Page 17 | To wonder what’s going on with all the big lips

Laurendelaney1987 · 2025-08-19T07:31:05+00:00

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.

SpaceRaccoon · 22/08/2025 13:08

I think many are more angry that even if they did their best, their look is no longer the standard desired look - standard white British face and body with bonus blond hair and thin, which was achievable for many. This new ‘cherrypicking’ of all ethnicities of women is far harder.

That makes no sense - if women were as fussed as you say, they themselves could go out and pay to have everything from their lips to their arse inflated.

MistyGreenAndBlue · 22/08/2025 13:16

hehehesorry · 22/08/2025 05:17

It's a fun look, I think women who care about it one way or another feel threatened by it even if they don't like the look for themselves because it's very sexualised. I haven't met many pretty women who care what other women do to their face, but I've heard a few past it women talking down on it like their beauty advice is relevant. I suppose it's relevant to other women like themselves like it is on here, but nobody else cares what the boden birkenstock brigade has to say about beauty no matter how loud and often they say it. If you care this much about seeing lip filler or eyelash extensions I'd recommend an exercise class or something to take your mind off it.

Define "past it" you misogynistic loser
I'm 53 and I feel confident that I still look far better than anyone with fly blown lips and a frozen forehead. Not even going to start on the eyelashes, brows and fake tan that usually accompanies these "tweakments" (is that even a word?)
What actually makes me sad is that so many of these young women are destroying their natural beauty for this "fun look"
Quite possibly permanently. Its a fucking shame.

CoffeeCantata · 22/08/2025 13:17

“Standard desired look”. 🙄

Well for heaven’s sake let’s not be undesirable to the standard male gaze! And of course, let’s be adaptable, girls, when that standard desired look changes. Gotta keep the boys happy!

CoffeeCantata · 22/08/2025 13:22

Can I just lighten the tone a bit and recommend the great Diane Morgan as Mandy in a YouTube clip called “Mandy’s (backside/bottom/could be butt or arse…not sure) saves the day”? In this excerpt, Mandy has had the sausage lips and the BBL and manages to save a baby’s life with her pneumatic backside.

Arraminta · 22/08/2025 13:39

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 22/08/2025 11:07

And in a way, I actually get it, I really do. This female sub-set can never aspire to academia, or a successful professional career, or probably even owning their own home in a nice area. So they can only adopt the socio-economic goal indicators that they can aspire to e.g. how many times they've been to Dubai, who has the longest 'mermaid' extensions, who has the biggest pillow lips etc.

i can’t believe that actually got written in here and the person who wrote it didn’t get ripped apart. Female sub-set? The assumption that anyone who entertains aesthetic alterations using temporary measures is immediately assumed to be thick. Well we certainly know you aren’t a feminist.

Yes, that was me and I stand by every word I wrote. I don't necessarily consider myself a staunch feminist, but I do know that I am most definitely a realist. And in my real life experience of over 50 years women who aspire to this exaggerated Plastic Fantastic face are typically (not always, but typically) from a certain socio-economic background.

SpaceRaccoon · 22/08/2025 13:52

(not always, but typically) from a certain socio-economic background.

Yes, I don't think this is any different from a certain type of middle class woman wearing Toast and sporting a difficult, structured haircut and a make-up free face. It's tribe signals.

NamechangeNightNurse · 22/08/2025 13:54

Coolasfeck · 22/08/2025 09:57

Although I agree some people take ‘tweakments’ to the extreme, having skimmed the thread, I’m seeing a lot of ‘coping’ going on.

By this I mean I suspect that the core issue a lot of PP have with these trends is that they synthetically emulate a wider more diverse group of natural ethnic attributes which are harder for many women to achieve in order to be seen as ‘sexy/desirable’ by a lot of men.

Up until relatively recently in the UK, the standard for desirability was blond, thin celebrities. Although the vast majority of women hadn’t a hope in hell of looking like famous blond thin women, they could get away with buying a bottle of bleach and a pack of fags to stay thin, safe in the knowledge that many blokes wouldn’t be that fussed about features and body.

However, there’s now more exposure to diverse women and thus there’s been a push towards the more racially/ethnically ambiguous look e.g Kim Kardashian who has the curves of a black or Latina woman, tanned skin tone of a Middle Easterner, long straight hair of an Asian, plump lips etc etc.

Just eating celery and sitting under foils at the hairdresser is no longer enough to attract many men. They are looking at the entire package and that package occurs very rarely and is expensive to buy and get right.

Again I do believe some women have gone to extremes, or paid for shoddy work. However, I don’t think all PPs are genuine in their concern for these women. I think many are more angry that even if they did their best, their look is no longer the standard desired look - standard white British face and body with bonus blond hair and thin, which was achievable for many. This new ‘cherrypicking’ of all ethnicities of women is far harder.

