Lip filler everywhere

[crumbaliba]

Is it just becoming the norm? How is everyone affording it in a cost of living crisis?

@FlissyPaps lol. Lip fillers look shit, get over it.

This is the problem with so many that get so much lip filler, utterly desperate for the approval of others. Why do you care so much that a stranger hates your look? It’s hideous imo, I couldn’t care less what you thought of my look because I’m happy with who I am. You should work on you.

Exactly. Why care that a stranger is insulting your appearance? Why care that they said you look stupid and unattractive? You can always wipe it... oh wait.

Nobody would care if I simply don't like the look but you can't call someone's face hideous and then ask them to accept it.

Even if there is someone with badly done filler, I'd never think to make them feel bad about it, it's mean

To you, lip fillers look shit. And that’s okay, you can keep opinions to yourself you know. You don’t have to go out and spout them with horrible remarks. It’s not healthy.

There’s nothing to get over.

No one is utterly desperate for the approval of others. The women who have had lip fillers on this thread certainly aren’t.

You’re the one here who should be working on yourself. Your posts scream that you’re unhappy, bitter and incredibly insecure. You sound so angry and full of pure venom.

I pity you. Because if you were happy in yourself you wouldn’t be calling other people hideous.

Take care.

Good god 😂😂😂

Quite the internet psychologist we have on our hands. All of this because I think lip fillers look shit, loving your psychological assessment though, well done.

Yes all this because you think lip fillers look shit, people who have them are hideous, have body dysmorphia and mental health issues.

I’ve never seen so much bitterness and nastiness from someone about bloody lip fillers. Something that doesn’t affect you in anyway shape or form😂

Yes all this because you think lip fillers look shit, people who have them are hideous, have body dysmorphia and mental health issues.

about sums it up.

My god I hadn't noticed this. Should I care? What opinion should I have? Help please.

Yeah, I think you might be on your own there 😬

I don’t think it’s as easy as “why do you care what other women do their bodies, don’t be judgemental, it doesn’t affect you” because it DOES affect me. It affects all of us! If enough people do something it becomes the new beauty standard, and people who don’t do it become the stand out. I have thin lips which I was always fine with, but the normalisation of lip filler is now making me feel inadequate and I’ve considered lip filler/botox. We don’t make choices in a vacuum and surely we should be questioning why millions of women are now making this choice?

This is why people don’t like it and are calling it out - it peer pressures other women into feeling they have to do the same.

The answer to peer pressure is not to insult other women though

As an adult, you need to cope with your own insecurities. I have lots of them, but I'm not going to pretend that other women should do xyz. Its fine to talk about societal standards 100% but any inadequacies are something for us to learn to address without lashing out

I’ve not insulted anyone on this thread, I just appeared. But I can see why people do - they’re thoroughly fed up of the ridiculous beauty standards and norms being pushed onto women (and, we are allowed to say if we think something looks bad!)

I’m annoyed that as a woman I’m expected to shave my legs in summer or get funny looks. But at least that’s reversible/cheap. Filler doesn’t actually dissolve, just migrates, and no-one knows the long term effects. It’s not like makeup or hair dye but people treat it like it is.

It is yuck but it is a trend. All I can think of is Patsy in Ab Fab when I do see it, where Eddie says you end up being a stranger in your own face.

It looks ridiculous. I don’t know why anyone would do it willingly.

@Choosychoice

I'm not entirely sure that the pic I posted of my freshly done lips look 'ridiculous'. They are so natural looking and compared to the line of lip I usually have, this is normal. I'm not blessed with any lip whatsoever, so why not do something nice for myself? I don't spend money on makeup, clothes... perfume, shoes ,... I know for a fact what I spend on my lips every 9 months is what friends spend in a week on going out for dinner and drinks.

Very sadly - this isn't true. Although many would want you to believe it is!

@kc431 but that is your own battle with beauty standards, not anyone else's. Some people like waxing for hygiene reasons, some people like to shave because they feel they can get better use of product/absorption...generalising that everyone who shaves does it for men or some unidentified beauty standard does women a disservice by conglomorating them into one non-thinking being. Give your fellow females some respect by respecting what they do to themselves is maybe not something they want to share with everyone. To suggest everyone shaves/wears make-up or gets treatments for men and the beauty standards is very naive. I was reading today about botox being used for treatment of migraines for example, yet some people on this thread would be cackling over their cauldrons about how "she's had work done!" gossiping and feeling somehow very smug if any of their so-called friends mentioned that to them.

