Conservative commentator Candace Owens ignited a social media firestorm when she asked men to weigh in on their opinion of girls’s use of Botox and fillers to boost their lips.
“Botox” made it to the Twitter trending list on Monday after Owens requested “male opinions only” on the subject of injections as a part of her research for a project she is working on about “social media mutating people’s appetites.”
While several men weighed in on their preferences, Owens’ tweet appeared to hit a nerve with some women online.
“I used to be very surprised I landed myself in a puddle of uh-oh,” Owens said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Tuesday, dubbing the fallout “Botoxgate.”
“Serious query for men: Do you’re thinking that that the Botox/Filler, fake lips look is attractive?” Owens’ tweet read. “Do you envision long run relationships with girls that look that way? Male opinions only, please. Working on a show about social media mutating our appetites.”
Owens told Carlson that while she personally doesn’t use Botox or fillers cosmetically, she is “not against people” who select to make use of injections to boost their features.
“I don’t personally do it, but I used to be curious if men found this recent face that everybody has decided upon to be attractive,” she said. “And boy was I met with a lot heat from women.”
“I even have a detailed friend that gets Botox that said, ‘Candace, you might be launching a war on us White women, how dare you. That is what we have now to do,’” Owens recalled.
“Everybody is beginning to look the identical on Instagram,” she later added. “It’s hard to inform a difference between a trans man or woman who has been getting lots of work. That is where we’re at today.”
“We’re always taking a look at all of those digital toxins. We scroll through our phones on social media, after which we suddenly start emulating the behavior that we see. Living proof: Wear a mask, save lives, and now persons are suddenly masking their children and won’t go outside,” she told Tucker Carlson. “Where a component of that’s you go on social media and everybody is beginning to look the identical, it’s like an avatar, it’s very bizarre.”
Many men responded to Owens’ tweet stating their preference for natural lips. Nonetheless, women defended their use of Botox and fillers while arguing that men often cannot recognize when a girl has had cosmetic work done.
In a follow-up tweet, Owens noted that “Botox is now trending. Mostly because women are upset that I asked men a straightforward query. I didn’t expect this.”
The podcast host said the exchange made her realize that “some topics are too sensitive.”
“I would love to apologize to all of my fans and listeners, and I’ll leave your Botox and filler alone,” she said, before questioning Nancy Pelosi’s alleged use of Botox and cosmetic work.
“I desired to open the conversation and say hey it’s possible to identical to your face and age gracefully, and I even have learned that individuals are not able to have that conversation as of yet.”
“But,” Owens joked. “We should always investigate Nancy’s eyebrows.”
