To think in ten years all these huge veneers and huge lips will be seriously dated?

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Eek, watching tv these days it's a sea of huge symmetrical bright white veneers.
So many of them look like they have got a teeth guard in when they are sucking on them.
Most of them just look really terrible and I dread to think what their long term teeth issues will be.
Add in the huge lips and filler faces and really it's a bit black mirror with all these faces looking the same. I know the lip filler can be dissolved but is that the same for all over the face? Will people be able to go back to how they were before once the filler blindness passes?
I've been watching old movies and the difference with natural teeth is quite something, it changes the natural shape of your face and everyone looks more individual .
Aibu or will it all look so dated in ten years and all these huge horsey veneers go out of fashion?
Or am I just getting old

Your post says more about you than anyone else.

I had mine done in 2015. I imagine that gums receding through age will mean that they'll have to be re-done at some point. It is something that I try to budget for, but I'm 64 so...

My dentist wouldn't go ahead with the work until they were certain that I'd got on top of my gum health. I had my front teeth broken when I was a kid, courtesy of the family from hell that lived nearby. I got NHS crowns when I was 20. They lasted until I was 55. That was when I discovered that the root on one was being absorbed into my jaw - very rare: I was told that I was unlucky. One was crowned; the other was replaced with an implant. Thanks to my clumsiness when I was in my 30s, some of my other top teeth were cracked. So..I had one canine crowned and the rest of the top teeth from that canine and the other canine had porcelain veneers applied. The remaining canine had a composite veneer applied.

I also had the bottom teach bleached. That was enough to take care of the discolouration caused by the meds I got for three bouts of measles when I was a child.

I think it all came to about 7k. I'm trying to look after the gums to stop them receding too quickly. When I got them done in 2013, the dentist was surprised that my NHS crowns had lasted 35 yrs, but I did have a tell-tale black line at the gums by then.

Huge eyelashes, slug eyebrows, pouty lips, big bums and boobs, over white teeth, dyed black hair - they all look unnatural. (Well to me they do). Not sure how long these trends will last, but they will eventually look ridiculous when looked back at (rather like huge shoulder pads, big hair, shell suits, etc do now). However, fashion being fashion, something else will come along that will, in time, look as equally ridiculous. I’m sure we have all, to one extent or another, followed a particular fashion, but then looked back years later, and wondered “Why 😲?”
Younger generations will, no doubt, do the same when they look back 😁.

@Bartcla 100%

I see Tess Daly and fallen fowl to the dreaded turkey teeth

This Exactly! I found an old booklet of local club nights in my area I kept back in 2000 - it has loads of what would be now photos of people who are on Old Skool night club nights - not any fillers, teeth, tan, BBL and dodgy tats in sight!! It is REALLY noticeable. I get what people say all these females all look the same. All an army of clones......

Agree with this. Dd 16 and I have recently started watching the OC together (first for her second time round for me) and she is amazed at how real and natural thee girls look. Mischa Barton especially had such beautiful skin that you can actually see.

The teeth that I had done were ground down for veneers, but they certainly weren't left as stumps - the exception would be the two that were crowned, I think.

Honestly no, I don’t think crooked yellow teeth would look better. Obvious veneers will still look better than that.

Lip fillers have already lost momentum, but it’s still popular. People are just trying to get more natural results now and the massive lip look isn’t in, but people are still having filler.

Yes! Mischa Barton had a smattering of light freckles you could actually see and a coltish beauty you just don’t get on TV now. Possibly if you watch a lot of Scandi TV but def not on US soaps now 😌

I understand having good cosmetic dentistry but some of those Turkey teeth look like glow in the dark tombstones.

He's only had the top row done as well, he looks awful

Please stop your son from laughing at women's appearances, it's a horrible path for a young man to be treading and for you to be seemingly encouraging.

Also, it's filler that gives duck lips, not Botox.

Yes! When I re watched I thought that Rachel bilson’s teeth looked quite yellow and you’d never see that on tv now!

I’ve felt for a long time we are heading towards a world where looking like a resident of The Capital from The Hunger Games is the goal some people are aiming towards.

I’m not a fan of the veneer/filler look. Same with fake boobs. I find some of it quite grotesque. But if it’s what people want to do, I wouldn’t judge them for it. As long as they’re happy.

I’m glad I was inspired by women who struggled off looking ‘conventionally desirable’ and were attractive because their personality, intelligence and creativity shone through.

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I've had my teeth done (crowns, not veneers) because of significant decay, and in my opinion they look very good, because I didn't make them look ridiculous. They look like teeth you'd get with good orthodontia (or very good genes) and hygiene and perhaps a bit of Colgate whitening toothpaste. They're not oversized, they're off white, and they're straight but not exaggeratedly so. Also, I've had absolutely nothing else done (the teeth were my one vanity. I am cheap.)

The trends now are for this very over the top style and I don't think it ages well at all. Even with serious actors, they get pressured to do this, and keep it up, and they hit this terrible uncanny valley stage. Between the Botox and the fillers and the buccal fat removal (don't do it, it looks good at 25 and horrible at 45) their faces are frozen.

What people on reality TV do is on another level. If you compare Taylor Swift now to when she was 19, you can tell she's had some work done, but if you didn't compare, she looks like it could be natural, or within the range of possible. Reality TV show people often do it on the cheap and go for this deliberately fake look. And as someone who did her teeth and paid a pretty penny for it, I can tell you that doing cheap veneers is penny wise and pound foolish.

The advent of HD and 4K TV has also ratcheted things up for Hollywood. If you watch a film from the 1980s now, you can see that people don't have perfect skin. The makeup doesn't cover it up. Nowadays, they make themselves up so you can't tell in high-resolution photos and film. That look is hard enough to pull off with a professional makeup artist. When you do it yourself, you probably won't do a good job.

exactly ^ embarrassing bragging that your child thinks it’s funny to laugh at someone’s appearances

I don't understand the lips at all, I had an absolutely stunning friend who has gone down the surgeru route. It's like she got to her mid 30s and panicked, now she has one of the stretched shiny botox faces and ridiculous lips, i have family members that have all that done too, at over the age of 50!

Of course, just like every other trend including all the ones you embraced.

watching Friends recently I kept noticing the plucked eyebrows, they look absurd now but were the norm (as I can attest - having done it myself) for young women in the 90s.

There's a TikTok going round where they do a CT scan of a face which has had fillers.

They've found that it doesn't dissolve properly - it migrates and gathers in the face and the body, often lots drops to the jaw, and that's why people get a puffy/big jawed look if they've had filler, even if they've not had it for a couple of years. You see it in some celebs.

It's really shocking and looks bad - but they've now found most filler doesn't leave your body, it just moves around

I work with a few nurses who've had lips, botox and fillers done. In their 40s and 50s. It looks so obvious, doesn't even make them look any better. Looks shit tbh.

Are many people really doing the buccal removal thingy? It sounds extreme.

I can't imagine many people actually signing up for it. For what? Why would you want to lose the natural fat and padding in an area of your face?!

Many actors seem to do it. It's quite ageing, in my view.

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