Lip filler on 40+

[Anonymous]

I recently had the strangest experience when meeting a friend for lunch - she showed up and I had to do a double take because she looked so incredibly different and it was really unsettling. Turns out she got filler in her lower face and lips at her last regular Botox appointment. I can’t explain why but it was so unnerving, like I was taking to her but it wasn’t her (?) - the change was pretty dramatic. I decided fillers are definitely not for me, as every time I have seen especially lip filler on a middle-aged woman, I find it obvious and off-putting. Am I just seeing it poorly executed? It looks almost…tacky. Sorry to say. I think Botox can be well done but fillers seem like another story. Thoughts?

[Anonymous]

You are wise to avoid fillers. They do not get reabsorbed back into the body and often migrate with age (you cannot fight gravity). Surgical removal is not always possible either. I plan to never get fillers, maybe botox but even now in my 50s my skin is still quite wrinkle free. And once you start with your face, then you need to do your neck, décolleté, then your abdomen, knees and hands. Better to age wisely and gracefully.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are wise to avoid fillers. They do not get reabsorbed back into the body and often migrate with age (you cannot fight gravity). Surgical removal is not always possible either. I plan to never get fillers, maybe botox but even now in my 50s my skin is still quite wrinkle free. And once you start with your face, then you need to do your neck, décolleté, then your abdomen, knees and hands. Better to age wisely and gracefully.

I got fillers in my cheekbone area a few times 5-10 years ago. I had a lump in my upper lip my dentist was concerned about and had to have oral surgery to have it removed. The lab report showed it was filler that had migrated down.

[Anonymous]

I’ve seen enough prominent Republican women to be scared off lip filler forever.

[Anonymous]

There’s a mom in our neighborhood who did the same thing. She was so pretty before, now she looks odd. I can’t help but wonder what these women will look like when they’re older and the fillers still there but gravity plays a role.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I recently had the strangest experience when meeting a friend for lunch - she showed up and I had to do a double take because she looked so incredibly different and it was really unsettling. Turns out she got filler in her lower face and lips at her last regular Botox appointment. I can’t explain why but it was so unnerving, like I was taking to her but it wasn’t her (?) - the change was pretty dramatic. I decided fillers are definitely not for me, as every time I have seen especially lip filler on a middle-aged woman, I find it obvious and off-putting. Am I just seeing it poorly executed? It looks almost…tacky. Sorry to say. I think Botox can be well done but fillers seem like another story. Thoughts?

My 14 yo commented on a neighbor at 4th of July- asking why she suddenly looked strangely plastic. It’s unnerving I agree.

[Anonymous]

^ commented to me privately, not to the Neighbor.

[Anonymous]

Lip filler always looks off. Like you're forcing a jigsaw puzzle piece in a place that doesn't fit.

And no, there is no "natural" looking lip filler. It never fits the subtle surrounding facial features, like naturally full lips do.

[Anonymous]

I'm not a fan of lip fillers or any fillers. And I love to get botox and laser treatments.

I've analyzed so many before and after photos of lip filler and I'm convinced it makes their faces look fatter. It's just never more attractive. And when you use too much, you enter duck territory.

[Anonymous]

One of our babysitters did this and I couldn’t understand it. She’s a beautiful young woman and now has the obvious trout pout.

[Anonymous]

It was poorly executed and they asked for an unnatural look. I get hyperdiluted radiesse in my lower face because I’m a distance runner and it is otherwise sunken and skeletal. No one, including DH, my mom, my kids or my close friends know. Someone said I looked like a got a glow up a few days after the last round. My derm who does it also does lip filler on some of her patients and it’s undetectable. She makes their lips look like they did in high school.

[Anonymous]

Fillers look awful regardless of age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was poorly executed and they asked for an unnatural look. I get hyperdiluted radiesse in my lower face because I’m a distance runner and it is otherwise sunken and skeletal. No one, including DH, my mom, my kids or my close friends know. Someone said I looked like a got a glow up a few days after the last round. My derm who does it also does lip filler on some of her patients and it’s undetectable. She makes their lips look like they did in high school.

Who do you go to?

[Anonymous]

I think a botox lip flip tends to look much more natural than filler because it doesn't skew the vermillion border.

I think filler in a thin face is much more noticeable which may be why it's more noticeable in those 40+ because our face narrows as we get older.

Even going to someone really expensive doesn't help- some of the most obvious filler I've seen has been in Aspen on locals...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was poorly executed and they asked for an unnatural look. I get hyperdiluted radiesse in my lower face because I’m a distance runner and it is otherwise sunken and skeletal. No one, including DH, my mom, my kids or my close friends know. Someone said I looked like a got a glow up a few days after the last round. My derm who does it also does lip filler on some of her patients and it’s undetectable. She makes their lips look like they did in high school.

I really think it’s always noticeable. But regardless, where does all that filler eventually go?