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.

Right and those were people who had them naturally.

I wouldn’t say it was fashionable exactly, as in Vogue. It’s a current trend, a craze, really.

Fashionable is something different.

See I would say Vogue is stylish rather than fashionable

Natural big lips are gorgeous - my daughter has them. They’re full but also have the vertical lines/grooves (don’t know how to describe these !) and aren’t super-pumped and inflated to the point of bursting, which some fake lips seem to be.

I believe the pp upthread who says hers are natural-looking. Yes, I’m sure some are but oh boy…the ones I see look really tight and ready to pop!

True!

Oh no - I hope there was something she could do about that. It must have been embarrassing for her and her colleagues.

I think it’s a real shame particularly when young girls get ‘duck’ lips.

Why can’t they be happy with their natural beauty beats me.

My friend in her 50s has got them. She’s such a great looking woman without them, but I don’t think psychologically she could be without them now.

I think the other thing is that filled lips don't tend to look like naturally plump lips. Dd hasn't inherited my lips, or my long eyelashes, and I worry that unless the trend dies or she develops a stronger character, she'll want them too. But her face has it's own lovely features: a perfectly round head for ponytails and buns; great cheekbones; a small nose.

I live quite rurally and it take ages for “the latest fashion” to appear here, so I’ve seen very little of the duck lips locally. However today I saw two shop assistants with it. One in Boots, a beautiful young woman whose top lip was bigger than her bottom lip. It looked ridiculous. The second was a woman in her 50s, again massive duck lips.

I don’t understand why they think they look good!

It’s sad because I’ve heard a few women say that, looking back at photos from their youth, they didn’t realise at the time how lovely they were - they were hung up about their appearance and tried to change it.

But in those days you were talking about make-up and hair, not messing around with your flesh and teeth. I really hope these things are successfully reversible without recourse to the overburdened NHS.

I get what you mean. Some women spend a fortune on these treatments and then let themselves down by their habits/behaviour.

I was waiting at the dentist and a young woman with the whole ‘business’ (massive lips, caterpillars for eyebrows, spiders for lashes etc) sat scrolling on her mobile and snivelling great quantities of snot back up her nose - over and over, like a pre-schooler might.

It was stomach-churning…especially since she was going in first and it just made me think of hygiene issues I try to put out of my mind.

And honestly, Jennifer Grey (Dirty Dancing) looked so much more attractive pre nose job. She's lost any distinction in her look since she had that done.

I do so agree. She looks weird now.

My local area Facebook page always has posts by.... what to call them? 'beauticians'? 'aestheticians'? and, without exception, they all look bloody awful.

The fake look is very strong around these parts. I think many younger women actually prefer the fakeness because it actually shows them they've got something for their money, as opposed to anything subtler that their equally puffed-up mates wouldn't notice.

It boggles my mind that women are happy to let a "beauty therapist" with zero training beyond a hairdressing course at college yonks ago and watching some youtube videos inject god knows what into them.

I am not in the market for these sorts of "enhancements" but if I was, the only people who would be injecting anything into me would be a specialist nurse or a doctor. Possibly a dentist.

Wow so many women on here concerned and obsessed with other women and how they look!

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let’s hope you’re not all being judged for your looks

Makes me think of QE1 in black adder:

But my nose is small and pretty!

nowt wrong with a big nose.

I think some of it is about showing you have the money (or credit!) and time to look after yourself.

It was "rich girl hair" in the past, now it's fillers etc.

My old boss has had god knows what done to her face. She was perfectly pleasant looking before, now she has a face that doesnt move which makes her look angry all the time, an alien looking chin (possible jaw shaving?), huge lips and did something with her eyes. Plus poorly done extensions and scaggy nails. It really does look awful but she must spend thousands on this stuff.

The saddest part is that she still isnt happy with how she looks / her body.

Not their looks…what they’re prepared to DO to their looks!

I have a big nose. It makes me laugh because my sister and 2 brothers all have the same nose but neither my parents nor anyone else in either of their families have this nose. Their genes have mashed together to make a big nose gene for all their children. 🤣

Sometimes Ill look at my nose and think it would be nice of it was smaller but then I realise it doesnt matter and I put the mirror down and go about my day.

Because Mumsnet needs more threads of women bashing other women! Sexist the lot of you!

I accept that I probably am. I’m short, fat and ugly.

What a simplistic interpretation of the discussion.

Considering the things women are prepared to do to themselves to satisfy the expectations and fantasies of a certain type of man (homo baboonus) is a reasonable feminist subject for debate.

The last thing I’d do is to criticise anyone for their natural appearance. I’m allowed to have an opinion on their very deliberate choices, as we all are.

Its a trend I won’t be joining but some of the work can look quite nice, some take it too far though. One parent at my DC’s school has them so big it’s grotesque, she is a pretty lady and there is really no need but she looks like she has been in some sort of accident.

why is it only women feel the need to inject fillers and paralytics into their faces, and not men.

that’s what makes it sexist.