To not understand the heavy makeup trend

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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..

Last time I wore a full face of makeup was June, for Mum’s funeral. I can’t be arsed really, although I do get my eyebrows waxed and tinted (fucking grey hairs) and semi permanent lashes so I don’t look like a mole.

But I don’t really see the issue with what other women do. I mean, it’s not my thing, I don’t really like it. But equally could they not say the same about my lack of makeup?

Live and let live I say.

I think it looks awful. A lot of young girls nowadays look as if they're wearing a mask.
I don't see the problem about discussing it or why some people think it's bitchy. I was watching an old episode of Morse the other day and looking at the eighties fashion for bright pink wedges of very obvious blusher and really vivid eye shadow and said to myself 'what on earth were we thinking of".
Some people seem to take offence at absolutely everything. We'd all be going around with our lips permanently zipped if we were to take them seriously.

I’m shite at make up. Plus it’s incredibly sticky and warm in my bus cab, it’d be running down my face in multi coloured high lit streaks by 7am! I stick to B.B. cream and mascara done lightly, anytime I’ve tried anything braver, I’ve ended up looking like I’ve been shot in the face with the make up gun Homer invented in the Simpsons. The skills the young guns have nowadays is admirable! But it must cost a bloody fortune! I’ve seen the price of some of the stuff, frightening! 40 quid for foundation seems ludicrous to me! I’d spend it on running shoes or new hiking boots 😂

Got to look your best for all those Facebook selfies ...

Can I just say I'm baffled by assymetrical haircuts that have hair flopping over one half of the face so the person has trouble seeing properly?
(Also baffled by thick make-up but if that's how some people want to look, okay.)

Good make-up, you don't particularly notice. It works with the person's face to enhance them. That doesn't necessarily mean very natural and subtle. Some people look great and enhance themselves with well chosen, bold techniques/ colours. I've always wished I could pull off dark, flicky eyeliner but it just doesn't work for me.

My make-up (when not in my general absence of) is influenced by the neutral trends of the ninties as well as sensitive skin that didn't cope with much and didn't look its best under a layer of foundation anyway, so I'm not the best conditioned person to appreciate a heavy mask of make-up, and so many followers of this trend do look like they are wearing a mask with an obviously different tidemark of foundation around their jaw, and permanently frowning eyebrows that don't tone in with their hair colour.

At least the 80s perms and rainbow colours looked fun even if they weren't always the most flattering of looks!

My gran said the same to my DM in the eighties. Hasn’t heavy make up always been a trend really? Even in the twenties with the pencilled on eyebrows and dramatic eye shadow. It’s just a trend and it will pass as all trends do.

I hate having to look at it. Abhorrently hideous. Some girls who wear this look downright monstrous. I usually do a good job of not looking directly at people I am not talking to/in some kind of social interaction with anyway. But those eyebrows are so hard to ignore.

Shock horror teenage girls wear lots of makeup as they experiment.

So did we in the 80s. If you didn’t op more bore you.

Another mysogynistic women criticising thread.

Bore off

Putting make-up on is a skill I definitely don't have, so it's lucky that I'm happy not using any.

I hate having to look at it. Abhorrently hideous

Nothing like a bit of hyperbole for the thread bingo

My mother used go on and on about my makeup, When I was a teenager

I'm not convinced that it is a fashion. It is only a minority of women and girls that I see with it and it is not just teenagers I see. I don't see that many in real life but on a certain facebook page I go on there are a lot of women who go overboard with the make up. And it doesn't look good in photos either, so I'm not that reason works either.

I'm another who doesn't understand it and thinks it looks awful. But hey ho, I don't have to wear it, thank god.

What gets me is when I was trying to find "no foundation" tutorials for wedding makeup (so, nothing skin-coloured on face, just blusher and eye makeup) all I found were videos using TONNES of primer, concealer, highlighter and powder instead. Sigh. Apparently no-foundation at a wedding is so abhorrent I may as well just wear a pillowcase and crocs.

Out of interest, why do you need a tutorial for how not to put foundation on?

Wouldn't you just search for, say, blusher and eye make-up tutorials?

The thick black brows were around in the 60s. It's sort of a 60s Latina look. I remember my sister in the 80s doing a stripe of purple blusher on either cheek, black eyeliner inside the lid and cerise metallic lipstick. I couldn't wait to grow up and do the same, only when it was my turn I wore red lip gloss, highlighter on the cheekbones and non existent eyebrows, with my hair held in place with sparkly hair slides (at 19!)
We have all looked a state as teens-It's part of growing up. I will say though that I had my eyebrows microbladed recently (they never really grew back since the 90s) and they look great. I like to think I have updated my face.

You don't have to understand it.

@Juancornetto look for Lisa Eldridge on you tube

Much as i hate drawn-on angry brows, i think there’s a move away from makeup being done in the hope of being attractive to men.

I know all the 20 year olds do not care about what we all think (middle aged moaners) but I often think what a waste of all that beautiful, GLOWING, perfect skin!! Covered in MAC - you can just scrub and go at that age

mads

80's weren't much better really.

What’s microblading? Is it worth doing? I don’t touch my eyebrows and they look unkempt and shit. Don’t want to pluck or wax ( I’m one who goes neon red for days if I pull hair off my face )

CaoNiMa: I agree with you about it being drag queen-ish. I hadn't followed that thought through as far as you did though - quite thought-provoking.

I also think the trend is partly driven by cosmetic companies wanting to find more ways of parting women from their money.

Freddy microblading is semi permanent tattooing but they do it to look like hairs, so it's a bold brow but not the Sharpie look. It's great for people who have over plucked but want a more natural look. It's ESSENTIAL to research and find a good practitioner (via recommendations etc).
If you have thick unruly brows you could try threading? If you get someone who know what they are doing you should be OK.
IMO NOONE should be allowed to pluck their own eyebrows!

Thank you @IfNot that sounds good! I have patchy brows that are both unruly and manage to have bits missing 🤔 I am off to google if anyone does it in my area!

Me. Freddy Fasbear with my eyebrows