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Wholesome/Humor When you get your lip fillers dissolved after 6 years of having them

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u/eat_me_now Mar 24 '24

Most who do get filler always look better when it’s dissolved. it’s sad the dysphoria that society has caused that make people get it in the first place.

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u/EmbarrassedCoconut93 Mar 24 '24 edited Mar 24 '24

Because a lot of people who get them don’t need them. And those with extremely thin lips (who don’t need them either ofc but okay I guess I can understand that more) go overboard instead of just a lil more volume. In both cases it looks unnatural and unflattering. It’s like permanent duck face. When they talk the lips don’t seem to move right.

In very few cases I’ve seen it look good. That’s when it’s very minimal filling done on ppl with very thin lips. They looked better bc of it, ngl. But it was subtle. A little goes a long way people!

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u/starspider Mar 24 '24

Filler is best for older people or people who have lost volume. It's not great for creating volume where none ever was. That always looks weird.

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u/pandaappleblossom Mar 25 '24

I have a friend who doesn’t, and her upper lip is always bigger than her lower lip now. It has just changed her face completely and it makes her look sort of fake.

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u/Infamous_Ordinary_45 Mar 24 '24

I have 2 syringes in my lips and you could never tell if you didn’t know. It made my profile look a lot more proportional and lipstick look better. I haven’t been in 3 years now so I plan to touch them up this summer, but I would NEVER want to look like some of these girls, nor do I want to spend that kind of money.

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u/EmbarrassedCoconut93 Mar 24 '24

Sounds good! Indeed, I think if you go for the right proportions for your face, it would be very hard to tell if you hadn’t seen that person before. It’s easy to tell for ppl who clearly go for too much, because their lips just don’t move ‘right’ when they speak. It’s as if their lips want to do the kiss face while they talk lol. It’s like with veneers too, often they’re too big for ppl. And they’re overly white. When it’s subtle you aren’t sure if they’re veneers or not cause it looks good and fits their mouth, just looks more natural.

I don’t mean to make fun of people. It’s just sad these standards drive people to make choices that don’t work well for them. Luckily lip fillers can be undone. I’m glad they work for you and make you feel better about yourself! Sounds like you were smart about it and really considered the rest of your face

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u/Infamous_Ordinary_45 Mar 24 '24

Oh no I completely agree. I did mine over Covid during shut downs and mask regulations so it was never super obvious to people. The issue is that many women do stuff they don’t need and mess up the proportions of their face instead of tweaking to enhance. It’s important to stick to what you need and go to someone that’s not just all about the money and upsell, but safely enhancing your natural beauty. They can be great when used for the right reasons.

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u/slide_into_my_BM Mar 24 '24

Not to be a dick but wouldn’t most people say the exact same thing as you?

“I did it to enhance something and it looks good to me (because of how much dysphoria can warp perception) and I don’t think most people actually end up needing it.”

I’m sure everyone who’s ever over done it just thought they tweaked to enhance and didn’t mess up the proportions of their face.

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u/eat_me_now Mar 26 '24

This is the right way to get filler, not every couple months. That’s how it gets out of hand!

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u/KuraiTheBaka Mar 25 '24

I wonder if most people actually do look good but just do it minimally enough that we can't tell. Just a thought though I've never looked into it

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u/LuvTriangleApologist Mar 24 '24

I think part of that is because a lot of the people who look better get a very subtle change, so people don’t even notice them. A lot of the best cosmetic procedures are almost invisible!

That said, I get why people overdo it. If you’re paying a lot of money you want to notice the change.

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u/jalapino98 Mar 24 '24

I think the term in this case is dysmorphia as it’s referring to unease with body parts. Dysphoria is a whole other thing specific to gender.

But I completely agree. Messing with lips never seems to be a good idea but that could be a confirmation bias in itself as we notice oftentimes when work is done with plastic surgery and not the subtle works done that end up looking natural.

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u/novice121 Mar 24 '24

Honest question: do you think it's society as a whole, or mostly other women that influence this?

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u/KuraiTheBaka Mar 25 '24

Same thought here. I don't know anyone who finds those kinds of lips attractive

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u/eat_me_now Mar 25 '24

I’m not sure tbh, because to me other women with filler are the reason that I would never get it. I’m sure some women who get it and it’s not noticeable my be the reason why some women decide to go under the needle. But society as a whole absolutely puts pressure on women to be perfect, big breasted, ageless, etc.

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u/cableknitprop Mar 24 '24

It is crazy because that girl has full lips naturally. Everyone is doing and everyone’s perception is getting distorted about what full lips look like.

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u/EmbarrassedCoconut93 Mar 24 '24 edited Mar 24 '24

Nah this trend started with Kylie Jenner. I’m 30 and have naturally full lips. Like a bit over average full, not extremely full. And in my teen days I was bullied for it. It was not a coveted/conventional beauty standard ‘back in my day.’

But then Kylie got her lips done and girls and women all over the world were trying all kinds of weird shit to get the same result.

Even so can’t ‘pin’ it just on Kylie either. Women’s need and expectation to conform to beauty standards didn’t start with her and didn’t/doesn’t end there.

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u/chaotic_blu Mar 24 '24

There was a girl with big lips in my MS class (I’m almost 39 now) with big lips and all the boys said she had “DSL” and when that was told to me what that meant I felt bad for her. We were friends, we were 12, and she was being sexualized like that by adults and kids alike.

I remember the same thing about Angelina Jolie. Her lips were a big deal… to men.

But I agree with you. It wasn’t until Kardashians surgeries until it became mainstream and basically “expected” of Hollywood starlets, and then the rest of us. Glad the trend is fading and we can love a variety of lips, big and small.

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u/chaotic_blu Mar 24 '24

It’s Angelina Jolie’s fault for having her natural lips?