There’s a new study that says full lips make you look younger.
Makes sense…Just think of babies with their plump, round plump lips. Softer bigger lips are more youthful….but only to a point!
Your lips have got to match your face!
The problem is many women see their lips thinning and rush out and get lip fillers only to end up with “trout pout”…you know, those crazy lips that make you look like you’ve been sucking on a sour lemon and had an allergic reaction! Totally bizarre, unnatural and not youthful or attractive at all.
| Just look at Nicole Kidman. |  |
| Daryl Hannah |  |
| Melanie Griffith |  |
| Cher |  |
The list goes on… Can fillers like this ever work? Are we being unfair and just highlighting the bad cases?
If you’ve ever had your lips enhanced, let us know how they worked out. Did it work for you? Would you do it again?
Our feeling is, what’s so wrong with thinner lips? Just like, what’s wrong with smaller breasts? They’re beautiful and elegant. If you keep your lips moisturized and soft, use pretty lip glosses and soft lipstick shades, they’ll look beautiful.
This frenzy around having to have humongous breasts and lips the size of overinflated party balloons is actually gross. It’s bound to pass in a few years, and then we’ll all be looking back and laughing at how trashy and cartoon-ish women looked.
Bigger is not always better. Subtlety and elegance is the key to looking fabulous in Chapter 2 of life.
Style Expert Deborah Boland specializes in helping mature women to Tweak their Chic®!
Deb, Hi I can’t agree more on what you said here. All woman out there must read this. It’s a wake up call to every woman out there who spends too much on surgical enhancement rather than keeping what they have and instead enhance it in a natural way. Expect me to be sharing this to my girlfriends. Cheers!
I totally agree. I do find most fillers make people look worse and not better!!
Here here! I wholeheartedly agree with what you say in this post!
Good Grief, can’t we just grow old with grace? Why do we constantly need to be younger (as we age)? Why is this form of beauty any less valid than youth? I am totally sick of all the commercials and print ads I see encouraging the mature woman that they need to “turn back the hands of time”.
Full lips? really?
I agree with some of your readers. Too much is too much. It seems it can become addictive and that’s where women run into trouble. Personally, I think if you have your lips done it is always obvious. I haven’t seen subtely in the lip department that is for sure. I’m all for fillers and botox but it is so commercial now that you really do need to mindful that a natural look is always more flattering. Fillers and botox are there to hide away few lines here and there but if you can’t move your face because of too much botox then I think that is the most ageing look of all. It is nice to hear both sides of the fence on this one – and a “lively” comment section is always interesting as long as it remains respectful. Well done ladies. Have a great day. Jo
I’ve actually been wondering if in time we may learn all the things people are injecting ourselves with cause cancer or something?
Is that 2cnd picture of Cher really her? I’ve never seen her looking like that! I love how eloquently you said “Subtlety and elegance is the key to looking fabulous in Chapter 2 of life”. I rmember working with a woman who was probably my age, 56, back when I was in my early 20′s. She was European and had so much decorum I will remeber her for life. Her elegance was simple and not over done.I feel a lot of the advice you give is very much in keeping with the presence of this woman I admired.
i like the beauty of Daryl Hannah, she is quite tall and gorgeous.,~
How tall is Daryl Hannah anyway?:~;
What fuels our need to look younger and younger? Is fear or insecurity to blame for the plastic surgery myth that beauty is more important than self love and acceptance? When I look at Hollywood, I see women who are screaming for help. Nicole Kidman, Daryl Hannah, Cher, Melaine Griffith are each beautiful women who should have left well enough alone. What ever happened to embracing the women we have become through life experience? I take excellent care of myself.. I’m told I don’t look 49 but more like 35.. I am a single woman who has learned to love myself,live in the moment and embrace my imperfections and celebrate. I believe it was Charles Dickens who said,
“Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.”
Ladies look within… you have been blessed with all you need to live your life with intensity and purpose!
As with everything, we shoud know when to stop.
Hi Halyna,
Yep!!!
Did they pay for this? It amazes me that as a woman of color and being teased about my full lips this is now a “popular” look because Hollywood now says it’s beautiful! Good thing I don’t look to Hollywood for affirmation.
Hi Dianne,
Thanks for writing in. We hope you are feeling great that after all that teasing, full lips are in style! We are sure yours look beautiful, since they are natural!
It is tough these days for women, since the media is always trying to tout that we be skinnier, more beautiful, ect… We Glam Gals are here to inspire women to look their best with what the body they already have. We are not pro or con plastic surgery, we like to throw it out there to here what others think and get a conversation going. It is important we talk about it and not stuff all these feelings we have inside!
Scary pix but real!! thanks for sharing this
I agree completely with this and PREACH to my friends all the time – the number procedure that looks fake is lip injections! AND, if people know you have lip injections they probably think you’ve had everything done (even if you haven’t!)
Good call!!
Oh lighten up! Filler doesn’t ALWAYS look unnatural. 14 months ago, I had Restylane injected into my nasolabial fold, below my eyes, into the philcrum and a a touch to enhance my cupid’s bow. This was all with one vial (very subtle). My husband was in the waiting room. He had no clue! The results still look great. I will have it done again when necessary. I am 46 years old.
I agree, I live in So. California and am sooo tired of women over 35 with watermelon sized breasts and intertube lips on skelatal figures – not at all sexy, but very sad. The other sad thing is half of them have daughters, what a bizarre example to set for them. Let’s hope they rebel and prefer natural beauty!
Hi Shelley,
Wow…interesting point you have there… what kind of example are we sending our daughters!! YIKES.. we might see a backlash to plastic surgery in the next generation who will probably find it hard to afford and not want to be as extreme. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out!
Fuller lips do indeed help your face look younger and when you use a vacuum rather than injections, you are more likely to appreciate the enhancement. The photos above reveal faces that have been injected and injected again; the combination spells disaster and the look of old is accentuated.
Cynthia Rowland
Facial Fitness Expert
Creator of Luscious Lips
Hi Cynthia,
We have seen your product (on the Rachael Rae show) and it does work and is a natural alternative to this! Good to hear your voice!
Hi Cynthia,
We have seen your product (on the Rachel Rae show) and it does work and is a natural alternative to this! Good to hear your voice!
I agree I think that lip enhancement “almost” always looks fake and unflattering. Lisa Rinni is another example. Her lips are not botox which will diminish with time, she did silicone so her lips will stay like that forever.
The posting of the women above is not really fair as the before pictures look like they were also much younger. Were they?
I have to agree with you. I think that filler enhanced lips always look unnatural…
Great article…I couldn’t agree with you more!!
This was a suprise, your site has always been a classy little number,with real information.I wonder where you found the worst possible pictures of these accomplished women,the Enquiror perhaps? I hope this isn’t a harbinger of future blogs.We really do get enough of this kind of_____ already!
Hi Esther,
We hear what you are saying, but the fact is that so many women turn to the stars for inspiration. The point we are trying to make is when they take trying to look young to an extreme it looks awful. There are no shortages of women looking like this. Accomplished or not, too much is too much!