AIBU to think there are less fake eyebrows, eye lashes and lips at the moment?

[Goforit20]

With no access to beauty therapists there will be more girls (and boys!) sitting at home Without oversized fake looking eyebrows (some are really bad), spider eyelashes and swollen looking lips. I always think it’s a shame to ruin a nice Face with these things, can I hope anyone will decide they look better without and ditch the fake look??

The first thing I'm planning on doing the day we get out of lockdown is having my eyelashes re-done!

People aren't having them done because there's no point if they're not going out and seeing anyone. Please remember that beauty is in the eye of the beholder - I don't think this is the time to shame anyone for how they choose to look, to be honest OP.

A lot of people will be thinking along the same lines as @Jupiters. I hope so, because I'm a self-employed beautician and I would quite like to pay some bills this year if it's alright with society!

There’s a spectrum - personally I get all these things done, but very subtly and I wish I could continue during lockdown. I know the norm is for the really over the top fake look atm, but with my lips I researched for over a year to decide on someone who I knew would do them well and not give me that horrible bulging shelf lip. Nobody has noticed until I tell them (feel like people just associate getting things done with being super obvious and trout pouty); strangers have said I have such lovely natural (!) lips - if only they knew! I go to a surgeon who’s whole MO is natural and has she/hasn’t she. He injects a less water attracting filler - a lot of the “ruined” faces you’re talking about have had Juverderm in their lips, which is very hydrophilic (attracts lots of water over time) which causes the duck lips and doesn’t dissolve properly. If people look like they’ve ruined their faces, it’s because they’ve gone to the wrong person (obviously nobody is flawless but I think a lot of botched jobs are on the cheap and not performed by trained medical professionals).

If places were still open, I would definitely be booking in, it’s not because I’m stuck inside that I’ve not got them redone - I do it for myself and even if nobody sees me that day, having slightly fuller lips, waxed eyebrows and not having to wear mascara but still have nice lashes really does make me feel good and “groomed”, and ready to start the day.

Of course if people can’t get to the beautician then they aren’t getting them done, and if they can do them at home there’s no much point if you’re in the house 95% of the time.
I do think there’s an element of judgement in our post though OP, just because you don’t like a certain look doesn’t mean everyone agrees. Each to their own and all that.

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Wow what a shitty post.

Meh, fashions change. I'm not keen on some of the current looks for young women, but I'm 47 and I'm sure they don't give a toss what I think. When I was 20 I wore pink glitter eyeshadow and blue mascara and I'm sure 47 year olds thought I looked silly. Your post is judgy OP. Of course they're not getting them done, but equally, middle aged women aren't getting their nice sensible haircuts or their roots done, and old ladies aren't getting their blue rinses, if you want to make more generalisations.

I hate the thick lipped look. I see so many pretty girls who look lovely until you see their profile, then they just look ridiculous.

I know, let's start a post slagging off women's aesthetic choices?!
I'm 40, never really worn much make up and not into fillers, eyebrows, eyelashes etc.
However, I don't think it's particularity nice to start a thread that's just going to encourage aesthetic bashing/shaming.

suppose so, but the only person I've seen with the 'recently-punched oompa loompa' look is on the checkout in a shop I haven't visited since lockdown - so wouldn't know. Hopefully it does all wear off. But each to their own, if women want to look like that then good luck to them. Perhaps my lack of slap and shoes that I can walk in makes them laugh too.

If you are going to be do bitchy and judgmental about other women’s choices you can at least get the grammar right - it’s fewer not less.

Can't imagine hoping other people change their beautician preferences/habits. Can imagine that anyone who does has a right sad bastard life though.