While in the early 2000s, icons like British actress Emma Watson, American actress Blake Lively, and American actress, director, and producer Jennifer Aniston championed the charm of thin lips, today it's difficult to find examples of acceptance. XXL lips, artificially plumped or enlarged by cosmetics, have become the norm. Many succumb to the pressure of full lips and defy the laws of genetics with Botox, lip liner, and bright lip gloss. And those with thin lips often feel like the ugly ducklings of the beauty world.<\/p>\n
Traditional women's magazines showcase makeup looks designed to create the illusion of fuller lips, while social media images depict lips puffed up from injections or plumped with fillers. On social media, beauty enthusiasts cheat with brushes to gain a few centimeters in lip circumference and spend hours sculpting a Kardashian-esque pout. The most dedicated create custom balms with ginger and add chili seeds to their lip gloss to conform to current beauty trends. The most desperate forcefully clamp their mouths in the neck of a bottle, achieving a smile more reminiscent of Jynx than Kylie Jenner.<\/p>\n
Even beauty filters<\/a> on Snapchat sculpt faces with facelifts and distort our natural lips as if they weren't good enough to be looked at. Faced with all these images of plump mouths and lips enhanced with lip fillers or hyaluronic acid, women with thin lips have the strange feeling of not being "like everyone else." Like intruders in a society with a theme. Moreover, since 2019, 18-34 year olds have been using cosmetic surgery or aesthetic medicine procedures more than the 50-60 year olds, who were previously the main users. The physique of reality TV stars, once rather marginal, even "excessive," has become a universal look.<\/p>\n In Google search results, thin lips aren't celebrated, but rather singled out as an anomaly. They're treated like a problem to be solved, a flaw to be corrected. Not good enough for kissing or not seductive enough to win over their audience, thin lips, proudly championed by American actresses Blake Lively and Kristen Stewart, suffer the grim fate of societal pressures. <\/p>\n\n