Page 20 | What are people doing to their faces?!

Mania89 · 2025-01-03T23:27:56+00:00

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.

lavendarwillow · 04/01/2025 22:39

I don't get, I don't know why the message of being proud of who you are has got so lost? It's also a very unregulated business preying on the insecure. A therapist near me was found out for injecting an unknown liquid (which wasn't Botox) and basically running off with the cash.

Zita60 · 05/01/2025 00:30

WeCanOnlyDoOurBest · 04/01/2025 22:34

Loved butterscotch Angel delight 😋 but I do think it was late 70’s early 80’s. My mum always made a trifle for Sunday tea. Yes, spam had been around for years, my parents never bought it though. Great memories 🥰

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We had butterscotch Angel Delight earlier in the 70s, it was one of my favourite flavours. We also had Instant Whip, but I think Angel Delight was a bit posher.

Zita60 · 05/01/2025 00:35

WeCanOnlyDoOurBest · 04/01/2025 22:29

Omg yes, I’d forgotten the Arctic roll 😂 we didn’t eat spam in our house, but I remember my auntie Audrey did, she fried it along with the mash and veg left over from Sunday for Monday’s dinner. Do you remember the Vesta curry meals too?
Yep, your right, around 1974, it was the start of ‘fast food’ 🙄

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I remember Vesta curry meals. Weren’t they boil in the bag?

ArabellaScott · 05/01/2025 08:32

Mrsredlipstick · 04/01/2025 20:16

Butterscotch angel delight, lovely. The rest yuck but I thought Spam was around in WW2?

Possibly purchased in WW2 and finally eaten in 1975?

SnowKidding · 05/01/2025 09:04

tommyhoundmum · 04/01/2025 07:50

Mine is 21 and is like yours. Although she does complain regularly about her small breasts.

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She might appreciate her small breasts more if she watches some explant vlogs like these:

https://www.tiktok.com/@docmoliver/video/7122456816050507050?lang=en

https://www.instagram.com/dr.jeffrey_ridha/reel/DDQRxQUJ31S/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SfBqOMGVfgM

TikTok - Make Your Day

https://www.tiktok.com/@docmoliver/video/7122456816050507050?lang=en

friendconcern · 05/01/2025 09:45

WeCanOnlyDoOurBest · 04/01/2025 22:34

Loved butterscotch Angel delight 😋 but I do think it was late 70’s early 80’s. My mum always made a trifle for Sunday tea. Yes, spam had been around for years, my parents never bought it though. Great memories 🥰

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I have an aversion to any food that texture or taste now thanks to butterscotch angel delight 🤢🤢

Pussycat22 · 05/01/2025 10:03

WeCanOnlyDoOurBest · 04/01/2025 22:29

Omg yes, I’d forgotten the Arctic roll 😂 we didn’t eat spam in our house, but I remember my auntie Audrey did, she fried it along with the mash and veg left over from Sunday for Monday’s dinner. Do you remember the Vesta curry meals too?
Yep, your right, around 1974, it was the start of ‘fast food’ 🙄

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Loved the vesta curries, thought they were so exotic !!

Mrsredlipstick · 05/01/2025 11:03

Never had a vesta curry. Dad was stationed in India so all family recipes.

Now back to faces. At least sunbeds are out, ditto thin brows. Both aging.
I remember the post a few years ago where the lady asked for advice on personal bleaching. Horrendous , and it wasn't her lady garden. Hopefully that sort of nonsense has stopped.

Ask any man how the rate their looks and they'd say OK even if they looked like Rab C Nesbit. Why do we pull ourselves down?
I look like Jerry Hall on a good day or Jabba the Hut in my heated sweatshirt (ugly gift from the DH).
Go forth my sisters and remember what Mrs Lauder said 'there are no ugly women, just lazy ones'.

Tessabelle74 · 05/01/2025 17:38

Anotherparkingthread · 04/01/2025 00:05

Frankly, while you're entitled to an opinion, they are also entitled to an opinion. It's their bodies. Their choice. They like it.

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

You've clearly not got daughters. I also worry about the pressure girls are under now, I work in a spa and the girls are beautiful but all they talk about is needing fillers, or boob jobs and how if they just had them, they'd feel better. They won't though, they'll love into the next "flaw" that social media and influencers point out to them. It's worrying

Grammarnut · 05/01/2025 17:48

Anotherparkingthread · 04/01/2025 00:05

Frankly, while you're entitled to an opinion, they are also entitled to an opinion. It's their bodies. Their choice. They like it.

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

She isn't upset she is expressing an opinion, one I agree with as it happens. I have a GD who plasters enough stuff on her face to hold up a brick wall and I do not find it attractive. She doesn't, mercifully, go in for fillers but these too are rampant in young women. It's yet another commodification of our bodies.

menopausalfart · 05/01/2025 17:53

It ages you if you're young, I think. You could be anywhere from 20 to 40 when you have a frozen face. It's very strange, as someone older, to understand why the young do this.

