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

I am picking YABU because I agree with @EmilyTjP ... I am sick of this same thread coming up every week. Yes I think it's a shame these girls/women are doing this, (having fillers and botox and collagen and the like,) but I CBA to repeat myself over and over.

And yet despite being so sick of these threads, you’ve decided to repeat yourself 1 more time? Instead of just not clicking into it? Excellent🤣

Can’t stand those Botox lips especially on younger women - I can understand older ladies as your lips get thinner but on young girls its really not necessary and looks odd - not attractive

I moved to the U.K. and was bewildered that everyone looked the same- big lips, filled cheeks, massive eyebrows, no wrinkles, loads of foundation, fake lashes. I live near a city and honestly it is everyone... everyone! My obsession is- how does everyone afford it..?! I briefly thought about joining them 😂 looked into lip fillers thinking a little might be nice... it's so expensive! I can't afford it as a middle aged professional, how is everyone else getting so much done?!

It's a very U.K. thing though. No other country I've lived or been in recently has the universal slicked hair/ overdone faces thing

My thoughts exactly. Regular treatments are not cheap and yet the average UK income is crap.

Whats going on??

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I live abroad and would say it’s mainly those within the expat community (mainly British, but not all and definitely wealthy)

Botox is nothing to do with lips, it's not a filler

It looks horrendous.

I recently watched a documentary about Fat Boy Slim's party on Brighton beach that went wrong when 250k people turned up.

Everybody looked so natural - no fillers, etc.

I honestly don't know why this 'look' is popular. Who likes it?

Well the people who have 'this look' obviously like it, and more power to them. I loved messing about with my appearance when I was younger, and I cared about as much for what other people thought of it then as I do now.

I don't have anything like botox or fillers, but then I'm tight as fuck and I hate needles

I see it everywhere in London

but now even with my friends (late 30s)- I’ve been told I’m a bit of a prude for not wanting to consider Botox (apparently it’s the norm and I’m very late to the party in not doing it yet)

I'm well aware of that look. I instantly recoil in horror when I see it in the flesh

I agree its very much a UK 'thing.'

I was recently in Thailand. I was checking in for a flight back to Australia. The next check in counter over was for BA heading back to London. It struck me that a lot of the woman all had the same look - plumped lips, massive eyebrows, lot of makeup - everyone looked like some version of Kim K. It did look very odd tbh, almost clownish.

I think its a trend that will die out.

It looks mad.

You can't appreciate bone structure in these faces as the bone is obscured by filler. The eyes are reduced in size due to the plumped up cheeks. The profile is distorted due to the outward lip projection.

It's nothing like you would ever encounter in the natural state. It looks bloody mad in real life. Perhaps it reads better on camera but most of us aren't a Kardashian so it's rather jarring IRL

I’ve got some filler in my lips and will definitely get Botox in the future. I get O.5ml every 2 or 3 years as I have no top lip and when I smile it vanishes completely. I look 100% better with the filler and feel so much happier and more confident. I have never had anything done to please other people and do it to make me happy.

My 22 year old sister gets ‘preventive’ Botox. Cheeks and lips full of filler too. It’s ridiculous.

Why are you planning on getting Botox in the future? I'm curious about people who have already decided to do it.

I think people like it because it can look good in photos, and don't care if it looks bad in everyday life

Because the more people without wrinkles the more frozen everyone looks. Then everyone starts to look the same.

Celebrities have the best access to plastic surgeons and very few look younger. They mainly look their age with Botox.

No-one is forcing you to write anything on any thread.

Our son has a hearing impairment, he couldn’t work with the TA in his UK primary school class as her lip fillers meant her lips couldn’t move properly, so he couldn’t understand what she was saying.

If someone wants to go ahead and wreack their faces with cosmetic surgery and make themselves look ridiculous in watever ways let them,

I think personally they need to have therapy 🤔

Probably look like 2 tyres slapping together.

I can understand people getting things done when they get to an age that they start to look older. The young girls that get all of the fillers and other procedures done will regret it in future. Its just classed as normal now for young men and women and the temptation of getting cheap procedures in Turkey. I have seen teens under 18 with lip fillers it is too easy to access them and advertised on facebook groups and forums.