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To wonder what happened to the natural look?

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thefirstMrsDeVere · 05/02/2011 20:51

Lighthearted thread for a Saturday (I hope, who knows, anything can happen on MNs).

When I say 'natural' I dont mean no makeup. I have faffing about with my hair and slapping on makeup since I was about 12.

When I was a school in the early 80s we were all rubbish at putting on makeup. It was all blue eyeshadow and tide marks. As I got older it was the fashion to pile on as much slap as you could possibly fit on your face.

Then it all started to relax a bit. Still makeup but at least it looked normal. I used to look at teenage girls and envy how well they did theirs. It was understated and well applied. They looked nice (if you think makeup looks nice).

I was out today and noticed that it seems to be on trend to wear a sort of airbrushed look. REALLY thick foundation and mineral blusher. Totally matt and mask looking. Not just a couple of girls but ALL of them.

I bought some powder from Boots last week in 'nude'. When I put it on it was orange! Is orange the new nude then?

What is going on? Or is it only in East London?

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Mouseface · 05/02/2011 21:26

Ha ha ha mamatomany

See, I was an Avon 'Spectra' girl in Pink Frost.

Can of hairspray a week, yes. Drove my parents mad fogging up the house with the stuff.

Back-combed hair, Dewberry perfume from The Body Shop and orange pillow covers, smeared with unwashed off make-up.

Cartoon print on the inside of my denim jacket and a thing for the Pet Shop Boys later on.

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thefirstMrsDeVere · 05/02/2011 21:29

mouseface I love your hair. I have long blonde rock chick (ha ha in my dreams) hair but I had it very short for years. Its gone all thin now so I am thinking about getting it cropped. But if I do I will never have long hair again. It only got this long because I had two lots of dreadlock exstensions put in a few years back. It enabled my hair to grow past my shoulders.

(yes, yes I recognise the irony of someone who had fake dreadlocks moaning about unatural make up).

Your kids are yummy too

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cerealqueen · 05/02/2011 21:39

Teenagers now still look better then I did...lots of Constance Carroll Make up which slid off your face within half an hour, Boots 'Country Born' gel and hairspray, Toners and Shaders or Harmony wash in/out hair colour, and when short of cash from the £1.10 p/h Saturday job, (out of which I had to buy my school lunches ) sugar and water and red food colouring. In the summer, I was lunch for the wasps.

Mouseface · 05/02/2011 21:53

MrsDeVere - please don't eat my children

Go for short! I'll never be long again. Been all sorts in my time but short suits me best.

TryLikingClarity · 05/02/2011 22:00

YANBU.

It's the fake tan that I don't understand. I'm only 26, so I'm hardly old, but sometimes I look at teenagers around here plastered in badly applied fake tan and just wonder why

This is Belfast, not warm, not sunny. What is with the tan that looks the same shade as a garden fence? Plus it's sooo badly applied!

Makes me want to weep.

bupcakesandcunting · 05/02/2011 22:00

YANBU and this is coming from me who wears full make-up to do the school run.

My friend and I were discussing this the other week, how girls nowadays (fecking nowadays, sound like my mother) feel that they need to look like glamour models just to go shopping with their girlfriends on a saturday afternoon. Girls now are just too perfect looking. I feel sad for them. They only do it because of the pressure they feel to look glamorous all day, every bloody day.

We wore make-up as teenagers but no way did we go out looking like Katie Price (who is to blame for this, BTW) I used to wear black winged eyeliner and lipstick, looked more like Robert Smith than Jordan Girls feeling pressure to look "sexy" isn't a new thing but it seems to have taken on a life of it's own now. It's a shame.

bupcakesandcunting · 05/02/2011 22:04

Also a fan of Mouseface's hair I'd look like Elton John if I had a Mouseface 'do :(

dementedma · 05/02/2011 22:13

I can't see your profile mouseface, keeps asking me to log in even though I already am!!
DD2 is very into the over-straightened hair which is a shame as she has long, dark brown wild tumbling hair which looks fabulous when she leaves it alone!

plupervert · 05/02/2011 22:38

"half a can of Silkerine on your fringe holding it up like the Sydney opera house."

Who says fashion doesn't inspire good writing?!

I'm not so sure it is "Jordan" per se who is responsible for this. After all, weren't Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell "discovered while out and about? And in the horrible pressure which such anecdotes create, I for one am not sure whether they were all primped when they were spotted. If were known that they were au naturel, it woud be dreadful for cosmetics manufacturers....

Seriously, this is very sad. The amount of work expended on looking not very nice! If I were given only one beauty wish, it would be utterly clear skin. What would these girls choose? They'd have to decide on the straightened hair, fake tan, fake nails... oooh, but if they got it "wrong", they might still look nicer, though lack of overkill! Now, there's a heartening thought!

LadyThumb · 05/02/2011 22:47

I saw a Drag Queen today!! Thick make-up, caterpillar eyelashes, pink lipstick. She would have looked great - except 'he' was a 'she' and about 17 !! I was told it is the 'latest look' !!

plupervert · 05/02/2011 22:58

at LadyThumb. I seem to remember that Crocodile Dundee squeezed the nonexistent bollocks of someone who was not indeed a drag queen!

