To think that the trend for buccal fat removal is worse than filler

[znaika]

I understand the immense pressure on young women in particular to look beautiful. It is pervasive and contributes to poor emotional health. However the never ending additions to treatments just make me feel sooo uncomfortable and sad.
The latest is buccal fat removal which involves sucking out the fat from inside a young women's face and with zygoma fillers they can create the illusion of high cheek bones.
Something so barbaric about it and I can see it everywhere. When will this shit end. How as women can we draw a line under more and more absurd treatments to make us "beautiful". It just feels never-ending...

Jesus that sounds barbaric

We must all look like bloat-lipped BJ loving fuck-dolls for the male gaze.

It’s utterly depressing..

But we can accentuate out blow job lips by having the fat sucked out of our cheekbones 😞

I think it's all barbaric injections sucking out filling all off it is barbaric.

It’s awful, all of it.

I think it’s all ridiculous. I don’t understand it.

I understand wanting to look nice/your best but the obsession with a version perfection (which isn’t real) is bizarre and dangerous.

I had lunch with two relatives my age last week (early 40s) - they both looked strangely expressionless.

Also it's not a particularly new treatment. But it feels like it just gone from Hollywood to high street recently

I saw a young man on TV who's face looked like a filter he was 19 years old who injecting and. "sculpting" teenagers faces !

Honestly it makes me so sad that there are so many women out there injecting botox (poison!!), getting lip fillers, tattooing on their eyebrows etc.

I don't even like how it looks either. My mum never had any of this crap and she is beautiful. Her lines show her smiles.

I honestly don't care too much about older women. It's young women I care about. The pressure is immense. It's not the same if you're a forty something with means. I mean it's still weird but less disfiguringly alarming

I mean i do care about older women - I am one!! But they have more agency I feel. Not to discredit young women at all but that's how it is

It's very, very sad that so many young women are doing this. I'd not heard of it but I searched for images. It looks awful. The before and after images showed gorgeous healthy faces becoming caricatures.

And yes I guess older women too. I think natural faces are much more appealing.

This is proper surgery though and very different to fillers. How are you seeing it evrytwhere? Where the hell are you that that’s the case?

All plastic surgery is barbaric, be it rhino plasty to liposuction. But this is not how you’re portraying it, cheek pad removal is serious surgery.

I nurse a lot of old women and can anecdotally say that the most beautiful ones are the ones who religiously use moisturiser.

Just googled the procedure and its min 2k and I literally cannot see a difference in the before and after photos. Its a bit emperors new clothes. If someone is genuinely convinced that their buccal fat pads are the route of all their problems and must be removed then I would be severely concerned that they had some sort of body dysmorphia.

Can we please call it cosmetic surgery. Plastic surgery includes treating scars and disfigurements.

Such an odd thread, op how can you see it everywhere? It’s not common and as said it’s serious surgery thay costs thousands, it is not anything like a two hundred quid filler that lasts a few months

Posting like you did is like saying is it right to say permanent tattoos are worse than stick on transfers,

Well yeah they are.

@Bluntness100

This is proper surgery though and very different to fillers. How are you seeing it evrytwhere? Where the hell are you that that’s the case?

All plastic surgery is barbaric, be it rhino plasty to liposuction. But this is not how you’re portraying it, cheek pad removal is serious surgery.

Plastic surgery is anything but barbaric, would you really tell people like Katie Piper that her plastic surgery is barbaric?

I just googled this. I can't see any difference between the before and after on most of them.
Seems utterly pointless.

The worry with young women doing some of these procedures is that they probably rarely stop and have to find more and more things to try. It starts off as a little filler or Botox but spirals until they all just look the same.

But what are they going to look like twenty years later? In my eyes it’s much worrying than an ageing woman using Botox for wrinkles as they are so young with years ahead of them.

Honestly I’m not a fan of ageing I’m 42 and it happens almost daily and I don’t like it. But I don’t think that most don’t really look any younger or better for it when it’s so extreme ( I know there may be some exceptions!)

@znaika

I honestly don't care too much about older women. It's young women I care about. The pressure is immense. It's not the same if you're a forty something with means. I mean it's still weird but less disfiguringly alarming

Er?

These things are easier to access, cheaper and less taboo than they were, its very normal now as well, seeing someone who has lip filler is so common place now.

I have some cosmetic filler to hide a ‘dint’ in my broken nose until I eventually have it surgically repaired. All surgery carries a risk, plus recovery can be really awful.

This costs me £250 every six months, if I wanted filler in three areas of my face that only increases to £300 every six months, while not cheap, it isn’t exactly expensive either.

Yes, I agree there is still immense pressure on women to look a certain way and it’s sad that fillers etc have become a trend.

However, I think we have to afford people some agency. There’s a difference between wanting to look like an identikit filler-pumped insta model and having a feature that you don’t like and changing it entirely for yourself. I’ve got wide puffy cheeks that I’ve always disliked since I was a kid, and if I had the money I’d probably have this procedure - not for men, not because I feel under pressure to conform to a beauty standard, but solely for myself.

I am in Moscow! It is everywhere just like lip fillers 5 yrs ago. Wannabe models everywhere are getting it. Once yoi can see it. It's immediately recognisable- nothing like the Kate Moss natural cheek bone look

That sounds both painful and gross.

I’m glad I’m old. All we had to worry about was buying the right lip balm from Body Shop. I can’t remember a single teen or twenties friend injecting themselves or having fillers and whatnot.

Millennials seemed to suddenly have mass access to cosmetic procedures and constant feeds from social media.

Makes you wonder about future generations. Bio-hacking in the garage and bio-engineering on the high street?

It will be normal for them too, just like lip balm from Body Shop was for me and my friends. Just a damn sight more painful!