About

Devil Lips or Octopus Lips is slang for lip fillings which add more pointed edges to the lips. The beauty fad originated in Russia in November 2019.

Origin

On November 22nd, 2019, plastic surgeon Emelian Braude^[1] uploaded a preview of what he called a new technique, Octopus Lips (shown below). The private post gained over 970 likes in a month.

Spread

On November 25th, 2019, Instagram^[3] user m.bonetskaya shared a photo of the new lip-filler fad in Russia which gained over 2,800 likes in a month (shown below, left). On November 29th, Redditor Domestica shared a collage of women who received devil lip fillers to r/awfuleverything^[4] and received over 590 points (96% upvoted) in ten days (shown below, right). On December 9th, Paper Mag^[2] reported on the trend mentioning that it's still only a Russian fad so far.

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