Mrswhiskerson · 05/02/2011 23:04

At school my
look was black eyeshadow eyeliner coffee shimmer lipstick and plenty of it , and 17 foundation in a colour no natural skin has ever been and I thought I looked fabulous ! I also had the round heavily hairsprayed fringe that was in fashion at the time

gillybean2 · 05/02/2011 23:25

A good friend once said that when you're young and don't need to wear make up and foundation you wear way too much. And when you're older and should be wearing it you don't use enough!

I too find the current look really weird. I don't think I even want to know what those fake eyelashes they glue on are made of/come from. And what kind of glue is safe to use near your eyes but doesn't wash off or come off with makeup remover for lasts for several weeks!?

It looks awful but it's far worse that they feel they have to conform like this.
Tbh what shocks me more is the guys that fawn over them. One of the girls at work pulled out her false lashes as she was getting new ones put in that evening. The appointment got postponed so she came in to work without them to be told she looked 'strange' and 'ordinary' without them. And the next day came in with them replaced to be told that was much better

Earthymama · 05/02/2011 23:39

I wore trendy make up in the 60's, worked in a boutique aged 13, child labour those were the days!!, 70's, at uni and married, 80s, divorce and delayed adolescence and ever since. I loved fashion and make upt and tried every trend. I am a huge fan of young people trying out different trends and styles.
However I was in Cardiff and I saw a person and I truly thought you are a tranny, I have had lots of fun times with trannies so no judgement, but as a earlier poster said this was a teenage girl!!!
Why Oh Why! I honestly don't get this!

BluddyMoFo · 05/02/2011 23:40

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mamadiva · 05/02/2011 23:47

My best friend is 5 years younger than me (19) and he literally CAKES on make up, he had been bleating on to me about trying a new foundation he had bought and when he showed me how they all applied it at college I was gobsmacked.

Now I've always noticed the tango look but FGS apparently they put on a layer of pressed poder as concealer, then a liquid foundation and then a pressed powder , and this is topped up throughout the day...

I declined to try the look out I have to say but around here a lot of the teens look the exact same very bumfled hair, fugg boots, tights, shorts and a hoodie with the hugely plastered look. I don't geddit!

MiniMousse · 05/02/2011 23:55

oh wow Jamie that was a blast from the past - my first lipstick was Twilight Teaser! I thought I was IT when I wore it, but looking back it must have looked godawful, as I seem to remember it was sort of pinky purple and sparkly?!?
(oh yes and I removed my make up with Anne French followed by Aapri scrub - remember them?)

BanalChelping · 06/02/2011 00:02

should probably preface this with I won't put the bins out without my face on and I haven't seen my natural hair colour for almost 25 years...

It's not just that they wear so much make-up now but that they aspire to the kind of face that can only be achieved with Botox/fillers/surgery and that in a generation or two it will be normal to have all of these things done.

Mrswhiskerson · 06/02/2011 00:10

i loved anne french make up remover and aapri scrub! vanilla impluse and bodyshop musk perfume was very trendy at school we used to all spray it in about twenty second burts all over ourselves then did the same with hairspray its a wonder we didnt combust.

charlie red perfume for a school disco and one of my richer friends had anais anais i was very jealous.

Morloth · 06/02/2011 00:54

Kids today eh? I went through a goth phase so tend not to find too much make up 'too much'.

Don't wear any at all now, can't be arsed and I look good without any help.

It will change to something different as time goes on.

thunderchild · 06/02/2011 01:02

here in south wales we have the strange phenomenon of flatly dyed "mahogany" near black hair, and the sort of fake tan that can only be described as "creosote creole", then , about an inch of makeup!
Now, is it me or are welsh people , supposedly,fair skinned with fabulous complexions?

Im surounded by oompa loompas in uggs

BitOfFun · 06/02/2011 02:21

My fourteen year old daughter is beautiful, and wears discreet and understated make-up. She looked a fright aged 12 though. She has actually grown out of looking like a hooker before I'd even started wearing make-up- go figure

Darnsarfupnorf · 06/02/2011 02:50

Liverpool has the best most bizzare trend now

full face of the extra thick make up, bright pink cheeks and lipstick, thick black drawn on eyebrows, big thick eyelashes and amy winehouse eyeliner BUT the look is completed with a head full of rollers, a big fake fur coat (the hairier the better), a velour tracksuit and a pair of fuggs (prefrebly the type with fur and tassels)

im 19 and i dont get this...is it because im not local or am i old before my time?

BitOfFun · 06/02/2011 02:53

That is exactly why I am relieved that dd1 is past that- there are some shockers round here, you're right

noodle69 · 06/02/2011 06:35

'It's the fake tan that I don't understand. I'm only 26, so I'm hardly old, but sometimes I look at teenagers around here plastered in badly applied fake tan and just wonder why confused'

Totally agree. I know a lot of people who do the orange tan, dark eye shadow and bright lipstick combo and then complain that they are single. My husband tells me to tell them its because they look like drag queens!

Dont get it either as they would look pretty without it. I have never got the obsession with loads of make up and I absolutely hate fake tan on the majority of people.

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