This week on So You Think You’re an Adult, one woman asked how to tell her friend that she's gone overboard on Botox and filler treatments.

“One of my closest friends has decided to embrace aesthetic tweakments, but I think she’s gone way too far,” she told Moncrieff.

“She has always been glam and high maintenance; she’s a gorgeous girl and always gets loads of attention.

“At this stage, most of our friends are getting Botox and that’s fairly harmless and standard.

“The thing is, she’s taken it further.

“She has massively overfilled her lips, and I’ve noticed that every time I see her, she’s had something more done.

“I have never been one to step in, but I feel she’s trying to control the physical stuff because there’s more going on.”

Close up of hands of cosmetologist making botox injection in female lips.

The letter writer explained that her friends’ partner cheated on her last year, and she wondered if it had left her feeling insecure about her looks.

“She’s an amazing person inside and out; how can I get her to believe this and stop?” she asked.

TV personality Declan Buckley said this woman shouldn’t assume the reasoning behind her friend’s use of beauty treatments.

“There’s a bit of a jump going on here; looking at your friend who’s having aesthetic treatments that you personally think are a lot, to deciding there’s a psychological issue and self-loathing or some kind of trauma that’s driving all this thing,” he said.

“Because the reality of it is that we live in a world – you just have to turn on your television.

“You can see what people are doing with their faces and their bodies all the time and having needles in their faces and tattoos, hair colouring, everything.

“People do stuff that may or may not be something they regret in the future.”

'We do have to kick back against it'

However, broadcaster Barbara Scully said she doesn’t agree with Declan’s perspective at all.

“Until more and more women – and especially older women – go, ‘This is me, this is how I look,’ and accept that yourself, then other women will have the confidence to go, ‘Do you know what, yes, I’m going to do that too’,” she said.

“So, we do have to kick back against it.”

According to Barbara, while women in general should make an effort to push back against beauty treatments, that doesn't mean the letter writer should have a go at her friend.

She recommended this woman sit her friend down for a discussion about her mental health, but leave her use of filler out of it.

Main image: Cosmetician gives face botox injections to patient. Image: Sergiy Tryapitsyn. 27 August 2019