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

They look really good!! Although I would have filler just to achieve your "before" look!

@Whatthebloodyell

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.

^This^

Hopefully DD (14) has enough confidence and self worth as she gets older that she won’t be sucked in to this awfully damaging obsession with impossible beauty standards that are perpetuated time and time again by social media. We are raising a generation of females to have a massively unhealthy body image and low self esteem where they are taught that they aren’t good enough as they are. It’s a real concern.

It's perfectly anatomically normal for a top lip to be thinner than a bottom lip. How have we got to the stage where injecting our faces is normal for young women? And older women for that matter?

obsession with impossible beauty standards that are perpetuated time and time again by social media.

Beauty STANDARDS?! The puffed up lips look is hardly beautiful. Frankly obsession with impossible beauty standards that are perpetuated time and time again by social media. it looks ridiculous and it goes hand in hand with the thick dark brow and the chipmunk cheek fillers.

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obsession with impossible beauty standards that are perpetuated time and time again by social media.

Beauty STANDARDS?! The puffed up lips look is hardly beautiful. It looks ridiculous and it goes hand in hand with the thick dark brow thing and the chipmunk cheek fillers.

I didn’t say it was. I said it is becoming a standard that young woman feel pressure to conform to in order to look and feel beautiful.

I think your lips look lovely, both before and after - you’re gorgeous! Also, this thread has come close to being a bit of a pile on and in case you’re still reading, please remember you’re not answerable to anyone and don’t let this make you feel you need to defend yourself. Your body, your choice.

@Whattodotho so you used to have them done yet stopped and didn't have any other fillers but you're implying I'll get roped into it? Very bizarre.

Again thank you for all the nice comments.

I'm going to ask them to remove this thread now

OP to ask this is to ask for others' opinions.

Sulking because not everyone agrees is juvenile.

I think your lips were perfect before and now it's like advertising your insecurity, where will it end?

Maybe it was just an advert for the company?

@naughtyelfs

Anyone would think I'd had them blown up like Chloe from Geordie Shore.

I'm sure she thinks hers look good though.

She must do or she would not have taken such a step. If she’s happy with the result, then she doesn’t deserve to be judged. That is the thinking here, no?

The trouble is you cannot stop people from judging. And judge they will, as is their prerogative.

[quote dreamadream1]@Whattodotho so you used to have them done yet stopped and didn't have any other fillers but you're implying I'll get roped into it? Very bizarre.

Again thank you for all the nice comments.

I'm going to ask them to remove this thread now [/quote]
Why? You asked. People were honest.

@Rollergirl11

I didn’t say it was. I said it is becoming a standard that young woman feel pressure to conform to in order to look and feel beautiful.

I realise that.

You looked much better before

@naughtyelfs

Maybe it was just an advert for the company?

Yes, I think was absolutely just an advert for the company/salon.

The OP's comment about 'getting treatment in a professional salon with expert staff' (I'm paraphrasing) read rather false

@TornadoOfSouls

OP, if you’re still reading, I hope you don’t feel you’ve been bashed on here - if you read the comments on here again I hope you’ll see that some of the harsh words here are not directed at you but at a culture that tells young women they’re not good enough etc. The word ‘distorted’ referred to the lens through which some people now view what looks ‘natural’, for example. I doubt anyone here thinks you look distorted - on the contrary, everyone thinks you look lovely, but because your lips were already lovely, your wish to change them is disconcerting. I’m not going to start banging a feminist drum here, but I suggest you do try to look at the bigger picture. Individual choice is important, but choices aren’t made in a vacuum, and that’s what a lot of posters are talking about here. Please don’t take what is really criticism of society personally. I wish you the very best with your recovery from depression and anxiety.

This, but I am very happy to 'bang a feminist drum' in the service of decrying the increasingly widespread view that young women's bodies need intervention and modification.

What a shame if it was an attempt to advertise.

@Janegrey333

What a shame if it was an attempt to advertise.

That had occurred to me.

I can assure you that it was not an attempt to advertise.

I haven't named the clinic I'm just an average girl who asked for advice before I had this done on what to expect, what not to do etc.

I actually developed body dysmorphic disorder had therapy and no longer feel the need to spend money doing that to myself I was getting lip fillers and botox at 20 looking back how is that even okay.

Look I'm just saying my opinion that'd what these theards are about. You posted a picture of your lips wanting everyone to tell you how lovely they are to make you feel better about yourself. Why else would you..

Just hide the thread.
Asking for removal because you don't like some of the responses is not how it's supposed to work.

Is love fillers in my nasty 50 year old lips. Just to puff them up a bit and even put the lines. I think the OPs look great tbh.

@BigusBumus

Is love fillers in my nasty 50 year old lips. Just to puff them up a bit and even put the lines. I think the OPs look great tbh.

Yours are fine and do not look in the least bit spongy.

@BigusBumus

Is love fillers in my nasty 50 year old lips. Just to puff them up a bit and even put the lines. I think the OPs look great tbh.

Thank you for your kind comment

I'd definitely recommend getting them done if it would make you feel more confident. X

@SpectralPlot

OP to ask this is to ask for others' opinions.

Sulking because not everyone agrees is juvenile.

I think your lips were perfect before and now it's like advertising your insecurity, where will it end?

I didn't ask for opinions, if you read my original post you'll see I asked for any tips or advice from people who'd had them. I didn't ask for anyone's opinions.