I've had small amounts of lip filler several times and I know no one can tell.. because even my father (who hates fillers with a passion so would absolutely attempt to scold me for it) has not noticed. I have been in the company of friends at work, them sitting slating people who have fillers, and they have genuinely almost fell out of their chairs when I piped up.

You can't 'always' tell - you're just not noticing the ones who have had it done subtly. The people with duck faces you see in public have had filler administered using poor quality product, their practitioner has terrible technique, or they are simply overfilled. In my area you can get 1ml filler for £60, administered by Amy the lash tech with little to no knowledge of facial anatomy - people who go to Amy will nearly always be obvious.

The lady I go to is a nurse prescriber, and charges no less than £250. I travel 40 miles to go to her specifically. All her clients look amazing, if I do say so myself

The societal expectations are an issue though. I was always insecure about the way my top lip disappeared when I smiled, before lip fillers were even a thing - so I fixed that insecurity. But there are droves of women who are having fillers just as the new normal because it's what you 'do', when they weren't even insecure about it in the first place. It's a tough one

Having said that I can't understand people who get worked up enough to call it 'hideous' and pass judgement about how 'vapid' those who have fillers are. Unless you wear no makeup ever, don't dye your hair, buy only practical clothes (not things to 'look good'), you surely understand that it's natural for people to want to look their best. It all comes down to feeling more secure when we do these things.

If someone is horribly insecure about having thin lips and they choose to have filler, or a boob job because they are flat chested, surely they are just a person who has the means to alleviate the insecurity? It's not all about self obsession, and tbh I just don't understand all the judgement! It's bizarre. Have the conversation about escalating societal pressures being potentially damaging but don't think you're somehow any 'better' than those doing something differently to you - you aren't

It is true. My parents hate lip filler and didn’t notice at all when my sisters both had subtle 0.5ml each. I find it very odd you’re so confident you can always tell when the whole point is you’ve likely seen loads of women with a small subtle amount and you haven’t noticed it

Yours look lovely. I’m sure people will tell you on here that they can aLwAyS tElL because they know you’ve had them done, but IRL they wouldn’t give your lips a second glance

I know a few nurses who do it as a side hustle. Im convinced one must do her own. One day i thought she looked like she’d had a stroke

@Itsmehi222 no I don't have filler but I would if I felt I would look better or had very thin lips. Luckily for me I have decent lips. I do know people who have it done. Subtle and undetectable as filler. I refute your claim that you can always tell. My annoyance is people so happy to condemn others for their choices. I don't think the examples I've posted would look fake to anyone

I was watching a celeb on TV last night who had the most obviously fake 'trout pout' lips I've ever seen and I thought about this thread.

This is a women who was stunning before fillers and would go to the best practitioners money can buy.

I can only assume that we've moved past subtle tweaking and hoping people can't tell, it's now trendy/desirable to have lips that are very obviously filled to the point of distortion. So weird!

You have a point here. Plenty of these women aren't looking to be 'natural' - they want to look like bratz dolls. They like the fake look. I don't think it's this 'gotcha, I can tell you've had fillers' moment some people here seem to think it is. Most women with 5ml of filler in their lips likely know they look fake - theyre not under any sort of delusion.
But I don't think that's representative of people who have fillers on the whole. It's just a confirmation bias, because the only people anyone ever notices fillers on are those that are overfilled. Millions are walking around under our noses undetected

@Angrymum22 good grief don't tell me you're going down the storing up problems for the nhs route. Because people are having lip filler?? If you want to talk about self inflicted damage and the poor nhs we can argue all day if you want: rugby players? People on a rubbish diet? Horseriding? And you are living in a dream world if you think the pumped up steroid injectors at the gym aren't noticeable .. unless it just doesn't fit your narrative. You keep saying you can always tell.. and anyway why spend all that money for someone not to tell? That to me is incomprehensible. You seriously don't get that people might want to have a procedure that is imperceptible to others? You can't always tell that someone is incredibly wealthy. You can't always tell that someone is distraught and broken hearted. There are many many things going on in peoples lives that they don't scream and shout from the rooftops.. why should this be any different?
The vile attitude towards women who choose to tweak their appearance with their own money on this thread is disgusting. I take it they couldn't give a toss about their appearance, that they never apply makeup or brush their hair because unless that's the case they are complete hypocrites as well as being smug, judgemental and mean minded. This thread is the absolute pits and utterly depressing.