Drawn-on freckles?

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I'm sure one of my students (uni) has drawn on freckles across her nose and the top of her cheeks... Is this a thing now?
They just don't look real, she looks like a cartoon!
Or am I imagining things?

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/how-to-get-fake-freckles-beauty-trend-a7465196.html

It's a weird craze at the minute.

Noooo... I can't believe that's a thing!
Hers aren't like that though, they are bigger and perfectly round and evenly spaced!

Yup, it’s a thing.

Some people paint them on in rainbow colours

I'm quite happy for this to be trending.
I loathed my freckles as a teen, I tried many unsuccessful methods for getting rid of them. Now I quite like them.

Crikey. It has a touch of the Enid Blyton about it to me.

Well, there you go!

I am pleased as my 4yo asked me some months ago when her freckles would go away and she would be “pretty again”

Yep. It’s a thing. Totally bizarre thing!

As a heavily freckled person, this trend leaves me half 'yay, maybe I won't get as many half-witted comments about my skin' and half 'fuck's sake, of course they draw on a pretty smattering, not the full face deal like mine.'

They're advertising tatoo freckles near me (North West)

Natural freckles are gorgeous, though. Fake ones? Really not gorgeous.

This is nothing new. We spent ages carefully drawing freckles on our faces in the sixties. Twiggy had them and we all wanted to look like her.

Weird trend. I’ve never seen it on a person irl. I have natural ones that stick out like a sore thumb. Hope nobody thinks mine are fake as they are just a smattering across my nose and cheeks

There's a boy a my son's school who always makes me do a double-take, as he has a triangle of freckles / moles on his face that look exactly like a typical cartoon cariacature of cheeky-small-boy-with-freckles!

I used to do this when I was a teen. Easy way to cover up spots and pimples.

I've never seen any good fake-freckles.

Some people have them tattooed on, they look as fake as slug eyebrows.

Natural freckles look lovely. The ones in that article look like blackheads to me. Weird.

Why does it seem things you get bullied for become good?

-ginger hair
-freckles
-a big butt
-being weirdly pale
-braces became cool for a while

Teenage me is so mad about it! (Adult me is happy they're accepted though!)

There are some odd makeup trends around these days.

I was walking through my university campus today (mature student) and was convinced I'd chanced upon some sort of carnival/drag convention.

And young folk are dressing in "vintage" clothes that I remember from the first time around.

I AM OFFICIALLY OLD.

< shuffles off >

DS and DH are fashion forward, for once! Both are covered in freckles, I think it's adorable but they hate it.

It was a thing in the 60s! Just a sprinkling across the nose although I never needed to use a pencil as I had plenty of the real thing.