To think that facial enhancements make people look older/worse/ridiculous

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DH and I are watching the latest film on Netflix with Nicole Kidman & Zac Effron. We can’t believe how bad they both look with their obvious cosmetic surgery, I Googled to see their ages and was staggered at how young they are compared to how they look!
Why do people do this?
Kathy Bates looks brilliant with little or nothing done.
I just don’t understand this awful trend at all, everywhere you look people resemble waxwork dolls. It’s bloody awful.
P.S The film is dire…don’t bother🙈🙈

Zac Efron was running at home at hit is face on the side of a granite fountain. It seems to have been a very traumatic injury. Not really appropriate to include in cosmetic surgery for cosmetic reasons.

It just looks awful, common and tacky. Sorry but grow old gracefully ladies. Who are you doing it for?? Love yourselves first and foremost

I haven't seen the film, but I saw a clip of them both.

I didn't recognize Nicole Kidman at first. For the first few seconds I thought it was Rosamund Pike. Who is so beautiful and naturally has a rounded face. Then I saw NK smile... Yikes she looks clownish. Then the clip went to Zac Efron. I know he had an accident but his face hardly moved.

I will not be watching the film as there is no way I would be able to focus on the story line.

If the skin won’t retract after the effect has worn off , wont it look even worse?
seems like it’s a tough ride to get off once you start
I feel the same with tattoos and how they will appear in older age

One of my relatives has Botox on her forehead. She is highly delighted with it, but I think it looks really strange. Her whole forehead is smooth and shiny, but under her eyes and at the side of her eyes she has some very, very deep wrinkles. It just looks very strange.

You always get people saying theirs is so subtle and you can’t tell etc. I think in 99% of cases you can tell. Especially when they have their lips done. You can spot it a mile off. No friend is going to ever tell you that they can tell etc.

I guess it's easy for rich celebs to have one thing done and think 'hmm, yeah! I look better, i'll leave it there though'.

And then get up a few months later and think - 'i'll have just one more thing done ...', and then another and then another. Thinking you look better and better.

They're surrounded mostly by other people doing the same thing and fawning over them to keep on.

Simon Cowell, by the way, WTF ??

I was idly watching some x factor clips yesterday - one's with creepy/scary acts. One contestant was on there all made up as some witch/warlock demon creature and came hobbling down to the judging table and honestly Simon Cowell's face looked more scary than the bloke in all the make up ! I was 😳

I didn't know that Zac Effron had had an accident so now I retract my criticism of him.

I watched a Swedish teen movie recently with dd, a love story. The stars were young of course but looked 'normal'. The guy had acne, the girl had frizzy hair. It was refreshing. I think the rest of the world must look at the US/UK idea of beauty and cringe, all artificial everything.

I find it quite sad that people feel the need to do such strange things to their faces to appear young. They don't look young, they look like older people who have had things done to their faces.

The only exception is Jane Fonda - her facelift was fucking fabulous! I'm going to her surgeon 😂

I'm quite sad getting things injected in your face is such a "thing" amongst young people now (and it's not just women, plenty of men too). I hope my DD doesn't do it.

It's not age bashing. People are talking about people of all ages getting work done.

Zac Efron is 36.

I agree that “surgery” is a distinct look. I personally find it very unattractive and peculiar to look at. It doesn’t make anyone look younger. Nicole Kidman looks her age in a Hollywood way. She doesn’t look younger than Julia Robert’s or Naomi Watts who have more lines on their faces for example.

The fresh face of your teens and twenties is something you can’t bottle, so I dislike to see younger girls with heavy waxy static faces. It does make them look like older people who believe fillers and Botox are youthful.

I agree on the whole. The photographs of those young women who were going on Love Island really highlighted it. They mostly looked so much older than their ages.

I have a friend who is really lovely looking naturally. But she's now started down this trend and I can see she's likely to keep going for more and. Ire in the end. I don't know why but she appears to like that unnatural look.

Though to be fair after a difficult year I'd be tempted to do something re my eyes but I'd be too nervous about it all going wrong and looking too fake!

Although in the case of Zac Enron - wasn't some of it due to needing surgery after an accident or something?

Gary O'Donoghue. Every time he's on I think he wouldn't be there if he was a woman looking her age.

are scared of their peers getting it and looking frumpy in comparison

In my peer group of early 50’s women there are a few who spend loads of money on clothes, makeup, hair, nails and tweakments.

However, the ones who look the best are the ones who do none of the above. They are the ones who are slim, and very fit. They may get a cut and a colour, and wear minimal makeup, but they look really natural, healthy and fit.

I’d much rather look like the second lot. You can still look good without paralysing your facial muscles with toxins.

I guess there will be plenty of people who have had good surgery and you wouldn't know it. I certainly have friends where you can't tell. It's when they go too far that it starts to look awful, but so easy to fall into the 'topping up' trap when you think it's starting to wear off.

I'm older and it's very sad to look in the mirror and see parts of your own face that you hate. I can see why people who can afford it start looking at surgery. I just think they need a trusted friend to tell them when to stop!

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I suspect it's much worse for women working in the film/TV profession. Women will often be overlooked for rules as they get older. The films cast much younger women with older men, etc rather than similar ages.

I can’t remember who it was but a female celebrity that I hadn’t seen in a while popped up on some chat show or other & I was really shocked how different she looked, obviously having had work done. I remarked to DH that she looked lovely before & what a shame it was. Some women can look quite cat like I think. Can’t be doing with the huge pouty lips either.

Agree. Don't understand why people do it

You just have to watch Love Island, or see the women from Geordie Shore now, they all look the same and much older than their years

Waxwork dolls that’s an apt description. Some women look so ridiculous with their overfilled lips and cheeks. Do they really not realise how freaky they look? I feel sorry for those who have kids. Who wants a mother tottering around looking like that.

I always suspect Gary might not be there either if he wasn’t blind …

Many people go too far with the treatments.
Helen Mirren has obviously had some sort of cosmetic treatment but she still loves looks like herself. Nicole Kidman has gone overboard with the treatments and looks strange as does her dh
It is a shame that such a talented actress has to resort to this
I was watching Love Island the other night.
The rapper Eve was on. I googled her age and discovered that she was forty five. She looked fantastic
She could actually be the mother of some of the Love Island contestant who looked much older because of all the treatments they had undergone

Older women rarely get cast in Hollywood.
As stated above, they cast older men with much younger women.
I made a point a long time ago if not watching films where the female mead was as close in age to get film son as she is to her screen husband.
Men do look older with their wrinkles, grey or balding hair, and thick waistlines.
Imagine getting to a certain age and not being able to get work unless you conform to having work done.
I haven’t had anything done but I’m starting to wonder about Botox.
I’m surrounded by women who have had work done. Not friends but people I see day to day in the gym etc.