Actually you are wrong
Exaggerated female secondary sexual characteristics have always been the preferred style for a certain type of male.

Plump open lips, exaggerated eyes, breasts on display, exaggerated difference between hips and waist, curved bottom, non threatening always available sexually -the incel / misogynistic dream.

I'm talking about Marilyn Monroe .

Ethnicity has become more diverse In the UK granted but this look has been around since the 1950s
The blonde thin white woman was a fashion designers dream

So good try but you will need to try harder !

Arraminta · 22/08/2025 14:00

SpaceRaccoon · 22/08/2025 13:52

(not always, but typically) from a certain socio-economic background.

Yes, I don't think this is any different from a certain type of middle class woman wearing Toast and sporting a difficult, structured haircut and a make-up free face. It's tribe signals.

Yes, absolutely.

Mustbethat · 22/08/2025 14:01

hehehesorry · 22/08/2025 05:17

It's a fun look, I think women who care about it one way or another feel threatened by it even if they don't like the look for themselves because it's very sexualised. I haven't met many pretty women who care what other women do to their face, but I've heard a few past it women talking down on it like their beauty advice is relevant. I suppose it's relevant to other women like themselves like it is on here, but nobody else cares what the boden birkenstock brigade has to say about beauty no matter how loud and often they say it. If you care this much about seeing lip filler or eyelash extensions I'd recommend an exercise class or something to take your mind off it.

“A fun look”

seriously? Injecting fillers and paralytics into your face, with no real awareness of short or long term consequences, often by an “aesthetician” with no medical training is for “fun”

you clearly have a different definition to me if the meaning of the word fun.

a “fun” look to me is experimenting with purple hair and crimson lipstick, or trying a 40’s or 70’s inspired style. You know, fun, where you can have a laugh and forget about it. Not taking risks with needles, infection and god knows what else.

i studied head and neck anatomy at university for a year. There are nerves and blood vessels everywhere. Critical nerves as well, catch one and you’ll paralyse your face properly. The vermillion border is very easily damaged. Then you have the “death triangle” where you get an infection it migrates to your brain and you face death- and we’re letting non medical people come at us with needles for “fun”?

Have a look at this- brain embolism from facial fillers with several deaths recorded in the literature. Not “fun”

https://academic.oup.com/asj/article/42/3/NP162/6226516

beachwalkx · 22/08/2025 14:27

You can’t always tell it’s filler I don’t think especially from the front

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

deeahgwitch · 22/08/2025 14:36

I know exactly where you are coming from @Arramintare Plastic Fantastic.
I worry for the future- what will be the outcome for their bodies in the future ?
The longterm implications.
I see it in my local hairdressers, shops and supermarket. These gorgeous young girls messing with their faces and bodies. 🥲

Arraminta · 22/08/2025 14:41

beachwalkx · 22/08/2025 14:27

You can’t always tell it’s filler I don’t think especially from the front

Is this meant to be sarcastic?

beachwalkx · 22/08/2025 14:42

Arraminta · 22/08/2025 14:41

Is this meant to be sarcastic?

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No? Why would it be? I’m saying I don’t have filler

SpaceRaccoon · 22/08/2025 14:53

No? Why would it be? I’m saying I don’t have filler

Your bottom lip looks quite sore and inflamed.

beachwalkx · 22/08/2025 14:56

SpaceRaccoon · 22/08/2025 14:53

No? Why would it be? I’m saying I don’t have filler

Your bottom lip looks quite sore and inflamed.

Just my normal lips. I have had a spot near them which probably didn’t help
i guess I’m saying it’s annoying when people look and go “ugh filler, you can always tell” and they’re wrong

SpaceRaccoon · 22/08/2025 14:59

i guess I’m saying it’s annoying when people look and go “ugh filler, you can always tell” and they’re wrong

Side view is definitely more of a tell for filled lips.

Mustbethat · 22/08/2025 15:01

beachwalkx · 22/08/2025 14:56

Just my normal lips. I have had a spot near them which probably didn’t help
i guess I’m saying it’s annoying when people look and go “ugh filler, you can always tell” and they’re wrong

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I can’t always tell from a still photo. Although I suspect you’ve deliberately chosen that one where your lips are sore and you’ve gloss on them like post filler photos to mislead.

i can always tell when someone starts speaking. If they have filler or Botox it changes the mouth movements and I struggle with lip reading.

beachwalkx · 22/08/2025 15:05

Mustbethat · 22/08/2025 15:01

I can’t always tell from a still photo. Although I suspect you’ve deliberately chosen that one where your lips are sore and you’ve gloss on them like post filler photos to mislead.

i can always tell when someone starts speaking. If they have filler or Botox it changes the mouth movements and I struggle with lip reading.