Closetheblinds · 05/01/2025 17:56

Ooh a whole multi page thread on something that is no one else’s business. How predictable

Nikki75 · 05/01/2025 17:57

Namechangedforthis25 · 04/01/2025 00:13

With respect, I don’t think op is upset

she is expressing an opinion

And I totally agree with her - too many 25-35 year old I see in London have the same type of face these days - dark defined brows, fake filled lips,

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Yep I agree on both these posts opinions are allowed both ways.
It's become so normal to inject your face or change this and that .
There will be a time where age catches up eventually anyways they are doing so much damage they can't see what other people see I find that alarming.

Errors · 05/01/2025 17:58

Haven’t RTFT so sorry if someone has already said this.
I think there is a balance. If someone gets subtle work done, a little Botox or natural looking fillers that replace natural volume loss, and it’s done well then you shouldn’t be able to tell. I’ve a friend who ‘confessed’ recently to getting a bit of work done and I was shocked as I really didn’t notice. I thought she just looked ‘fresher’ but couldn’t put my finger on why.
I do agree that over the top fillers/too much Botox isn’t a great look though!

NeelyOHara1 · 05/01/2025 18:00

Isn't it the OP putting the trend down (and hoping it will pass soon) rather than the women adopting it?

sheep73 · 05/01/2025 18:02

Some of the makeup these days is laughable it's so bad. It's more like paint by numbers 🤣

Justsaywhatyoumean123 · 05/01/2025 18:03

Totally agree, it's like an epidemic, simply awful

AlienSunFlower · 05/01/2025 18:04

SocksAndTheCity · 04/01/2025 00:29

Wow, we've gone a full ten days since the last one of these threads was posted - that must be a record.

I haven't checked the whole site though, so I could easily have missed one or two

Edit: here it is, so people can save some time having to come up with new and inventive ways to slag off other women whose views and choices differ from their own and just use the copy and paste 👍

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5236985-why-do-people-get-massive-amounts-of-lip-filler?page=1

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It's someone expressing their opinion about an observation they have made.

It's not about slagging other woman because their opinion and choices differ. It is about questioning unhealthy & in some cases harmful beauty trends.

Nikki75 · 05/01/2025 18:04

Prettydisgustingactually · 04/01/2025 00:49

My DD is 19, and looking at her school year I reckon as high as 30% of them have had ‘work’ done. My DD is happiest outdoors in her scruffy gear with barely any makeup on, and I am so bloody grateful ☺️

Love this ...

Bouncealot · 05/01/2025 18:05

In the 1980s when I was a young adult, some older women kept their makeup and hairdos from their youth-1950s backcombed hair, beehives and thick eyeliner, fake lashes similar to today.We thought they looked naff and it made them look older than their peers who moved on. Tattoo styles similarly can show people’s age. I foresee a similar future for people stuck with their permanent facial choices, thus showing their age (I’ve always wondered if the pneumatic lips will look like Grandpa Simpson in 30 years?). I do a bit of Botox now I admit.

Nikki75 · 05/01/2025 18:05

theduchessofspork · 04/01/2025 00:52

Erm, PP if anyone is upset it does appear to be you.

The OP is entitled to express her opinion, as are those with giant lips entitled to fill them. Just let them all get on with it.

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😂🤣

quietplaceday5 · 05/01/2025 18:06

Anotherparkingthread · 04/01/2025 00:05

Frankly, while you're entitled to an opinion, they are also entitled to an opinion. It's their bodies. Their choice. They like it.

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

Is this not a chat forum?

HotelDuVine · 05/01/2025 18:07

Prettydisgustingactually · 04/01/2025 00:49

My DD is 19, and looking at her school year I reckon as high as 30% of them have had ‘work’ done. My DD is happiest outdoors in her scruffy gear with barely any makeup on, and I am so bloody grateful ☺️

Thankfully my 19y girl and her friends also hate the trend and have no desire to inject their lips. They are all gorgeous and seem to get more beautiful every day to me!

It is a dreadful development. And very ageing on everyone. Whether they are 18, 28 or 48.

Nikki75 · 05/01/2025 18:08

Nicecuppatea2025 · 04/01/2025 00:58

Media, big tech and brands are making us believe we should inject god knows what to be attractive. It makes us care way too much about our own appearance, is a total and utter waste of time and hard-earned money, and ultimately a lot of people look plain weird IRL.

It’s worse than it ever has been and we have got to stop kidding ourselves that we are “choosing” these things to give us “confidence” and make us “happy”. It’s simply not true. It is societal pressure.

Stop pretending it’s ok. It’s not. Give your heads a wobble!

Absolutely this ...

Didimum · 05/01/2025 18:08

JacquesHarlow · 04/01/2025 00:15

Don’t say OP is “upset”, @Anotherparkingthread .

that’s a lazy trope people throw at OPs as a way of shaming them for daring to speak about something.

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Completely agree with this. ‘Their body, their choice’ can be a really toxic and damaging message when it comes to things like this and is handed out far too much.