I think one of my biggest issues with these procedures is that women are all kind of starting to look the same. It’s weird. I think individuality and uniqueness are really beautiful, personally.
I swear i can't even differentiate 90% of influencers all over the internet. All have same lips and nose and i wonder why I don't have that nose? 50% of them look like Ariana Grande now.
Shows how ignorant people are. I remember have real life arguments with people about that asking them how is it possible they can be a real adult who is that naive. Especially when Kylie comes from a family who ain't scared of the needle.
I don’t know. There’s still people arguing that she grew 10 inches of hips out of nowhere. Seriously shows how ignorant people are about anatomy and what natural bodies look like.
@@angevin6679 Agreed! It’s so bizarre how she’s able to gaslight the whole world like that. Tho I don’t even feel like skinny skinny is back in I feel like they just realized how ridiculously exaggerated they looked and decided to tone it down. If anything this is more accurate to what Kylie’s natural body would be like if she never got it surgically altered. She had a slim, athletic build, and was generally thin. I think Kim had a weird epiphany when she put on Marilyn’s dress and it didn’t fit her, maybe she realized how overboard she went when the poster girl for curvy bodies was way thinner and more naturally built than her. Marilyn is proof that we don’t need huge boobs/butts/tiny waists to be curvy and beautiful. And we don’t need to be super slim and have flat stomachs either. It’s why I find her so interesting.
@@kaylathompson2111 Unless you get very little injected, the fillers will cancel many natural lip wrinkles and you can tell irl. The bigger and more full the natural lips are, the more specific wrinkles will show up, it's just how the skin texture of the mouth area works. Unnaturally full lips don't have that, on the contrary they take away wrinkles, trust me you can tell very easily irl, especially when the person speaks.
I got my lips done twice and my technician refused to take me any more because she doesnt like me to be fake and ruin my lips. We need more technicians like this
no its not. its tech who cares about her clients, not who puts money first to create creatures like those in the video. i know lots of beauty technicians who are like this. im glad i haven't gotten my lips bigger because i would look like a deformed fish like some of these chicks in the video. that happens when technician chooses money over health. she is in the right business because clearly millions of women are brainwashed into looking like deformed ducks. @@ericaosborne5241
@@ericaosborne5241no she isnt, shes actually in the right line of work because its beauty enhancements not beauty altering, people get it wrong, proffesional technicians like that actually care about their clients health and wellbeing
Actually mine did the same thing she said mine were already a nice size. I was mad at her for that before and now so grateful Jesus us women can be fooled so easily sometimes into thinking we need to do all these stupid things and for what!?
It’s hilarious to me that we look at old Victorian fashion and say “ugh why would women go through all that trouble of wearing bone corsettes just to look skinny??” And here women are injecting crap into their face all the time just to look like a cartoon
@FreePigeon No, corsets were never for health reasons, which is obvious from how the silhouettes changed every few years with new fashion trends. Look at the unnatural S-shaped corset of the 1880s for the so-called “New Figure” vs previous corsets (restrictive but upright) and later corsets (less restrictive, more natural silhouette).
I really think that women who talking about "crazy old beauty standards" in our modern day society where almost every influencer is a living promotion for plastic surgery (sometimes a deadly one like BBL) are coping
@@sissyfussYeah but almost all of the corsets still provided back/breast support? I’m confused why the silhouette changing means none of them are for health. People with back issues still use corsets. I’ve even heard it’s better coverage than a bra.
as someone who is on the road of recovery, my nr 1 tip is to feed your brain the "correct" info..!! try to actively choose take a content break from people that make you feel bad about yourself and try to incorporate more bodyneutrality people! use the "not interested in this content" feature that is available on most apps to "fix" your algorithm if needed!! you can do this ! body dysmorphia doesnt have to ruin your self image ❤
I have no idea why people think lips that look like swollen vag!n@l lips are "hot." Yes, the vegi.* swells during sex. Swells even more during and after childbirth for some reason. How I know this, well...let's say when you work in med field...people have the weirdest questions, and we see the weirdest things.
I love the fact that everytime I feel ugly or even told that I am "avarage at best" I can come here, watch a video or 2 and realize that I am actually beautiful in my own way and "standards" required to be beautiful is just a buisness tool that just didn't got me on their bandwagon
You need to get better friends. Who the hell tells someone they are average at best. And whats wrong with average. We are all individuals with our own unique qualities.
So fk sad to hear that you are 'avarage at best'🥺Don't take it personality!! Beauty is different for everybody!! So you have to feel yourself beautiful🤗
Me and my best friend when i was 18 used to give each other confidence boosts all the time. She had the sexy big lips and the curvy figure, i had the big eyes and the flat stomach. She became less conscious of her 'podgy figure' and i became less ashamed of my flat chest. We felt beautiful and confident. Women should celebrate each other!
That’s so true! I went to an all girls high school & we put on full makeup everyday! Why? Bc women want to impress other women! I ❤what you & your friend did for each other! We’re all beautiful 😘 🫶🏼
Kylie is 26, looks like 46. The same all other influencers that started procedures too early in life. How will she look in her 40's? Like 80? Embrace your natural beauty. :)
These treatments have a limit, and if you start young, more times you have to go and get the treatment again cause skin of the face drops with time and fillers migrate to other parts of the face. She is not going to loke good in the future, and she will fell miserable.
it also creates unrealistic standards on age now. everyone who is “natural” is assumed to be so much younger because of celebrities who look 46 when they’re 26
Her lips actually made her a biillionaire. Who cares if she looks older? it's better than looking natural and young but be poor and not happy about your life
So many moms on the school run have their lips done. You can see their lips and lashes coming a mile off. They look horrific, they migrate, over filled duck lips, I look at their pictures and they look nothing like them in real life. They can look OK in pictures posing front profile. But side profile? Lip filler looks horrible. Please don't. ❤
None of them look real so why ruin your beautiful face? I have very small lips and will never inject poison in them. Those of us who can stand strong and against this will win in the end. This too shall pass (like everything else has). Good choice @ChelseaxMom.
@@parker23148please stop advocating for this trend. This only supports the problem. People need help to love themselves, not continued encouragement to change themselves because of idiotic celebrities and “influencers”. 🙄
I feel sorry for her because she was a literal child when she started doing it and was positively reinforced for it by EVERYONE. But I am COMPLETELY there with you. I'd say she was the one who started the obsession with lip injections and she inspired a whole generation of women, both older and many younger than her.
If you want something done do it for yourself not to follow a trend. And do your homework I do not condone Botox parties . Oh homework you should not be under 18 wow!
I have naturally big lips, and I remember getting made fun of for it when I was a kid. I hated them, but my mom and teachers would tell me “people pay good money for lips like yours.” I thought it was BS at the time, but omg they weren’t kidding.
I was bullied for having big lips, freckles, narrow eyes, and a big butt. Seeing the same people who tormented me for these features turn around and emulate them was a mindfuck when I got older. Still waiting for aquiline noses to become trendy, though.
I truly think Kylie was prettier with her original face. The proportions just made more sense, and her smaller lips made her big beautiful eyes stand out more.
The vast majority would disagree with you about her original face being prettier. If her original face was actually prettier, then she wouldn't have gotten all of those procedures to fit in with the beauty standards. Instead, her family would have gotten procedures to look more like her.
@@msk-qp6fn Unfortunately, it's not enough to look like just a regular person anymore. If you don't look like a literal doll or android, you'll be bullied or overlooked to the point where people need to go to extremes to fit in and be treated decently in todays society.
lol I got soooo much hate for simply making the comment of “Yup fake lashes and filler do wonders!” on a post where ppl were going off about how gorgeous the poster was. She had gorgeous eyes and skin but the lips were…scary.
Yesss this is so sad and unfortunately i can relate because in 2016(wow its been 7 years) i had 1ml only on my top lip once and it hasnt moved even a little its all there… and its so bad and uneven asymmetrical bumps and when i smile one of my front tooth looks smaller so i dont feel comfortable smiling anymore😭😭😭and i wore braces 5 years.. and for what to hide my smile again..😭 and im afraid of huyluronadise i wish i find a solution to get my pretty smile again 🙏amen. I wish i didnt fall in the trap of insecurity
@@hristianahmaybe it'll go away eventually.😔❤ and maybe your story will help someone else to not get this done. It's really sad that this is even a trend, when there are many stories like yours, happening to people
I have injections and I'm happy with them however when I had my very thin natural lips that I hated and felt extremely insecure about I'd fake smile in pictures because I thought they only looked bearable when I smiled. Now I don't feel the need to fake a smile anymore and I can focus on other things than being anxious about my looks. I don't believe I'm the only one.
“Can” is VERY different of “will”. I’m from Brazil and almost everyone here has got procedures done (different from Americans we never deny what we have got done) and I never heard of someone getting necrosis from fillers. Never! So, it can happen I guess. As you can also get struck by a lightning too. As unlikely.
I genuinely wonder where the line is between 'if you do it, do it for yourself and not others' and buckling due to societal manipulation. Even if you change your face "for yourself", the root problem is still linked to how everyone else perceives you. You feel bad about your appearance for a reason. Even Kylie did. So, I don't believe anyone is doing it for themselves but bc society or someone specific has made them feel insecure.
Completely agree, especially when what they claim they're doing "for themselves" just so happens to conform to the male gaze / over sexualization of women's features.
Yeah the whole "you do you" bs lets people off the hook way too easily. These people aren't just "doing them", they're perpetuating these toxic beauty standards.
I grew up having big lips and wanting to have surgery to have them smaller , then when having big lips became popular i became insecure and started thinking that my lips were not big enough. Its crazy how we cant win no matter what
Also what will happen when big lips will not be popular anymore , people will dissolve their fillers and will I want to keep mine ? Or just the same circle again and again ?
@@sara_jillzisame, I wanted to make my lips smaller in the past since I find it big and occupies like 25% of my face (exaggeration) but still big, and now it became popular I became comfortable with it.
Yes my god I needed that video! Thank you! I was thinking about the lip filler topic before and I even googled it, if there is really science claiming bigger lips are just generally more attractive or feminine. And some kind of halfway or pseudoscience so often claimed yes it’s feminine. I was skeptical because it doesn’t make sense to me why nordic women just tend to have smaller lips. Of course with the cold climate it makes perfect sense. I think both types of lips can be beautiful and I just feel that lip filler lips always look fake and I just never liked the idea of looking fake. Probably in a few years the trend will change again just like with the figure. The good thing about this trend is that some girls who were bullied for having big lips now know that there is beauty in their lips ❤
So I'm half European half african, and my lips tend to be on the bigger side and honestly I have been insulted and complimented on my lips, so it really does not matter just hang around people who accept you for you and make you feel happy and confident. ❤
Thank you❤ i have a bit of a fuller lip from my dad side. People were thinkin i had lipfiller. Which i havent and never will. I always say see these wrinkles and lines etc with filler it is blowed up and my lips are normal...
