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

416 replies

ToriMJ · 01/11/2024 21:08

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 Grin

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KimberleyClark · 02/11/2024 07:16

As for the 'natural 80s', ha. There would have been just as many people trying to look younger, more flawless, like a Barbie, etc back then IF these sorts of procedures existed at their current form. What did they have back then? Massive hard breast implants and maybe some other stuff for the rich. But it wasn't as advanced as it was now. If botox, fillers, facelifts, veneers etc were as advanced and as cheap as it's now (well relatively), there would have been PLENTY of women and men who would have done it. Let's just not pretend that people were somehow intellectually superior, erudite and bigger 'personalities' than now. It's just that those things weren't accessible for the vast majority.

I don’t agree. As a 20 something in the 80s we all thought face lifts etc were for the spoilt rich with more money than sense. I certainly never imagined this stuff would become as mainstream as it has now.

cuupe · 02/11/2024 07:26

Williamse31 · 01/11/2024 22:49

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

They really look like dentures

DexysMidniteRunners · 02/11/2024 07:28

TwinklyAmberOrca · 01/11/2024 21:25

They already look awful! So many of the girls on MAFS all look so fake and similar.

There was a photo online the other day of the Spice Girls and it was refreshing to see how natural they all looked! So much prettier than today's obsession with fake.

Err, not scary spice. She's had tons done, she looks plastiky

LuluBlakey1 · 02/11/2024 07:31

Lyannaa · 01/11/2024 22:48

Your post says more about you than anyone else.

That's fine with me.

ThePoshUns · 02/11/2024 07:37

LynetteScavo · 01/11/2024 21:36

There's a white teeth, big lips, boobs and bum, fake tan and tattoos look that already looks dated, but is going to look really funny in several years time.

It's not even like a fashion like a perm and white stilettos that can easily be changed, so they're going to age a person.

Yes, those lovely full neck tattoos. Add on the fake tan as well and the thick , long nail extensions.
That whole look just looks grubby to me, like they need a good wash.

SabrinaCarpentersCeilingFan · 02/11/2024 07:39

BobbyBiscuits · 01/11/2024 21:41

They've had perfectly healthy teeth shaved down to stumps so that will never ever be the same again. They'll just have to keep having more veneers stuck on there. I don't think some of these people can even floss. They look like boxers gum shields! 🤢

Wild assumption. Not everyone has had their teeth shaved. I've had composite bonding veneers done to 16 of my teeth. I haven't had an ounce of shaving.

They don't look like a gum shield.

I've also had 0.5 lip filler every year for 5 years. Chemotherapy took every ounce of volume out of my face (and ruined my teeth) until don't look like a 'baboon' as some have stated. I look like I did before chemotherapy.

This is a vile thread. Some people take it way too far. But some people have had these procedures done due to previous trauma which had completely taken how they looked away.

cuupe · 02/11/2024 07:45

This thread isn't aimed at you then

ThePoshUns · 02/11/2024 07:46

HalloweenHaribo · 01/11/2024 22:40

YANBU OP

I caught the end of Big Brother the other night and some of the housemates actually had teeth so white, they looked 'blue' 😳

I know someone with 'turkey teeth' and they do look blue in some lights.

FfsBrian · 02/11/2024 07:46

cuupe · 02/11/2024 07:45

This thread isn't aimed at you then

yeah It’s a pretty nasty thread regardless.

Imagine if it was about how awful overweight people looked…

wiesowarum · 02/11/2024 07:47

VioletCrawleyForever · 01/11/2024 21:09

They already look dated and hideous.

This.
I don't know anyone, male or female, who find them remotely attractive.

ThePoshUns · 02/11/2024 07:48

Williamse31 · 01/11/2024 22:49

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

I like what you did there 😆

Workhardcryharder · 02/11/2024 07:57

Clingfilm · 01/11/2024 21:48

It is a bit sad how identikit young women (and increasingly men) are looking but I think trends will change and something else will take its place.

My money's on thin 90s eyebrows and big hair being back by 2035...

It's the current caked on make up that bothers me most, I just imagine dirty orange towels and pillow cases.

90s thin eyebrows already are coming back in! Although that’s not a good thing as we all dealt with the trauma of trying to regrow our plucked-into-oblivion brows

Simonjt · 02/11/2024 07:59

Composite bonding fine as the actual teeth aren’r damaged, but when someone has crowns fitted it is very very likely that those stumps in the future will need root canals, suffer infections and need to be removed. People are already finding that a lot of dentists in the UK are unwilling to do any work at all on people who have had crowns abroad.

With filler we know it stays in the body for at least 12 years, people for some reason think the word dissolve somehow means vanish when it is linked to filler. I had a very small amount of filler on my nose to disguise an injury, this was done by a maxillofacial surgeon, despite being done by them when I recently had my nose operated on to finally get it sorted I had to have an MRI to make sure the filler hadn’t migrated anywhere dangerous, so towards my eyes for example as if it had this could have potentially made the surgery more dangerous and led to a greater risk of complications from the surgery. If thats an issue with a very small amount of filler being injected on one occasion by an expert in the face, imagine what could happen when someone without medical training does it to one face on mutliple occasions. I still have my dint in my nose as surgery moved the filler, my dint will be staying as I don’t want to fuck with my face, or end up with filler near my eyes or in my lymphatic system.

