To not understand the heavy makeup trend

[Moment1000]

ie girls in their teens and 20s caked in heavy stage like make up with extremely heavy eyeshadow and false lashes- for during the day as well ! Wonder how long this trend will last..

[Bubba1234]

They get so defensive in this thing it ruins the threads!

[Moole]

No, quite rightly Bubba1234, if we all liked the same things and looked the same it would be ever so boring. But others on here saying that someone must have low self esteem and should embrace their own natural beauty, without even knowing someone or whats underneath their make up is judging. How can you tell someone has low self esteem by just looking at them? Some women just wear make up simply because they like it and want to express themselves and no other reason.

[JosieJasper]

It may not be something you understand OP but as others have said, it's happened so many times before, it's a trend. I was a young teen in the mid 80s, me and my friends went through a phase wearing pink and blue eyeshadow with electric blue eyeliner and twilight teaser lipstick, we all has perms too. We thought we looked great (the pictures tell a different story ) but I wouldn't change it for the world as it was our time. So what if they get up early to get themselves ready, it's their choice. Also as far as men not liking it, to be fair, it doesn't do the Towie girls any harm and they go even further, their fellas seem more than happy with the make-up, fake tan, lip fillers, hair extensions etc.

[ethelfleda]

YANBU
Haven't RTFT but it seems to be all down to YouTube videos etc
When I was experimenting with make up it was all blue eyeshadow and heathershimmer lipstick. I prefer these days to keep it minimal. Who has the time. Plus, I attempted contouring once. It did not end well.

[BitchQueen90]

It's fine to have an opinion, to think it doesn't look good but saying "I wish they wouldn't wear so much makeup" or whatever bugs me. It's not your face so why do you think you should have a say?

And to say it makes them look "desperate" is a bit rude. Would it be ok to say if someone doesn't wear makeup or make an effort with their appearance they look a scruffbag? Seems to always be a bit of smugness going on in these threads that natural and untouched is the only acceptable way to be and anything else is fair game to be ridiculed.

[RoseWhiteTips]

What people are talking about, surely, is the thick, dirty looking, ghostly-shimmery stuff that some teenage girls and some very young women slap on.

No one is condemning the use of make up as an enhancement.

[Horsedogbird]

Exactly Rosewhite

[RoseWhiteTips]

It makes them look crazy not desperate.

[keffie12]

Our niece does this! It looks awful. She looks like a clown and trashy. She has to tone it down for work. She looks beautiful for work with a more natural look. Her friends are the same.

It's horrible. Nothing wrong with make up. I wear it myself. The style of it now is just awful.

They dont understand why men don't bother with them. Men don't like it plastered on like that. It's not appealing and makes them look cheap

[Ski40]

I hate the massive eyebrow trend, I hate how girls on Instagram all paint themselves a new face on top of their perfectly fine young faces. They all look like clones. I worry about my daughter growing up to think her own lovely face won't be good enough without a kilo of makeup, huge fake eyebrows, lashes and lips and that effing pointy shiny nose I keep seeing. Bleurgh.

[Ski40]

I do like makeup and like to play with different shadows, lip colours etc. And I have discovered a bit of contouring does away with my jowly chops for a photo or special occasion. But I still look like me, not a plastic doll identical to all the others- which is what bothers me. I believe in making the most of your features, not eliminating everything that makes you... you.

[TeachesOfPeaches]

It's just a trend like any other. Will be something else soon enough. Not sure what you don't understand OP.

[Summerisdone]

My 15 YO DSis is currently stuck in this 'heavily made up' phase. I've been trying to explain to her that it's not necessary to be so made up everyday, as nice as she looks. I expected pained that you need to make your face up the same way you dress, for the occasion; for example you wouldn't wear your best night out out clothes to do a shop round the Asda, so why paint your face up like you're about to walk a red carpet, just to walk the dogs through a field or to hang out at Costa with your mates?