Damn. Yeah I remember when big lips were like a "bad" thing in the early 2000s. It's sort of wild how you were able to see this change yourself. Like you saw the shift in how society treated you. I guess it's good to know that you were never the problem. Society is. Beauty standards are all relative. Nothing more than a social construct.
I'm blasian, and even though I'm guilty of snapping back at mean white girls by saying they have "no lips" I honestly have to take that back. I don't want to be part of the problem. I think Caucasian features are just as beautiful as African or Asian features. Big and small lips look equally beautiful if you have healthy and balanced looking features, and I want young girls of all races to be able to appreciate their natural beauty. Also, there is more value to being a woman than just being beautiful.
I’m an esthetician, practicing for 20yrs and I’ve never seen so much cosmetic enhancements/procedures being done on so many young girls in high school and college. It’s obvious looking and ages them. I try to explain the damage and complications with lip filler but they don’t care. 🤷🏻♀️
Ya I feel like doing it so young is a big mistake. I know people who got a small amount in their thirties who love it because they didn’t go overboard with it but when you’re young you tend to make decisions without consideration first. Usually doesn’t turn out well.
@@9395gbits not anti aging. It prevents muscle movement so that it doesn’t create wrinkles. Botox os preventative, but you’re still injecting a foreign substance to your body tho so people can still get side effects from it.
This was good. I'm 37, I've never had any cosmetic procedures. I've only dyed my hair 5 times in my 20's. I'll say I contemplated a few procedures in the past but I always talked myself out of it. Very happy to this day I talked myself out of all those ideas. I took good care of myself and my skin. Sunblock is key. Find outfits that compliment your body and work with what you have.
It's absolutely crazy to me that so many people get random substances injected into their body. It grosses me out. I understand why many do it and I'm not judging them. It's their choice. But for me personally it's very scary. I have many things I'm insecure about but I personally could never do any cosmetic procedure unless medically necessary. It's scary shit
@bumblebee.8 absolutely. It's very worrisome for our youth out there who start doing these procedures far too young because they wanna look like whatever celebrity or influencer they look up to. It's very scary and sad.
im asian and was born with big lips and a flat nose and i've been so insecure about it. ive been wanting a nose job ever since i was 11 years old and only recently did i look up how to get smaller lips and stumbled on your video. when you described why different people have bigger lips or noses because of our ancestry it really helped me appreciate myself more. it made me actually be grateful for what i have because it all makes sense why we are born they way we are. i guess as humans, we are never happy in our own skin and i really wish to love myself and not compare to all the social media stars.
I love all the different kinds of unique beauty around the world. I grew up in a town with people from everywhere, it's so dull when everyone looks the same.
No, it’s not that humans are naturally unhappy in our own skin - it’s societal pressure put on others, to become such. This is not some innate chronic issue, all humans are destined to experience. This is, very much, manufactured. Just like the crap that is injected.
The description of why people have smaller lips in colder climate made me feel so much better. So much more connected to my humanity. I am of mostly slavic descent and well... Eastern europe is a mostly cold place!! I also have severe body dysmorphia and often call myself "deformed" and "disabled looking" when in fact I am the opposite. My "undesirable" parts are intelligent design, adapted to where I live. Thank you SO much.
Idk what y’all are talking about? I never see skinny legs being the in thing??? It’s always thick thighs being praised and tons of negative comments on skinny girl’s videos calling them names….
When I was young I use to be happy with my smaller lips. Never wanted them to be any bigger… it’s interesting that in the last 5 years I have gotten filler. Not much but just enough to plump them a little bit as I have become insecure of how small they were. Always been happy with my natural results but watching videos like this makes me realize I don’t need to waste my money! Ive essentially been brainwashed into feeling insecure about so many things!
I feel that. My lips are pretty full, and I still had a small "Should I be getting them plumped more?" phase in young adulthood. It just felt like everyone had filler.
We are just being brainwashed to have insecurities. The most important is being healthy and a good person. The rest is just decoration. Love yourself and others ❤❤❤❤
I spent years in school getting spray tans because I’m a pale reed head and people were into tanning back then and would make fun of my skin. Now that I’m 30 and I know my heritage somewhat, I love my skin. I keep it pale. I don’t get spray tans anymore because they don’t look right on me. I protect my skin from the sun and I wear it proudly because this is all from my heritage from Scotland and England. And it’s meant to absorb as much sun as possible for the cooler climates
I also used to tan after getting made fun of for being pale my whole life, but after getting skin cancer at 30 I stopped. I have embraced my pale skin as well, but the kp I kept at bay by tanning has gotten much worse in my old age, but I remind myself that it could be much worse and make a choice to count the good and ignore the bad.❤❤❤
@@Ukie88I have heard that he uses henna/cassia mixture… as henna is a natural 💯 sunblock he is then able to stand in long hours in full sun during his events with out ANY sunburn. His mom was born in Scotland and he inherited her very light skin. I am same and have found henna/cassia is the only thing that stops sunburn. Notice he never ever has hyper pigmentation or sunburn.
I absolutely love my thin lips. I hate lip fillers. Everyone seems to want to look like carbon copies of each other. I wish women out there wouldn't follow trends and ignore the pressures of society. Screw that. I will never get my lips filled x
Calm urself no need to be rude with a name like “kittykat” I wouldn’t snap back if I were u and as someone who’s watching this what u said is clearly the same for u
I saw someone on the train with lip fillers and and they didn’t suit her they weren’t massive but I could tell they were just slightly too big if she’d have done them a bit smaller it wouldn’t have looked bad
ever since my ex talked about how Kylie Jenner is his crush and his "ideal woman" looks wise, i used to feel weird about myself, because we don't share the same facial features at all. especially with the beautiful women all over instagram and tiktok, i've been feeling insecure over my features and "disconnected" from today's beauty standards. Thank you.
I will NEVER understand why "men" (in quotes because I mean grown ass, immature little boys) like your ex go for women who aren't their type and feel the need to complain about who THEY chose, and have the AU-FUCKING-DACITY to make it your problem. I stg every time I listen to what specific types of men (like your ex) have to say, the quality of my life diminishes.
@ramenaddict1676 As a man the best thing you ladies can do is tell us goodbye and never look back. I'm dead serious. Nothing makes people like him happy and you will have a life of self doubt
Glad he's your ex now. I find the less time I spend on social media the more comfortable and happy I am with my looks. Sure there are things I still want to work on, like being more fit, but I'm not tearing myself apart bc all these girls got work done and I look normal. I highly recommend you spend less time online looking at that stuff. You will feel MUCH better. I promise :)
Baffles me that people don’t realise how stupid they look and do their partners not tell them? Mine certainly would. If I wanted any kind of procedure doing I would want it to look as subtle as possible 🤷🏼♀️
Well, that’s kind of another can of worms. Many cishet guys don’t realize the xxx content they seek out is photoshopped or artificially enhanced, and that doesn’t even begin to touch on what AI generated xxx content is doing to the cishet male gaze.
That’s what I don’t understand. How in the world do they look in the mirror and think all those injectables look good? Even when you look at Khloe, she looked so much prettier with her natural features. Now she can barely emote. All these people have frozen faces, and it isn’t healthy. Remember, people, aging is HEALTHY and normal. Dying young is not, nor is never physically emoting simply because you’ve overfilled your face and used too many neurotoxins. Just like too much filler can deform your face, overuse of neurotoxins can cause your facial muscles to atrophy due to lack of use.
I think we just see soooo much of it online that people genuinely start to find it pretty. I think it's kinda like fashion trends. Only, it's not like clothes you can just take off when you're done with them, this is YOUR BODY you're doing this too.
Thanks for always warning and informing everyone to the dangers and risks associated with plastic surgeries! It makes me sad whenever I see before pics of Kylie. She was honestly such a cutie! She now just looks like a fembot. 😢 I’ve said before and I’ll keep saying it…I wish we could all just be ok living in our natural bodies. I was an idiot who hated my nose and got rhinoplasty. Worst thing I ever did. Didn’t give me the nose I wanted and the doc cut the muscle between my upper lip and nose so now my smile is completely gone. The upper lip stays flat and makes it look odd. If you look at Jennifer Aniston or Carrie Underwood, when they were younger compared to now, their smiles are like that too. It just looks unnatural. Wish it was something I never did!!
I got mine done one time about a year ago. I regret it so much I have a scar tissue mark on my top lip now and it barely lasted two months. I will never get them again I regret it all the time!! I embrace my thin upper lip now 😂 Also I just want to thank you Stephanie for grounding us all the time I love your content❤ I think you genuinely give girls confidence out there!
if your lower lip is larger than your upper lip, it means that you are an ideal among the ancient Greeks (they have excellent taste when it comes to natural beauty). The upper small lips, which are shaped like a mountain of a heart, add charm to the lips. Small lips add charm and enhance facial features!
That's also an ideal I many African countries! BTW, HA filler doesn't always completely dissappear. Make sure to check if it hasn't just migrated and what can be done
As someone with small lips, all I can say is embrace your "imperfections". We're all made to look different and unique and this trend of everyone getting the same procedures to look the same only creates boring visuals. I'm a huge fan of all the features that make our faces interesting and beautiful, be small lips or big noses.
Wow, I didn't know how much I needed this video. I like my face, but sometimes I see other people with larger lips and get upset because mine are maybe like a regular size, and they aren't very full when I smile. But seeing all these horrifying pictures of the procedures gone wrong and the last part where you explained the genetics and functionality of the body parts really, REALLY made me appreciate and LOVE my face more. Seriously.
As someone who was born with bigger lips I saw the perception change after Angeline Jolie became the biggest sex symbol. The media took her huge lips as the new beauty standard and now we live in Kylie Jenner's fake lips paradise. Just bother me that sometimes ppl ask where I do my lips to look so natural 😂
I get asked about mine, they're not even big, but if you have any lips now people assume they're fake. I've got a prominent philtrum, so think it's that. My brothers have very large lips and never get asked, it's being female.
Big lips only become popular when they think they are real on white women. Now let's talk about that. The trend changed when everyone was saying they're real. Same with Kim and her bbl. She became popular and the big butt trend became popular because everyone thought it was a real. Gave ww hope or something to argue about.
I have average sized lips and this trend doesn’t work on everyone. It was meant for older women who lost volume in their lips and want some back (like my roommate, and it looks good on her but it’s very painful and expensive). But if you’re in your teens or 20’s and worried about your lips being too thin, your lips are perfect the way they are! In the 00’s thin lips were in and all the emo girls had them and they looked cute. ❤
So, now we know that lip fillers, like any injectable beauty treatment, comes with a note of caution. What about treatments like microneedling or (like what I get every other month) nano-needling over the lips? These treatments are intended to build collagen via tiny injuries to the skin, forcing the skin to rebuild its' own collagen, right? Have any of you tried micro- or nano-needling to build fullness in your lips? Would these therapies be a safer alternative to injected fillers? Note: Nano-needling is the same therapy as microneedling except the aesthetician doesn't penetrate the skin as deeply.
Also I get nano-needling over my entire face, neck and chest to help rebuild collagen since I'm aged 41. I've had it done a few times over my lips but I haven't done it consistently enough to see changes.
