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..

This morning on the way to school, DSs and I walked past a teenage girl on her way to college (small town, easy to figure out who's going where). A couple of mimutes later we passed another girl on her way to college. DS (8) did a doubletake and asked why the same girl had passed us twice I had to explain the whole similar makeup look thing to him.

I was a teen in the 80's and the pan-make -up look was in.
Complete with Brook Shields bushy eye brows.

I look at my teenage daughter with Instagram brows and caked foundation and sigh. In reality she's no different to my generation as teenagers.

Fashions come and go, she will cringe at her photos one day.

Another mysogynistic women criticising thread.
Bore off
Another 'bah you have an opinion on an issue or trend linked to women so you are being sexist' comment to police discussions.

Note to self - if you don't get a make up trend and think it looks silly then if you speak of it you are misogynistic.

It's an art form and a form of expression, they might be doing it because they enjoy it and it makes them feel confident not so as you can say they look pretty. Also what a wonderful thread let's slag people off because they don't do their makeup how I would

It's not slagging people off. It's saying certain trends look stupid on people.

I wore electric blue mascara as a teen and thought I looked awesome. The sad fact is it looked ridiculous.

Excessive obvious silver stripey faces with super drawn in brows look silly. It's a trend abd it will pass. But it still looks stupid.

My aunts did the bright blue eyeshadow Electric Youth look in the 80s when I was a small child. I grew up, and we did the goth/emo thing with the heavy eyeliner and looking dead phase. So really I don't find any issue with the Instagram-ready makeup trend of today's youth.

I don’t get the angst on this thread. As many people have said it’s just a trend. A trend that some people don’t like. I don’t think saying that you don’t like a particular fashion is judgmental or bitchy. I don’t go crying on the threads that are anti-boot cut jeans. 😂

Some of us have naturally dark/heavier eyebrows and are thankful for the movement away from plucked into oblivion!

I think it's related to Instagram/social media. That sort of makeup looks far better on Instagram than it does in person.

It does look terrible definitely a trend

It’s such s silly thread though.

Girls snd makeup have always evolved. The look now if no more bizarre than in 1920!

It’s fun it’s being young and exciting

I loved seeing my kids do Goth, Emo, and lots of makeup eye brow mania.

My dds hsve dome my makeup. I looked like a trafficked prostitute

It’s fine to discuss and reminisce and indeed take the piss but we all did it and hopefully teens always will.

It's not a look I go for. Although do draw my eye brows on cos I plucked them so much as a teen they never grew back!!

What frustrates me with it is there isn't really much choice for those who still want to wear make up but want something different to this look. I struggled to find a good foundation at the weekend that wasn't a heavy panstick type designed for contouring.

Also the cynical old fart I am can't help but look at it as a way of making money. Contouring is just some ruse to get everyone buying two lots of foundation in different colours!

It’s the layers, the amount they’re putting on and the thick eye make up and huge false lashes - all of that first thing in the morning to work - so probably every day. It’s just too much. I live in a really hot country where you’d be crazy to wear that kind of make up. Had a friend move from the UK who freaked out cos she couldn’t wear her make up all the time.

Yes fatted you have a point there about the buying twice the amount of makeup

& I see those inglot girls caked in the stuff you see them coming 3 miles up the road the orange faces and their skin all lumpy with spots not good for the skin at all

Actually Fatted I have to disagree there. I think makeup has come a long way. There are lots of water based foundations out there that give a lovely light coverage, eg Trish McEvoy's Even Skin Water foundation or Charlotte Tilbury's Light Wonder. If you don't want a full on foundation then try a CC cream; I like Chanel's.
I gave up wearing makeup for some time (mostly because there didn't seem much point when I had 2 toddlers climbing over my face!), but I'm starting to have fun again with it and experimenting with new stuff. Whilst I can't be bothered with the complete faff of the type of made up faces we're talking about on this thread, I do try to look and learn and incorporate certain ideas in my make up. The tutorials on the Charlotte Tilbury website, for instance, are really helpful in showing how to use the products.
At the end of the day, make up should make us feel good, and whilst I am concerned about what it says about us as a society that young girls are obsessed with looking like the Kardashians et al, like others have made numerous faux pas's in the makeup department back in the eighties when I was growing up.
Anyone else remember/confess to using those glittery blue eyeshadows from Miss Selfridge & Boots no. 17?!

My dds hsve dome my makeup. I looked like a trafficked prostitute

You went out of your way to specify trafficked prostitute in your “hilarious” little “joke” about forced sex workers and rape?! Being off colour about willing sex workers wasn’t “funny” enough for you? Wow.

Lots of sneery people on this thread!

This trend is surely at its extremity? Given that, and the fact that clothing-wise, the 90s 'are back, I predict we'll see a return to the natural look before long.

If that doesn't happen though (and partially, I disagree with my own theory above because selfies aren't going to go away and I'm sure that's what's driving this trend), how could it possibly get more extreme? Very interested to see the make up trends of the next decade.

I think most young women today look stunning. I wish there had been the same make up choices in the 60s and 70s.
The only criticism I can make is that many of them look the same but I suppose every generation has to some degree.

Lots of sneery people on this thread

Certainly are. I can't quite figure out which side is worst for it 🤔

@Battleax, stop being professionally offended

I don’t think you need much sensitivity to find mocking trafficked women a bit twattish, TBH.

Obviously some people are twattish.

YourVag in the early 90s we used to use quite a lot of product to aim for a quasi-natural look. I can see that Uber-Matt, plum lip thing maybe making a return (which was also before the pencil thin eyebrows trend; some eyebrow moderation for a while would be nice.)

My grandmother said the same thing to my mother when she was 16, over 50 years ago.

It's not exactly new, is it?

It is not the same thing at all. The caked-on gunk modern girls sport is hideous and WAY beyond any makeup fashion from the past. It is far thicker than even stage makeup.