Why are thin lips bad?

[superbadgirl]

I don't know why, but lately my Yahoo account seems plagued by an ad for "First Impression", a product that claims to make thin lips plump and luscious. (Please note, this only applies to women. Men don't have to worry about their lips.) Are women really that concerned with the plumpness of their lips?

To answer my own question, I suppose all I have to do is look at women in Hollywood - Lara Flynn Boyle really pops to the fore regarding getting work done to improve the appearance of her lips. For the record, I see no improvement. She looks worse. She looks like it hurts to talk, her lips so puffy now that she even speaks differently than she used to. How is that attractive, and why is that something to shoot for? Why are these lip-plumping products being pushed so heavily?

I don't get it.

Comments

[khek.livejournal.com]

I don't get it either. Personally, I think people look better with the face they started out with. :)

I saw an interview with Billy Bob Thornton's first wife--the one he left for Angelina Jolie. Talk about frightening! In the pictures taken during their marriage, she was very attractive and normal looking. Now, post-divorce, she's got a face that looks like she was trying to recreate Angelina, including lips that look like the flavored wax ones I used to buy when I was a kid at Halloween.

I can't imagine *why* she thinks she looks better that way, unless she's trying to look like the woman her husband left her for. But honestly, I don't think ANY of the people who go through lip implants. The former Mrs. Thornton, Meg Ryan, Barbara Hershey...they all looked better before their lip operations. I'd say the same was true for people I know personally who've plumped up their lips, but I don't know any!

Which I guess says something...

:)

[superbadgirl]

People almost always look better before they 'improve' themselves. I get that as we age, our lips get thinner and thinner and I can see being bothered by it, but to overcompensate so drastically is disturbing to me.

[seanchaidh.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't forget Marg Helgen-whatsherlips and her steadily growing lips in CSI. Gah.

I think everyone wishes they could be Angelina Jolie.

I'm mostly satisfied with mine.

[superbadgirl]

Yeah, I thought about mentioning her. She's got to the point where when she speaks I get distracted by how hard she has to work around her lips. If that makes any sense. I dunno, I guess I'd rather people take no notice of my lips than stare at them because they're so ungodly misshapen.

It used to be there were some things about ourselves that we couldn't change...and now that we can, it's alarming how many people who are visible to us normal folk choose to do it. Nope, sorry, but just because you can doesn't mean you should.

[seanchaidh.livejournal.com]

I don't see the attraction of "beestung" lips. I can see the attraction of full lips - Shanks, for example. He has lovely lips.

[superbadgirl]

Good point. And I agree that full lips are nice to look at...but that's not to say they're 'better' than thinner lips. They're just different, and differences in people are good. It bothers me that people think they have to change how they look to make themselve look more like something else.

Because it doesn't work, as evidenced by the beestung look. There's nothing natural or beautiful about it, in my opinion.

[seanchaidh.livejournal.com]

Can you imagine Jack with a fuller upper lip? Heh.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure about the lip plumping stuff, but I think it looks icky and hideous on just about everyone.