@@asc.k1865same here (thankfully, I'm not trying to change my lip size). I do love the results of microneedling to this point though and I plan to continue with it.
This video and you just changed my mind. I was so determined to do a little filler. I have wasted so much money this year on cosmetic procedures and I’m DONE. You’re the true de-influencer. THANK YOU SO MUCH STEPHANIE!!!!! ❤❤
I am tellllling you the thing about filler never dissolving is a FACT … I got a little bit of lip filler when I was 25, and it was a little lumpy, my boyfriend was not a fan of the look, and it hurt a lot, so I never got more filler. I’m now about to turn 30, and there is still definitely some filler/scar tissue in there to this day. It doesn’t look bad, but my lips are forever changed
@@fatpinkteddy good for you but we literally have proof that filler do not always dissolve, 20 years later some people still have fillers around their mouth and you probably do too but not enough to be visible
THANK YOU so much for this video. I have to say, even while being aware of the "brainwashing" that is going on out there with the beauty standards, I previously did consider getting a little bit of lip filler once or twice just to "enhance" my natural lip shape. Thanks god I never had the money for it and thanks god your doing such great work of exposing the truth behind it. This is something which is rarely mentioned by anyone - cause of course, it would be bad for the industry that makes money out of those trends. Personally, the fact that those filler never really dissolve ever again, but wander in your body, made me even more relieved to have never get some. Your work is so eyeopening and important!
I want to know what went on inside Kylie Jenner's mind when she thought people would believe her huge lips were the result of lip liner… like how insulting is that 😂 unfortunately many young, teen girls who don't know any better did fall for her BS and Jenner decided to exploit their naivety by selling her awful lip products. I also couldn't believe it when she went on about how she was "releaved Stormi had big lips", what a feral thing to think about your own child, what if she inherited Kylie's lip? Can you imagine how Kylie's insecurities would've been pushed on to her?
@@helixmoore7636no thats lying too. Not all people are "beautiful" you teach kids that looks are completely out of their control, that they are about as responsible for their appearance as they are the color of the sky. Teach them to value what they can change and work towards. integrity, honor, fitness, education, kindness, generosity. Teach them to value what has meaning and is true and isn't just an attribute they didn't earn and are naturally born with. If you are actually beautiful, that's great.. you will face other challenges in life, like jealousy, a halo effect, being treated better than you may have earned because of ypur appearance. The point is .. not everyone IS beautiful.. so to lie to kids isn't good either.
@@dawnjohnson9726 yes because sitting your child down and telling her or him what a hideous troglodyte they are is going to do wonders. Yes not everyone is model beautiful. I'm a short chubby man with some acne scars.
@@dawnjohnson9726 everyone has the capability of being beautiful. Beauty can be having brushed teeth, combed hair and clean clothes. It's important to teach kids that the first thing people see of you isn't your integrity or work ethic it's literally how you look. One of the first things a person notices is another person's teeth. Everyone has the capability of being attractive, telling your kids that some people simply are not is soooo weird and will definitely mess them up 😂
@@helixmoore7636 I'm sure you do have attractive features or the capability of being attractive. To me a person can be conventionally attractive but be ugly because they are dirty and unkempt. And a person with features that are not generally seen as attractive can still be incredibly attractive if they take care of themselves, take care of their teeth and hair and clothes. Everyone has the capability of being attractive.
My god. I’m so happy to have discovered your channel. I’ve always struggled with accepting my face as it is. These videos really did help me appreciate what I look like naturally, and others as well. We’re all beautiful, important people. Please don’t let anyone convince you to change, just find the best way to be you ❤
i was bullied for years for my thin lips, and i got lip filler once, but i’m at the point now where my fillers have faded and i realize that i love my natural lips. i think natural lips always look better than puffed out lips.
And i was bullied for having big, fuller lips😂 I used to hate my lips but later i realized how beatiful it makes me looks bc it actually suits my face structure. We are like two sides of the same coin.
I am a thin lipped Queen 👑. There was a time in highschool that I felt super unattractive because of it, but honestly the biggest issue was my jaw positioning that was greatly improved through orthodontia. I was also blessed with a naturally prominent Cupid's bow, which also helps.
I have naturally thin lips which is exacerbated by my front teeth angling back, like the opposite of buck teeth. Braces to bring them forward would help me a lot.
Thank you for highlighting at 11:00 that your genetic build up is primarily base on your ethnic origin and lndmass so blck people tend to have fuller lips base on their climate which absorbs moisture to help keep the body cool. the same can be said of many arabic and indian people. in europe it will be totally different.
I've had my lips filled twice the last time was a year ago. I'm booked in for a top up later this week. I'm actually considering cancelling now. I think I look natural, I'm definitely not baboon lipped, but how do I even know if my self image is just distorted at this point, or what if this is the time it all goes wrong. I honestly wish more influencers were like you, honest no bs, to help people make educated choices.❤
IMO it also depends if people are conservative with the amount & if their goal is to make proportional. Like a few millimeters is enough. But just like boob envy, lip envy, is if its good, I gotta get more, extra.
@@fran791 just under 2ml in total, the second time was not the full 1ml. But I think it is enough. Thank you for your sensible words and encouragement.
I agree! My child's friend's mum has lip filler, and even though she thinks she is pretty, but compared to all the other mums (even the older tired ones) she looks weird, unfriendly and a bit alien-like.
Your strength and beauty radiates from within; I can feel it through the screen 🫶 never let the insecurities of your bullies make it into your heart, because that’s where your beauty really comes from. The rest is just a temporary meat suit that inevitably gets wrinkly anyway 😂💖
Love this and have sent to my daughter.. she is perfect as she is and I pray she doesn't fall for this stupid and seriously dangerous craze... everyone's cloning x
a few days ago a girl from Austria died after getting lip fillers and having an extreme reaction. the parents are now suing the hospital that couldn‘t save her. the procedure was done by a beautician…
How scary awful! Are you sure it was done at a "hospital"? A beautician did the lip fillers and a beautician is NOT a medical professional. RIP and love.
@@Wise-Lady-La-Aura it was not done at the hospital but at a beautician's. she then went to the hospital to get help but they could not help her. and her parents refuse to believe that there was no way to help her. it was some kind of extremely rare autoimmune reaction
really thankful to this channel, i considered lip filler for a long time because my appearance is my work. luckily i was with someone who said they’d literally break up with me if i did anything to my natural lips but now single seeing this. don’t fall into trends, you’re fine how you are naturally
I believe this is the best video of yours, the last part was gold!! Great message for young girls to learn to appreciate not only themselves but their ancestry, which in this "me, me, me", self-absorbed era not many people think about. Our acestors would be probably sad that we are constantly trying to look like we came from another ethnicity just because of social media. Thank you Stephanie, I'm in my 30's but I fear for my niece's confidence and you are such a healthy source of that.
I love this one!! Growing up, I hated my high cheek bones and roman nose. And then I went a family reuinion and literally left feeling so proud to look like I did because so many of my extended family had the same features ❤
That’s so beautiful ❤. What me thing I learned is part of loving who you are is realizing all the people that took in your family line to come together just to make you.
At 46, I've heard about lip fillers for more than half my life. In 2000, it was one of the most asked for high school graduation gifts. As a young teacher at the time, this concerned me to the core. While I have thought of lip filler for myself in the past, it wasn't until I was closer to 40 that I was serious about it. I have a lot of allergies and now I'm completely against the idea. Thanks for another great , educational video!
I’m glad that you made it clear that this is in fact natural in darker skinned people. Saying big lips aren’t natural can be misleading and considered prejudice. Love your vids. I am black and have thin lips and do get picked on about it. I love them though.
I have done lip filler twice but not to necessarily have larger lips. I'm 57 and a former smoker and I had a deep lip line on one side of my mouth. Basically, I just popped that wrinkle out without making my lips look crazy. On the other hand, I got talked into cheek filler and it was a disaster. It migrated and made me look so haggard. I ended up having it dissolved and I can attest, it will dissolve your natural tissue. I never had hollows under my eyes or through my cheek but now I do. They say it comes back but it's been a year and while it has improved some, it has not returned to normal. I seriously regret the cheek filler.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I’m 59 w a million wrinkles around my lips but whatever. Didn’t we all smoke way back then? I quit 25 years ago but…Time catches up. I just live w the wrinkles. They are part of the aging experience now!
yeaaaah cheek filler has more disastrous effects than most filler. your buccal fat region gets absolutely weighed down with the filler, and the thing is, buccal fat already thins after 25 and then begins to sag over time. at 57, your buccal fat not only thinned out but sagged. adding to that with filler just made it sag more and faster, causing the remaining fat that kept your undereye fat lifted and puffy to sag, and then hollow out. absolutely nobody should get cheek filler, ever, unless these are the desired results. lip filler is one thing (but if done "correctly" won't have effects), but cheek filler? entirely different world. cheek filler shouldnt even exist tbh. it looks bad on everyone.
Thank you for explaining the genetics of why people look the way they do bc stereotypes and social pressures have everyone thinking we need to look the same.
Thank you, Stephanie. It's shocking how cosmetic lip fillers are marketed. Thin lips are not a problem and the risks associated with the filler ingredients are just not worth it.
I have big and full lips but growing up I wanted small lips because I used to be made fun of by my 'friends' about it, and now as a teen, I am proud of them and I can't lie... seeing all these ladies from all the races trying to have my lips, uplifted me.
I love how you went in depth about the science behind the facial structures of different cultures. I found that to be very interesting. Humans are so beautiful and unique.
I’m a white girl that was born with big lips and the amount of teasing and harassment I went through as a kid at school in the 80’s was terrible. Back then the beauty standard was small lips. I hated my lips. Imagine being older now and everyone trying to get big lips. I may go parade around my big lips at my next high school reunion 😂😂😂.
Same here but I went to school in the 2000s, so I think a lot of my bullies were just insecure about their own lips. The beauty standard had changed mostly by then. My mum went to school in the 1980s though and she has naturally small/thin lips (I fully take after my dad) and she fit the beauty standard back then. As an older woman she has been told she needs fillers! Beauty standards change so I feel it’s never worth getting changing a natural feature (unless it’s extreme and destroying your confidence).
You had the black girl experience but probably without seeing you mum and aunties with those big lips looking beautiful so you could ignore the bullies easier
@@Dolphinboibro said “against.” it’s an opinion not an activist movement. also i looked her up and she looks better without in my opinion. you just fit into a small percentage of people who value uncanny artificialness :/
@@DolphinboiI’m sorry, but she got way too much plastic surgery as a teen. I admire her for her work ethic and she seems like a nice girl, but I wish she wasn’t in such a toxic environment that made her feel like she needed all of that done.
Honestly, thank you for creating this 👏🏻 love hearing about the science and history behind beauty standards. It really helps put things into perspective
This was so timely! You saved me a fortune and facial deformation. Just turned 55 and newly single, and was feeling old and considering some tweakments but fts!
