To wonder what’s going on with all the big lips

[Laurendelaney1987]

Everywhere I go I see women with massive lips. It looks like so many women are wearing lip fillers.

i totally get that if you’re someone with really thin lips then you may want to plump them up, but I see this look on lots of women from their 20s to 60s.

If go with banning heels, not worn them since the 90s when I realize I didn't have to. My feet are in great condition.

Not sure about banning them, but I've never worn high heels for ages and don't see myself ever doing so again.
They are uncomfortable and restrictive and I prefer the look of low heels - I just think they're more elegant and less 'try hard' than stilettos.

I don’t think everyone dressed the same in the sixties - there were beatniks, mods and rockers, then hippies and skinheads.

@Ponoka7

This Hydrolic acid though - does that dissolve the fillers? What do they do - inject it? Does it work on all types or just lip fillers?

What actually are lip fillers?

So many things I didn’t know I didn’t know…

I find it very helpful, I can instantly tell people I will have nothing in common with, will contribute nothing to meaningful to any conversation, and I can completely ignore.

As a man, I can honestly say NO (although I may be in the minority) - I find it a real turnoff.

Big lips, over-done, harsh looking eyebrows, and greasy makeup.

Agree

Lol when certain actresses have gone OTT then get cast as someone who'd never get stuff done.....down & out, drug addict, Victorian costume drama.
Another thing I can't get my head round is shaving a perfectly decent set of eyebrows just to draw Disney ones on the forehead 👀🙄 Sorry (wonders if there's a word for fakedrawneyebrowphobia)

The men I know also find it off-putting.

Tbh, I’m suspicious of men who like it!

Thank Christ. My lips are quite thin but I'd rather shoot myself than make a spectacle of myself. It's an awful look on older women - I've seen one or two 60ish women sporting these & they look fucking ridiculous.

Mumsnet isn't usually prudish so I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned before because it seems pretty obvious. I don’t even think it's effect is necessarily intentional in those who just see it as part of fashion but I'd be interested to know where this 'look' originated.

I mentioned it and I think at least one other pp did.

The inflated lip look is just awful. Some of these women look deformed and ugly as a result.
I'm not sure why they inflict this on themselves really. 🙄

How can they be going out of fashion, when there a ethnicities born with naturally large lips. Yawnnnn you guys are so obsessed with us if it’s not lips, hips, bums, thick curly hair yawnnn

Lip fillers done by a professional is made of hydrolic acid, which is a naturally occurring substance in the body. It dissolves naturally, although if you didn't like your lips they can put another chemical in ( Hyaluronidase) to make them go down more quickly. Both are naturally absorbed. I no longer want to spend money on treatments, but my lips used to last around nine months. The lip fillers restored my shape (post menopause) as well as volume and luckily enough, the shape has stayed. In my 30's I had forehead 11's above my nose. Got botox twice and they permanently went.

No, silly!

We’re not talking about natural features - just artificial ‘enhancements’ to women’s lips. And not the subtle variety - the massive, over-pumped, blubbery ones.

Naturally full lips like my daughter’s are lovely.

Are you sure that’s what it’s called? Nothing on google.

🤣

It’s not silly. Don’t be patronising.

black people historically have had racist comments over their lips and negativity over their natural fullness.

then when white women decide to emulate their lips by injecting whatever into them it’s seen as beautiful and becomes fashionable.

on some level I do believe race is involved, and that the full lips trend has been led by the rise in acceptance of black and mixed race beauty standards.

i mean i remember as a kid watching white women on holiday sun bathing until they were dark brown, and wondering why people seemed to hate black skin, then do everything they could to emulate it.

They always look painful, the skin looks blotchy and uncomfortable.

In my job, I recently had to deal with a police officer who had pillow lips, awful fake eyelashes and drawn-on eyebrows. I found it really hard to take her seriously.

@Mustbethat

Full lips on white women have also been seen as desirable - check out Hollywood from the Golden Age through until now - but these artificial treatments to inflate the lips weren’t available then.

There were lots of suggestive ads on TV in the 70s and 80s too featuring white women with full lips. I don’t think there’s any evidence it’s related to white women emulating black women.

I have mine done but that is because my natural lips look like a Geisha girl's if I wear lipstick. It's all about balance as mine are far from looking unnatural and certainly not duck like!

I do think however that some people have far too much filler and it looks like someone has taken a bicycle pump to their lips!

i agree :)

but I can also see how black women must feel having been treated badly - bullying at school etc for their lips, and to now see white women using fillers to practically recreate their lip fullness which is now deemed beautiful…

calling a black woman “silly” for those thoughts should be called out imo.

But it’s OK for you to be sarcastic in your first post (yawn etc) and to misunderstand the focus of the discussion?

I don’t know if you’ve rtft or followed the discussion? It’s clear that nobody is disparaging black women’s lips - we’re specifically discussing the artificially pumped and filled lips fashionable as part of a certain look. Nothing to do with black women, who I think, now you mention it, don’t indulge in this trend.