The 'TOWIE' look is tarty

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trowelled on makeup, huge fake hair, pneumatic bosoms and ridiculous wedges.

What is so attractive about it, I just don't get it or am I missing something

Is this an entry for most obvious point of the week or something?

Essex has the highest rate of graduates per head of population than any other county in the UK. True fact.

What on earth has that to do with the OP?

I'd love to see what I'd look like TOWIE'd.

I've only ever seen a trailer.

And I thought it was a satire in the style of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror series until my SIL informed me it was 'real'.

This does not compute.

Has anyone watched made in chelsea? That is unbelievably bad - the acting and script is awful.

I have heard of TOWIE but have never seen it. I am off to search Youtube for a clip. I will be back to pronounce later .

It is my aim at the end of my make-over to look like i should be on TOWIE, its close to what i used to look like before - think lydia, but with more of a suntan. + i need to loose 3 stone.

& i wore eyelashes everyday before towie was invented!

My niece is naturally lovely, beautiful, eyes, skin, glossy hair. When she looks natural and dresses classy she really stands out as a natural beauty. But for big nights out or big occasions she insists on going all TOWIE and looks well awful really, just blends in with all her friends as a mass of orange tan, eyelashes, caked on make-up and sky high heels they toddle around in. The less fortunate looking and the really attractive ones just all look boringly the same, no one stands out in a good way. I must be getting auld!

I don't think they look tarty. Some of it is not my style but I covet a lot of what Lydia wears and Lucy's body. It can be hilarious, intentionally or unintentionally and it's great. It's a wind down for me for 45 minutes.

As for having no responsibility, they all pretty much have other jobs. Lauren Pope is a DJ, Chloe is a mother, Gemma sells cars (or did) and has her own fashion line, Billie and Sam own Minnie's, Mario has a business of some sort, Lucy designs and has her own range of clothes and Lydia has her own boutique.

The best of luck to them all. If they can earn x amount working on TV too where millions tune in to enjoy or berate them and they get press for themselves, their businesses and get their foot in the door for other jobs, more power to them!

I have just watched a couple of trailers and a botox party .

I have never met anyone who looks or sounds like they do. Some are so heavily made up they look like men in drag. Amy Childs is in Downton but here she comes over as a complete airhead.

Why are they pretending to be so vacuous? Presumably it is all for the cameras?

so what? I mean really? does it matter?

The women don't horrify me as much as the men in TOWIE, tbh.

Kirk Norcross - ASBO toddler (thank you, GetOrf)

James "Arg" Argent - like PeeWee Herman after a blow-out on the pies.

Joey Essex - so thick that his face appears on the banknotes in ThickoLand. Whoever said his head looks like the Bates Motel sign on a bank holiday shit
right in the toilet AFAIAC.

Mark Wright - finds words of one syllable a struggle. He is basically Ken out of Toy Story.

None of it matters. This is Mumsnet though, it's summat to shoot the breeze over. [meh emoticon]

I'm not quite sure what having an Oxbridge degree has got to do with anything it's still - subjectively, at least - a bad look.

Any judging I'm personally doing is not re the amount of brain cells the look correlates with, since there quite clearly is no correlation, but the way it makes the person look, i.e. faintly ridiculous. IMO, natch.

It's their lips that disturb me most tbh. They do look liike they have been punched in the mouth, without the bruising. I honestly don't think it's a good look.
Agree with others who say, each to their own, but I desperately hope all this sort of crap is off the TV before my DS and especially mt DD grow up and get this presented to them as normal and aspirational

I live near where it is set. DS and I saw a couple of "cast members" walking down the road towards us while we were stuck in traffic. I don't know who they were but male and female. I have to say I was always quite negative but they looked amazing. Dressed down and evidently not on camera and just in jeans. But just so polished and glam. Obviously took a lot of work but not over the top at all, just polished. Was v jealous for days and I am 40 something SAHM.

I don't find a single one of the TOWIE women attractive or sexy. Not one. I suspect this wouldn't bother them at all, mind

I much prefer women who are natural, with no make up, hairy-legged and normal, with no 'polish'. Gorgeous.

Baldrick my comment re my degree was made simply because I find it rritating that certain people (mainly women!) feel the need to make derogatory and/or disparaging remarks based on someone's appearance, and suggest that anyone dressed a la TOWIE in whatever way is thick.

IMO that says far more about the person making the comment than the subject of the same...

I mentioned the graduate thing because for the vast majoirty of people their only ever contact/experience of Essex is TOWIE or similar programmes or media articles that like to ramp up a certain stereotype, which is of vacuous, vain women who are all a bit dim.

The look is obviously not for everybody but they don't look like tarts.

they don't look like tarts

Agreed, but they don't really look like women, either. Something distinctly unfeminine about them.

Now THIS is tarty.

Must watch again, to make my mind up .

The only thing that made me sad in this thread was the poster who said its "normal" to go to school in Essex trowled in foundation.

I think it's 'normal' for teenage girls up and down the entire country to go school trowelled in foundation to be honest.

I think leave them alone! The way you look dosen't define who you are. If they wore rockport, tracksuit bottoms and hair scrapped back, people would have something to say, as per usual.

Who wants to see or watch boring normal people on tv, really? Cooking dinner, putting the wash on, changing the beds, scratching their balls cleaning up, I can watch my mom do that every day!!

Oh and Chloe's teeth are vile.

"Tarty"?

Are women not allowed to dress as they please now? Must we all conform to some unspoken standard so that it's not alleged that we look easy?

I've no idea what the hell the TOWIE look is, I rarely watch television, but I do know that dismissing a style of dress as "tarty" is putting women right where some people might feel they belong.