Thin lips are so beautiful I never understood why women would feel so bad about them. I used to watch many women on tv who had thin lips and they were thought of as the most beautiful. And a sharp red lip looked good on them too. But people keep taking the wrong examples to heart and in the mirror they no longer see how huge and uneven their lips are. You barely see anyone with non bumpy lips in hollywood anymore.
It’s so sad that most of us have insecurities when it comes to our appearance, specially when we are teenagers. I’m so glad I’m from a small town, mid class family with strong values, I was raised with so much love that helped me loved and accept myself through the years. I look back and I’m so happy that I was never able to go through plastic surgery and also that my family never supported me on that. I love the person I see in the mirror, I understand my body way better now and I wouldn’t change a bit of it! My unique features make me attractive. That’s beauty to me, highlighting the best feature each of us naturally have 😊
I've said it before but I have to say it again - I'm so freaking happy I didn't fall for this trend. I remember being so insecure when the filler trend started like 8 years ago and kept dreaming of when I can get plump lips. My lips aren't even that thin, just normal. I remember totally falling for the lie that they can completely dissolve with no side effects. Then I became confused when I saw people who claimed to stop getting lip filler years ago and their lips still looked weird. It just goes to show that when there is a new trend we can't just trust everyone knows all the side effects immediately.
Being cautious about new trends is probably wise. You just don't know the long-term effects of something when it's brand-new. Hell, radium was touted as a cure-all in the early 1900s.
Its so crazy how growing up everyone used to make fun of me for having full lips and now people are literally going under the knife to have them. SMH. What a world we live in!!!!
Agreed! Learning to love yourself is hard, especially in a world that picks you apart inch by inch, but once you find self-love it is one of the best things ever. Once you find confident in yourself and other people can't shake your foundations, that's the real winner. That'll make you look more attractive than any of these surgeries could.
Sometimes our lips are meant to fit with most of our facial features. If we add fillers or alter it in any ways either we can look good (happens with small amount of people) or may look a lil weird. I have small lips, kinda pouty like my lips arent wide at all. I wont call them very thin or full but more on a avg thinner side. I used to think that was ugly, too small etc but sometimes later in my life i realized that my small pouty lips are something that complements my chubby cheeks, and my innocent face well.
I am a person with naturally full lips who grew up in a cold country and my lips were prone to get super dry, chopped and sore had I skipped just half a day not applying some really good mask or balm. I never really thought about why it was so, I thought I was doing something wrong like biting them without noticing or something. But now it's actually clear to me that my lips just were not designed for living in a colder climate. Now after your video I really think about getting a DNA test as there must be some foreigner from a warmer region among my ancestors who passed those lips to me. And yes, be damn this nonsensical and ruthless ever changing fashion for random facial features! In my childhood I was actually low-key bullied for my big lower lip and now it is something desired by many... It's just crazy.
Mind is now changed. I almost booked an appointment. This logically makes perfect sense (even though I know I was going to cave to beauty standards). and makes me embrace more of my Finnish heritage Thanks, Stephanie!!
hi! just a little heads up, the surgery from the pictures at 10:18 isn’t lip reduction surgery, it’s heart shaped lip surgery in thailand. it’s another toxic beauty standard made so ppl deform their bodies, just a different standard in a different region 😬
Stephanie, I really hope you realise how important the content you make is. I am not even 18 years old yet and almost all of my close friends are currently getting work done to their face and body. I have considered doing so as well, for most of my teens. Your videos really changed my perception of beauty and cosmetic surgery, considering the side effects of surgery and rapid changes of beauty standards. I have since accepted the way I look more. I currently don't have the need to get anything done and have started to appreciate every single one of my features. Thank you and I really hope more people find your videos to be inspiring and helpful!
i constantly feel unattractive since everyone online has their lips done and i never see thinner doll like lips anymore. i have been told i need mine done so many times
A part of me can't wait to see the comments sections filled with comments like the one below: "I got made fun of for my super thin lips, but now everyones getting expensive lip reduction surgeries 😘😜Love my beautiful and all natural lips. I keep getting asked where I got them done but they're all me lol. I'm so thankful for my heritage, peace and love!!" People will take the chance to brag about themselves whenever their features are currently in-style (big lips, certain eye shapes, eyebrows, body type being super skinny, body type being thicc, their hair style, etc)
@@Olia-ch-ka As it always happens lol. I have a naturally big upper lip and some people thought I got fillers 😂 The urge to brag was there but I know this is nothing but a fad and soon my lips would probably be "outdated', imagine that.
@@ShreeNation Yeah, haha. I completely understand the urge people have to brag, especially since beauty is often associated with morality. I really hope that one day, society will put less value on physical looks and more value on people actions and loving hearts. ❤
being shallow here, i find both big & small lips beautiful. same with eyes, noses, foreheads, bodies...etc. it depends on the rest of the individual's features. same as what stephanie said, big lips don't suit everyone!
Thank you for helping me be more confident about my thin lips. They used to be the beauty standard, and one day, they will again 💞 The fact that the fillers dont dissolve and actually migrate to other parts of the body disgusts me 😭
I think one of my biggest issues with these procedures is that women are all kind of starting to look the same. It’s weird. I think individuality and uniqueness are really beautiful, personally.
I AGREE!!!!! Everyone gets the same nose, lips and body…
Absolutely agree, like barbies of a conveyer belt in a store.. all the same... xx
I notice that everyone getting a rhinoplasty has the same nose
Dw, us broke people will always be unique
I swear i can't even differentiate 90% of influencers all over the internet. All have same lips and nose and i wonder why I don't have that nose? 50% of them look like Ariana Grande now.
The fact people think that Kylie lips were real is still so mind boggling people were really online arguing that it was lip liner
Shows how ignorant people are. I remember have real life arguments with people about that asking them how is it possible they can be a real adult who is that naive. Especially when Kylie comes from a family who ain't scared of the needle.
I don’t know. There’s still people arguing that she grew 10 inches of hips out of nowhere. Seriously shows how ignorant people are about anatomy and what natural bodies look like.
Thank you for the jam packed slide show! So many beautiful examples
@@SocialExperiment232which now simply vanished cause skinny is back in
@@angevin6679 Agreed! It’s so bizarre how she’s able to gaslight the whole world like that. Tho I don’t even feel like skinny skinny is back in I feel like they just realized how ridiculously exaggerated they looked and decided to tone it down. If anything this is more accurate to what Kylie’s natural body would be like if she never got it surgically altered. She had a slim, athletic build, and was generally thin. I think Kim had a weird epiphany when she put on Marilyn’s dress and it didn’t fit her, maybe she realized how overboard she went when the poster girl for curvy bodies was way thinner and more naturally built than her. Marilyn is proof that we don’t need huge boobs/butts/tiny waists to be curvy and beautiful. And we don’t need to be super slim and have flat stomachs either. It’s why I find her so interesting.
The worst is it only looks nice with make up and certain camera shots and lighting. In person looks like something's really wrong. And hell, it is 💀
Bad toupee fallacy
Not if they’re done correctly
this is not true…
@@kaylathompson2111majority is not
@@kaylathompson2111 Unless you get very little injected, the fillers will cancel many natural lip wrinkles and you can tell irl.
The bigger and more full the natural lips are, the more specific wrinkles will show up, it's just how the skin texture of the mouth area works. Unnaturally full lips don't have that, on the contrary they take away wrinkles, trust me you can tell very easily irl, especially when the person speaks.
I got my lips done twice and my technician refused to take me any more because she doesnt like me to be fake and ruin my lips. We need more technicians like this
That's an...odd position for a technician to take. Is it just you or the rest of her clients, too? She might be in the wrong line of work.
no its not. its tech who cares about her clients, not who puts money first to create creatures like those in the video. i know lots of beauty technicians who are like this. im glad i haven't gotten my lips bigger because i would look like a deformed fish like some of these chicks in the video. that happens when technician chooses money over health. she is in the right business because clearly millions of women are brainwashed into looking like deformed ducks. @@ericaosborne5241
@@ericaosborne5241no she isnt, shes actually in the right line of work because its beauty enhancements not beauty altering, people get it wrong, proffesional technicians like that actually care about their clients health and wellbeing
@@ericaosborne5241that’s literally what i was thinking..?
Actually mine did the same thing she said mine were already a nice size. I was mad at her for that before and now so grateful Jesus us women can be fooled so easily sometimes into thinking we need to do all these stupid things and for what!?
It’s hilarious to me that we look at old Victorian fashion and say “ugh why would women go through all that trouble of wearing bone corsettes just to look skinny??” And here women are injecting crap into their face all the time just to look like a cartoon
@FreePigeon No, corsets were never for health reasons, which is obvious from how the silhouettes changed every few years with new fashion trends. Look at the unnatural S-shaped corset of the 1880s for the so-called “New Figure” vs previous corsets (restrictive but upright) and later corsets (less restrictive, more natural silhouette).
I really think that women who talking about "crazy old beauty standards" in our modern day society where almost every influencer is a living promotion for plastic surgery (sometimes a deadly one like BBL) are coping
@@sissyfussYeah but almost all of the corsets still provided back/breast support? I’m confused why the silhouette changing means none of them are for health. People with back issues still use corsets. I’ve even heard it’s better coverage than a bra.
Great point so true.
Or the Butt modification thing.
i have really bad body dysmorphia and this is slowly getting me out of it, thank you so much for these videos really.
as someone who is on the road of recovery, my nr 1 tip is to feed your brain the "correct" info..!! try to actively choose take a content break from people that make you feel bad about yourself and try to incorporate more bodyneutrality people! use the "not interested in this content" feature that is available on most apps to "fix" your algorithm if needed!!
you can do this ! body dysmorphia doesnt have to ruin your self image ❤
What helped me was amateur porn. Even the most beautiful actress will look weird and smooshed in the right position😂
And yes see all the bodies. We are SUPPOSED TO JIGGLE. Period.
I have no idea why people think lips that look like swollen vag!n@l lips are "hot." Yes, the vegi.* swells during sex. Swells even more during and after childbirth for some reason. How I know this, well...let's say when you work in med field...people have the weirdest questions, and we see the weirdest things.
Im sure u look great.🙂 Please dont get any cosmetic procedures.
I love the fact that everytime I feel ugly or even told that I am "avarage at best" I can come here, watch a video or 2 and realize that I am actually beautiful in my own way and "standards" required to be beautiful is just a buisness tool that just didn't got me on their bandwagon
You need to get better friends. Who the hell tells someone they are average at best. And whats wrong with average. We are all individuals with our own unique qualities.
@@sagekay9121 How is this toxic? toxic are the beauty standards that push us to harm ourselves.
All I gotta say is stay off instagram.. it really messes with your head
So fk sad to hear that you are 'avarage at best'🥺Don't take it personality!! Beauty is different for everybody!! So you have to feel yourself beautiful🤗
I just wonder what exactly is wrong with looking average… like why is it such an insult?
Me and my best friend when i was 18 used to give each other confidence boosts all the time. She had the sexy big lips and the curvy figure, i had the big eyes and the flat stomach. She became less conscious of her 'podgy figure' and i became less ashamed of my flat chest. We felt beautiful and confident. Women should celebrate each other!
