The first time I realized my lip filler had gone a little too far was in a photo—a casual picture I took with friends. It wasn’t so bad that I could earn a guest spot on Botched, but they were definitely overfilled, a bit blurred around the border, and out of proportion with the rest of my features. Somewhere along the way, I realized, I’d developed filler blindness.
Between celebrity procedure speculation, cosmetic before-and-afters, and a feed full of “natural” lips that clearly weren’t, my baseline started to move without me noticing. I never walked into appointments asking for Big Lips, but with every visit, I ended up requesting “just a touch more,” until I lost perspective.
