Do you find those fake lips attractive?

wakka12 wrote: »

Sometimes it looks bad, but sometimes it really makes girls look better

She definitely looks better after. But some people are just really against people changing their appearance with surgery and will always just say they looked better before without judging each individual outcome

The after pic seems a lot more filtered, purposely made the before look worse and the after look better than what they really were

bunderoon wrote: »

Serious question - why would a person want to get them?

Same with implants etc. ( Excluding some who would need them after a serious op/sickness etc)

Would it be some form of desperation to attract a certain type of partner or more aong the lines of a mental illness.

There are people who keep getting cosmetic surgery / treatments and cannot stop. It’s actually an illness, a form of addiction. Jesus just googled it there, it’s more prevalent then I imagined, some freak shows out there.

Raconteuse wrote: »

I knew I'd get the looks are subjective thing.

They're often not though.

We can all tell the difference between that perfectly nice looking woman in the before picture, with her well proportioned features, and someone unfortunate enough to have e.g. as LirW said, a massive nose. Or a huge birthmark. Or cleft palate.

But if you're just extremely self critical and have a distorted view of how you look, or full-on body dysmorphia, you should go for counselling instead.

But they are subjective though. And again, what warrants surgery, simply having a big unsexy nose or a nose so bad that people stare or make fun? many ethnicities have very large noses for instance comapred to say west europeans. To them their noses look normal, to somebody in ireland their noses might be wide, or long compared to most irish people they know and see daily. A big element of how a person feels about their appearance is what the people around them and the people theyre exposed to look like and the opinion of those people on looks/beauty. For instance, a lot of black women in America being uncomfortable with how they look due to white beauty standards, of course theres nothing wrong with how black women look, but many feel that way because their beauty isnt celebrated the same as others around them. Its just one example and my point is that just because you think she looks fine, doesnt mean that she hasnt been exposed to or been around groups of people that have made her feel the need to alter her appearance to a higher standard in her mind. Basically, maybe her opinion to alter her lips is more justified than you think, maybe its not just 'mental illness'.

Anyway as you say shes perfectly fine looking, and I completely agree, and that she didnt need surgery either, but I would say she has thin lips objectively. I dont think theres anything wrong with thin lips but many people do and I also think theres nothing wrong with trying to improve that. Just because youre good looking already deosnt mean you cant improve your appearance at all. Also its her money and her life,and its not hurting anyone (other than herself,possibly) I dont get why anyone cares so much about the business of people who choose to have plastic surgery

kildare lad wrote: »

No , I went into the Chinese last week , and the girl that took my order got them done, they looked ridiculous . She looked like she could suck a bowling ball through a straw though..lol

Are you sure she just didn't have a bad reaction to the satay?


They generally look pretty awful imo it's a shame people fell the need to get them done, but the number of people getting it done seems to have gone through the roof

Salthillprom wrote: »

Personally I don't like them and would never get mine done, but I've big enough lips anyway naturally. I do know a few ppl who have their lips done and it's pretty obvious. Their side profile looks strange.. Like they got a box in the mouth.

I'd day that unless the change is very subtle it will always be noticeable as unnatural. People must think they can get bigger lips and think they won't be out of proportion to the rest of their face.

The lips you have fit your facial shape like it or not and someone with paper thin lips who suddenly decides they want something like Angelina Jolie's will look ridiculous. In isolation they might look ok but will look awful as a whole.

I think 99% of them are overfilled. There's one or two bloggers who I think have them looking well like Aoibhe Devlin of The Secret Obsession or Suzanne Jackson from So Sue Me.

I've got feck all of a top lip and I'd be tempted but I think they look weird with no makeup and I hardly ever wear it. Plus I'd probably end up looking like a duck which I'd rather avoid.

I think they look ridiculous and so horrible.... They're the equivalent of those bolt-on-boobs that used be common....A poor attempt that look laughable for a finish.

TimeToShine wrote: »

I think that similar to teeth whitening or how men think they prefer women without make-up it's a matter of not actually recognizing that it's been done when done right.

You'd be amazed at just how rampant fillers and botox are nowadays amongst the 20-35 female (and gay male) age bracket. Just because you notice the 1 in 10 that have overdone it doesn't mean the other 9/10 haven't had it done well.

Completely agree. When you invest money in an experienced, licensed practitioner who uses top quality products it looks very natural and 99.9% of people won't even notice.

The problem is that the legal system hasn't caught up with current trends and the industry is completely unregulated.
You can do a one day online course with no prior experience, buy the products online and set up shop and there is no one to say you can't.

Locally to me, you can pay €350 to have 1ml of filler administered by a fully qualified doctor, in a sterile professional clinic using the best products & surgical level numbing creams.
Or you can pay €80 and have it administered by the local hairdresser who did a one day online course, who doesn't have access to the top quality products due to lack of qualifications, in the stock room at the back of the hair salon.

People go for the cheaper option, and those are usually the people whose work is so poorly done that everyone notices it.

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

I was thinking of getting a bit of botox to help with the little imperfections on my face.

Here's a pic of me.

Thoughts?

Your face rings a bell.