I love this!!
that’s so sweet 😭😭 spread the positivity! ❤
Or find some other purpose in life as well.
@@9395gb that's true but having confidence in your body in a society that is always centered around the body is very important
That’s so true! I went to an all girls high school & we put on full makeup everyday! Why? Bc women want to impress other women! I ❤what you & your friend did for each other! We’re all beautiful 😘 🫶🏼
Kylie is 26, looks like 46. The same all other influencers that started procedures too early in life. How will she look in her 40's? Like 80? Embrace your natural beauty. :)
If she didn’t look her mother as she currently is after all her treatments, she’s really starting to look like her now.
She has aged herself…
These treatments have a limit, and if you start young, more times you have to go and get the treatment again cause skin of the face drops with time and fillers migrate to other parts of the face. She is not going to loke good in the future, and she will fell miserable.
yall deluting yourself so hard, she doesn't look 46
it also creates unrealistic standards on age now. everyone who is “natural” is assumed to be so much younger because of celebrities who look 46 when they’re 26
Her lips actually made her a biillionaire. Who cares if she looks older? it's better than looking natural and young but be poor and not happy about your life
Ok I was set on getting my lips done until this. You actually changed my mind. Thank you.
So many moms on the school run have their lips done. You can see their lips and lashes coming a mile off. They look horrific, they migrate, over filled duck lips, I look at their pictures and they look nothing like them in real life. They can look OK in pictures posing front profile. But side profile? Lip filler looks horrible. Please don't. ❤
Well done 💖
Doing it responsibly is possible. Just be smart about it and you’ll be fine
None of them look real so why ruin your beautiful face?
I have very small lips and will never inject poison in them.
Those of us who can stand strong and against this will win in the end. This too shall pass (like everything else has).
Good choice @ChelseaxMom.
@@parker23148please stop advocating for this trend. This only supports the problem. People need help to love themselves, not continued encouragement to change themselves because of idiotic celebrities and “influencers”. 🙄
I absolutely do NOT feel sorry for Kylie. She is part if the unnatainable beauty standard by perpetuating it unappologetically
Sorry about my spelling errors
I feel sorry for her because she was a literal child when she started doing it and was positively reinforced for it by EVERYONE. But I am COMPLETELY there with you. I'd say she was the one who started the obsession with lip injections and she inspired a whole generation of women, both older and many younger than her.
exactly!!!
If you want something done do it for yourself not to follow a trend. And do your homework I do not condone Botox parties . Oh homework you should not be under 18 wow!
Yeah that interview with her, how can people idolize her I will never know
I have naturally big lips, and I remember getting made fun of for it when I was a kid. I hated them, but my mom and teachers would tell me “people pay good money for lips like yours.” I thought it was BS at the time, but omg they weren’t kidding.
Same! I used to be called "DSL" and thought it was so embarrassing, now it's something people pay for!
Sameee I was called fish lips in primary school until kylie came with her fillers lol
Me too! 😅 Who’s laughing now? 😏
Some kid used to call me "cow lips"
I was bullied for having big lips, freckles, narrow eyes, and a big butt. Seeing the same people who tormented me for these features turn around and emulate them was a mindfuck when I got older.
Still waiting for aquiline noses to become trendy, though.
I truly think Kylie was prettier with her original face. The proportions just made more sense, and her smaller lips made her big beautiful eyes stand out more.
Right? Like she was so cute. I prefer having a cute babyface over copy paste instagram face any day.
@@ramenaddict1676 💯
The vast majority would disagree with you about her original face being prettier.
If her original face was actually prettier, then she wouldn't have gotten all of those procedures to fit in with the beauty standards. Instead, her family would have gotten procedures to look more like her.
When she just looked like a person....now she looks like an organic bratz doll 😅
@@msk-qp6fn Unfortunately, it's not enough to look like just a regular person anymore.
If you don't look like a literal doll or android, you'll be bullied or overlooked to the point where people need to go to extremes to fit in and be treated decently in todays society.
Us girls should be less concerned about the size of our lips, but more about the kind words that come out of them X X X
Well said.
Amen and I have to remind myself of this every day.
Another American Hater heard from. Hiding a good motive under a bad one.
This!!!! I wish people would. It makes me sad everyday seeing so much hate. 😔
Wooorrddd
Mocking people with lip fillers is the one pleasure in life that lets me know I truly am a horrible person. I just delight in it too much.
lol I got soooo much hate for simply making the comment of “Yup fake lashes and filler do wonders!” on a post where ppl were going off about how gorgeous the poster was. She had gorgeous eyes and skin but the lips were…scary.
Cringe
Same.
Fkn, me too 😂
It’s hard truth, but it’s the absolute best way to discourage this practice amongst children.
Pre-injections those girls actually smiled in pictures. After they only pout.
I’d imagine it hurt to smile looks painful lol
Botox in the lower regions of the face can also make it impossible or difficult to smile
Yesss this is so sad and unfortunately i can relate because in 2016(wow its been 7 years) i had 1ml only on my top lip once and it hasnt moved even a little its all there… and its so bad and uneven asymmetrical bumps and when i smile one of my front tooth looks smaller so i dont feel comfortable smiling anymore😭😭😭and i wore braces 5 years.. and for what to hide my smile again..😭 and im afraid of huyluronadise i wish i find a solution to get my pretty smile again 🙏amen. I wish i didnt fall in the trap of insecurity
@@hristianahmaybe it'll go away eventually.😔❤ and maybe your story will help someone else to not get this done. It's really sad that this is even a trend, when there are many stories like yours, happening to people
I have injections and I'm happy with them however when I had my very thin natural lips that I hated and felt extremely insecure about I'd fake smile in pictures because I thought they only looked bearable when I smiled. Now I don't feel the need to fake a smile anymore and I can focus on other things than being anxious about my looks. I don't believe I'm the only one.
When I’ve heard that lip filler can cause necrosis of your lips or face… I decided I will never ever get lip filler
That’s terrifying
It's not worth it if it's going to possibly mess your condition of living.
“Can” is VERY different of “will”. I’m from Brazil and almost everyone here has got procedures done (different from Americans we never deny what we have got done) and I never heard of someone getting necrosis from fillers. Never! So, it can happen I guess. As you can also get struck by a lightning too. As unlikely.
@@allwhatilove914lightning strikes are wayyy different from acts of vanity lol! Not the best comparison
@@allwhatilove914well I guess if you never heard of it it should be fine, I'll ignore all the experts
I genuinely wonder where the line is between 'if you do it, do it for yourself and not others' and buckling due to societal manipulation. Even if you change your face "for yourself", the root problem is still linked to how everyone else perceives you. You feel bad about your appearance for a reason. Even Kylie did. So, I don't believe anyone is doing it for themselves but bc society or someone specific has made them feel insecure.
👏🏼
Completely agree, especially when what they claim they're doing "for themselves" just so happens to conform to the male gaze / over sexualization of women's features.
Yeah the whole "you do you" bs lets people off the hook way too easily. These people aren't just "doing them", they're perpetuating these toxic beauty standards.
@@vb8801 Wow....a feminist blaming men for their own neuroses..... And in other news, water is wet and the sun is hot!
Truth.
I grew up having big lips and wanting to have surgery to have them smaller , then when having big lips became popular i became insecure and started thinking that my lips were not big enough. Its crazy how we cant win no matter what
Also what will happen when big lips will not be popular anymore , people will dissolve their fillers and will I want to keep mine ? Or just the same circle again and again ?
@@sara_jillzisame, I wanted to make my lips smaller in the past since I find it big and occupies like 25% of my face (exaggeration) but still big, and now it became popular I became comfortable with it.
Omg I just remembered wanting to have my lips smaller as a child and then suddenly seeing them being widely accepted as an adult. Trends are so fucked
you can win. win by not caring what stupid society says.
@@sara_jillziNatural big lips will always be beautiful now, but people might realize too much filler is never pretty
THANK YOU Stephanie, for being one of FEW girls with an all female audience who isn’t afraid to say the truth without sugarcoating it AT ALL ❤
Yes my god I needed that video! Thank you! I was thinking about the lip filler topic before and I even googled it, if there is really science claiming bigger lips are just generally more attractive or feminine. And some kind of halfway or pseudoscience so often claimed yes it’s feminine. I was skeptical because it doesn’t make sense to me why nordic women just tend to have smaller lips. Of course with the cold climate it makes perfect sense. I think both types of lips can be beautiful and I just feel that lip filler lips always look fake and I just never liked the idea of looking fake. Probably in a few years the trend will change again just like with the figure. The good thing about this trend is that some girls who were bullied for having big lips now know that there is beauty in their lips ❤
Im crying. I been wanting filler. Thankyou for making a video informing people about the things that can go wrong
Me too!!
Things go wrong when you get too much.
It can also go right. I have no regrets getting lip filler...it looks natural and beautiful. You just have to do it right. 💋
So I'm half European half african, and my lips tend to be on the bigger side and honestly I have been insulted and complimented on my lips, so it really does not matter just hang around people who accept you for you and make you feel happy and confident. ❤
Well said 💚
You can be the ripest and juiciest peach in the world, and theres still someone who hates peaches. -Dita Von Teese 🍑
@@babaganouche9605I love this quote ❤
Thank you❤ i have a bit of a fuller lip from my dad side. People were thinkin i had lipfiller. Which i havent and never will. I always say see these wrinkles and lines etc with filler it is blowed up and my lips are normal...
Damn. Yeah I remember when big lips were like a "bad" thing in the early 2000s. It's sort of wild how you were able to see this change yourself. Like you saw the shift in how society treated you. I guess it's good to know that you were never the problem. Society is. Beauty standards are all relative. Nothing more than a social construct.
I cannot even end the video, am I the only one who is terrified by all this stuff injected
100%
I am terrified by this too! Seems like there's not too many of us tho😬
There are so many risks that come with injecting these weird ass chemicals into our faces. I can’t even wrap my mind around it. Terrifying
I watch Dr. Pimple Popper and Hoof GP without problems but I had to look away for most of this
It looks like it would hurt😊
Imagine what these women will look like in their 70s and 80s.
If they make it to that age
😂😂😂😂😂
Will they make it to even 40
I'm blasian, and even though I'm guilty of snapping back at mean white girls by saying they have "no lips" I honestly have to take that back. I don't want to be part of the problem. I think Caucasian features are just as beautiful as African or Asian features. Big and small lips look equally beautiful if you have healthy and balanced looking features, and I want young girls of all races to be able to appreciate their natural beauty. Also, there is more value to being a woman than just being beautiful.
As long as they make fun of my features,I’ll make fun of theirs. They go low, I go lower.
well, thanks for admitting you're a shitty part of the problem I guess.
It's a craze gone bonkers. In my day it was anorexia, which thankfully at least cost nothing - except perhaps one's health later on.
@@HappyH4ppyHappyyes return their energy
@@HappyH4ppyHappyand then the cycle continues, people will keep making fun of your features.
