# Why do actresses get puffed up lips? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 1, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383 "2007-06-01T19:08:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383/21 "2007-06-02T00:15:24Z")
[QUOTE=CaerieD] [Bolding mine.] I know this is Cafe Society and all, but, er, cite? :eek: I’ve heard this particular bit of wisdom bandied about before, but I’d like to know how, exactly, we know that there was ever any sort of desire to make a woman’s lips look like labia. As far as I can tell, this originally came from Desmond Morris, the same genius who said that women have breasts to mimic the buttocks. Is there a saner source for this theory? [/QUOTE] Well I don’t think you can know anything that’s not basically speculation. But you tell me why humans woman have breasts and no one else does to speak of. And why we do it from the front. and no one else does. Also I’ve heard that Egyptian prostitutes wore lipstick to siginfy that they do oral. Don’t know. I wasn’t there at the time. But it makes a certain amount of sense…look at my lips, imagine what I could do with them… Althoug I agree once lips get scary, why would you want your dick there. Looks like they’d just suck it off. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383/22 "2007-06-02T00:34:51Z")
[QUOTE=essell] I have to say that I found sexy lips sexy long before I ever saw a Labia. And I loved breasts long before I had a good look at buttocks too. [/QUOTE] What does that have to do with the proposed juicy lips = labia connection? I felt attracted to a woman’s figure long before I hit puberty. It’s hard wired into our brains. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383/23 "2007-06-02T00:37:19Z")
I think it looks like they are having an alergic reaction. I watch a series that has a great looker that ruins her looks with big puffy lips. It makes me want to stop watching sometimes. The character changes sometimes, the puffy lip lady wasn’t the original actress. I only put up with puffy lip lady, because I’ve watch too much of the series to stop for her. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383/24 "2007-06-02T00:43:02Z")
They’re trying to achieve artificially what [Scarlett Johansson](http://www.hecklerspray.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/scarlett_johansson_009.jpg) has naturally. Aren’t those pretty? The classic “Cupid’s bow” shape. But it’s hard to get through indiscriminate plumping. ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383/25 "2007-06-02T01:13:19Z")
When a woman is aroused her lips (both sets) turn a darker shade of red and become more full. Lipstick and collagen are trying to mimic this look artificially. It looks sexy because, deep in your lizard brain (or whatever) when you see a woman with full dark red lips it means, “Come and get it, baby, I’m ready!” ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383/26 "2007-06-02T01:16:30Z")
[QUOTE=Veuve\_ClicquotNJ] _This_ “gone 10 rounds with Primo Carnera”: [http://www.netmode.vietnamnet.vn/dataimages/original/images544455\_Melanie-Griffith.jpg](http://www.netmode.vietnamnet.vn/dataimages/original/images544455_Melanie-Griffith.jpg) VCNJ~ [/QUOTE] MY GOD, MY EYES! THE GOGGLES, THEY DO NOTHING! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383/27 "2007-06-02T01:54:15Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] I think it looks like they are having an alergic reaction. [/QUOTE] Word. As much as I hate fake boobs, this fake lip thing is orders of magnitude worse IMHO. Where I’ve seen some boob jobs that have not been abominations, I’ve never seen (to the best of my knowledge) a lip job that wasn’t horrid. Why it’s a fad, I’ll never know. Do these women not realize they look like a proto-Joker wannabe? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383/28 "2007-06-02T02:47:09Z")
Sorry, but I think I may be culpable. I get around quite a bit in Hollywood and I require a lot of fellatio. My bad. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383/29 "2007-06-02T04:21:34Z")
[QUOTE=Duke of Rat] Where I’ve seen some boob jobs that have not been abominations, I’ve never seen (to the best of my knowledge) a lip job that wasn’t horrid. [/QUOTE] As you admit, you may see them several times a day, every day. How would you know? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383/30 "2007-06-02T08:52:59Z")
I find puffy lips (_if not taken to extremes_) to be sexy. Angelina Jolie has very sexy lips, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383/31 "2007-06-02T11:15:53Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] I can’t find a good photo, but Lisa Rinna (Harry Hamlin’s wife, was on the first season of Dancing with the Stars and Veronica Mars) has the worst set of lips I’ve seen yet. [/QUOTE] She was the first one I thought of. Her lips are just ginourmous. She could french kiss a moose. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383/32 "2007-06-02T11:18:33Z")
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**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383/33 "2007-06-02T14:46:09Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] [Really Awful Plastic Surgery](http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/) . For your dining and dancing pleasure. [/QUOTE] Just wanted to warn you all that this link has a Trojan virus in it. It may only happen on MY computer but it turned out to be one that can’t be deleted/quarantined, etc according to my McAfee. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383/34 "2007-06-02T15:00:58Z")
This is really strange; when Tripler clicks on the link, it’s fine. Please ignore my stupidity, and that of my computer. I don’t know what happened!! ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383/35 "2007-06-02T16:25:04Z")
[Hunter Tylo](http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/archives/006473.html)’s plastic surgeon ought to be shot. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383/36 "2007-06-02T17:54:11Z")
[QUOTE=marshmallow] What does that have to do with the proposed juicy lips = labia connection? I felt attracted to a woman’s figure long before I hit puberty. It’s hard wired into our brains. [/QUOTE] Well what do you think the word labia means? 😉 And yes it’s hardwired. For several thousand years. Every since we lost our estrus cycle. And started doing it face to face. And I still say tits and lips had some relation to that. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383/37 "2007-06-02T18:05:28Z")
[QUOTE=Shayna] [Hunter Tylo](http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/archives/006473.html)’s plastic surgeon ought to be shot. [/QUOTE] Shooting’s way too good for that guy. Bad enough to bolt half a canteloupe to each side of a woman’s chest, you could at least try to get them at the correct lattitude. Oh, and her lip work sucks too. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383/38 "2007-06-02T20:47:31Z")
To make their puss look bigger? ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383/39 "2007-06-02T21:07:42Z")
I wonder if Hunter Tylo and others have given any thought to what those boobs will look like when they’re in their 60’s and 70’s. Old skin shrinks. Those boobs won’t. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383/40 "2007-06-02T21:50:30Z")
[QUOTE=betenoir] Well what do you think the word labia means? 😉 And yes it’s hardwired. For several thousand years. Every since we lost our estrus cycle. And started doing it face to face. And I still say tits and lips had some relation to that. [/QUOTE] NM - I R Dum [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-actresses-get-puffed-up-lips/406383.md?page=3)