Having lip fillers on Friday!

[dreamadream1]

Hi everyone

I've researched for the past year on who I'd like to do my filler.

I'm going with a well known, fully qualified with 4 years experience and a very good reputation.

I'm so nervous and I'm still undecided whether to have 0.5 or 1ml?

I don't have thin lips, just my top lip disappears when I smile, my bottom lip is plumper.

Any tips on how to reduce swelling, bruising etc?

I've been told to avoid caffeine, ibuprofen and aspirin 48 hours before and they give you an aftercare package with lip balm, an ice pack and other bite.

Anyone have any experience?

Thank you x

I’ve had lip fillers before, I don’t get them now because I don’t really like the look and think you can always tell.

How do they look from the side OP? I always think that’s when you can really tell when someone’s had them done.

Your lips were gorgeous natural.

It’s just interesting to understand the thought process here. You had naturally very beautiful, full lips. You can’t have looked in the mirror and thought otherwise. That’s what people are struggling to understand. I guess it’s the social media/Instagram effect and we lose perspective of what looks natural/normal.

Nothing against you OP. Hell I’ve had Botox and cheek filler so I’m hardly natural. I wouldn’t touch my lips though.

They were really lovely naturally full lips and I wouldn’t personally have touched them. The clinic should have said this too, and not pushed you towards 1ml rather than 0.5ml.

They look good to me - if you are happy then great 🙂 how painful was it really? Ive heard mixed results. I guess it depends on pain threshold.

@dreamadream1 your lips were absolutely beautiful before - naturally plump and gorgeous. They're still pretty now, but you absolutely didn't need the fillers and they do look very obviously "done".

From what we can see in your photos, you're an absolutely stunning woman with beautiful skin and naturally pretty features. Please think twice before you do this again - it's honestly not necessary! You're gorgeous!

To the lady who ask to see them from the side, I've attached a photo.

To answer a couple of questions, Pain wasn't as bad as I expected but I have 3 tattoos and didn't find them very painful either.

I'm 30 so not really classed as a "young girl" anymore.

Thank you to everyone who's said I didn't need them and they think my natural lips were beautiful, I understand but I did it for myself.

X

Sorry here's the side pic

You had beautiful lips OP, and if you're happy with the larger lips that great but I think people are objecting to the term natural - they aren't natural looking by any stretch of the imagination - the natural lip line is distorted and they're much bigger than any natural lip.

It is a shame to have had your natural lips filled, when they looked lovely before. Now they look like fairly identical ones,to others who have followed this lip filler trend.. But as others have said, if this procedure makes you happy for some reason, that's all that matters, and also, the salon people who do this are making a lot of money, as this is a popular trend now.

You had beautiful lips beforehand. Honestly. I am large of lip naturally and yours were lovely.

They do look done, it would be disingenuous to say they don’t. The second picture you posted (the first singular one you’ve posted) you can see the telltale mottled kind of look.

They aren’t horrendous, at all but I wouldn’t say they look natural and I’d be fairly certain I could clock that you’d had them done straight away.

A few friends of mine have them done and they always, always, always end up going OTT with them. What starts out as a bit of extra plumpness ends up with them immediately noticeable as being overdone.

I honestly wouldn’t bother having them done again, they were great originally

Can we ask for the clinic name < fairly local >

This is not something you do for yourself.

This is something that you do because you feel society expects it.

You looked lovely before, you look lovely now.

They looked nice before and they look nice now. They are fairly natural looking, and as full lips are fashionable now I don't see this as any different from buying an expensive bag. It's what you are happy with that important

Is it possible to tell the someone is absolutely beautiful and stunning just from seeing their lips now?
I can't see ops nose or eyes but people are saying you're absolutely gorgeous either way etc, seems odd to me, us having big lips all we need now to be seen as beautiful?

What a shame

@EdwardCullensBiteOnTheSide
Good point. It kind of reinforces the getting the lip filler thing

Just think, anybody can have over filled lips. Not many people have such lovely naturally full lips.

There's so many cruel comments bere 💔

Idk why people have come here to tell someone their face doesn't look good

What is wrong with you guys?

Op, I'm glad you're happy with the results xx

@cultkid

There's so many cruel comments bere 💔

Idk why people have come here to tell someone their face doesn't look good

What is wrong with you guys?

Op, I'm glad you're happy with the results xx

The more women have this done, the bigger the pressure there is on other young women to have this done. We're at a turning point where natural, thinner lips are becoming abnormal. So you may think it's a case of each to their own, but I believe it's a toxic pressure on women perpetuated by other women.

@dreamadream1

This is them now, I think they're very natural

Wow! They look beautiful! 😊 x

Ah pull the other one. This is a pisstake surely?

It’s your body your choice and if your happy with them that’s all that matters but I’ve never seen good looking fillers. They all look the same and you can tell they’ve been done.

@TornadoOfSouls

OP, you are clearly a lovely looking young woman. I don’t like the fillers on you and I don’t think they look natural. As you say, each to their own and all that, but even in the before photo your lips were unusually and noticeably plump so I find it hard to understand why you felt the need to have fillers. IMO it’s a mistake.

I'm sorry, but I agree with TornadoOfSouls.

You are very pretty, and had beautiful lips before the procedure. In the second photo your lips look too pneumatic to be natural. I'm sorry that you feel pressure to do this to yourself.

If you're referring to my comment @EdwardCullensBiteOnTheSide, then yes, I think it is possible to tell that OP is a beautiful woman - but this isn't based on what her lips look like. You don't just see her lips in isolation in the photos - we can see her beautiful skin, the shape of her face, her cheekbones.

I think she is most definitely a beautiful woman and this is absolutely not based on what her lips look like alone.

I just don't understand why you would have it done when you are blessed with beautiful large lips anyway.
Having them plumped up makes them look unnatural when you are so lucky to have the sort of lips that would be the envy of loads of people anyway.

And yes I agree, it's pretty obvious the OP has beautiful skin and bone structure.
I have DDs probably your age and would be worried about them if they were changing such natural beauty with fillers

I find this so sad. This woman’s lips were lovely to start with. It makes me worry for my little girl and the kind of image obsessed world that she is growing up into. I can only hope that in another 10 years the pendulum will have swung the other way.