Lisa Rinna has a new interview with Buzzfeed News, which incidentally is about to be gutted, with several editors resigning and layoffs looming. That’s what happens when investors value profit over content. Lower-tier blogs like us rely on news teams to do investigative pieces. It’s not about us – democracy, truth and everyday people suffer when journalists lose their jobs. I’m just thinking of the show The Dropout, where they’re now showing the way that Theranos was exposed – through a piece by John Carreyrou in the Wall Street Journal.
I’m here to talk about Lisa Rinna and her stupid lips though. (I don’t really want to think about serious sh-t, which explains a lot about my career.) Lisa has a beauty brand that capitalizes on her famous lips called Rinna Beauty. The brand has been out since December, 2020, but the plumping glosses are a new launch. Lisa told Buzzfeed News that she loves her giant lips and wants to share that with people, essentially. She’s previously said that she’s not comfortable with the way she was being defined by her lips, which are the result of several surgeries to repair botched silicone injections. Here’s some of what she told Buzzfeed:
The key, she explained, is raw passion, and putting your all into something “that is truly authentic to who you are.”
Her core values and business acumen are more evident than ever with the launch of the Larger Than Life Plumping Glosses, where Lisa has deftly reclaimed the criticism over her plump pout while also helping fans re-create her iconic look.
“My lips are big, I wanted them big, I made them big, so now you too can have big lips,” she told BuzzFeed News…
“The fact that I did it when I was 57 years old is pretty remarkable to begin with,” she said after reflecting on the time it took to turn her dreams into reality.
“Nobody is escaping [aging]” she said, composing herself after bursting out in a priceless cackle to ease the weight of her somewhat morbid statement. “I think it’s such a personal journey as to how you want to age, and I don’t judge that in any way, shape, or form, because again I think it is truly personal.”
“I give credit to anybody that wants to age their own way — whether you want to do everything to yourself, or nothing to yourself. It’s really how you feel the most comfortable,” she added, steering clear of the overarching sense of shame that often clouds conversations about aging and cosmetic enhancements. “And I think it’s great that we have different role models for all of it.”
Rinna Beauty is all lip-based with plumping lip glosses, lip kits and liners. Prices range from $20 to $45, which is reasonable-ish. Lip plumpers don’t really work and the ones that do sting and are only temporary, which I know about because I’ve tried some. Maybe I need to splurge on some expensive ones. Good for Lisa for branching out from RHOBH though. Lisa and her husband, Harry Hamlin, are hustlers. They’re trying to instill that in their kids too. Lisa told Buzzfeed News their daughters “Know it does not come for free, and they know it is not easy, and so, if you want to do this, you have to work!” She added “Even if you’ve got a little step in the door, you still have to prove yourself even more!” Getting your foot in the door is half the battle, but OK.
Lisa looks like she stepped out of a Robert Palmer video.
I don’t know what those lip plumpers are like now, but I tried one on a whim when they first came out and it was like “OMG, what is happening to my mouth!!” It stung like crazy.
Same here. I was coming off an allergic reaction around my eyes due to an eye cream and when my lips started to sting I was like WTH – not again !!!!!!
I remember watching her as Billie in Days of our Lives in the 90s at that time i dont think lip filler were the rage. I thought they were natural.
Same! I always thought they were natural because she had them before it was even a thing.
When she was on Melrose Place, my friends and I called her Lips, Inc. because her lips were so big they needed to incorporate.
Nope, the result of surgery and fillers.
At least she’s now admitted that her lips are fake. I remember her going on Arsenio Hall’s show and saying that her lips were real.
With the long hair and pinkish dress, she looks just like Kylie. She looks so different with long hair!
I was going to say she looks like Khloe 🤣
I too thought it was Khloe
I was going to say Larsa Pippen!
Do all of these reality “stars” go to the same plastic surgeon? I swear to God they are all just morphing into the same person. Huge lips, huge boobs, tiny waist, high cheekbones, arched brows. Whatever happened to looking like an individual. I hate it. It’s awful.
Everyone in Los Angeles who lives between La Brea and the Pacific Ocean looks like this. It’s weird.
I once was walking in a mall, and my eyes were down. A woman walked towards me in workout wear, and I looked up so that I wouldn’t run into her. Body looked super fit, massive boobs, big hair, and a face that still gives me nightmares; pulled tight, tanned like leather, unnaturally shaped in an attempt to match the body. She DID NOT look younger. She looked 70 trying to look 20.
I vowed then to NEVER get plastic surgery. I try not to judge, but I do!!! My cousin got a breast reduction and liposuction, but I don’t know anybody who feels like they need to mess with their face. In LA, few age like Keanu’s GF, in their own skin. Everyone thinks “perfect” looks are important. It’s sad. Makes you forget what real people look like.
Her lips look freakish and terrible! I can’t understand how or why anyone would want to look like a clown with giant, fake lips!
I hope her fans aren’t dumb enough to buy her crap product and add to her bank account.
I don’t understand going through the pain to look like that. Maybe if I were in the business? Even the people who work behind the scenes do stuff to themselves. Bad back pain since I was a teenager makes it hard for me to understand having injections and surgery on any part of the body unless you are hurt.
Wonder if BuzzFeed is going to let go plagiarizer Ellie Hall.
Beside the fact he’s been acting for 50+ years… how is Harry Hamlin a hustler?
God, the rich are morphing into cartoon fish.
The few minutes I just spent thinking about her and her family I will never get back and I deeply regret. Hideous.
No thanks, Lisa, I’ve never wanted lips like yours and never will.
The only way to have lips like hers is through what she did which is fillers. How does lip kits and plumpers do that? People have got to be idiots to think they can get a lip filler look without actual fillers. if that were true nobody would bother with fillers.
Yes but there are many many idiots who by this sh** these twits are slingin’. It actually bothers me that people are so gullible and stupid and that those same people want to look like these “stars”.
She Kardashianed herself. She used to be naturally pretty! Just a really pretty girl. There’s some major issues there & I think she’s passed them along to her daughters.