Page 12 | To wonder what’s going on with all the big lips

CoffeeCantata · 20/08/2025 21:37

Oh and…is that your takeaway from what’s been said here - that people find the artificial full lips on these women beautiful?

You need to read the thread. I think only one pp would say they’re beautiful!

notnorman · 20/08/2025 21:48

There were two women at the hairdressers today and (looking at them in the mirror) the shadow that the lips were casting on their upper lip area looked like they had a moustache

Mustbethat · 20/08/2025 22:02

CoffeeCantata · 20/08/2025 21:35

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.

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Where was I sarcastic? Yawn? Sure I’ve not said anything of the sort.

i know nobody is disparaging black womens lips. I know the consensus on the thread is that they look awful- I agree.

however clearly the women who are getting this done don’t think they look awful, they think it enhances their looks. So a fairly big chunk of society does think it looks beautiful, or they wouldn’t be doing it.

strugglingdad · 20/08/2025 22:09

Laurendelaney1987 · 19/08/2025 08:38

It seems to be a particular type of look. Very groomed women if that makes sense (hair done, full make up, glam clothes). Footballers wives type of look maybe?

is it a status symbol?

do men prefer that look?

Nope.

Big lips, big nails, big eyebrows, big eyelashes, big bums, big boobs seem to be aimed at other girls as far as I can tell.

strugglingdad · 20/08/2025 22:13

strugglingdad · 20/08/2025 22:09

Nope.

Big lips, big nails, big eyebrows, big eyelashes, big bums, big boobs seem to be aimed at other girls as far as I can tell.

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And that ridiculously over the top make up where they put a white dot on the end of their nose.

Brunettesmorefun · 20/08/2025 22:15

They do look hilarious and I can’t under why they want to look like that? But their choice I guess.

CoffeeCantata · 20/08/2025 22:22

Mustbethat · 20/08/2025 22:02

Where was I sarcastic? Yawn? Sure I’ve not said anything of the sort.

i know nobody is disparaging black womens lips. I know the consensus on the thread is that they look awful- I agree.

however clearly the women who are getting this done don’t think they look awful, they think it enhances their looks. So a fairly big chunk of society does think it looks beautiful, or they wouldn’t be doing it.

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I think the general consensus on the thread is that the fashion is extreme and radical - not just a matter of make up or hair colour, but something which changes your physique and might have health implications in some cases. There are cases where it’s gone badly wrong and left the woman in pain and distress. It’s not just a fashion fad - it’s sometimes a medical issue.

Also that it expresses to some pps (inc me) a depressing willingness to undergo what sometimes amounts to self-mutilation in order to satisfy the male gaze, and a not very nice male gaze either!

Several male pps have said they don’t find it attractive but clearly some men do!

I think that’s a fair summary and no offence was intended towards black women who tend to have enviable natural lips.

CoffeeCantata · 20/08/2025 22:23

strugglingdad · 20/08/2025 22:13

And that ridiculously over the top make up where they put a white dot on the end of their nose.

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What they are seeing in the mirror isn’t what other people are seeing, I guess!😖

CoffeeCantata · 20/08/2025 22:24

Ladymeade · 20/08/2025 21:09

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!

Exactly. It can be subtle- doesn’t have to be the extreme version.

Chinsupmeloves · 20/08/2025 22:30

Hard not to notice all these years. However I was sat next to a table of young women this evening, barely 20, and they all had the same duck lips. So I was struck more by the age more than anything. They all had those huge eyelashes as well and the glow contour make up. Each had a baby/toddler st 10pm in the holiday club show and part of me just felt a sense of despair. Not to judge but guess you can't help but observe and think ugh why, they all looked OTT and not better for it.

DollyMixers · 20/08/2025 22:34

I think naturally big lips are so beautiful, but I don’t like the look of filler (even when people cry that there filler is not subtle/noticeable 99% it still is!)

I do personally like my small rosebud shaped lips even if they’re not in fashion

GreenFlag · 20/08/2025 22:41

There is a trend at the moment to make yourself look like an inflatable sex doll from a 90’s stag party.

onlymethen · 20/08/2025 22:43

I used to have Botox and fillers in my 40s but after seeing women in their 60s with it I decided to stop as I personally think it looks bad as you age. I do think it’s all personal preference though.

schtompy · 20/08/2025 23:04

All I see is a baboons butt, it's really not an attractive look.