The lip thing is interesting, lip filler has a big impact on speech, our son has a hearing impairment, for him lip reading is hugely beneficial especially in noisy places. As lip filler reduces normal lip movement he cannot read the lips of people who have it, one of the TAs at his last school was unable to work in his classroom due to it. His aunt who is convinced she has natural looking lipfiller, again, he cannot lip read with her anymore.

Every generation has beauty fads, but when its things like perms, thin eyebrows, big eyelashes etc it can be easily and cheaply undone, it doesn’t have lasting and damaging effects on our bodies.

ethelredonagoodday · 02/11/2024 08:04

I have veneers on my two front teeth, because I was badly advised by a dentist 25 years ago to have them to correct a minor issue with the surface of my teeth. If I had my time again, I'd not have bothered. When they break, or pop off, and you're left with a stump until they can be fixed, it's quite embarrassing.

I don't think any of the filler/botox etc looks nice really. Tess Daly looked really odd at the start of this years SCD - teeth appeared to have been done and her cheeks also looked very full.
But I do think, as others have said, things like the very full eyebrows and Russian lashes seem to be becoming less popular.

TwinklyAmberOrca · 02/11/2024 08:05

DexysMidniteRunners · 02/11/2024 07:28

Err, not scary spice. She's had tons done, she looks plastiky

This was 1990s! Pre plastic era!

viques · 02/11/2024 08:06

marmamumma · 02/11/2024 00:47

Some of us poor sods were born with them and I'm not paying a woman to inflict pain on me once a month so I do the odd tweezer. So some of the big dark eyebrows brigade will still be around😁

The rest of it is pretty horrible and I don't know why this particular generation of young women have taken to it with such alacrity!

I don’t mind big eyebrows when they follow a natural line, it’s the visibly tweaked ones that look as though someone has raided the Groucho Marks dressing up box that are so awful.

I do however have genuine sympathy for this particular generation, they are bombarded with so called images of perfection every minute of the day and it must be very hard to resist. I have curly hair and in my youth used to iron it straight ( not very successfully) and that was as a result of watching swingy haired Cathy McGowan for barely half an hour a week on Ready Steady Go!

Luckily for me I was stick thin so never got tempted to starve myself into Twiggy proportions as I must have been very suggestible, like most kids negotiating teen years.

BigDahliaFan · 02/11/2024 08:08

I have on veneer on a damaged tooth.I've got fairly typical 'British' teeth and sometimes wonder about getting them tidied up but I'll just live with them.

But yes that pouty filled look, veneers and loads of tattoos, that permanent change to your body (fillers have to go somewhere surely?). It's bizarre.

OTT make up, fine, weird clothes, OTT shoes...but permanent changes to your body for fashion, shouldn't be allowed.

TwinklyAmberOrca · 02/11/2024 08:08

cardibach · 01/11/2024 22:47

I don’t like the trend, but this year’s MAFSUK seems less blighted by it than usual.

Amy, Holly and Sionnain look awful! Like they've done battle with an industrial vacuum cleaner!

catin8oots · 02/11/2024 08:10

Colourfulduvets · 02/11/2024 05:52

This is sort of related although not about lips particularly but I have just been working my way back through Friends, right from the first episode.

Courtney Cox in the final series looks so strange and it's obviously when she started messing with her face. Because I watched the series back to back it's so noticeable that she suddenly looks odd & different.
Her mouth is suddenly way too wide and her eyes look creepy.

Now she looks pretty awful but I bet if she had never done anything and had aged normally she would have looked beautiful as an older woman.

It seems there is a tipping point with these "interventions" and I do wonder how some younger peoplewill look as they age; it seems women are having cosmetic things done to their face at younger & younger ages these days.

When I watched the friends reunion it was shocking how natural and beautiful Lisa Kudrow looked compared to Courtney and Jennifer with their weird stretched mouths and tight eyes

KimberleyClark · 02/11/2024 08:14

I think Felicity Kendal looks a bit strange these days, took me a while to recognise her in Ludwig.

Colourfulduvets · 02/11/2024 08:15

catin8oots · 02/11/2024 08:10

When I watched the friends reunion it was shocking how natural and beautiful Lisa Kudrow looked compared to Courtney and Jennifer with their weird stretched mouths and tight eyes

Yes, absolutely!
Actually she was always the most gorgeous one which I didn't realise at the time.

When you watch it back you see how truly stunning she is - and still is.

Mlanket · 02/11/2024 08:16

yeah It’s a pretty nasty thread regardless.
Imagine if it was about how awful overweight people looked…

How is that comparable? We are talking about people paying money to replace good teeth with ones that look “perfect” and the pressures to look a certain way.

BarberBealShaw · 02/11/2024 08:25

I haven't seen anyone in real life with this look. Is it really that popular in parts?

BunnyLake · 02/11/2024 08:26

That look has never looked good, I’ve never understood why it was popular (usually with the towie types). It’s very unattractive.

Remember those really thick painted on eyebrows that became fashionable, you never see those now (thankfully).

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 02/11/2024 08:29

I want young people to experiment with looks it’s part of growing up. The issue I have with fillers and veneers is that neither are fully reversible. Slug eyebrows and heavy make up can be removed but these interventions may have lifelong consequences.

Cheaper veneers wreck your teeth so there is no going back. Filler migrates rather than breaks down completely and the dissolving process is not risk free (it will dissolve your own hyaluronic acid not just the filler). Only HA fillers can be dissolved.

It worries me that young people are being pushed to make permanent changes to their body.