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.

I believe they are supposed to look like vaginas, especially when wet look glossy and pink or red.

I have naturally big lips and when I was a kid I was constantly bullied at school. They'd make their lips massive and do impressions of me and call me rubber lips. I think all these unnatural blown up lips look so horrific especially from the side. They look painful and smooth to me even if they haven't been done very big they look smooth like slugs.

I think you have made a very good point about it affecting children's development.

There are studies showing that botox sets up pathways in the brain that are similar to those affected by Parkinsons disease.

So if you take the expressions away how does it affect a babies development?

I read somewhere that the next trend is Anime lips, ie very small like the cartoons. Hopefully this won’t see people having their natural lips shaved or worse!!

Same here. And then when I was a bit older my lips would be fetishised by random men in bars. Oh joy.

I think it’s a weird psychological phenomenon where a group of people decide a particular look is desirable and this gets reinforced by the group members and social media. Because they will tend to socialise pretty exclusively with the same type of people as themselves, and the ‘tribal’ fashion is for this particular look, there will be pressure, either overt or covert, to follow the group.

None of them will be being objective about how they look. The important thing is that they look like each other and the SM influencers they all follow.

What they see in the mirror isn’t what outsiders see.

I was served by a woman with blown-up lips in a shop once and she constantly licked them. It was really off-putting, seeing this tongue going round and round her swollen lips. Apparently the fillers distend the lips so that the areas which would naturally be inside the mouth are exposed to the air and dry up, which creates an uncomfortable sensation. Hence the constant licking. I think this is why some women with these li-lo lips smother them in gloss.

As long as there are no cries for the NHS to fund treatment related to any problems such filers might cause in the future, I’ll accept it’s not my business.

I’m not well-informed about the details (happy to learn) but I read somewhere that fillers never just disappear, but migrate around the body to some places you certainly wouldn’t want them. Some women who’ve had facial fillers have had this problem.

For a nightmare warning about a) getting addicted to fillers and facial surgery and b)what can happen down the line with fillers, google poor Jocelyne Wildenstein.

What that sad lady did to herself is nothing short of criminal.

They are absolutely ridiculous and SO obvious. Nothing naturally "plumping" about them.

Part of the problem is that all the young women on shows like Love Island, MAFS and even the Apprentice have fillers, botox, other "tweakments" and the teens who are watching this sort of drivel (and there are millions of them) are given the impression that lip fillers, fake breasts, fake eyelashes and botox is utterly normal and what adult women just do.

Depressing.

I think the thing is, the ones that are done well you won’t notice so people assume they all look bad.

A friend of mine has lip plumping and it looks great. I only notice because I am aware what she looked like before and so can see the difference.

I think some of the “bad” ones the women like the fake look.

Sorry about your school experience and my mom
recounted the same to me (as in her experience.)

I think they look utterly ridiculous but each to their own.

Yes I can imagine this is the next trend. Korean beauty is huge.

One of the reasons why I have to put subtitles on permanently. The actors' mouths and faces don't move.

They look like swollen vulvas. Perhaps that’s the signal they’re trying to send out?

I saw a large group of girls and boys out in a bar/restaurant/club in Soho UK, all had inflated lips, the brows, tans, Turkey teef, glacial Botoxed, expressions. Very little interaction or merriment between them. Each to their own but a bit surreal.

Well then isn't it up parents to raise children to have enough brains to realise just because you see something on tv doesn't mean it has to be followed, if they all stuck their head in an oven would teenagers juat follow that as TV is real life?

Surely they cant be that dumb?

it is not the big lips, it is the moustache that the injections give them and the side profile. They look insane. It's a sex doll look that comes from male expectations. It's something that young people see as routine as buying a foundation. Unfortunately I think it permanently damages the lips because it stretches out the skin and they can never look normal again. It's part of the continuum that causes things like anorexia, dysmorphia, and it affects women disproportionately.

Remember Pete Burns? He used to look like a sideshow, now he looks like Kayleigh from down the road.

Look at what Karren Brady has done to herself.

When, oh when will huge noses be fashionable and sexy!

I'd like to see women's bodies being less commodified generally.

Lots of women posting on here talking about their naturally fuller lips and how they were mocked for it at a school.

My daughter and I have very similar figures. Naturally smaller waists and wider hips/round bottoms.

My measurements are currently 28 inches waist and 39 inch hips. Hers at 19 are 23 inch waist and 34 inch hips. The same as me at the same age.

I was mocked and ridiculed for my figure as a young woman but hers is deairable and people pay to have my daughter's figure artificially created or go to the gym to get a bigger bum and smaller waist. Neither of us are of comical proportions but our experiences of just living in the same shaped body are so very different.

I appreciate a lot of money is tied up in policing women' bodies in these ways but the damage women are doing to their bodies and the mental health issues as a result are criminal really.

Source please?

I know Botox is used to treat some symptoms of Parkinson’s, but I’ve not heard of any other link.

If this is not true, that’s very nasty scaremongering, considering Botox has been used for many years to treat a whole range of medical conditions.

Waiting eagerly for that day myself! Though Barbra Streisand did her bit!

Have a look at 'the still face experiment' (Google or preferred search engine)

Remember Pete Burns? He used to look like a sideshow, now he looks like Kayleigh from down the road.

Pete Burns was a beautiful man until he wasn't anymore. Sad.

Yep, I’ve been told on her I had bad lumpy lip filler
no, that’s just my lips!

I wanted to post a picture of a baboon's arse but then I remembered that images need to be checked first so thought I'd spare the poor mod's eyes. But yes that.