Botox, frozen faces and big lips

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Will this trend ever end, does anyone think?
I don’t judge anyone getting surgery etc, heaven knows I need help with my lines…but the same as everyone else look is pretty weird.
Have just seen some videos from the 80’s & 90’s and just the variation in the way actors etc looked is incredible, so natural and beautiful

Also hoping all this ends by the time my Dd is a teen. I was a teen in the 90’s, yes we wore make up and cared how we looked, but nothing like these days

Someone who was very attractive?

Yeah it really is an odd look. I watched that new Lindsey Lohan film (I know🙄) and I thought all the work she had done made it look like she was mid 40's. I was shocked to see she was the same age as me. It also.made a terrible film worse, because I think facial expressions would.have helped.

First of all this made me laugh!

Second of all. I'm sad you aren't Seth Rogan. I'm pretty sure I'm meant to be his best friend.

I'm just going to say I like you. 🌻

I've read a lot of your posts tonight and I really respect the way you conduct yourself. It's nice to see.

Like this…

Yes, sadly.

i look miles better for having a bit of Botox. Everyone always comments that I look well afterwards although I don’t go for the full frozen look. I look loads older than my age without it- pale girl with sun damage
im not a big fan of all the fillers but if it makes women feel better then that’s their call not mine

We used to cover our faces with white powder and shave our hair-lines to get higher foreheads. It's just a fashion, and like all fashions it will disappear.

I’m not a delicate flower and can happily laugh at myself as well as others like most people I know. There are funny videos of women revealing their duck lips that their family or OH find hilarious. They’re not fussed they like the attention and know exactly what their family’s reaction will be. But they like everyone I know have a sense of humour.

It’s insecurities that feed this obsession with duck lips, BBLs, fake eyebrows, tans etc. I’ll keep my natural look with wrinkles as I don’t need to conform to some weird porn star look.

I think it's on its way out already tbh and it looks very dated/ down market
"Clean girl" is in.
Meticulous skin care,glassy complexion,minimal look make up,glossy hair.
Lots of Korean skincare and use of daily spf.

I have Botox but wouldn’t have lip fillers. It’s not the young people who go overboard that is key here. It’s the women who have it quietly and without fuss and are told by friends that they don’t need it. I am hopefully one of them. No one has asked me whether I have had anything done, when I have told them if it happens to come up in conversation 9 times out of 10 I get a text or email asking me how much it cost, whether it hurts and how they would never have guessed.

I go to someone who has a light touch and is known for it. She tells me there are many practitioners who are less light handed because some women like to look ‘done’.

I think it helps that I have a fringe and hair around my face. I have a friend who has had a face lift. It’s OK but it wouldn’t be for me. Up to her of course.

Yes I agree, see loads in our town centre, all look like clones, thick ugly eyebrows, eyelashes like melted LPs. Swollen lips you see coming around the corner before the person- it’s a shame that they spoil their faces. My friends daughter has lost part of her nose due to filler blocking a blood vessel, the skin has died & now scarred for life. Most fellas hate all that fakery!

I completely agree. Fashions always get extreme right before they change, and I think we've reached the limits of the plastic, over made-up look. Some people of course will always hang onto a trend if they really like it, but most will just move on to the next big thing.. and then end up over-doing that too. Perhaps the natural look will get to the stage where we can just let our upper lip hair grow wild, I'd like to see that!😂

eyebrows like slugs are very popular up North 🤣

I always thought makeup was meant to make you look like yourself, but a better version- hence accentuating eyes/ lips/cheek bones. It also meant you could play around with different looks (hello goth years me!)The lip/eyelash/filler thing just makes everyone look the same.

Interesting that the clean girl aesthetic is growing. It's much harder to pull off as an older woman, which is presumably part of the attraction. Dd looks lovely in just her skin; I look like my face has melted without some colour. I am pale as a corpse though.

I've been watching lorry hill videos. Even the slebs I thought haven't had adaptations have. It's a bit depressing.

Some botox looks good imo I'm v happy with my two areas. I certainly don't judge procedures.

But the buckle fat removal makes people look like skeletor and I don't understand it.

I disagree
As an older woman it's a good haircut, good skincare, light make up with well made, well fitting clothes.
The best version of yourself.
Even if someone has a few wrinkles the above looks good on them.

Ps clean girl isn't necessarily no make up, just very natural and pared down.

There's a local Facebook page advertising 'treatments'. The before and after photos are painful to look at. Before = pretty young women with balanced features. After = bizarre distorted faces with massive shiny lips, weirdly contoured noses, and enormous cheeks. I find it so disturbing and sad. IMO it goes beyond fashion and is a marker of much deeper issues.

I'm seeing more and more girls with lip fillers etc. It's become normal like hair extensions and fake nails. I don't like the fake doll look. Maybe they don't like my boring face!

The pumped-up lips look seem to ruin people's faces. Also, the constant licking of them makes me gag.

They look kind of hard don't they @Mothmansknickers? Lips should be soft.

@faffadoodledo Yes, like a spot that needs to be popped.
Also ruins someone's profile.

You probably have a beautiful, natural lip, but these girls/ women, some are getting them stretched to within an inch of their lives . when the filler has worn off the lips must go down like a deflated balloon. Some women, including myself are just starting there was nothing probably wrong with their lips in the first place.

It’s lovely you are comfortable in your skin but there are enough people in the world judging women on their appearance and contributing to our insecurities without women turning on each other and joining in. A little kindness goes a long way and maybe in the future our daughters will all be as comfortable in their skin as you are lucky enough to be.