If you've had your lips plumped ...

[Umy15r03lcha1]

.... Are you sending a subliminal message? If so, what's the message and who's it aimed at?

Thread is inspired by the recent sight of a young woman with a huge trout pout, her lips were so puffed up she couldn't talk normally.

Why do people do this?

I have had mine done 3 times - first time I had 0.5ml, second and third I had 1ml each. I had them done once a year pretty much. The last was 3 years ago and today you wouldn’t even know I ever had, for me it doesn’t last, even the immediate result is minimal. My reason was because my lips are extremely thin, when I wore lipstick it would look silly and the sides looked like they were drawn on, I admit it did fix the issue and to be honest I am willing to have some more put in. I don’t know how people get to the extremes that I’ve seen but I suppose it’s a body dismorphia in a way, to them it never looks good enough.

What a weird question...

I have a bit of lip filler because my top lip is nonexistent without it. It looks totally natural and not excessive at all.

Overfilled lips are a stylistic choice amongst a certain demographic of women. I think it's a status symbol sort of thing, same with hair extensions and eyelashes. It shows you can afford the high maintenance look, I think. It's meant to be obviously fake.

I’m sure your question has been answered on any of the 1000 other threads on this topic.
Just another lip filler bashing thread to drive traffic.

It's such a marmite thing isn't it? Like botox and all the other horrendous cosmetic surgery procedures some people put themselves through.

I just think it's so sad the way younger and younger women, and even teenage girls, are being pressurised into looking like plastic imitation of human beings.

When you look at photos of women from the past their natural beauty is just absolutely stunning. And they are individuals. Not the clones we see now.

Why do you care?

A subliminal message?

My best friend has hers done at the same time as we both have our Botox together. I’ve just asked her and she said it’s a subliminal message at nosy, judgemental people on Mumsnet who struggle to hide their unwarranted superiority complex.

I acknowledge it’s not the kindest thing in the world to draw attention to this, but I’ve been watching Big Brother - and seeing a young woman whose face is virtually immobile, to the extent that I find her emotions hard to interpret, I wondered the same, @Umy15r03lcha1…

It's not being superior to wonder why women chose to do these procedures.

It is genuinely perplexing as to why women continue to be duped by society into making themselves caricatures of human beings. All the add ons: big bums, big breasts, big lips. And unnatural wrinkle free expressionless faces. What is human about looking like that?

And yet women buy into it.
So it is quite an important question as to Why.

I think it becomes addictive. And maybe some people go to dodgy backstreet places. It costs less so they put more in?

I think it looks unfortunate. But I've very rarely seen that over plumped look in my area. If I do it's usually on people who look like tourists.

Further East I noticed more young women with it. But still not many.

Love this 😂😂😂😂😂

Because (and it’s really quite easy to understand when you manage to wrap your head around the fact that different people spend their money on different things and prioritise things you don’t) they want to.

And it absolutely is displaying a superiority complex when instead of just asking ‘why’, the OP uses the following words ‘huge trout pout’, ‘lips were so puffed up’. There are plenty of women, myself included, that naturally have very full lips without any filler, so do I have a ‘huge trout pout’ too and would that not be seen as offensive seeing as though I was born with them?

Where the hell is the superiority in preferring that other humans don’t choose to erase the ability to communicate with their faces? Why disfigure yourself by choice?

Mental illness and / or male gaze

@ainsleysanob - I’m afraid you’re talking absolute nonsense. Large lips are part of my genetic heritage too - but natural parts of the face one is born with don’t generally prevent you from communicating emotion.

As I said, I’m watching a TV show and genuinely struggling to interpret the emotions of one particular contestant. I have to listen extra hard to their speech because their face is so … impenetrable.

No sensible person could ever object to effort required to understand someone with a birth defect or injury or any other natural impediment to communication - but it is frankly ridiculous to tell me I should not question why someone would willingly do that to themselves.

In the days before it became "a thing" to have all these procedures done to women's faces no one would have thought twice about what their lips looked like. People came in all shapes and sizes, and with lips of all shapes and sizes. No one would have even thought to describe another women as having a " trout pout".

It's only since women have bought into this " build a face" approach and the resultant weird and very often puzzling results they either strive for or end up with, do we look at other women's lips , or faces in general, and naturally have an opinion on the aesthetics of what we see.

Oh please, note the OPs use of words.

It seems to me that there are loads of MNers struggling to pay the bills and put food on the table

Yet another significant proportion have enough cash to throw away pumping their faces full of stuff

It boggles me 🤣🤣

I have fullish lips and know many women with full and fuller lips than mine. I'm not referring to people with natural full lips through genetics/DNA.

I'm not even referring to people enhancing thin lips to make them fuller to look better with lipstick etc.

I'm specifically referring to people who have cosmetic procedures to over enhance their lips to the extent they can't move their mouth or talk properly. Think Pete Burns.

I'm genuinely curious. I wouldn't walk up to a stranger and ask why they've done it but thought I might get some opinions here.

I don't feel superior but some people seem to think I am. It's just a question. People must have a reason beyond 'because I want to '.

Attention, insecurity, bad taste

Surely the answer is - because they think it makes them look better and they prefer how they look having had those procedures done. Just as I might prefer how I look when I do my make up a certain way. Is it any more complicated than that?

social media and the want to look a certain way in photos.

It is always, always noticeable.

No.
I got mine done because my lips are tiny and I look a lot better when they're a little fuller.
I haven't had it done in a while because I just find it so painful.

You should've specified this in the OP. To those who get a LOT of filler, rather than those who just get some small enhancement (which is the majority from when I spoke to the student group at the medical practice I get mine done at).