AIBU to not really get the whole tattoo, metallic nail, Hollywood, bleach hair, heavy heavy mascara look.

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Went to a girls pampering party today at a beauty salon. Sat and watched the clients come and go. Now, I'm in favour of making the best of yourself as much as the next person but I just can't see the point or the appeal of the over made up/ plucked to baldness/sprayed tanned to oblivion look. Girls coming in sporting tattoos galore, having all sorts done to lose any visible hair on their bodies, getting hair extensions, up dos, spray tans, metallic nails, tooth gems. Caked in false tan and heavy eyeliner, bleached hair, spider eyelashes. I'm afraid it just looks crap and cheap to me but I may just be being unreasonable?

YANBU to not get it.

But as long as no one is forcing you to wear it then there's no problem with it.

Personally I think no makeup, natural coloured hair, and casual clothes is a less than appealing fashion. So I simply don't dress like that. Don't bother to judge anyone else for dressing like that though.

Another vote for guyliner

Mmmmm yes guyliner

I do love a bit of that

it's having dark hair roots which bugs me

Just as well you aren't actually required to 'get' what other people choose to wear.

Great - go and get your roots done if they are bothering you!

it's called fashion

What the hell is wrong with having tattoos? Im covered in them and have dreads down to my bum.
Ffs should we all be dressed in boden just because you don't get it.

Funny thing is, boys don't like it. Girls think they look like gods gift when they have been cuprinoled to within half an inch, stuck on some spiders legs, back combed their hair into a knotted, purple mess. So I suppose they are doing it for themselves rather than to attract a mate.

I agree with OP, find it a boring, unnattractive look, very mask-like and emotionless.

YANBU, some of these looks are downright trashy.

That being said I love my extensive (NOT FACIAL) piercings and my wrist tattoos. I also get my brows and bikini area waxed (very prone to yeast infections, GP suggested waxing and now I only get them twice a year!)

Oh, and I intend to get more subtle tattoos and piercings, they're a big part of who I am!

But spending a ridiculous amount to get your dark hair bleached to a frizzy mess, covering your beautiful eyes with so much makeup no one can see the colour, getting tooth jewellery and tanning yourself orange doesn't look good IMO. But I pity girls who do this as I assume they must have low self esteem to think they have to fit a 'standard' of beauty. EG blonde, slim and tanned. We're all beautiful and unique in our own way, stick to what enhances your natural beauty, not what you feel pressured to look like. :)

FYI: One of my friends has never waxed/shaved, never had her hair dyed, rarely wears makeup and I think she is the most beautiful girl I have ever met. I am very of her natural beauty.

I don't get the extreme side of it either, we were talking about it last night at a girly gathering ages from 26-33.
All that hair combed over, orange skin drag queen look.

But I do get why you would have eyebrows done, highlights in hair, tattoos (although not for me).

When we go to the pub we look round and just think wow - we didn't go out looking like that. A sign that we are getting on a bit and that fashions have changed! I am just thankful I grew up in the 90's and had different role models who were more fresh faced. Although some girls aspired to the Pamela Anderson look.

I kind of think people should be able to dress/look how they want. I don't really give it much thought to be honest.

'trashy' 'unattractive' 'vulgar' 'cheap'

all was said about punk in the 1970s/80s

it's all language used to oppress and encourage social institutionalisation

YABU. It's just a sub section of fashion like any other.
Does it upset you that hipsters wear tweed? Is it 'trashy' () that goths white out their skin? Would you find a mod's pointy shoe 'vulgar' ()?
You're focussing on one particular look that some people, like with any of the examples above, choose to make more extreme than others.
It's been said that the definition of style is deciding who you are and then being it like hell. Sounds like what these women are doing. Go to it, say I, and good luck.

Being at all bothered by other people's style choices is a bit odd, isn't it?

Victorians women had corsets that made their waists so tiny they fainted all the time. Plus they wore white lead on their faces to make them look all pale and interesting.

Edwardian woman wore enormous bustles to make their bums look big (imagine!!)

Flappers bound their breast to look like boys

God the list goes on.

Marie Antoinette and her mates had hair so tatty that mice built nests in it.

Fashion......you couldn't make it up.

YABU, but that's ok.

ITs like the TOWIE look in overdrive I guess they think they look nice, My friends 20 yr old dresses like this she looks like a wotsit bless her

Some of you lot sound like Ena Sharples gossiping over a glass of milk stout.

Most of these girls are young and just experimenting with what they look like.

Yes I wouldn't want to wear the TOWIE look and think that all those 'treatments' are a repressive waste of time, but I am not so arrogant and snobby to call it vulgar and trashy.

And I do think its ironic that there is a poster above who says that piercings and tattoos are fine, but the blonde spray tanned look denotes lack of self esteem in the wearer. So YOUR look is fine, but to look that THAT is not. How un-self aware are you.

Some of you lot sound like Ena Sharples gossiping over a glass of milk stout.

Most of these girls are young and just experimenting with what they look like.

Yes I wouldn't want to wear the TOWIE look and think that all those 'treatments' are a repressive waste of time, but I am not so arrogant and snobby to call it vulgar and trashy.

And I do think its ironic that there is a poster above who says that piercings and tattoos are fine, but the blonde spray tanned look denotes lack of self esteem in the wearer. So YOUR look is fine, but to look that THAT is not. How un-self aware are you.

You don,t need to get it.

It's not the way I choose to dress but I think each to their own. What I don't like is the attachment of labels such as trashy or common which are applied because it's predominantly working class women who do this.

I often think some Mnetters look like this

usual - stop posting pictures of me without my permission

DD2 is getting mettalic nails for a wedding next week i hope she doesnt look to vulgar/common/trashy