# What is the appeal of artificial fish/duck lips? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 21, 2015, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-appeal-of-artificial-fish-duck-lips/710468 "2015-01-21T10:48:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-appeal-of-artificial-fish-duck-lips/710468/21 "2015-01-22T02:24:35Z")
Could it be that pouty trout duck lips are supposed to suggest better blow jobs than normal? I think it looks ridiculous when done _well_, and disturbing when overdone. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-appeal-of-artificial-fish-duck-lips/710468/22 "2015-01-22T03:35:07Z")
1. Women’s lips tend to thin as they get older. It’s one of those very subtle signs of aging that we don’t even realize we’re noticing. Adding back some fullness can make a woman look younger. 2. Fuller lips are trendy. 3.What some women see in the mirror is not what everybody else sees. 1. If a little is good, more is better, right? 2. Some surgeons will do anything for a buck. Multiply all those factors together, and you end up with Big Ang. > [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I’m guessing there are a lot more people with good-looking botox results and people like Big Ang (in the OP) are outliers. You just don’t notice good botox jobs because they don’t look insane. This is true. A friend who is in her late 40s came up to me and said “how do I look?” I considered the matter, and said “You look good. Well-rested or something.” She told me that she had gotten some light botox and some saline (temporary) lip injections. She just wanted to try it out. It was really subtle and natural-looking, and you would have never realized that she had anything done. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-appeal-of-artificial-fish-duck-lips/710468/23 "2015-01-22T03:38:17Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > She looks like Janice, from the Electric Mayhem. That’s taking Muppet Show cosplay a little far, I think… This is the funniest thing I’ve read in a while. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-appeal-of-artificial-fish-duck-lips/710468/24 "2015-01-22T10:44:13Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > A friend who is in her late 40s came up to me and said “how do I look?” I considered the matter, and said “You look good. Well-rested or something.” A 40-ish female knows she’s over the hill when other people stop saying “You’re good looking” and start saying “You’re looking good”. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-appeal-of-artificial-fish-duck-lips/710468/25 "2015-01-22T15:15:11Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > Implants don’t sag. They will still be perky in the NH. I agree the implant itself ought to hold its shape, abarring leaks, etc. But … IANA medical anybody, but I suspect whatever the implant is attached to will get weaker over time. Especially if it’s been holding up X ounces of extra stuff above & beyond what it was built to hold up. Having just now read up on implant tech, ISTM the subglandular implants commonly done for cosmetic reasons ought to be especially susceptible to eventual baseball-in-a-sock syndrome. But all this is purely uninformed speculation on my part. I’d welcome a ref to any reliable info on topic. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-appeal-of-artificial-fish-duck-lips/710468/26 "2015-01-22T15:19:00Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Who the hell is that ugly guy in the after photo? :eek: Steve Tyler. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-appeal-of-artificial-fish-duck-lips/710468/27 "2015-01-24T02:24:42Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > **If ya ain’t got it… you probably shouldn’t have it**. The choice needs to be put in the hands of a good physical esthetician, which some plastic surgeons are. (I had several connections to a very, very good one who turned away 3 in 5 clients, and had ample opportunity to see his work. All board-certified PSs should be half that good, mainly in judgment.) Years and years ago, I had microdermabrasion to remove some facial scars from chicken pox. They bugged the hell out of me. Anyway, during the consultation at the plastic surgeon’s, I asked casually about cheekbone implants. He flat-out told me, no, and said that putting them in just wouldn’t look right with my bone structure (big eyes, round cheeks, smallish jaw, small pointed chin). Too bad more plastic surgeons aren’t that honest. (These days, I just want things lifted. Oh, how our wants change with time!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-appeal-of-artificial-fish-duck-lips/710468.md?page=1)