If you have ever watched a reality television program, or just seen the promos for them, you should be familiar with the Trout Pout. This is where someone foolishly decides their lips are too thin (perhaps they are just normal, you know?) and opt for some lip filler. Way too much lip filler and it’s not a good look.
As cosmetic procedures go, lip filler is becoming very popular and there’s nothing wrong with having lips plumped if they are looking a bit thin. But there’s plumping, and then there’s plumping to absolutely ridiculous proportions and guess which one is proving to be the the most popular, especially amongst teens and young adults who don’t need filler in the first place? It’s the ridiculous proportions one, just in case you aren’t clued in here. And this is the thing I don’t quite understand; what person in their right mind wants lips that look like raw sausages of the thickest variety?
Well apparently a lot of them do and as this is the hottest thing since drop-jeans exposing underwear and lower back tattoos, there is an influx of underage teens throwing tantrums to force their parents into signing the consent form which will allow them to have the procedure and I kid you not, the bottom line is the “troutier”, the better. In their opinion, not mine. For the life of me, I cannot fathom the attraction of lips so abnormally filled that you can barely eat properly, let alone speak and be understood. Yet this is what teens of both genders want right now. If their parents have any sense though, they won’t sign.
But I have to wonder about the surgeons willing to perform such a procedure on an underage kid. On anyone for that matter. Seriously, how irresponsible is that? Look, it could be that they know that by the time said teens are old enough to have the work done without Mum’s and Dad’s signature, they will have A) realised that this is one cosmetic procedure they can live without or B) the Trout Pout will have (thankfully) gone out of fashion. Either way, the surgeon won’t get paid so…hand out the Parental Consent forms and turn them into little freaks now while the fad is still current and they are screaming for it.
Like I said, I don’t have an issue with a little bit of plumping when lips are looking a bit thinned out, a little bit of filler can look really good, but the emphasis is on “a little bit” which has a much better chance of looking natural. Two fat sausages where lips used to be does not. So I’m wondering if those who have gone overboard with the filler ever look in the mirror. I mean really look. How is it that when they are gazing at their reflection that they cannot see just how abnormal it looks? Why are they not seeing how bizarre their friends look? Why on earth do they want to look bizarre anyway?
Sure, to each their own, live and let live, etc, etc, etc. But there are fads and then there is utter stupidity and personally I place pumped up sausage balloon lips in the latter category because I am pretty sure that’s where they belong. I am also hoping that parents with teens young enough to need a consent form to have this procedure done remember how to say “No” and find the gumption to stick to it when they do. This is not something your young teen needs to have done. Braces yes, lips filled to the max, no. Definitely not.
Just say no, okay?