American men are increasingly turning to plastic surgeons for lower lip augmentation surgery, according to the Daily Mail.
Miami-based plastic surgeon Rian Maercks said that, according to his calculations, from 2015 to 2016 there was a 74% increase in the number of lip augmentation surgeries. And this year there has been a surge in the popularity of plastic surgery procedures for increasing the lower lip in men. This operation Dr. Merckx calls the "macho mouth." If earlier, at best, several people a week approached the Merckx clinic with a request to inject a filler into the lower lip, today their number is at least 5 people a day.
Despite the fact that we are talking about several hundred such operations a year only for the clinic where Merckx works, patients show photos of only four celebrities as examples. The list of people with the most popular lower lip includes actors Brad Pitt, Channing Tatum, Harry Styles and Henry Cavill.
Dr. Merckx believes that "a strong lower lip in the eyes of men is associated with a sense of authority and self-confidence, with increased confidence in their own person." Women, according to Merckx, prefer to enlarge the upper lip.
The doctor also points out that a simple enlargement of the lower lip gives a man a characteristic "duck" look, therefore, for a full effect, correction with fillers of the fold between the nose and lip and a slight increase in the middle part of the upper lip are also required.
