Why do people get massive amounts of lip filler?

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And AIBU to say it shouldn’t be allowed?

I would love to hear from someone who thinks it looks good on them and why?

Is it an addictive thing? Once you start you keep going bigger and bigger?

I have NO ISSUE with nips and tucks and women doing whatever makes them feel good but I do not understand lip filler it’s the one thing looks universally awful.

The plastic surgery subreddit is interesting https://www.reddit.com/r/PlasticSurgery/

There's a lot of threads from women who say they hate their thin lips, accompanied by a photo of themselves with average or above average lip size. Maybe years of fillers being popular has altered some people's perceptions of lip size and shape? Makeup and clothing all seem to be modelled by women with lip fillers and the lips were obviously large to begin with. I just did a search for makeup brands off the top of my head + 'lipstick' and all the official photos show filled lips. This Mac one is a bit strange...

It seems to be quite cheap and accessible these days. Lots of dodgy looking people advertise it on their Facebook pages.
Never looks good. Lots of young women at the gym and office have it. Looks like they have duck beaks.

Sorry when I see these lips on women I laugh ! They look ridiculous ! What a waste of money! Not a good look

If someone goes overboard, from what I've read they tend not to go back to baseline. The filler can stay put for a long time and scar tissue can build around it. You can get them dissolved apparently but I've read there's a risk that some of your own HA gets dissolved in the process. There's threads on reddit from people who've had filler in various areas of their face, had it dissolved and now they're left with a lot of loose skin.

My neice has lip fillers and is quite open about the fact that she wants them to look 'done'. They don't look good. On the other hand, I've just watched Black Doves and was a bit mesmerised by Kiera Knightly's lips. I think she's had something done, but not sure that it's filler? They looked good IMH though.

My neice has lip fillers and is quite open about the fact that she wants them to look 'done'. They don't look good. On the other hand, I've just watched Black Doves and was a bit mesmerised by Kiera Knightly's lips. I think she's had something done, but not sure that it's filler? They looked good IMH though.

Wasn’t KK pictured coming out of a clinic once, having just had lip filler done? It was quite a new thing back then. I think there were some before and after pics in Heat or something showing how different her lips looked before - IIRC she had virtually no top lip. Whatever she’s had done looks good though.

The lip fillered lips all look very, very, very similar. Folks lose their own individual features with lip filler, which seems so strange to me personally - I can't wrap my head around why anyone wants to look like a clone of everyone else who has the procedure. And absolutely no one with lip filler has a mouth that remotely looks like Angelina Jolie's, if that's what they're hoping for!

All that said, people who get lip fillers must really like that specific look - each to their own really isn't it.

Side note: beware the man who claims he doesn't like this particular look though! Those men who shout the loudest about this are sometimes the ones having sex behind their partners back with a lady who has quite visibly had work done to her.

Do I think its weird? Yes
Would I do it? Hell no
should it be banned? Of course not.

There is a generic look. There are three young adult females in the office who all look the same to me. I don't go in to the office very often so it was a while before I realised there were three different people.

I don't wear make up. Never have and never will. Couldn't see the point in all the faff. So this next level is totally beyond my comfort zone and I just don't see why everyone wants to look the same.

But in reality, it's nothing new. In the past people have had the same haircuts or worn the same fashion items, nowadays you can go further than just hair and clothes, you can now tweak your facial features too.

I'm sure that 99% of people with filled lips look perfectly normal. It's going overboard that looks ridiculous. It's the same with facelifts. Most won't look like Mickey Rourke.

Wondering if you're in Liverpool. There are so many women in in Liverpool like that.

I went to ask about gummy smile Botox because my top lift raises so much when I smile and is also thin. The Dr told me I'd be better off with a small amount of lip filler. I left without getting anything because I hate the lip filler look so much.
It may be possible to get subtle filler that looks natural, but the awful, smooth, overfilled look is so ubiquitous that I'm completely put off.

Because they're too young to remember Leslie Ash.

Because they want to or because they go to a bad practitioner. Either way, nothing to do with me.

I like it. Years ago fuller lips were the subject of ridicule (depending on the community) so nice to see things go full circle!

I had some filler for the first time recently.
not lip but in the vertical lines above my lip.. despite never have smoked a single cigarette,. Play a wind instrument though which may have contributed.
I am 60 and was delighted,
The fuller although not in my lips made my lips look slightly fuller.. not trout lips at all!
I was delighted.. posted here before.
My ingector was a cosmetic dr.. she said that a lot of the awful looking lips and too much filler cheeks done by non Doctors with not good ethics.

Got a bit of a wonky mouth so even it out a bit

Because they want to.

I can understand thinking it looks awful (I agree) but it seems odd to therefore think it shouldn’t be allowed if you don’t feel the same way about other types of cosmetic surgery. There will be other people who think the idea of women having a ‘nip and tuck’ is awful and having actual surgery is more invasive than fillers so I don’t really know why you think fillers shouldn’t be allowed but are fine with other cosmetic procedures. Do you think they should be banned purely on the basis that you don’t like the look? How egocentric!

@LunaTheCat did this really work for those vertical lines? I'd love to do something about mine but can't bear the idea of duck lips and looking ridiculous. What was the specific name of your treatment?

@ShouldIEvenBother

Side note: beware the man who claims he doesn't like this particular look though! Those men who shout the loudest about this are sometimes the ones having sex behind their partners back with a lady who has quite visibly had work done to her.

Well earlier in the thread we were told that if men do like this look it's "because blow jobs..." so I guess they can't really win here. 😂

I've often said, can anyone show me a before/after lip filler pic where they look better with filler? I've yet to see one.

Holy fuck - YIKES.

This. I would never get fillers because I have naturally full lips, the type that would be mocked as “rubber lips” when I was young. I do get long acrylics though and spent a fortune on my teeth (just Invisalign to close a Madonna gap and regular whitening. And it’s because I like it.

I think men just have the piss ripped out of them when they have anything that is not perceived as normal in their male world so they don’t bother.