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?

Mumsnetter with dh and dds

MNetters bosom hoiking at the young 'un

oh usual that made me i love cissy and ada or was it Ida can never remember ,

I wanted to be laura ingils when i was younger all that skipping down the hill

I wanted to live in that House on the Prairie too

Each to their own.
Punks, goths, hippies, suits, mods, teds - there have always been groups identifying with one another by dressing and looking the same as each other.
This is no different to that, in the larger context.
As such, let them enjoy it.
When I was at school certain girls and boys PILED on the 80's hairspray for the sticky out big hair fashion of the day. I couldn't be bothered but was a little in awe of the sheer effort they made. And it made them happy.
A bit, or a lot, of make up doesn't make someone a slapper, WAG wannabe or superficial airhead chav. TOWIE etc hasn't done much to dispel this notion i admit...

But if metallic nails distinguish a 15 yo from her topshop wearing 45 yo rellies then good on her.

Op, you'd have keeled over and died if you'd been with me last night, my niece had her 18th birthday dinner in The Sugar Hut (of TOWIE fame)

Never seen so much permatan or such tight dresses in my life!

But, they obviously liked they way they looked, they were happy, yes to me it's a slightly OTT way of looking but then I used to go out dressed like this in the 80's (I too love a man in guyliner:)) so I don't think I have room to comment!

To think that we used to giggle at pictures in history books of massive wigs, chalked faces and ruffs. My great grandchildren will be asking their teacher why people made their hair white and their bodies orange.

How cool was the upladder bedroom with Pa climbing the ladder to give little words of wisdom to laura before he kissed her goodnight

I'm not keen, but each to their own.
The think is the TOWIE girls and Katie Price are just so naturally pretty, they really don't have to do much to look good.
The former supermodels like Elle Macpherson or Helena Christianson or Claudia Schiffer were (and are) still beautiful, but never seemed to go down that over made up look.
I'm just old though.

You're right, each to their own. I used to dress up ' back in the day'. Anyone remember ' Flock of Seagulls'? That was my hair. God, I'm getting old! Saw a Lancome sales assistant today doing the look so well today that I am even beginning to warm to it...

and I did want to be Laura Ingils when I was younger too!

newmum001 Thankyou Personal style is very important to me. As I'm eternally skint, I have to be a bit creative. I hack things up a lot and can sew a bit. Plus all my hair is home made and installed by me.

I am quite old so no surprise that I think this look is honestly freakish. I was out in a restaurant in central London recently, very busy, the place was packed and it was quite large. There was a party of 3 young women sporting this extremely overdone Essex Girl/Porn Star look and they might as well have been a bunch of aliens in there. They looked so odd in their nude platforms and enormous false eyelashes. People were staring.

Personally I think it is due to the pornification of everything.