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No I just took it, it’s lip oil I put on an hour ago
with lip oil wiped off

MissAmbrosia · 22/08/2025 15:21

People injecting themselves with stuff with no real clue of long term effects in order to change their bodies. <<tuts>>

CoffeeCantata · 22/08/2025 15:31

beachwalkx · 22/08/2025 14:27

You can’t always tell it’s filler I don’t think especially from the front

You are lucky - you have great lips!

I think you can tell, though, unless it’s extremely subtle (and probably very, very expensive!).

Your lips are not distorted, distended or uncomfortable-looking and they have the natural vertical creases which pumped-up ones don’t have. They look like balloons.

i would guess only the very best practitioners would get a result like this and they would A) advise clients well and B) have the sort of client who wanted a subtle, mor natural look.

Ilovecakey · 22/08/2025 15:34

CoffeeCantata · 21/08/2025 18:46

@Feelinglost10

Also - we just don’t know what the longterm effects will be of injecting all kinds of weird gunk (and botulism bacteria) into our bodies. I wouldn’t risk it.

Some procedures turn out to have dangerous side-effects which only manifest years later. That’s why pharmaceuticals take so long to develop because of th3 years of testing. But the beauty (so called!) industry is notoriously unregulated and there are some very dodgy practitioners out there.

I think it’s a worry, and I assure you from the bottom of my heart that I am NOT jealous of anyone sporting rubbery, blubbery lips and all the side-dishes that go with it!

Yes but I bet you took the covid jabs though didn't you?

OriginalUsername2 · 22/08/2025 15:35

Coolasfeck · 22/08/2025 09:57

Although I agree some people take ‘tweakments’ to the extreme, having skimmed the thread, I’m seeing a lot of ‘coping’ going on.

By this I mean I suspect that the core issue a lot of PP have with these trends is that they synthetically emulate a wider more diverse group of natural ethnic attributes which are harder for many women to achieve in order to be seen as ‘sexy/desirable’ by a lot of men.

Up until relatively recently in the UK, the standard for desirability was blond, thin celebrities. Although the vast majority of women hadn’t a hope in hell of looking like famous blond thin women, they could get away with buying a bottle of bleach and a pack of fags to stay thin, safe in the knowledge that many blokes wouldn’t be that fussed about features and body.

However, there’s now more exposure to diverse women and thus there’s been a push towards the more racially/ethnically ambiguous look e.g Kim Kardashian who has the curves of a black or Latina woman, tanned skin tone of a Middle Easterner, long straight hair of an Asian, plump lips etc etc.

Just eating celery and sitting under foils at the hairdresser is no longer enough to attract many men. They are looking at the entire package and that package occurs very rarely and is expensive to buy and get right.

Again I do believe some women have gone to extremes, or paid for shoddy work. However, I don’t think all PPs are genuine in their concern for these women. I think many are more angry that even if they did their best, their look is no longer the standard desired look - standard white British face and body with bonus blond hair and thin, which was achievable for many. This new ‘cherrypicking’ of all ethnicities of women is far harder.

What the actual…

CoffeeCantata · 22/08/2025 15:43

Ilovecakey · 22/08/2025 15:34

Yes but I bet you took the covid jabs though didn't you?

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Yes I did.

That was the responsible, public-spirited thing to do. There was an international health crisis.

The wish for Rubbery, Blubbery lips is not a health emergency. It’s a ‘beauty’ option.

Apples and oranges.

angela1952 · 22/08/2025 16:04

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 22/08/2025 11:07

And in a way, I actually get it, I really do. This female sub-set can never aspire to academia, or a successful professional career, or probably even owning their own home in a nice area. So they can only adopt the socio-economic goal indicators that they can aspire to e.g. how many times they've been to Dubai, who has the longest 'mermaid' extensions, who has the biggest pillow lips etc.

i can’t believe that actually got written in here and the person who wrote it didn’t get ripped apart. Female sub-set? The assumption that anyone who entertains aesthetic alterations using temporary measures is immediately assumed to be thick. Well we certainly know you aren’t a feminist.

I can't imagine many true feminists rushing to improve themselves using these "aesthetic alterations"!

DoraSpenlow · 22/08/2025 16:18

I have a family member who now looks like Janice Muppet. She has to tilt her head back to see through the ridiculous eyelashes and from a side view I swear she could balance a shot glass on her top lip. Always want to lick her lips and stick her to a window with her legs dangling like those toys you see stuck inside car windows. I love her dearly and would never say anything but she looks ridiculous.