I’m an esthetician, practicing for 20yrs and I’ve never seen so much cosmetic enhancements/procedures being done on so many young girls in high school and college. It’s obvious looking and ages them. I try to explain the damage and complications with lip filler but they don’t care. 🤷🏻♀️
Ya I feel like doing it so young is a big mistake. I know people who got a small amount in their thirties who love it because they didn’t go overboard with it but when you’re young you tend to make decisions without consideration first. Usually doesn’t turn out well.
I had one tell me that botox was anti aging. I never heard any plastic surgeon or doctor confirm this though.
@@9395gbonly if it’s in your forehead and literally prevents your face from being able to make an expression that causes forehead wrinkles
Why are the parents allowing this??!!! Thats the part I don’t understand!!! 🤯
@@9395gbits not anti aging. It prevents muscle movement so that it doesn’t create wrinkles. Botox os preventative, but you’re still injecting a foreign substance to your body tho so people can still get side effects from it.
This was good.
I'm 37, I've never had any cosmetic procedures. I've only dyed my hair 5 times in my 20's. I'll say I contemplated a few procedures in the past but I always talked myself out of it. Very happy to this day I talked myself out of all those ideas.
I took good care of myself and my skin. Sunblock is key. Find outfits that compliment your body and work with what you have.
It's absolutely crazy to me that so many people get random substances injected into their body. It grosses me out. I understand why many do it and I'm not judging them. It's their choice. But for me personally it's very scary. I have many things I'm insecure about but I personally could never do any cosmetic procedure unless medically necessary. It's scary shit
Yes, I totally agree. It baffles me how people just follow dangerous trends.
@bumblebee.8 absolutely. It's very worrisome for our youth out there who start doing these procedures far too young because they wanna look like whatever celebrity or influencer they look up to. It's very scary and sad.
so gross right!
@@PositiveVibesChangeLives I know, media is powerful.
Exactly! Like i'm not gonna be doing any surgeries or putting stuff into my body unless it's like necessary for my health or something
im asian and was born with big lips and a flat nose and i've been so insecure about it. ive been wanting a nose job ever since i was 11 years old and only recently did i look up how to get smaller lips and stumbled on your video. when you described why different people have bigger lips or noses because of our ancestry it really helped me appreciate myself more. it made me actually be grateful for what i have because it all makes sense why we are born they way we are. i guess as humans, we are never happy in our own skin and i really wish to love myself and not compare to all the social media stars.
I love all the different kinds of unique beauty around the world. I grew up in a town with people from everywhere, it's so dull when everyone looks the same.
No, it’s not that humans are naturally unhappy in our own skin - it’s societal pressure put on others, to become such.
This is not some innate chronic issue, all humans are destined to experience.
This is, very much, manufactured.
Just like the crap that is injected.
Yes. God made us the way He did for a reason. Love Him and yourself 💪🏾
@@valarmorghulis4801amen!! Say it again for the people in the back!!
People assume I had a nose job but I was born with it. 🥰
The description of why people have smaller lips in colder climate made me feel so much better. So much more connected to my humanity. I am of mostly slavic descent and well... Eastern europe is a mostly cold place!! I also have severe body dysmorphia and often call myself "deformed" and "disabled looking" when in fact I am the opposite. My "undesirable" parts are intelligent design, adapted to where I live. Thank you SO much.
A video about "skinny legs" from influencers would be great 🫣
Yes!
Absolutely! Haas been one of my insecurities since I was little because I would always see people with thin legs and thighs
yesss pls ive always had thick thighs
@@aylin_falzone SAME
Idk what y’all are talking about? I never see skinny legs being the in thing??? It’s always thick thighs being praised and tons of negative comments on skinny girl’s videos calling them names….
When I was young I use to be happy with my smaller lips. Never wanted them to be any bigger… it’s interesting that in the last 5 years I have gotten filler. Not much but just enough to plump them a little bit as I have become insecure of how small they were. Always been happy with my natural results but watching videos like this makes me realize I don’t need to waste my money! Ive essentially been brainwashed into feeling insecure about so many things!
It's never too late to go back and even stop following the crown. This is another fad, and it will pass.
I feel that. My lips are pretty full, and I still had a small "Should I be getting them plumped more?" phase in young adulthood. It just felt like everyone had filler.
I love how you don’t hold back while still being respectful. We need more people talking about plastic surgery this way!
We are just being brainwashed to have insecurities. The most important is being healthy and a good person. The rest is just decoration. Love yourself and others ❤❤❤❤
Wow the only somewhat sensible comment over read so far good job 👏
I spent years in school getting spray tans because I’m a pale reed head and people were into tanning back then and would make fun of my skin. Now that I’m 30 and I know my heritage somewhat, I love my skin. I keep it pale. I don’t get spray tans anymore because they don’t look right on me. I protect my skin from the sun and I wear it proudly because this is all from my heritage from Scotland and England. And it’s meant to absorb as much sun as possible for the cooler climates
I also used to tan after getting made fun of for being pale my whole life, but after getting skin cancer at 30 I stopped. I have embraced my pale skin as well, but the kp I kept at bay by tanning has gotten much worse in my old age, but I remind myself that it could be much worse and make a choice to count the good and ignore the bad.❤❤❤
That’s funny bc I’m naturally tan/olive toned and I was obsessed with trying to breach my skin as a kid…
The universal sign of beauty is clear skin. Glow no matter what shade you were born with. ✨
I think trump must use spray tan as he often looks orangey in the press photo.
@@Ukie88I have heard that he uses henna/cassia mixture… as henna is a natural 💯 sunblock he is then able to stand in long hours in full sun during his events with out ANY sunburn. His mom was born in Scotland and he inherited her very light skin. I am same and have found henna/cassia is the only thing that stops sunburn. Notice he never ever has hyper pigmentation or sunburn.
I absolutely love my thin lips. I hate lip fillers. Everyone seems to want to look like carbon copies of each other. I wish women out there wouldn't follow trends and ignore the pressures of society. Screw that. I will never get my lips filled x
Totally agree!
you're coping so bad
@@kittycat1887 I'm not coping. I completely accept how my body is naturally
@@biggerbeautyupnorth uhuh
Calm urself no need to be rude with a name like “kittykat” I wouldn’t snap back if I were u and as someone who’s watching this what u said is clearly the same for u
I truly feel so sorry with all my heart for those who fell for this dangerous trend.
I saw someone on the train with lip fillers and and they didn’t suit her they weren’t massive but I could tell they were just slightly too big if she’d have done them a bit smaller it wouldn’t have looked bad
@@emmaevans4919exactly you only notice the overdone ones that look obvious..you’ve probably seen many girls with filler but didn’t even realise
I honestly feel bad for Hollywood people they are constantly miserable
@@Jbp-tbsh 👌
And how do you know?
Ur evolutionary explanation was so eloquently articulated! Omgg
ever since my ex talked about how Kylie Jenner is his crush and his "ideal woman" looks wise, i used to feel weird about myself, because we don't share the same facial features at all. especially with the beautiful women all over instagram and tiktok, i've been feeling insecure over my features and "disconnected" from today's beauty standards. Thank you.
I will NEVER understand why "men" (in quotes because I mean grown ass, immature little boys) like your ex go for women who aren't their type and feel the need to complain about who THEY chose, and have the AU-FUCKING-DACITY to make it your problem. I stg every time I listen to what specific types of men (like your ex) have to say, the quality of my life diminishes.
It's good that he's your ex.
@ramenaddict1676 As a man the best thing you ladies can do is tell us goodbye and never look back. I'm dead serious. Nothing makes people like him happy and you will have a life of self doubt
@@helixmoore7636 your ex likes bimbos and men like this are actually losers
Glad he's your ex now. I find the less time I spend on social media the more comfortable and happy I am with my looks. Sure there are things I still want to work on, like being more fit, but I'm not tearing myself apart bc all these girls got work done and I look normal. I highly recommend you spend less time online looking at that stuff. You will feel MUCH better. I promise :)
Baffles me that people don’t realise how stupid they look and do their partners not tell them? Mine certainly would. If I wanted any kind of procedure doing I would want it to look as subtle as possible 🤷🏼♀️
Well, that’s kind of another can of worms. Many cishet guys don’t realize the xxx content they seek out is photoshopped or artificially enhanced, and that doesn’t even begin to touch on what AI generated xxx content is doing to the cishet male gaze.
My partner would never let that slide!
That’s what I don’t understand. How in the world do they look in the mirror and think all those injectables look good? Even when you look at Khloe, she looked so much prettier with her natural features. Now she can barely emote. All these people have frozen faces, and it isn’t healthy. Remember, people, aging is HEALTHY and normal. Dying young is not, nor is never physically emoting simply because you’ve overfilled your face and used too many neurotoxins. Just like too much filler can deform your face, overuse of neurotoxins can cause your facial muscles to atrophy due to lack of use.
I think we just see soooo much of it online that people genuinely start to find it pretty. I think it's kinda like fashion trends. Only, it's not like clothes you can just take off when you're done with them, this is YOUR BODY you're doing this too.
@@LX-kt90rx body dysmorphia
your videos make me feel beautiful whenever i am thinking of "tweaking" my features. thank you.
Thanks for always warning and informing everyone to the dangers and risks associated with plastic surgeries!
It makes me sad whenever I see before pics of Kylie. She was honestly such a cutie! She now just looks like a fembot. 😢
I’ve said before and I’ll keep saying it…I wish we could all just be ok living in our natural bodies.
I was an idiot who hated my nose and got rhinoplasty. Worst thing I ever did. Didn’t give me the nose I wanted and the doc cut the muscle between my upper lip and nose so now my smile is completely gone. The upper lip stays flat and makes it look odd. If you look at Jennifer Aniston or Carrie Underwood, when they were younger compared to now, their smiles are like that too. It just looks unnatural. Wish it was something I never did!!
thank you so much for the super thanks love! I only just saw it! xx
I got mine done one time about a year ago. I regret it so much I have a scar tissue mark on my top lip now and it barely lasted two months. I will never get them again I regret it all the time!! I embrace my thin upper lip now 😂 Also I just want to thank you Stephanie for grounding us all the time I love your content❤ I think you genuinely give girls confidence out there!
if your lower lip is larger than your upper lip, it means that you are an ideal among the ancient Greeks (they have excellent taste when it comes to natural beauty). The upper small lips, which are shaped like a mountain of a heart, add charm to the lips. Small lips add charm and enhance facial features!
That's also an ideal I many African countries!
BTW, HA filler doesn't always completely dissappear. Make sure to check if it hasn't just migrated and what can be done
As someone with small lips, all I can say is embrace your "imperfections". We're all made to look different and unique and this trend of everyone getting the same procedures to look the same only creates boring visuals. I'm a huge fan of all the features that make our faces interesting and beautiful, be small lips or big noses.
Wow, I didn't know how much I needed this video. I like my face, but sometimes I see other people with larger lips and get upset because mine are maybe like a regular size, and they aren't very full when I smile. But seeing all these horrifying pictures of the procedures gone wrong and the last part where you explained the genetics and functionality of the body parts really, REALLY made me appreciate and LOVE my face more. Seriously.
