mind you I live in the scraggy end of Shropshire so maybe just my country bubble. #Tuffins

@motherheroic

Preach!

I know three people with lip fillers and a couple of people with botox. I don't know anyone with butt implants and I hope it stays that way.. but I'm not a teenage girl

I’m another person very pleased with current fashions, especially high-waisted tapered trousers and high-waisted skinny jeans, because they are so flattering on me. I’m consciously buying long-term investment pieces of these for my wardrobe, in the event that they leave the shops again in the future. I have a naturally big bum and wide hips with a slim waist, accentuated by 17 years of ballet, which will tone your bum loads. There are plenty of people who have this shape naturally without having implants YABU, OP, we all need to have our moment where fashion is conveniently great for our figures!

I’ve never seen any pictures of Kylie Jenner (why would I? I’m a grown woman, and don’t waste my time on stuff like that), so I’ve just googled her. The lips thing isn’t necessarily even fillers. You can clearly see in many images that she’s simply lined her lips way around where they naturally end, then coloured them over with lipstick. A very simple makeup trick.

Finally, you need to tailor your Insta feed, as it clearly isn’t a positive feed for you. For example, my feed is only people who post pictures of books and bookshops, and interior design DIYs. There’s not much to get upset over with book covers and lamps!

I’ve never seen any pictures of Kylie Jenner (why would I? I’m a grown woman, and don’t waste my time on stuff like that), so I’ve just googled her. The lips thing isn’t necessarily even fillers.

Im sorry but even a blind person can see that her lips are full of fillers.

Lol I agree it looks absolutely ridiculous, especially Kim Kardashian. The problem is when the rest of the body ie torso is narrow and the butt is about twice the width of torso. It looks so ill-proportioned/distorted.

Although having an embarrassingly natural big and protruding prominent butt, I have enjoyed not feeling as much as a freak these days as what I did at school.

Natural big butts are lovely! But implants look so so weird and are usually on figures that don't suit it anyway

Ffs it’s not body appropriation I have this figure 100% naturally and I’m white British. It’s not a shape that is found only in black people! It makes me angry when people say that and I have been accused of having implants to “try and look black” 🤔

Sorry you are quite right. I should have said that having surgery to cash in seems like appropration to me. I understand that many women have that body shape naturally. Here in ghost white Northern Ireland the local park is full of people in high waisted jeans and some of the women have a fabulous arse for it. I don't think it's a bad fashion...as an early poster said, it means women who naturally have that shape get to have a go, just like the naturally waif like had a "turn" when heroin chic was in. I'm still waiting for massive big wide blokey shoulders and big bony feet to be the new sexy cool thing ;-)

Not a big fan of the huge unnatural looking lips. I have a big bum though, even at my slimmest just under 8 stone my bum has a life of it's own. I have always been pear shaped. I am currently losing weight and my bum is somewhat smaller but still just as round as ever.

I just am not a fan of the exaggerated, unnatural look anyway. Lots of young women won't go anywhere without extensions, acrylics and lash extensions ( my baby sister included), I just think it is an unnecessary pressure that a lot of women put on themselves. Also if you are that groomed every day, when do you look special? As you're done up all day every day anyway? Still each to their own, I like doing all of the above for special occasions too.

You will see that I wrote “isn’t necessarily even fillers”, not “she has had no fillers”. It is very clear in many pictures that she has used makeup to accentuate the natural line of her lips by drawing around them. Lots of women can do clever things like that with make up to make their lips appear bigger/smaller/heart-shaped, etc.

Half of my family are African. Some have wide hips, large buttocks and indeed large lips. I apologise that their existence has caused you an existential crisis. Black women... again.

Exactly what GinDaddy said.

And anyone who thinks you can just teach your kids to not feel things is living on another planet. If it was that simple, we'd have no problems in the world, would we?

Also, they all seem to end up looking the same as each other.

@SachaStark

Good on you and your ballet. There are others who have your shape without implants, and good on them too.

But the shape we are talking about here is an extraordinary, comic book aesthetic, created by large implants added to buttocks. Google the celebrities mentioned in this thread. Waste your time for a second, seeing as you replied copiously to this.

Seeing as you did check out KJ's lips....did you google "before and after"? There is clearly a larger surface area - it's not a question of make up tricks. It's happened, it's real, and there are others less canny than her who actually admit to the surgery.

So what are we talking about here...are you just arguing to the contrary?

Or can you accept that there are people who have significantly and surgically altered their figure, to the point of it allowing them to capture global fame, and then these people directly sell beauty "products" to impressionable teens who wonder why they can never look like them?

KJ or KK wouldn't have achieved their figures and fame from ballet.

Fashion is for suckered and sheep.

Suckers

what are this silicone filled peeps going to look like to when they get to their 60's, 70's and beyond ? assuming they are still alive ? bearing in mind most people will lose a lot of muscle and fat as they get older.
a 85 yo kk, god, there's a thought !

Yeah it’s tiresome because people are trying to be something they are not. I was lucky enough to be in fashion in the 90s as I was (am) straight up and down and the waif look was in. I accept I will never be curvy.
The current fashion is having the body of a black woman but not actually being a black woman. European or ethnically ambiguous features, tanned skin but not black skin or black features are the “ideal”. Black women were always mocked for having larger bums but when J.Lo came on the scene it became “desirable” - I think quite a few people have criticised the Kardashians over this. It does seem unfair on black women.

@VladmirsPoutine you've obviously not rtft but sure, make me out to be racist

My body shape never has and never will be in fashion. (wide shoulders, wide hips a far beyond fashionable big bottom and quite short ). I have years ago come to terms with this, appearance is very superficial anyway and DH loves me.
I do wish however that shops made a wider range of clothes. There is very little available for the short woman over a size 14.

I also studied ballet for 15 years. It didn't give me a large bottom but oh, my thighs! They are solid. So are my calves.

The current fashion is having the body of a black woman but not actually being a black woman. European or ethnically ambiguous features, tanned skin but not black skin or black features are the “ideal”.

Perhaps the fashion is literally just to be 'the least obtainable thing' and to therefore stand out from the crowd.

I have. I've also spent a life time trying to convince my niece that she's fine how she is. Now she's somewhat of a fashion fad. Quite surreal that people want to emulate her look whilst others wish it was over as they feel overshadowed and wish to regain the spotlight. This is a much deeper issue and words are important.

I have no idea what you are arguing with me for, GinDaddy. The thread started with an OP about wanting to see the back of fashion trends which suit small-waisted, large-hipped women. I responded to the contrary, because as a woman of that figure, it is to my advantage that these fashions exist.

I have made no mention of surgeries, beyond stating that the pictures I saw clearly employed the use of makeup alongside/instead of fillers. Of course cosmetic surgeries have occurred in the lives of many celebrities

As to “what are we talking about here”, I haven’t the foggiest clue, as you have decided to jump down my throat, and I’ve no idea why. I also don’t know why you have made a couple of sarcastic remarks regarding ballet