What are people doing to their faces?!

[Mania89]

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.

Question out of interest as i genuinely don’t know.

do top end models do face filler and lip injections? From the little I’ve seen of cat walk shows i don’t think they do. Obviously photos/images can be smoothed out anyway but the runway shows are real and unfiltered.

If they don’t do it then there still must be a thought by the powers that be who book the models that actually that look isn’t the best look?

@westernlights but @Fairyliz is right - people 'ruin' perfectly nice bodies by getting fat. But it's not kind or acceptable to say that. It's also extremely unhealthy (and the long term effects and consequences ARE known)

You seem awfully defensive.

My mom did this in her youth and warned me about it so I fortunately kept my eyebrows through the 90s super skinny eyebrow times.

I think that’s quite a poor analogy actually. A more realistic analogy would be if women were having huge fat injections to become overweight.

I think in general the majority of overweight women would prefer to not be overweight, they are not consciously choosing to be overweight. Yes they may make food decisions which cause them to be overweight but we all know that the reasons for these decisions are complicated. It would be a rare person to be eating cake thinking “I want to look fat”.

women having Botox, lip fillers etc are choosing to look that way. I can certainly understand Botox to smooth out wrinkles as you get older. I think it’s sad that women in their 20s feel under pressure to have Botox.

Of course and I agree, although there are plenty of posts about that recently in relation to weight loss jabs. It causes a huge debate and anger amongst overweight people who don't like hearing others opinions.

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

i wouldn’t have Botox or whatever bit I’m absolutely certain some of my friends have. I’m in my 50s. More power to their elbow and they can afford to get it done in the place in town where the practitioners are well qualified and have a dental surgeon on the staff supervising.

but I think the OP I talking about that really exaggerated huge lips and cheek filler look that frankly looks identikit and weird.

Too much of anything is a bad thing.

These days it's not about being an individual , everyone wants to look the same . So they go about having more and more done to themselves to fit into the expected look .

@FeegleFrenzy I don't think the analogy is in reference to what they are doing being wrong, but to the people commenting on it/ making nasty judgements being wrong.

There is a difference between judging another woman and her choices and expressing worry/concern about social pressures to do things. Which this phenomenon definitely is.

I have been a year 6 teacher for years and the shift in what year 6 girls bring with them on residentials is very worrying. In the last few years they have suddenly brought a whole host of beauty serums and creams, face rollers and face masks etc. I heard some make comments that they will need their 'eyes lifted' or their 'thin lips plumped.' They used to bring a stash of biscuits, shampoo, shower gel and lip balm!

You can say it's personal choice but it is definitely fueled by social pressure especially social media like Instagram and tiktok. And it is having a negative impact on the self esteem on young women and girls which leads them to making these choices.

It’s a thing called the ‘Alienised’ look.

The people who have these procedures don’t see it but others do.

Once you have got to the ‘Alienised’ stage you can’t turn back.

So many people offer these treatments now. I've seen some bad advertising on SM promoting services with an awful photo of badly inflated lips. The comments underneath are interesting and usually it's men that comment how ridiculous they look.

It's obviously bothering you so why did you go on the 15th of the month? Did you count them??
It's an open forum and peeps are free to talk about what ever they want to. OP has opinion, like arse holes everyone has one.
I could discuss /debate nuclear fusion if I wanted to on half a dozen threads a month.
I'm with OP about the botox and fillers , it's their decision now to have it done, But many young women may well regret having it done in the future and that is a valid comment. That is an awkward truth not slagging anyone off or being bitchy.

I agree and it's a health scandal waiting to happen, putting foreign body into your face won't end well and it looks pretty ridiculous too, lips especially look weird and not nice at all.

My DD's are fine as they don't subscribe to this weird aesthetic, in fact they are happy going out without makeup even, but I do worry about others, a young girl no more than 12 came into the shop, had perfect (false) nails and was on her way to get her eyebrows done ready for school on Monday, since when was year 8 a fashion show!

It's something that's designed to look good in still photos but that looks awful in real life.

People can choose not to buy into any of it though, they can choose to spend their time doing more worthwhile things!

At over the top response @Anotherparkingthread

It looks dreadful and it does matter. It can give young girls the idea that they are not perfect as they are and that they too need to have their faces injected with crap.

No, it doesn't affect me but it is not me I'm worried about.

No, treatments and surgery are not excellent. We all age, it's normal!

I do though think beauty standards in the media have shifted again, away from this look, but it will take time for it to fall out of fashion. Like bandage dresses

My ds girlfriend is 23. She’s beautiful. But she already has botox. It’s to stop the wrinkles from ever appearing, apparently.

She also has lip fillers, has her chin filled to even out her profile and a whole list of cosmetic things, nails, micro blading on eyebrows.

She needs none of it. She’s so young. He mum has a lot of things done too, and is always tying to get me to come along with her “just to see”. She is 49 and I am 44, I don’t think she needs all the botox, fillers, all the other stuff she has done to her skin. She laughs at me as the only things I use are soap and water and castor oil on my face before bed. She always asks me “how” I can go out without make up. I couldn’t give a shit about how other people see me to be honest. That’s not my problem. I’ve got great skin, I don’t need to be trowling chemicals on it.

Ds girlfriend bought me a make up make over thing for Christmas, which was so sweet of her, and of course, I accepted it gratefully with a big smile on my face, but I’m dreading it.

I don’t wear make up, I’m 44, and once I was out of my goth phase at 19, I’ve never worn it again, mainly as I look like the joker with it on, and also, I can’t see myself. I see make up as something for other people - you put it on so other people think you look nice. Fuck that, I’m not spending money and time so other people can form an opinion on how I look.

I have two young daughters 10 and 4, and honestly, I would be horrified if at the age of 23 they were injecting stuff into their faces and plastering themselves with make up.

Huh? Posting a pic of your kid at the park playing or whatever is teaching them that looks matter?

Presumably you opted your kids out of school photos then?

I totally agree