As someone who was born with bigger lips I saw the perception change after Angeline Jolie became the biggest sex symbol. The media took her huge lips as the new beauty standard and now we live in Kylie Jenner's fake lips paradise. Just bother me that sometimes ppl ask where I do my lips to look so natural 😂
Not true. Kim Kardashian copied Naomi Campbell's natural looks. She has admitted to this.
@@9395gb Angelina Jolie make it fashionable, at least where I am from.
Angelina's lips are stunning tho. But they are natural, so they'll alwayes look better than the fake lip craze.
I get asked about mine, they're not even big, but if you have any lips now people assume they're fake. I've got a prominent philtrum, so think it's that. My brothers have very large lips and never get asked, it's being female.
Big lips only become popular when they think they are real on white women. Now let's talk about that. The trend changed when everyone was saying they're real. Same with Kim and her bbl. She became popular and the big butt trend became popular because everyone thought it was a real. Gave ww hope or something to argue about.
I have average sized lips and this trend doesn’t work on everyone. It was meant for older women who lost volume in their lips and want some back (like my roommate, and it looks good on her but it’s very painful and expensive). But if you’re in your teens or 20’s and worried about your lips being too thin, your lips are perfect the way they are! In the 00’s thin lips were in and all the emo girls had them and they looked cute. ❤
I was thinking of getting some for assymetry but I changed my mind too risky
So, now we know that lip fillers, like any injectable beauty treatment, comes with a note of caution. What about treatments like microneedling or (like what I get every other month) nano-needling over the lips? These treatments are intended to build collagen via tiny injuries to the skin, forcing the skin to rebuild its' own collagen, right?
Have any of you tried micro- or nano-needling to build fullness in your lips? Would these therapies be a safer alternative to injected fillers?
Note: Nano-needling is the same therapy as microneedling except the aesthetician doesn't penetrate the skin as deeply.
Also I get nano-needling over my entire face, neck and chest to help rebuild collagen since I'm aged 41. I've had it done a few times over my lips but I haven't done it consistently enough to see changes.
@@asc.k1865same here (thankfully, I'm not trying to change my lip size). I do love the results of microneedling to this point though and I plan to continue with it.
@@asc.k1865 have you noticed any difference yet from the lip treatments?
The science of body/ facial features was the most interesting part!! And the rest of the info was excellent as well. Thanks.
This video and you just changed my mind. I was so determined to do a little filler. I have wasted so much money this year on cosmetic procedures and I’m DONE. You’re the true de-influencer. THANK YOU SO MUCH STEPHANIE!!!!! ❤❤
I am tellllling you the thing about filler never dissolving is a FACT … I got a little bit of lip filler when I was 25, and it was a little lumpy, my boyfriend was not a fan of the look, and it hurt a lot, so I never got more filler. I’m now about to turn 30, and there is still definitely some filler/scar tissue in there to this day. It doesn’t look bad, but my lips are forever changed
There are videos on UA-cam showing CAT scans off women with migrated filler 12 years after they had it placed. I totally believe you!
I did 2cc in 2017, and even though it got smaller really fast, it never got to how it was before. They definitely dont dissolve as announced
Not true I got mine done about 5 years ago and never got them dissolved. My lip filler is all gone.
@@fatpinkteddy good for you but we literally have proof that filler do not always dissolve, 20 years later some people still have fillers around their mouth and you probably do too but not enough to be visible
@fatpinkteddy yeah it’s gone somewhere else in your face 💀 it migrates, it never completely disappears
THANK YOU so much for this video. I have to say, even while being aware of the "brainwashing" that is going on out there with the beauty standards, I previously did consider getting a little bit of lip filler once or twice just to "enhance" my natural lip shape. Thanks god I never had the money for it and thanks god your doing such great work of exposing the truth behind it. This is something which is rarely mentioned by anyone - cause of course, it would be bad for the industry that makes money out of those trends. Personally, the fact that those filler never really dissolve ever again, but wander in your body, made me even more relieved to have never get some. Your work is so eyeopening and important!
I want to know what went on inside Kylie Jenner's mind when she thought people would believe her huge lips were the result of lip liner… like how insulting is that 😂 unfortunately many young, teen girls who don't know any better did fall for her BS and Jenner decided to exploit their naivety by selling her awful lip products. I also couldn't believe it when she went on about how she was "releaved Stormi had big lips", what a feral thing to think about your own child, what if she inherited Kylie's lip? Can you imagine how Kylie's insecurities would've been pushed on to her?
She was likely bullied severely. If you have a daughter make sure she knows she's beautiful as she is
@@helixmoore7636no thats lying too. Not all people are "beautiful" you teach kids that looks are completely out of their control, that they are about as responsible for their appearance as they are the color of the sky. Teach them to value what they can change and work towards.
integrity, honor, fitness, education, kindness, generosity.
Teach them to value what has meaning and is true and isn't just an attribute they didn't earn and are naturally born with.
If you are actually beautiful, that's great.. you will face other challenges in life, like jealousy, a halo effect, being treated better than you may have earned because of ypur appearance.
The point is .. not everyone IS beautiful.. so to lie to kids isn't good either.
@@dawnjohnson9726 yes because sitting your child down and telling her or him what a hideous troglodyte they are is going to do wonders. Yes not everyone is model beautiful. I'm a short chubby man with some acne scars.
@@dawnjohnson9726 everyone has the capability of being beautiful. Beauty can be having brushed teeth, combed hair and clean clothes. It's important to teach kids that the first thing people see of you isn't your integrity or work ethic it's literally how you look. One of the first things a person notices is another person's teeth. Everyone has the capability of being attractive, telling your kids that some people simply are not is soooo weird and will definitely mess them up 😂
@@helixmoore7636 I'm sure you do have attractive features or the capability of being attractive. To me a person can be conventionally attractive but be ugly because they are dirty and unkempt. And a person with features that are not generally seen as attractive can still be incredibly attractive if they take care of themselves, take care of their teeth and hair and clothes. Everyone has the capability of being attractive.
My god. I’m so happy to have discovered your channel. I’ve always struggled with accepting my face as it is. These videos really did help me appreciate what I look like naturally, and others as well.
We’re all beautiful, important people. Please don’t let anyone convince you to change, just find the best way to be you ❤
Noooo you're soooo pretty
Can we talk about the comment at 5:09 on the right? "This happens to me every time I get them done." Yikes!
i was bullied for years for my thin lips, and i got lip filler once, but i’m at the point now where my fillers have faded and i realize that i love my natural lips. i think natural lips always look better than puffed out lips.
You are naturally stunning girl! Seriously gorgeous hair as well xx
I thought fillers never go away 🤔🧐😂
Filler slowly dissolves with time, and usually it migrates around the face as well.
And i was bullied for having big, fuller lips😂
I used to hate my lips but later i realized how beatiful it makes me looks bc it actually suits my face structure.
We are like two sides of the same coin.
@@sagekay9121 idk, i don’t notice em anymore 🤔
I am a thin lipped Queen 👑. There was a time in highschool that I felt super unattractive because of it, but honestly the biggest issue was my jaw positioning that was greatly improved through orthodontia. I was also blessed with a naturally prominent Cupid's bow, which also helps.
I love a prominent cupid's bow ❤
You look amazing. Never ruin it.
I have naturally thin lips which is exacerbated by my front teeth angling back, like the opposite of buck teeth. Braces to bring them forward would help me a lot.
Thank you for highlighting at 11:00 that your genetic build up is primarily base on your ethnic origin and lndmass so blck people tend to have fuller lips base on their climate which absorbs moisture to help keep the body cool. the same can be said of many arabic and indian people. in europe it will be totally different.
I've had my lips filled twice the last time was a year ago. I'm booked in for a top up later this week. I'm actually considering cancelling now. I think I look natural, I'm definitely not baboon lipped, but how do I even know if my self image is just distorted at this point, or what if this is the time it all goes wrong. I honestly wish more influencers were like you, honest no bs, to help people make educated choices.❤
IMO it also depends if people are conservative with the amount & if their goal is to make proportional. Like a few millimeters is enough.
But just like boob envy, lip envy, is if its good, I gotta get more, extra.
If you did it twice you probably have at least 1 to 2 ml. That's enough sis don't overfill, don't get to 3-5ml
@@fran791 just under 2ml in total, the second time was not the full 1ml. But I think it is enough. Thank you for your sensible words and encouragement.
I agree! My child's friend's mum has lip filler, and even though she thinks she is pretty, but compared to all the other mums (even the older tired ones) she looks weird, unfriendly and a bit alien-like.
Stephanie I love your videos everyone at school calls me ugly and I can’t stand it. You brought back my confidence and I’m so grateful 🩷
Your strength and beauty radiates from within; I can feel it through the screen 🫶 never let the insecurities of your bullies make it into your heart, because that’s where your beauty really comes from. The rest is just a temporary meat suit that inevitably gets wrinkly anyway 😂💖
I would bet fifty dollars, right now, that you're pretty.
Love this and have sent to my daughter.. she is perfect as she is and I pray she doesn't fall for this stupid and seriously dangerous craze... everyone's cloning x
She will
a few days ago a girl from Austria died after getting lip fillers and having an extreme reaction. the parents are now suing the hospital that couldn‘t save her. the procedure was done by a beautician…
That's horrible. I never understood this trend.
yikes
Oh gosh how awful!
How scary awful! Are you sure it was done at a "hospital"? A beautician did the lip fillers and a beautician is NOT a medical professional. RIP and love.
@@Wise-Lady-La-Aura it was not done at the hospital but at a beautician's. she then went to the hospital to get help but they could not help her. and her parents refuse to believe that there was no way to help her. it was some kind of extremely rare autoimmune reaction
really thankful to this channel, i considered lip filler for a long time because my appearance is my work. luckily i was with someone who said they’d literally break up with me if i did anything to my natural lips but now single seeing this. don’t fall into trends, you’re fine how you are naturally
i’ve been really enjoying your videos. they leave a lot of room for discourse and honestly lead me to more questions.
I believe this is the best video of yours, the last part was gold!! Great message for young girls to learn to appreciate not only themselves but their ancestry, which in this "me, me, me", self-absorbed era not many people think about. Our acestors would be probably sad that we are constantly trying to look like we came from another ethnicity just because of social media. Thank you Stephanie, I'm in my 30's but I fear for my niece's confidence and you are such a healthy source of that.
I love this one!! Growing up, I hated my high cheek bones and roman nose. And then I went a family reuinion and literally left feeling so proud to look like I did because so many of my extended family had the same features ❤
That’s so beautiful ❤. What me thing I learned is part of loving who you are is realizing all the people that took in your family line to come together just to make you.
I cant tell if this is sarcasm or not
I LOVE THIS GIRL SO MUCHHHH 😭😭🫶🫶THANK YOU FOR YOUR AUTHENTICITY im starting to appreciate and accept my natural features because of you❤️❤️
At 46, I've heard about lip fillers for more than half my life. In 2000, it was one of the most asked for high school graduation gifts. As a young teacher at the time, this concerned me to the core. While I have thought of lip filler for myself in the past, it wasn't until I was closer to 40 that I was serious about it. I have a lot of allergies and now I'm completely against the idea. Thanks for another great , educational video!
