In the opinion of foreign and domestic plastic surgeons, modern fashion for puffy lips appeared at the beginning of zero and now this trend has already started to lose its relevance.

On the ethnic features of this preference can only be said, considering the period before the spread of the mass media industry (the beginning of the twentieth century), which had a key influence on the popularization of this phenomenon.

How it all began.

Some researchers of the fullness of the lips in the socio-cultural context of the era (in particular, the columnist BBC Future David Robson), even remember the treatise of Aristotle and his students, in which they denounced the owners of sensuous full lips in the presence, to put it mildly, of low mental faculties. And people with thin lips called ancient philosophers "proud as lions".

Practitioner dermatovenereologist and cosmetologist, Ph.D., scientific adviser of the Moscow SEC "Expert" Maria Shirshakova in one of her scientific works writes that the fashion for chubby lips arose even before our era. Even the ancient Egyptians tried to imitate Nefertiti with her "moderately full, clearly outlined lips". In ancient Egypt, women sought to emphasize the shape of the lips with the dark color of the makeup of the time, giving them greater sensuality.

The freedom-loving Frenchmen of the thirteenth century had a quivering attitude towards plump feminine lips as an indispensable attribute of female beauty. One of the authors of The Romance of the Rose (written by two medieval writers Guillaume de Lorriz and Jean de Myon in the first and second half of the 13th century) admires with delight the "little mouth with puffy scarlet lips" of his beloved. In France at the time, puffy lips emphasized the exceptional beauty of their possessor.

Then came a long period of enslavement of such a manifestation of female sexuality. During the Renaissance, master painters, such as Correggio and Wai Eyck, portrayed the ascetically thin lips of the models. All carnal relations were then considered "dirty" in Europe and any public manifestation of sensuality was condemned.

Max Factor and his "rosebud".

"Lip Revolution" occurred in the first half of the twentieth century, and one of its pioneers - a native of Russia Maximilian Faktorovich (world famous Max Factor). It was he who introduced the shape of the lips, which was called the "rosebud". According to Shirshakova, these and other popular variations of female lips for decades, before the Second World War, emphasized the inaccessibility of their owners, and this image was enhanced by the replication of cinematographic images of popular actresses - Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich.

Completeness returned after the war.

According to domestic and foreign scientists, the fashion for full sensual lips returned (including to the world cinema) after the end of the Second World War due to the fact that at that time the image of the female vamp ceased to be relevant: the war significantly reduced the number of men, and representatives of the strong half of humanity ladies sought to attract any "outstanding" forms. Merlin Monroe (nee Norma Jean Baker) with his plump lips completely met the new requirements of the time.

Subsequently, the image of beauties with plump sensual lips was successfully supported by colleagues Monroe Brigitte Bardot, Mia Farrow, Kim Basinger, one by one ... The epoch of plastics.

As the Russian fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev once said, with the approach of the 90s, the model of beauty was considered to be an African-American with puffy lips Naomi Campbell - she set the tone for modern fashion precisely on this form of face. Experiments with the introduction of silicone to increase the shape of the lips abroad have been made before, but in zero this practice has become widespread, spreading throughout the world.

As evidenced by the results of sociological research, in the notion of a modern woman, beautiful lips - above all, full, they give confidence, testify to personal and social viability. At the same time, the domestic and foreign press is full of examples of inappropriate use of lip plasty to increase them - the appearance of a person after such operations often changed so much that the patient was difficult to recognize.

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