Lip filler on Monday and I’m so scared

[Slavetolove]

Argh.
im needle phobic lol, absolutely rubbish with pain I think. But I’m booked to get fillers on Monday at 3pm.
im having 1ml and going up slowly. I have the smallest top lip that disappears when I smile but I love wearing red lipstick :(

does it really really hurt? Does numbing cream work?

the woman is a qualified nurse/midwife as well.

Projecting a bit there.

I take it you only eat an organic plant based diet, have no aluminium in your home, don't use a microwave and don't ever walk into a busy city?

Probably not.

There are 'alien' and toxic things everywhere. That are a LOT more damaging than putting hyaluronic acid into your body.“

not projecting at all.

I take very good care now.

but put that that argument aside. Why do women feel they need to conform to stereotype? Seriously? I don’t match expectations so I’m going to inject myself?

who needs misogyny when women keep doing this stuff to themselves voluntarily?

I wouldn't be too keen on a doctor doing it either unless they were a cosmetic surgeon. Dd knows a doctor who does botox etc. He did a 2 day course. His day job is urology...

The snobbery and blatant racism towards big lips is disgusting. Some of us have these features naturally 👏🏽

What @krill said. It’s not a foreign toxin like Botox (no hate - I’m full of the stuff.)

OP with the greatest respect there is no way you have a phobia of needles.

IME the pain has my eyes streaming throughout and I have in the past passed out. Numbing cream does nothing. Helps to slightly reduce the pain by using a cannula....but still really painful.

OP just saying 1ml is quite a bit…

id suggest doing what I do at the dentist, hold the chair, keep your eyes closed and focus on your breathing.

I thought the exact same thing.

The things some people have associated with 'big lips' on this thread is horrific. They're the first to bring up 'stereotypes' and 'misogyny' but ignore the snobbery and racism.

Yes but he still spent years at medical school learning about anatomy and will have insurance.

I don't think anyone who insulted lip fillers meant the same about naturally large/full lips.

They look completely different to lips with a lot of filler.

I think you might be over estimating how much they actually cover in medical school. A dentist is much better educated in that regard.

His insurance from his hospital job is not going to cover his nixer in botox either so he's no more likely to be insured than any other practitioner.

You need to make sure the medical practitioner is also good at the aesthetics. Check out their work beforehand.

@Slavetolove OP, if you read here please ignore some of the absolute nonsense replies. Most of these women are clearly unhappy with their own bodies so feel the need to bash these procedures and people’s appearances.

If this is a treatment you want doing, for whatever reason then go for it💃

If you don’t like them, then you can always get them dissolved. I got mine dissolved in January because they started to migrate. (Due to the natural shape of my lips) A couple of months later I then got them re-done and the injector used a different technique and I absolutely love them.

OP, I had 1ml recently, first timer. My practitioner was excellent, and it was almost painless.
Ignore the droves of posters who can't wait to tell you how awful it looks 🙄

I'm sure you will LOVE them

Remember- your insecurities were created by a boardroom full of men.

Ok here's mine - I'm 50 and had cheek fillers at the same time. Ive name changed since (in case anyone pulls me up)

Its nothing to do with tearing women down and her body her choice... its as ridiculous as applying lead paint to your face lookd as nice and is as safe but crack on.. can't wait until its about as fashionable as foot binding and going out in the garden sprayed in crisp n dry.

It's also so much to unpack about mainly white women paying to get a crap version of features black women have been ridiculed for years for having - which people will deny - that i would rather just not bother

'It's nothing to do with tearing women down'

When you have done exactly just that. It's people like you that make people feel insecure.

@GeminiTwin your filler is migrating, be careful having more put in.

I like them on you btw and don't think your top lip needs waxing.

As others have said, if you’re frightened, don’t do it, it’s entirely unnecessary and no guarantee it will look ok. IME it always looks bad because of the ridge around the edge, especially from the side, they have a kind of hard look to them. I was next to a lovely young girl on the bus, but she had ruined her face with ridiculous protruding lips, it was hard not to look. Naturally full lips are beautiful- I can understand why people want them, but fake big lips look daft!

Adler sums it up best though. I do the alien test - if an alien arrived and you had to explain, what it sound sensible? I think they’d find the idea of one of the sexes painfully injecting tiny amounts of a substance into a very specific area around the mouth by choice very odd. (I think they’d have questions around skiing and camping too though).

@GeminiTwin Commenting that artificial procedures are damaging to women is not tearing them down.

You said you had it done because your “top lip disappeared when I smiled”. Which is perfectly normal and natural thing for most Caucasian lips to do. So really you’re saying that women who are absolutely normal don’t look good enough. Who’s actually making women feel insecure?

Men definitely have lip filler too, but they're more likely to have the tiny amounts that some older women have to counteract ageing, rather than the overfilled look some favour.

Don't do it OP they look really terrible most of the time like hamster cheeks

I'm black and it's not racism.
It's not about big lips per se, it's inflated fake looking, sore looking lips.
Naturally big lips don't look like the fake ones! 🙄