I’m glad that you made it clear that this is in fact natural in darker skinned people. Saying big lips aren’t natural can be misleading and considered prejudice. Love your vids. I am black and have thin lips and do get picked on about it. I love them though.
It can be natural for other ethnicities as well, but you can always tell when it’s not
@@kurithekingyes and usually ethnicities that have ties to Africa like Puerto Ricans etc.
Thank you!! 💕💕
Honestly you can do whatever tf you want. You’re not less as a person just because you’ve had surgery or fillers.
I have done lip filler twice but not to necessarily have larger lips. I'm 57 and a former smoker and I had a deep lip line on one side of my mouth. Basically, I just popped that wrinkle out without making my lips look crazy. On the other hand, I got talked into cheek filler and it was a disaster. It migrated and made me look so haggard. I ended up having it dissolved and I can attest, it will dissolve your natural tissue. I never had hollows under my eyes or through my cheek but now I do. They say it comes back but it's been a year and while it has improved some, it has not returned to normal. I seriously regret the cheek filler.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I’m 59 w a million wrinkles around my lips but whatever. Didn’t we all smoke way back then? I quit 25 years ago but…Time catches up. I just live w the wrinkles. They are part of the aging experience now!
yeaaaah cheek filler has more disastrous effects than most filler. your buccal fat region gets absolutely weighed down with the filler, and the thing is, buccal fat already thins after 25 and then begins to sag over time. at 57, your buccal fat not only thinned out but sagged. adding to that with filler just made it sag more and faster, causing the remaining fat that kept your undereye fat lifted and puffy to sag, and then hollow out.
absolutely nobody should get cheek filler, ever, unless these are the desired results. lip filler is one thing (but if done "correctly" won't have effects), but cheek filler? entirely different world. cheek filler shouldnt even exist tbh. it looks bad on everyone.
@@sickickick this makes total sense.
Lip fillers can also migrate to a jawline and even after 15 years could be a reason for cyst and worse. I've seen TC photos, shocking!
Thank you for explaining the genetics of why people look the way they do bc stereotypes and social pressures have everyone thinking we need to look the same.
Thank you for raising awareness! There are too many beautiful girls ruining their faces.
Also, your video edits are hilarious and adorable! 😆
Thank you, Stephanie. It's shocking how cosmetic lip fillers are marketed. Thin lips are not a problem and the risks associated with the filler ingredients are just not worth it.
If I was a mom trying to get my adult child to NOT get lip filler I would show them this!!
I have big and full lips but growing up I wanted small lips because I used to be made fun of by my 'friends' about it, and now as a teen, I am proud of them and I can't lie... seeing all these ladies from all the races trying to have my lips, uplifted me.
thank you for always giving us a much needed reality check!💕
I love how you went in depth about the science behind the facial structures of different cultures. I found that to be very interesting. Humans are so beautiful and unique.
Omg some results are so scary!! Thank you for this video👏👏👏
I’m a white girl that was born with big lips and the amount of teasing and harassment I went through as a kid at school in the 80’s was terrible. Back then the beauty standard was small lips. I hated my lips. Imagine being older now and everyone trying to get big lips. I may go parade around my big lips at my next high school reunion 😂😂😂.
Same here but I went to school in the 2000s, so I think a lot of my bullies were just insecure about their own lips. The beauty standard had changed mostly by then. My mum went to school in the 1980s though and she has naturally small/thin lips (I fully take after my dad) and she fit the beauty standard back then. As an older woman she has been told she needs fillers! Beauty standards change so I feel it’s never worth getting changing a natural feature (unless it’s extreme and destroying your confidence).
You had the black girl experience but probably without seeing you mum and aunties with those big lips looking beautiful so you could ignore the bullies easier
🙋♀️SAME HERE
Welcome to the club😂
Ooomfph the 80s and harassment for thick lips sounds like racism was a lot stronger aspect of the beauty standards
I’ve never met anyone/ seen anyone who looks better with filler, honestly!
Many Koreans who look better with lip fillers. Jang Wonyoung for example. But ur probably biased since ur against plastic surgery
@@Dolphinboibro said “against.” it’s an opinion not an activist movement. also i looked her up and she looks better without in my opinion. you just fit into a small percentage of people who value uncanny artificialness :/
@@DolphinboiI’m sorry, but she got way too much plastic surgery as a teen. I admire her for her work ethic and she seems like a nice girl, but I wish she wasn’t in such a toxic environment that made her feel like she needed all of that done.
@@Dolphinboi she looks absolutely stunnig, but she looked JUST as beautiful when she didnt have them. Not to forget shes very Very young
@@DolphinboiWonyoung looks botched with Lip fillers.
Honestly, thank you for creating this 👏🏻 love hearing about the science and history behind beauty standards. It really helps put things into perspective
This was so timely! You saved me a fortune and facial deformation. Just turned 55 and newly single, and was feeling old and considering some tweakments but fts!
Thin lips are so beautiful I never understood why women would feel so bad about them. I used to watch many women on tv who had thin lips and they were thought of as the most beautiful. And a sharp red lip looked good on them too. But people keep taking the wrong examples to heart and in the mirror they no longer see how huge and uneven their lips are. You barely see anyone with non bumpy lips in hollywood anymore.
It’s so sad that most of us have insecurities when it comes to our appearance, specially when we are teenagers. I’m so glad I’m from a small town, mid class family with strong values, I was raised with so much love that helped me loved and accept myself through the years. I look back and I’m so happy that I was never able to go through plastic surgery and also that my family never supported me on that.
I love the person I see in the mirror, I understand my body way better now and I wouldn’t change a bit of it! My unique features make me attractive. That’s beauty to me, highlighting the best feature each of us naturally have 😊
I've said it before but I have to say it again - I'm so freaking happy I didn't fall for this trend. I remember being so insecure when the filler trend started like 8 years ago and kept dreaming of when I can get plump lips. My lips aren't even that thin, just normal. I remember totally falling for the lie that they can completely dissolve with no side effects. Then I became confused when I saw people who claimed to stop getting lip filler years ago and their lips still looked weird. It just goes to show that when there is a new trend we can't just trust everyone knows all the side effects immediately.
Being cautious about new trends is probably wise. You just don't know the long-term effects of something when it's brand-new. Hell, radium was touted as a cure-all in the early 1900s.
Its so crazy how growing up everyone used to make fun of me for having full lips and now people are literally going under the knife to have them. SMH. What a world we live in!!!!
Agreed! Learning to love yourself is hard, especially in a world that picks you apart inch by inch, but once you find self-love it is one of the best things ever. Once you find confident in yourself and other people can't shake your foundations, that's the real winner. That'll make you look more attractive than any of these surgeries could.
I loved the explanation of the function of the fullness of the lips cause it makes sense!
Sometimes our lips are meant to fit with most of our facial features. If we add fillers or alter it in any ways either we can look good (happens with small amount of people) or may look a lil weird.
I have small lips, kinda pouty like my lips arent wide at all. I wont call them very thin or full but more on a avg thinner side. I used to think that was ugly, too small etc but sometimes later in my life i realized that my small pouty lips are something that complements my chubby cheeks, and my innocent face well.
Welcone to the baby face gang
@@ramenaddict1676 omgg, thank youu!🌷 Let's gather some baby face girlies 💓
Tbh, I used to be so insecure due to this 😭😭
@@Cnmrlyooh thank God I finally found someone like me my lips are like that as well it suits my innocent look
No. Plenty of people look good or fine with lip fillers. I think so. It’s subjective to an extent
I really appreciate u doing these videos because people never speak on the side effects. I always learn something new watching this series
I am a person with naturally full lips who grew up in a cold country and my lips were prone to get super dry, chopped and sore had I skipped just half a day not applying some really good mask or balm. I never really thought about why it was so, I thought I was doing something wrong like biting them without noticing or something. But now it's actually clear to me that my lips just were not designed for living in a colder climate. Now after your video I really think about getting a DNA test as there must be some foreigner from a warmer region among my ancestors who passed those lips to me.
And yes, be damn this nonsensical and ruthless ever changing fashion for random facial features! In my childhood I was actually low-key bullied for my big lower lip and now it is something desired by many... It's just crazy.
You are honestly a hero. Please never change
How lmao
Mind is now changed. I almost booked an appointment. This logically makes perfect sense (even though I know I was going to cave to beauty standards). and makes me embrace more of my Finnish heritage Thanks, Stephanie!!
you helped me a lot with your videos and thank you for that, I never thought I would be insecure about my looks
hi! just a little heads up, the surgery from the pictures at 10:18 isn’t lip reduction surgery, it’s heart shaped lip surgery in thailand. it’s another toxic beauty standard made so ppl deform their bodies, just a different standard in a different region 😬
Stephanie, I really hope you realise how important the content you make is. I am not even 18 years old yet and almost all of my close friends are currently getting work done to their face and body. I have considered doing so as well, for most of my teens. Your videos really changed my perception of beauty and cosmetic surgery, considering the side effects of surgery and rapid changes of beauty standards. I have since accepted the way I look more. I currently don't have the need to get anything done and have started to appreciate every single one of my features. Thank you and I really hope more people find your videos to be inspiring and helpful!
i constantly feel unattractive since everyone online has their lips done and i never see thinner doll like lips anymore. i have been told i need mine done so many times
One day there will be a "thin lips" trend, mark my words.
A part of me can't wait to see the comments sections filled with comments like the one below:
"I got made fun of for my super thin lips, but now everyones getting expensive lip reduction surgeries 😘😜Love my beautiful and all natural lips. I keep getting asked where I got them done but they're all me lol. I'm so thankful for my heritage, peace and love!!"
People will take the chance to brag about themselves whenever their features are currently in-style (big lips, certain eye shapes, eyebrows, body type being super skinny, body type being thicc, their hair style, etc)
@@Olia-ch-ka As it always happens lol. I have a naturally big upper lip and some people thought I got fillers 😂 The urge to brag was there but I know this is nothing but a fad and soon my lips would probably be "outdated', imagine that.
@@ShreeNation Yeah, haha. I completely understand the urge people have to brag, especially since beauty is often associated with morality. I really hope that one day, society will put less value on physical looks and more value on people actions and loving hearts. ❤
@@Olia-ch-ka i like your way of thinking 🖤 I hope so too ✌
being shallow here, i find both big & small lips beautiful. same with eyes, noses, foreheads, bodies...etc. it depends on the rest of the individual's features. same as what stephanie said, big lips don't suit everyone!
I don’t think that’s shallow at all. I think it’s quite the opposite and a beautiful thing and so kind actually! ☺️😊
The way ethnic people used to get bullied for big “full” lips and now it’s a trend is insane
Thank you for helping me be more confident about my thin lips. They used to be the beauty standard, and one day, they will again 💞
The fact that the fillers dont dissolve and actually migrate to other parts of the body disgusts me 😭