I think a lot of it is down to the Youtube tutorials they've all learnt from, the videos they watch are showing them how to do the ultimate look, yet they then all go away and recreate to wear everyday 🤦🏻‍♀️

[SukiTheDog]

People keep talking about the time it takes. I wonder whether it does take that long? So many multipurpose products on the market now. What I did think was utterly ridiculous was a school documentary last year. A young teen, was taking his makeup into maths lessons and applying it. Bronzer, the brows, all of it. The teacher had no control over it....he was expressing himself. Which is fine but so disrespectful in a maths class. He was around 13/14 and had fully embraced contour 😊

[Jellybubbamama0987]

I’m seeing a lot of people complaining about being judged and people saying they don’t judge people, I’ve read a lot of posts on here about various things and my god are you all judgie mcjudgies or what? Everybody judges everybody else, it’s human nature. The mum who screams at her kids is a bad mother, the mother who uses the naughty step is too soft, anyone who taps a child’s hand is abusing their kids, the neighbours who sunbathe topless are secret swingers, I mean my god it’s just so easy to judge everything and everyone. I’ll get judged on this post and do you know what? I don’t care 🤷‍♀️ my dad always says opinions are like a**eholes, everyone has one. I do find the makeup trend nowadays incredibly weird but hey each to their own, do I judge in passing? Of course but do I let it ruin my day? Hell no. If you silently judge anyone on their clothes or make up then cool, it’s only uncool if you start wiping the makeup off them as that’s just a bit weird!! I’m a fat person and I judge other fat women who go out in strappy tops and short shorts as I would never in a million years wear anything so revealing as I know I would be judged by other people. I’m a hypocrite I know but I’m sure there’s a lot of you guys who do the same but won’t admit it. I’m imperfect and that makes me human, be honest with yourself and you’ll see I’m right. The media tells us what we should and shouldn’t look like and we blindly don’t question it, the ones who do are named as quirky or weird looking. Be you. Be comfortable in your own skin. Be the individual person you were before the media got to you.

[MaisyPops]

Jellybubbamama0987
Exactly!!!
Everyone judges and has opinions.
Most know if/when to share but fact is everyone does it.

It makes me chuckle when people on MN turn up on threads with the holier than thou you meanies for judging. I would never judge. You thinking those things says more about you than thr people/ thing you have an opinion about.
In my heaf I imagine they are probably super judgemental in real life (like when you get closeted gay men being the most 'macho' vocal homophobes).

[CutesyUserName]

Nope, I hate it and think most of them look like drag queens.

[LaurieMarlow]

they don't understand why men don't bother with them. Men don't like it plastered on like that. It's not appealing and makes them look cheap

What makes you qualified to speak for not just men, but all men?

[Queenofthedrivensnow]

There's some very stock responses to this subject;
It creates insecurity
They look daft
You should just be natural

Wear make up, don't wear make up bit the preaching is v dull

[Queenofthedrivensnow]

Laurie - yep there's another one it's like bingo

[BitchQueen90]

For me it's just wondering why people care so much. I can understand not liking something but the idea of someone's makeup irritating me to the point of "wishing they wouldn't wear it" or "can't stand looking at it" is just odd to me. What someone else does with their own physical appearance just isn't something I can get worked up about.

[MentalMaggie]

I am absolutely mesmerised by the long thick fake eyelashes and thickly drawn or painted on eyebrows☺️. I can’t stop gawping at them, either on the telly or outdoors, more so when they’re not done equally, they look to me like dead spiders and dead caterpillars😳🤣🤣

[LimonViola]

I can’t stop gawping at them, either on the telly or outdoors, more so when they’re not done equally, they look to me like dead spiders and dead caterpillars😳🤣🤣

Wow, such an original statement. My sides are splitting. I've never heard anyone comparing eyebrows to caterpillars and eyelashes to spiders before.

[Americantan]

ethelfleda “heathershimmer lipstick” yes yes yes! Oh those were the days

[SomethingOnce]

It’s hard work avoiding staring at the brows.