Feelinglost10 · 20/08/2025 23:12

Laurendelaney1987 · 19/08/2025 08:31

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.

Unless someone is putting filler into your face that you didn’t ask to be there then you shouldn’t have a single issue?

I would be more concerned why you feel another woman’s appearance is your business?

Feelinglost10 · 20/08/2025 23:15

Cinaferna · 19/08/2025 08:48

I see this - young women on nights out and they all look identical - iron-straight dyed blonde hair, botoxed foreheads, big brows, lashes like some furry creature has taken up residence on their eye lids, and big trout pout lips. You can;t tell what they really look like. The faces are like dolls or masks, devoid of expressions. I find it quite creepy even though they fit the current idea of prettiness.

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But why does it bother you what they look like? I can guarantee you no beautiful groomed woman is looking at you and writing in forms how plain and boring you look.. it’s always the lesser attractive ones that have something to say. Sad really

Bunny65 · 20/08/2025 23:16

Laurendelaney1987 · 19/08/2025 08:31

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.

In the past people used a bit of lipstick wizardry, now they are brainwashed into injecting fillers. It’s a gravy train for the aesthetics industry. I think it always looks fake and don’t get the appeal.

Lurleenlumpkin79 · 20/08/2025 23:24

They can look okay, as long as they're not too overdone and all lumpy looking with no border, as you see on some.

I used to have quite naturally pouty lips when I was younger, it was just luck I guess. But then as I approached 40, they started to look like wrinkly, deflated balloons so I've had them pumped up a little.

ManchesterLu · 20/08/2025 23:24

There are a couple of girls I went to school with who've had them done and I just want to give them a hug and tell them they were so beautiful before. It's ruined them. There's 3 of them who've just gone completely OTT with it, and it is absolutely awful. The person who did the treatment needs to be stopped.

I worked with someone in the industry as a content creator a few years ago, who said that the best kind of treatment is so subtle you can hardly tell it's been done. Just slightly enhancing your own looks, rather than completely overhauling things. She's completely right. She said there's no way she would ever allow anyone to leave her premises with a "trout pout" or a forehead they couldn't move.

There's a lot of money in this industry, and people are preying on those with low self esteem and bleeding them dry.

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NormasArse · 20/08/2025 23:36

Laurendelaney1987 · 19/08/2025 08:38

It seems to be a particular type of look. Very groomed women if that makes sense (hair done, full make up, glam clothes). Footballers wives type of look maybe?

is it a status symbol?

do men prefer that look?

Not the men I know, but perhaps the men who watch a lot of porn.

Crudd99 · 21/08/2025 00:00

I've noticed that there's a lot more businesses (?)locally popping up offering lip fillers for cheaper prices. It seems to me those who couldn't afford it before can afford it now so are having it done. More people seem to be having eyelashes , nails , lips etc done. It seems to be less people go out to pubs and clubs and instead spend their money on beauty treatments. It's seems so in my area anyway.

Ladamesansmerci · 21/08/2025 00:06

I think they look awful, but it's not my lips so 🤷🤷

Like all beauty trends, it will die eventually. I genuinely think this is one of the ones we'll look back on and think 'wtf were we thinking'

Ladamesansmerci · 21/08/2025 00:13

Feelinglost10 · 20/08/2025 23:12

Unless someone is putting filler into your face that you didn’t ask to be there then you shouldn’t have a single issue?

I would be more concerned why you feel another woman’s appearance is your business?

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I actually think the pressure to inject chemicals into your face to adhere to a beauty standard is everyone's business. Most beauty standards are a direct consequence of patriarchy, and this one is harmful and imo akin to things like corsets and foot binding.

It's not about blaming women for how they want to present, or judging women. It's about considering the wider impact, and thinking about it through a feminist lens. Surely people don't want their daughters growing up feeling they need to inject crap into their lips to look good? Don't we want women to feel comfortable with their normal appearance, as men do, without the pressure to completely change their face? Normalising normal faces is good for everybody.

Men (unless you're a celebrity perhaps) don't do half as much of this crap. It's a feminist issue.

Snakebite61 · 21/08/2025 05:42

Laurendelaney1987 · 19/08/2025 08:31

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.

They look awful.