# Why fake breasts look so fake? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 30, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fake-breasts-look-so-fake/642621 "2012-11-30T22:08:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qwertol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Qwertol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwertol)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fake-breasts-look-so-fake/642621/1 "2012-11-30T22:08:31Z")
Is it impossible to make realistic looking ones or is it just very expensive so it is rarely done? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fake-breasts-look-so-fake/642621/2 "2012-11-30T22:16:57Z")
You don’t notice that the realistic looking ones are fake. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fake-breasts-look-so-fake/642621/3 "2012-11-30T22:21:15Z")
WAG: It’s not all homogenous breast tissue. You’re basically tucking a silicone pouch under much more organic tissue, which are separate and unnatural layers, so the organic kinda slides and moves differently over the synthetic implant, like lasagna laid over a water balloon. Who’s hungry? ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fake-breasts-look-so-fake/642621/4 "2012-11-30T22:21:26Z")
> [@Qwertol](#): > > Is it impossible to make realistic looking ones or is it just very expensive so it is rarely done? Because a lot of women who get this done go over the top…and those are the ones you notice. Also, because it’s generally the ones who go over the top who are showing off their boobs so you can notice. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fake-breasts-look-so-fake/642621/5 "2012-11-30T22:22:49Z")
Several doctors have said that women often want sizes too large for that body size, and they even encourage the ones that go small to go bigger because they’ll often come back for an upgrade afterwards. So I think there are a lot of cases where you notice unusual proportions. But as\*\* friedo \*\*said, you don’t notice the ones that look natural. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fake-breasts-look-so-fake/642621/6 "2012-11-30T22:23:50Z")
Yeh, the top-side implants look ridiculous. Like spandex stretched over a beach ball on top of, well, lasagna. Man, I’m hungry. ---
**Author:** ![Qwertol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Qwertol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwertol)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fake-breasts-look-so-fake/642621/7 "2012-11-30T22:36:47Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Several doctors have said that women often want sizes too large for that body size, and they even encourage the ones that go small to go bigger because they’ll often come back for an upgrade afterwards. So I think there are a lot of cases where you notice unusual proportions. But as\*\* friedo \*\*said, you don’t notice the ones that look natural. But even those better looking ones, that seem natural when just “hanging” when they squeezed by clothing or something there is circumference of the implant poking out and it immediately spoils the effect. Is it possible to avoid that? Is the silicone implant the only way to go? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fake-breasts-look-so-fake/642621/8 "2012-11-30T22:41:35Z")
> [@Qwertol](#): > > But even those better looking ones, that seem natural when just “hanging” when they squeezed by clothing or something there is circumference of the implant poking out and it immediately spoils the effect. Is it possible to avoid that? Is the silicone implant the only way to go? I doubt I’ve ever noticed fake ones in a clothed woman if they weren’t oversized. Seems like normal sized ones can be corraled fairly well by standard clothing. ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fake-breasts-look-so-fake/642621/9 "2012-11-30T23:05:25Z")
What percentage of women have implants, in, say, the 20 – 45 demographic? I’ve always assumed that not that many women have them, because of cost or just lack of interest. But the popular media, especially TV shows like Survivor, gives the impression that the entire world has gone boob-job crazy. What are the actual stats? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fake-breasts-look-so-fake/642621/10 "2012-11-30T23:09:29Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Several doctors have said that women often want sizes too large for that body size, and they even encourage the ones that go small to go bigger because they’ll often come back for an upgrade afterwards. So I think there are a lot of cases where you notice unusual proportions. But as\*\* friedo \*\*said, you don’t notice the ones that look natural. This. And the fact that too many implants are perfectly round, which is NOT natural breast shape. May as well cut a grapefruit in half, paint it flesh color and glue it your chest. They are especially noticable when you have the combination of both of the above and the woman has relatively thin skin that accentuates the shape of the implant rather than smoothing it out. ---
