Actresses - Feel so cross - ruined by plastic surgery

[Thisisnotreallymyname]

Feel so sad - been watching TV and why is it that women ( in the main ) feel the need to absolutely ruin their faces with fillers, Botox, face lifts, to the point where they look deformed, or like they are wearing shiny masks.
Felicity Kendal last night on Graham Norton, Fern Britton on Mastermind, Sally Thomsett on Pointless Celeb........
Do they not see what we see when they look in the mirror ?
I’ve nothing against PSurgery, but my God, please know when to stop !

IABU - they look fine
IANBU -they look awful .

@VinylDetective

Name one.Some may look more natural than others, but they've all had work done if they're over 45

Just did RTFT.

You said: Judi Dench - over 80 and untouched face. Meryl Streep, Julie Walters, Penelope Wilton.

You're wrong, certainly about Dench. The others have also probably had a nip here and there, but Botox at the very least.

If Dench has had work she should get her money back. She hasn’t.

Oh I watched Rupert Everett's Oscar Wilde film this week

I couldn't tell if he was made up to look very unwell - which would have made sense at key points - or if that's just Rupert these days.

@UnityUnited

I found Nicole Kidman in The Undoing really distracting. It is awful these beautiful, accomplished actors do this to themselves.

I wouldn't go so far to say I found her distracting but I was struck by how smooth and flawless she was compared with a very craggy Hugh Grant. It was an excellent example of the ravages of sexism. I cannot begin to imagine the pressure they feel.

I raise you seamstress.

So if actress is not the right term, what do they now call the sections when Oscar winners are announced?

Can we not use the word waitress? Lioness? Mistress?

Meryl has had loads of work! So has Catherine Deneuve.

Both procedures look AWFUL. But she thinks she looks amazing

This is it. I read on here posters who swear their botox/boob job/fillers are done so well noone can tell, they just look “fresher and younger”.

That you can only tell when it’s done badly.
I doubt these hollywood ladies aren’t paying for the absolute best.

People absolutely can tell. Especially lip readers like me, because your mouth doesn’t make the same shapes.

Truth is people think they look good. Like we did back in the say with enormous backcombed hair and dayglo lycra. Thing is everything i did was reversible.

I hate it. I hate that the desired look seems to be a drag queen - huge eyelashes, mouth painted well outside the lipline, contouring and heavy foundation, hair extensions.

Wish the natural look would come back. Think we’ll be waiting a while..

demi moore

I didn't mean to post that...

What's wrong with actress?

@VinylDetective

If Dench has had work she should get her money back. She hasn’t.

When plastic surgery is well-done (which is admittedly rare) you can't tell it's been done. It just looks like the person is well-rested. We'll never know for sure, but I'd be willing to wager £100 all these women have at the very least had botox, but probably face lifts too. Have a look: scplasticsurgery.blogspot.com/2013/04/judi-dench-plastic-surgery-before-and.html

Well the natural look is kind of coming back in. Fashionable makeup brands like Glossier are all about the dewy skinned and natural aesthetic.

@SmidgenofaPigeon

I think you’re being a bit strange to be upset or saddened on their behalf

I suspect this is a veiled way of getting posters to pile on and have a good bitch about various female actor’s faces.

I think that’s unfair.

OP sounds sad not bitchy. She’s right to be sad about this looks and youth obsessed culture we are all forced to live in.

The actresses she named are equally victims of the pressure.

@PlanDeRaccordement

YANBU especially because it creates body dysmorphia in young teens and adults. More for girls than boys, but boys are catching up as more actors resort to plastic surgery. Actors and Actresses are now more often used than models to advertise magazines, and products to young people. They see their “look” from a very young age and imitate it...but that “lip plumping” gloss isn’t going to give you lips that have filler like your teen idol actress has. So these vulnerable youngsters end up thinking they are abnormal and ugly. When they aren’t at all. It’s terrible the impact of all the plastic surgery has on them.

I agree with this. I feel terribly sad when I see young women doing this to themselves.

Such a shame natural beauties who have had work to name a few who were classically beautiful Meg Ryan, Nicole Kidman, Catherine Zeta Jones, Helen Hunt, Reneze.

Teen mom Farrah Abraham looks shocking she's only 27/28 but looks late 30s/40s.

It is shocking and sad and I wonder how it will be looked back on in years to come. Your face ( with mannerisms and movement) is so much of how you are recognisable to others. There is a generation of women in the public eye who suddenly appear with puffed up, contorted and immobile faces. It’s really disconcerting to see and it feels like something of who they are is lost. There are some men as well but not as many.

@Tuscadero

Well the natural look is kind of coming back in. Fashionable makeup brands like Glossier are all about the dewy skinned and natural aesthetic.

No one over 50 is dewy skinned. That's just how it is. I'm so sick of women in their thirties tutting about older women having facelifts. I'm not saying I'm in favour of plastic surgery or botox. Personally I've never had anything whatsoever and never would. But let me tell you, it's not like most people - men or women - look so fantastic in their sixties and think 'Hm, I'm just going to go screw up my face for no reason'.

I find it incredibly sad that mature women are valued so little and that there are so few great roles for these actresses. The pressure on them, and even the average woman in the street nowadays, is awful.

I agree, OP. I don't think the plumped up faces look younger; they just look odd and fake.

Niamh Cusack was in the 2 part Death In Paradise story this week and she looks to be ageing gracefully.

@tentimesaday. I’m not sure that surgery over 30 years ago counts. This isn’t the face of a woman who’s visited a cosmetic surgeon recently.

@BloggersBlog

So if actress is not the right term, what do they now call the sections when Oscar winners are announced?

Can we not use the word waitress? Lioness? Mistress?

Exactly. It's such bullshit really!

@ShesMadeATwatOfMePam

'what's wrong with 'actress?'

Nothing. Nothing at all. It's all PC 'woke' bullshit. As I say, I will ALWAYS call a female an actress, and a male an actor.

If you just Google her, the main themes are newspaper headlines saying "Felicity Kendal sports youthful look" "Looks young", "shows off her incredibly youthful visage",

Male actors don't get such comments. The media is so obsessed with women's appearance.

@gnomeisland

Actors. Female or male actors.

Well that litle dig didn't take long! Halo polished.

I understand that "actress" is no longer a de rigueur term.

Mange tout, Rodders, mange tout.