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To be fed up with this generation of Botox & fillers?

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morecheeseplz · 13/09/2021 13:38

I'm mid twenties and I find that my friends are having a ton of work done fillers in there jaw lips. Even wanting to go and have BBL's in turkey now.

I find it exhausting just listening to it and seeing it all the time. Over editing pictures to the point it doesn't even look like them. This sounds really nasty and I don't mean for it to be but my friend is starting to look scary and she is 2 years younger than me.

I keep telling her to stop but she absolutely loves it.

I know it's not just my friends but I find it so exhausting even looking on social media everyone just looks weird to me.

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lockdownmadnessdotcom · 14/09/2021 10:59

@BlueberrySugar

I don't think it's just this generation so I find that quite rude.

At the end of the day it's her body her choice. You're not having it done so why do you care so much?

Because she has to look at it?

Because she's worried about how her friends will look in a decade?

Having work done just makes you look like you have had work done. You don't look younger.

lockdownmadnessdotcom · 14/09/2021 11:00

Also everyone seems to have enormous bottoms these days. What on earth are they having injected into them?

VladmirsPoutine · 14/09/2021 11:04

@lockdownmadnessdotcom BBL -Brazilian But Lift. Apparently the most dangerous of cosmetic surgeries.

Mrsjayy · 14/09/2021 11:15

Somebody close to me has had 2 doses of lip filler and something else not sure what but her face is very smooth the lips are terrible the whole under her nose and lips are plumped.it looks terrible , I wouldn't dream of saying anything but I think now she has started it won't stop !

rookiemere · 14/09/2021 11:19

I find it very off putting when watching television. We're meant to pretend that Nicole Kidman and more recently Catherine Zeta Jones in Prodigal
Son look desirable and younger than their actual age, but the reality is their faces are so distracting it takes away totally from the plot.

Blossomtoes · 14/09/2021 12:27

@Auntienumber8

When I was 20 these treatments didn’t exist. I remember girls at my school over plucking their eyebrows but they grow back. I just wonder what possible long term effects will be.
Mine didn’t! They’re a complete work of fiction. It’s one of my great regrets, I had really nice eyebrows before I took the tweezers to them.
DillonPanthersTexas · 14/09/2021 12:37

Never got the 'Love Island' look, weird fluorescent teeth, swollen puffy lips, boob jobs and orangey tan. It just looks stupid and utterly unattractive. Same as the blokes with their identikit sleeve tattoos, plucked eyebrows, equally weird white teeth and suspiciously non sport specific gym bodies. Just a shame that looking like a partially melted Lego brick is a aspirational look for the young.

lazylinguist · 14/09/2021 12:57

Ok, so don’t get botox or fillers? Maybe instead you should learn to respect the choices of others, especially when they don’t affect or harm you in anyway!

I don't think all choices should be respected actually. No, an individual getting botox, fillers or cosmetic surgery doesn't affect me personally. But the perpetuating of this fashion affects women in general, the way they are perceived and judged, and their self-image.

CreatureComfort · 14/09/2021 13:07

It's a really tricky subject and one close to my heart. I am a firm believer that the age of consent for plastic surgeries should be raised to at-least 21.

I had a boob job when I was 18, my consultations started when I was 17 and within 2 weeks of my 18th birthday I'd had the surgery. I didn't tell my parents or anybody apart from one friend who I put as my emergency contact. I took out a crazily high interest loan (that I should never of been approved for!) and did it. It was completely reckless.

They request your records from your GP, and I'd read up online that if they believed you to not be mentally in a place to make this decision that they would cancel the surgery. I lied and denied that I was on anti depressants and was terrified of being busted when they checked my GP record, but they never even mentioned it and the surgery went ahead.

I was incredibly naive, getting surgery for all of the wrong reasons and honestly had no idea what I was getting in to. I spent two weeks recovering on my own in a shitty hotel in Slough and ended up with an infection from not taking good enough care of myself. My follow up care was practically non existent, and overall the entire thing was a really horrific experience and something that I personally believe shouldn't of been allowed to happen.

Yes, you can argue that I was an adult and knew what I was doing - but I largely disagree and know that now, at 28, I would never make that decision now, and am horrified by how unsafe it was. It upsets me how commonplace surgery is now, and I worry for these young girls getting all this work done. I'm not against plastic surgery whatsoever, in fact I've been contemplating rhinoplasty, but as an actual adult, who is mentally stable, financially able to afford it and not, well, reckless. Just my two cents anyway.

Mrsjayy · 14/09/2021 13:48

Well at 17 you were not really an adult and I think the clinic and surgeons were unethical to even consider consulting a 17 year old but I guess if they didn't somewhere else would have. How are you now creaturecomforts

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