Selfies caused a huge increase of lip augmentation in 2015

[HuckleB]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/selfies-caused-huge-increase-lip-augmentation-2015-article-1.2605286

"Selfies, not Kylie Jenner, were the main reason lip surgeries surged in 2015 — although she might’ve had some influence, too.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons recently released new data showing a record number of women and men plumping their lips. It is the second-fastest growing facial procedure in the U.S. since 2000.

More than 27,000 procedures were done last year, which means that on average, a pair of lips was getting plumped every 19 minutes.

"We live in the age of the selfie, and because we see images of ourselves almost constantly on soclal media, we're much more aware of how our lips look," David Song, president of the American Society of Plastic surgeons, said in a statement.

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Hmm.

[Gman]

1. There truly is no hope for this world.

Sigh.

[snooper2]

2. Watch something happen like three years later the lips turn green LOL

[NightWatcher]

3. Everywhere.

[HuckleB]

7. +1,000,000 ... 000

[PasadenaTrudy]

4. "sublet and sultry" ???

What the hell does that even mean? God I hate people some days

[HuckleB]

6. Thanks for sharing my headache!

[Orrex]

9. That's when you rent an apartment in Biloxi in August.

[HuckleB]

11. +1,000,000 ... 000

[Egnever]

5. Good lord

I often wonder when or if these people ever realize they have made themselves look ridiculous.

I see the stretched faces all the time and they far to often look like freaks. I just don't understand how people can see these plastic surgery victims walking around and think hey that looks like a good idea.

Puffy lips look stupid

[Octafish]

8. BFEE lips.

[Drahthaardogs]

10. Fake lips look STUPID. They don't moved

And make you look like a duck. They are worse than a cheap toupee

[Blue_Adept]

12. 27,000 out of a population of 300,000,000

Yeah.

[LanternWaste]

13. Increase relative to X rather than Y. Yeah.

Increase relative to X rather than Y.
(X=previous number of augmentation surgeries, Y being total population of US)

Basic algebra. Yeah.

[Bucky]

15. 27,000 per year. Per Year.

In 11,000 years, we'll all be ducks. Which, strangely enough, corresponds to my theories about duck evolution.

[Initech]

14. This really is Idiocracy isnt it?

[HuckleB]

17. I'm not sure what anything is any more!

[FLPanhandle]

16. I'm sure there is an app that will do that to the selfies

Surgery would be an option for the technically illiterate.