What are people doing to their faces?!

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I am mid 30s. Colour my hair, wear makeup, thread my eyebrows etc so not completely natural but my goodness what are people doing to their faces?! Young women who are beautiful now have so much injected into their faces that they cannot move them at all. I was looking back at photos in my mid 20s and was wondering why on earth did I worry about my looks at all. Hindsight is wonderful! And I am despairing that girls younger than this have already started to inject Botox and fillers. The world is going mad and don’t even get me started on weight loss injections for those who are not clinically obese! I have two daughters and really feel so worried for them up.

The OP is entitled to post a thread on it. You’re not the arbiter

No, you dismissed ‘back then’ as irrelevant to the discussion, when it’s actually not. The desire to be like those we admire threads through each generation. ‘Back then’ the options were limited. Now anything’s possible - a plethora of social media influencers and ‘how to’ videos has ensured that the gap in the market has been filled by Botox and other treatments becoming much more freely available.

I agree they look awful. I find the look very tacky. They for sure will look like the cat woman who died recently at 84 or Donatella Versace but when they are in their mid thirties or forties. I really do not understand it either. Is it the influence of Kim Kardashian? The products and beauty industry pushing this too? This trend hopefully dies out very soon. I did not see this much abroad when travelling this year. I can only think of a type of men who would like women like this.

I'm bemused at the sneering on here, masked as concern for women.

Debbie Harry had surgery as an older woman though to maintain her looks, - not in her 20's like women are using fillers now to completely change their looks! As someone in the entertainment industry and constantly photographed and in the media there is a huge focus on looks and staying 'young' and it's hard for women to not cave to the pressure of this.

The way women are using cosmetic procedures now is quite different- it's a way of completely changing their facial structure so they don't even look like themselves anymore. Yes, many women have done this with makeup over the years, but make-up washes away at the end of the day and you look like yourself again- fillers change you forever.

Not sure why you quoted me.

No, I replied.
Moving on.

If this is your attitude why are you on a discussion forum ? OP isn’t telling people how they should feel. She’s expressing an opinion and her concern at her young children being exposed to all of this so early. And inviting, y’know - discussion.

For those wondering what it looks like over time, seek out any of the Real Housewives series, but particularly Beverly Hills. These women have all the money they need and access to the best cosmetic surgeons so they represent how it looks at best (which still awful in my book but that’s just a personal view).

For the worst examples look at TOWIE. These are young girls getting treatments on a budget.

I don’t see that look where I live but if I go to the city it’s everywhere. Working class girls trying to look like Kardashians. Also see it abroad so it’s not just Brits.

Wow, so rude.

@Likewhatever does it mean these girls get the pick of the best men in their own social circle?

No, not so rude.
Moving on.

Some of the men look horrific too. Living Ken dolls.

Depends what you consider “best”. Certainly rich.

There is something going on. I’ve been really shocked by the amount of money young women in their 20s are spending on anti ageing stuff at work. There is one lady who can’t be more than 28 who is using 20 plus products and taking collagen every day. Once you’re on that sort of regime before 30 it feels inevitable that that’ll be progressing to more cosmetic procedures.

when even those with £££££ can end up with incredibly poor results, what's the likelihood of someone going to Gawjus Gals Nails & Lashes ending up with a great outcome?

Agree with this.

So many incredibly wealthy celebs have ruined their faces and now just look puffy, bloated and weird. Jennifer Aniston is one. What's her name that plays Olivia Benson in SVU is another. When they're presumably getting the best that money can buy there's not much hope for your average Jo Bloggs.

The only person who getting upset about it is you, and it isn't your business.

Of course it is, or do you think all choices exist in a vacuum?

I know it’s not my business what people do and how they look but I can’t help but worry about who these people visit as practitioners.
My friends DD a few years back bought a groupon deal for some aesthetics and microbladed eyebrows and the woman doing her brows not only made them look shite, she was also unprofessional. I wasn’t there, but by all accounts she was vaping during the process. I’d be uncomfortable with that, it doesn’t show show masses of professionalism. And she did truly cock up the lassies eyebrows. Of course they were all ready naturally perfect. She wasn’t a victim of 90s over plucking.
But people who aren’t financially in a position to see a doctor at a proper clinic are at risk and that’s a concern for me, I think it should be only administered by medical professionals and semi permanent make up by actual tattoo artists. People who take pride in their craft, not injecting faces with a 3 hour course certificate under their belt.

Also it’s not empowering to change your natural looks so radically that you become enslaved to a costly cosmetic regime.

Some of the men look horrific too. Living Ken dolls.

I don’t know if it’s sexist but I find this weirder, some seem to want to look more masculine but end up looking more feminine.

A valid concern by the OP. Hopefully by example and conversation with her daughters her concerns will not materialise.

This is exactly my feeling too. It’s also like a form of abuse - they cannot be doing it for themselves and I fear it’s to impress men who value very little!

Living Kens and living Barbies, sadly.

But that’s not reversible?! That’s getting another trend to try and cover up the permanent effects of the first one

The thing I've always wondered... Those who choose to drastically alter their looks with injectables or surgery, and have children. Firstly they alter their looks because they are unhappy with them. Do they look at their children, who used to look like their parent and geel unhappy with their child's looks too? I can't get my head around this. Also, one of life's great joys for me is when I see a family resemblance or trait in my children. It makes me feel connected and part of something, yet you alter your face and that goes away. Finally, how heartbreaking for a youn girl, as an example, as she begins to wonder why mummy doesn't want to look like her?

Finally, worth mentioning this seems rife in the UK. But the UK has always been celeb obsessed. I've noticed in other cultures it's not the same, and consequently I think the intense botox filler look is less in other countries and cultures. Why?