**Author:** ![Qwertol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Qwertol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwertol)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fake-breasts-look-so-fake/642621/11 "2012-11-30T23:13:58Z")
So are you suggesting that some women go for the fake look deliberately? ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fake-breasts-look-so-fake/642621/12 "2012-11-30T23:18:47Z")
Yep, some of them sure do. We had a thread around here recently about the Human Barbie Doll. I think that’s as fake-looking as you can g— You know what? I bet someone’s out-done her. ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fake-breasts-look-so-fake/642621/13 "2012-11-30T23:23:56Z")
Mmmmm…lasagne covered grapefruit. ---
**Author:** ![snuffleupagus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@snuffleupagus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snuffleupagus)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fake-breasts-look-so-fake/642621/14 "2012-11-30T23:39:07Z")
If you are very flat chested/low body fat before surgery, you tend to get a faker look because all you have is skin stretched tight over a perfectly round implant. If you have a fair amount of breast tissue, or saggy deflated breasts to begin with, you end up with a more natural look because there is more soft, natural tissue covering the implant and some of the natural hang of the breast, but you can get a fake looking breast if you had some natural tissue to start with if you choose very large implants. Silicone is softer than saline and feels/moves a little more like natural breasts. Also there are anatomical implants that are teardrop shaped rather than round that give less upper pole fullness that causes the round look. Some women do prefer and try to achieve a fake look. But the main cause of fake looking breasts, in my experience belonging to an online community of women with breast augmentation, seeing many pics, etc, is being very flat to begin with. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fake-breasts-look-so-fake/642621/15 "2012-12-01T09:36:09Z")
> [@Shark\_Sandwich](#): > > Mmmmm…lasagne covered grapefruit. Bet you can’t eat just one… ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fake-breasts-look-so-fake/642621/16 "2012-12-01T09:42:23Z")
> [@Qwertol](#): > > So are you suggesting that some women go for the fake look deliberately? At the Springsteen show I attended last summer there was a group of half a dozen fake blondes with fake tans, sofa lips, noses that wouldn’t look too small on a seven-year-old’s face, tatooed eyebrows… and that’s just the “Look At Me! I’m Expensive!” parts above the neck. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fake-breasts-look-so-fake/642621/17 "2012-12-01T16:59:31Z")
I dated a young lady some time back who had gotten enhanced in a package deal with her sister and mom, thing was my gf had been adopted and had much more muscle and tissue naturally all over (not fat, but her adopted family was skin and bones). Her sister (in a bikini, mind you) looked like she had two half grapefruits stapled to her chest, but my gf’s boobage looked so natural she had to convince other women she was with on a beach trip that they were purchased. She said it was basically that the doc put implants UNDER the existing muscle and tissue that she had, and her sister didn’t have. The ONLY time I thought they looked fake was right when she was experiencing _la petite mort_, when she got all tensed up. Same doc, different bodies. She had been a Cup A and Cup A- before, so not a lot of “breast tissue”, but underlying tissue. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2012, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fake-breasts-look-so-fake/642621/18 "2012-12-02T06:23:26Z")
> [@Shark\_Sandwich](#): > > Mmmmm…lasagne covered grapefruit. Damn I’m hungry! ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2012, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fake-breasts-look-so-fake/642621/19 "2012-12-02T06:28:38Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Bet you can’t eat just one… Well now you wouldn’t want the other one to get lonely. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fake-breasts-look-so-fake/642621/20 "2012-12-02T15:00:38Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > … > And the fact that too many implants are perfectly round, which is NOT natural breast shape. May as well cut a grapefruit in half, paint it flesh color and glue it your chest… Just mentioning here that Michelangelo, the glorious figurist and student of anatomy, obeys this principle quite often. (It has been often discussed as relating to his homosexuality.) Your grapefruit example is a [perfect description.](http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/2985/Night-marble-sculpture-form-the-tomb-of-Giuliano-de-Medici) > [@UncleBill](#): > > …The ONLY time I thought they looked fake was right when she was experiencing _la petite mort_, when she got all tensed up… Of all the times for you. Unfortunate. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fake-breasts-look-so-fake/642621.md?page=2)