To think that BBLs, massive boob jobs and overdone face filler in your 20s and 30s do not age well?

[VelvetRealism]

Honestly, I don’t say this to be rude but I’ve seen so many people go heavy on cosmetic procedures way too early, and by the time they hit their 40s or 50s, it’s not aging gracefully at all. Some tweaks can be subtle and well-done, sure. But the overfilled cheeks, the stiff lips, the extreme proportions, it rarely holds up long term.

AIBU to think a lot of people are setting themselves up for regret?

I didn’t even realise all that stuff was around 30 years ago.

The puffy glistening fish lips are awful. Everyone I know with them tells me how natural they are, but they all look like big strips of rubber blubber.

I got absolutely obliterated for saying similar a couple of years back. I will be very interested in how this one goes but I completely agree still. Over done plastic surgery has been around for decades and it does not age well at all. There are former what were called “glamour” models who had this extreme treatment years ago and it has done nothing but age them.

I'm in my 50s and we'd never heard of BBLs in our 20s. I googled and they didn't really hit the UK until 2010 or so. I don't know anyone who had fillers back then either. A few boob jobs, certainly. But not on anyone close enough for me to be looking at their breasts to see how they're doing 30 years on.
Who are all these 50 somethings you know who somehow accessed all these procedures at a time when they were very niche?

Yes I see some younger women and from my aged point of view wonder what they’ll look like when their youthful skin no longer stretches so easily and becomes thin and inclined to wrinkle.

do you just go more and more like Madonna and Katie price? Accepting that the bloated plastic surgery look is “better” than looking your age.

i don’t like the “tweakments” look at all. But obviously some do. I don’t like the lip filler/botox as a hearing impaired person as it makes it hard for me to lip read.

in my life this applies to only a very small amount of people I know. I don’t know anyone who has had a BBL or a ‘massive’ boob job (only know 2 people who had boob jobs, and while I think both were unnecessary, they look proportionate and not at all fake). I’m not aware of anyone who’s had facial filler, but know a few women my age or a bit younger (I’m 50) who’ve had Botox and see quite a few people who’ve had lip filler, all of whom bar one were under 35. The weird/sad thing is that I don’t think any of them needed it and already looked fabulous as they were.

I guess only time will tell, but I wonder if having your lips artificially inflated in your 20s will mean that by the time you’re my age they’ll be so stretched they’ll need an amount of filler that would take them to cartoonish proportions to fully iron out the lip wrinkles.

I’m not talking about people who had procedures in the 90s. I’m talking about people who had significant cosmetic work done in their 20s and 30s once it became widespread, and how it appears as they move into their 40s and beyond now.

This is based on what’s visible publicly (media, social media, reality TV, influencers), not on inspecting friends’ bodies. My point is about long-term outcomes of heavy, early intervention, not when the procedures were first invented.

If they continue to have money, they can reverse and update. I mean look at the Kardashians.
I think bad face lifts are harder to come back from.

Maybe change your thread title as you mention people in their 20’s and 50’s.

It’s all quite new though. So those who had the procedures in their 20s can’t be older than their 30s or 40s now?

I agree it does make very young women look older, but it can look okay on women 40+ if done well. Not BBL though, that never looks good (sorry to anyone who has one!)

I work with a lot of younger women, 25-30.

all get Botox. Majority get lip filler. Then eyebrows, lashes, nails, salmon sperm facials? Micro needling, tanning, whether fake or real. Tattooing eyebrows. Then teeth too. Quite a bit of it is invasive and would cause permanent changes.

the men I work with say their wives get the same.

it seems to me that the cosmetic surgery of the 90’s; boob jobs - Pamela Anderson, Victoria Beckham et al, then a facelift when you got to 40 + has given way to more “maintenance” stuff like the Botox and filler.

although obviously there still are the major surgeries like BBL and whatever people go to turkey for.

but I’m not sure if the “maintenance” stuff is more worrying. Gradually stretching out your skin, especially lips where the tissue is fragile. Botox- normally if a muscle is paralysed it wastes away, will these women be left with no underlying muscle to hold up their skin as they age? Ok now while the skin it elastic, but get to 40 or 50…

I guess this might be a bit skewed though? We all think we can spot cosmetic work but maybe we’re only spotting the extreme/badly done type? I suppose if it’s well done in the first place and managed well over time, we’d never have a clue other than thinking someone looks amazing for their age or thinking they must have had something done to look that good/youthful but not entirely sure what.

What is BBL?

There's a woman in my gym who could be anything from 60-75 but who has butt and breast implants and a face and lips full of filler, none of which seems to have an affect on aging skin and muscle wastage (and she wears not a lot of tight clothes so it's all visible) It puzzles me, because it seems very obvious to me, but then I guess that's body dysphoria.

But people in their 40s and 50s didn't have these procedures - that's what other posters are trying to tell you.

Women in their 20s and 30s NOW are having them. The effects will be seen in another 15-20 years time.

It definitely ages you until you hit the flipping point.

We have 20 year olds looking 35+ and 50 year olds looking 30. Same procedures just the timing

Just like the weight loss jabs and buccal fat removal age the face drastically.

That’s the fake big bums.

Lindsey lohan in freakier friday looked amazing

Hideous.

The puffy lips, frozen face, fake tan, fake lashes and hair extensions look is just freakish and also quite sad as it makes woman look like porn dolls...

And my point is, it's too early to tell. Because there's simply not enough women in their 50s who had these procedures in their 20s for you to have 'seen so many of them' as you claimed.
If you are saying you don't think some celebrities who've had BBL in their 20s have well aged bottoms in their 40s, then you'd need to give an example if you want an informed opinion.

For me its's the lips that look so awful. Watching celeb SAS and most of the women look so ridiculous. That celebs who have money to spend on decent procedures...the ones you see on normal people look ten times worse. Honestly I don't get how people think they look good with the fillers....they look almost comedic!

I'm sure most fillers are subtle and we only notice the people who look like they need an epi pen.

Like I said, I lip read.

i notice because your face moves differently, even with “subtle” fillers or Botox.

first time about 15 years ago I met someone with fillers I couldn’t work out why I couldn’t “hear” them for a couple of minutes. Now it’s like an accent, the top lip is not used to form the words in the same way.

My dd is 28 and some of her friends got the lip filler done way too much and way too regular and with irresponsible people. One of her friends, her lips look like they are filled with chocolate raisins. Shes tried and tried to get them dissolved and refilled and it’s now so far gone that the lips are over stretched and flabby but with these awful pea sized bruise looking things. She is stuck in as cycle of getting them filled to make the lumps less noticeable but then they just get worse. She still visits terrible at home practitioners for the cheapest possible price and can’t seem to understand that these people are preying on her chronic insecurities and fleecing her of her money constantly. The nhs can’t and shouldn’t help so she’s left like this.

That’s so interesting.