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 don't think it's going away any time soon. I know many people in their late 20s and older who get these procedures on a regular basis. The lip fillers rarely look good.

Don't mind the botox but it's the lips that I find really odd looking. Very unnatural and uncomfortable even.

I watched some reality stuff with my 19y daughter eg married at first sight and love is blind. We were quite horrified at what some women had done to themselves, esp the lip filler. It looked like a freak show. These were beautiful young women who had ruined their look with duck pouts. It was so depressing. The men has nothing obvious done of course.

It must be education or peer pressure. ‘Everyone’ is doing it so you think it looks good? Thankfully my daughter and her friends are happy to look natural and none of them would go near this stuff.

What about new people coming to MN? Are they allowed to post threads on previously done topics?

Why click on a thread that bores you?

Don’t worry, these threads will cope just fine without you. If you ‘CBA’ please don’t comment. Your input isn’t that important!

I was watching MTV 90's last night and all the music videos from the time. All the women looked so different from eachother, different hairstyles a lot of them shorter, no big lips or overly contoured faces. They also wore clothes like jeans and tee shirt, combat pants etc and didn't have their boobs and arse on display all the time. They looked great, and so individual to eachother.

Made me a bit sad that the fashion now involves altering the face to just end up looking identical to everybody else.

It also makes me sad that I'm now so old I'm now writing 'in my day' posts.

Come to Essex, it's everywhere. I stayed in a touristy university city recently, and only saw one woman with fillered lips (she stood out). Back on the train to Essex, and they were everywhere. It was really noticeable and startling. I find it baffling, it distorts the face.

I'm far too risk-averse myself, even for Botox.

Luckily I don’t see too much of it in the area I live (countryside), but yes, it does look awful. I really don’t understand the appeal. unless done very minimally (which it rarely is as I guess it’s addictive for those who begin getting it done), it just looks so fake, robotic, and ruins any natural beauty.

Agree plus there’s a hide thread option

I think it's all to do with SM
It looks amazing on Insta/ FB but awful in RL

i was in a meeting a few weeks ago when I was introduced to a professional I hadnt met before and when she walked in she had absolutely massive lips , a very strange stretched wrinkle free face and blonde hair extensions. I live in an area where people generally don't have the money to spend on such things so I haven't seen anyone as extreme before and it was hard for me not to show my shock. I tried my best to hide it but I am sure it crossed my face and I spent the rest of the meeting trying to work out how old she was because I genuinely had no idea. She could gave been anything from 20s to late 40s . She was like an exaggerated characature of a woman . V strange indeed .

It's definitely not just a UK thing. Very popular in the US. Blame influencers.

I'm noticing a shift to 'preventative surgery' where younger women are having blepharoplasty (removing skin from upper eyelid for more open eyes), brow lifts, face lifts, neck lifts, etc. in their late 30s/40s to preserve their looks longer.

Also there is research emerging that botox use is altering brain structure and function
Not in a good way

You won't know they are laughing because they won't be able to move their faces.

I believe in my wrinkles (53). Being happy with who you are is so much more attractive to people than a rubber face.
Think of all the thousands of £s spent over the years on fillers and botox and all the amazing life-changing things you can do with money like that.

However when I was 15 I would have changed EVERYTHING about myself lol.

This.

I'm okay with the botox look (just not my cup of tea) l, it's all the fillers that look grotesque to me.

They don't seem to realise the symbolism behind the huge lips either. It's what porn stars do to look good on camera performing a certain act.

Very true.
The irony is all the young people will still be part of the work force when they are old. Society will need them to keep slogging away at work. So in one respect society devalues age, whilst in another way will be reliant upon it.
I see people with lip fillers, fake eyelashes, and Botox everywhere around where I live.

I’m totally used to seeing people with Botox now. And the lips - not my thing but I’ve also got used to it so don’t notice as much nowadays. But the cheeks - where the wearer ends up with tiny eyes sunken into a big puffy face, what is that all about?

Agreed.

The look is a walking “I need help”.

I live in Essex and recently I went to a nail salon to get my nails done. There were 3 ladies on one side of me and 2 on the other and every single one of them looked like Kim K. They are not related as they were leaving at different times but all of them had impossibly long gel nails, thick and fake eye lashes, impossibly thick lips, filled cheeks, great skin and body but all of them looked so similar it felt weird. I have thin upper lip too and it literally disappears when I smile and I am very tempted to get some lip fillers but what I see outside doesn't encourage me at all.

Imagine I wrote a thread about not liking fat women with their lardy arses poured into skintight leggings; I would get slaughtered.
But they have ‘done’ this to themselves just the same by stuffing their faces with crap.
Either we judge people on their appearance or we don’t.
Are you beautiful op? I’m sure as hell not and I would hate anyone to critique my appearance.

It's a requirement for reality TV contestants isn't it?

Look ridiculous and yes this is 100% judgemental

I agree with you completely. I was meeting a friend in a bar recently and we commented that about 70% of the young ladies looked the same. Long hair, loads of makeup, big lashes and pouty lips.. a more natural look is much more acceptable to me but then I’m old! 🤷‍♀️

yes but not judging on appearances should preclude people having to do damaging and dangerous stuff to themselves in order to be acceptable to society. We no longer see swallowing tapeworms for weight control, binding feet to keep them small and wearing rib deforming corsets as being a good thing so hopefully this fad will burn itself out . We have no idea of the long term impact of botox and fillers on people's bodies so who knows what issues are being stored up for the future.