To wonder what happened to the natural look?

[thefirstMrsDeVere]

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?

Oh well more fool us oldies then who've spent 20+ years searching for the perfect foundation which matches our skin tone. We should've just grabbed the first pot and smeared it on.

I am beginning (thanks to this thread) to understand that Maybelline matte mousse foundation stuff though. It consistantly comes "top of the polls" but I always felt like a tranny when wearing even the tiniest bit.

I'd like to care to wear more than I do, more regularly than I do - without looking like Lily Savage - although there's a time & a place - if the lighting's low go for it!

Sorry - went to bed early so missed some posts

Mouseface - your hair is fab - I had a crop like that for several years - I'm dark too. Lost my cheekbones along with my 2nd placenta though, so no longer have the confidence. Am bob-tastic now

But youngsters rarely have short hair now

I used to wear black eyeliner to school when I was in last-year juniors. Am amazed my mum never stopped me

we call the look the DOUBLE DIRTY around here (somerset) it is all about blonde back combed fluffy hair pushed over to one side, masses of foundation that is not a good colour match, masses of eyeliner and then no lippy. They look like mannequins. The clothing is short short flippy skirts with leggings and uggs/ballet flats, or skinny jeans and leather jackets. The girls themselves are willowy beauties, but they look dreadful, dirty hair and a dirty caked face. The double dirty. yeuch.

Last week, my hairdresser started cutting my hair 45 minutes late because she'd been working on a sixteen-year old girl before me who would not get out of the chair until her hair had been back-combed to within an inch of its life

Does anyone remember The Body Shop Dewberry perfume. Our seceondray school operated under a thick fog of it from 1991-1995. I still have a nostalgic soft spot for it. I wonder if they still do it...

bupcakesandcunting (snort) I think they do!!

bupcakes - that's what I posted last night!

I used to bathe in the stuff.

You knew I was coming about half an hour before I arrived due to the overwhelming, breath taking stench of Dewberry Oil!!

Do they still make it?

Yes, online, body lotion and something for the Bath

Maybe it's that 'London Look' Kate Moss and Lily Cole say we should go and get. I often wonderd what it was exactly. Maybe dressing up as a Beefeater?

bupcakesandcunting you're my age! Fuzzy Peach and all those lip balms too.

Adversecamber I think I've still got a Heather Shimmer somewhere! It's still my favourite colour. I can't wear any lippy without feeling like a drag queen.

I'm notthat into a totally natural look but I don't do orange. Show me the woman whose skin looks good with an orange tinted foundation on it.

It might be an East London thing, out here in the sticks they all want to be Alexa Chung or Fearne Cotton and so if you can discern make up at first glance they feel they've personally failled.

I don't really understand the OP as I don't think there was ever a time when teenage girls aimed for 'the natural look'.

'The don't let your parents realise how much makeup you are wearing look', maybe.

Good Lord Heather Shimmer lipstick and Bodyshop Dewberry body spray... I feel old now just thinking about it. And black eyeliner inside the eye, was that just at my school?

black eyeliner inside the eye is really not a good look. At least on me , I couldn't wear that.

What about sparkly blusher eh? I used to have some of that in my days of teenage glamour. Snort. And what about that thing where you tie your wet hair up in about 10,000 little plaits and when you r hair is dry, you have this massive FRIZZ. I can't believe I ever did that but I did.

but I have an older sister and I am sure it was her bad influence responsible for all my fashion and style blunders

Adversecamber I still have some Heather Shimmer and use it regularly. Maybe it's time I updated my look

I can almost smell that sickly Dewberry smell now you mention it. How did we ever get boyfriends? (with the added risk of looking like you'd been in a horror movie if you snogged anyone with your dark red lipstick on...)

we should probably all be updating our look. I'm not updating to an orange face though and a concrete slab of hairsprayed fringe over half my face.

I had a haircut last Friday whilst dd was at sport, went to pick her up. "Oh" , she says "you look different mum, like in the old days"

wtf

ee yes , the smell of those lip glosses. Yuk. I suppose the boys would have put up with anything

I think I'm a bit older than the Dewberry crowd, when I was in school it was Body Shop White Musk or Patchouli oil stinking the place out...

Dark lipstick and lashings of eyeliner and sticky mascara, stripes of dark blusher but no foundation, used to use those little paper powder things (also from Body Shop) to stop the grease shining off my nose!

My hair is flatter than a flat thing so I did the 'zillions of tiny plaits' the night before a school disco and came out looking like this (if only the face had been like that too)!

I do remember my younger sister slapping on the pale frosted lipstick, sparkly brown eyeshadow and masses of mascara, also the Boots green colour corrector stuff under the palest foundation she could get, as she had very red cheeks.

I still do the black eyeliner inside the eye It's a hangover from my rock chick days :(

I remember being on a school trip to some God forsaken mountain yoof centre where it was bitter cold and we were dragged out daily to freezetodeath climb mountains. We were about 13 I think and to a girl, armed to the teeth with Body Shop lip balms. Kiwi, I think was my favourite and beyond exotic as a fragrance at the time and I also had some toffee or butterscotch type one, what was it? I loved them.

We all got really sick on that trip thanks to one girl bringing a plague of a cold with her and because the teachers thought we were swinging the lead, they still insisted on dragging us out in minus temperartures. Hence some of us got properly ill and I came home very thin, delirious and with pneumonia. I still can't bear to catch a whiff of a body shop lip balm...