Why are all young girl suddenly good looking?

[PodcastFunFair]

I'm 40 in the 90s I was reasonably attractive by 90s standards.
I was a size 12 blond curly hair, outfit deom topshop and put on nice make up with some Charlie perfume.
I look at my nieces all identikit long smooth hair, make up perfectly put on with false eyelashes, tiny sized, super stylish all could be models from their insta accounts as could their mates is everyone better looking these days or better tools?
Do I need a make up tutorial from one of them so I'm not such an old dog 😂

@Larchneedles

I'm sure there are lots of natural looking girls still. Maybe we tend to notice the more extreme or fake looks more.

There certainly are. The teenage/females in early 20s I personally know all look natural and are beautiful. Very refreshing to see. Apart from one, who is my niece. She’s naturally very beautiful too. 6feet, size 12, hourglass. She looks like a different person on Instagram. Loads of makeup and gigantic lashes. Her body, her choice.

@tarasmalatarocks

I personally think a load of em look like pantomime queens. I’m living in Copenhagen at moment and think the teens are naturally better looking and that ‘fake’ look isn’t a thing here at all. Far more variety in ‘looks’ too.

Well yes, it's always been the case that tall, slim, blue eyed, high cheek boned and blonde Scandinavians look better than short, fat, mousey, pug faced Brits lol. I used to work in Germany in the 80s: British girls were considered generally plain and ugly.

I admire these girls. They may be spotty, plain, fat whatever but they make themselves look a million dollars and good luck to them. I look only slightly better than an actual tramp most days so I admire anyone that can transform themselves like they do.

@THisbackwithavengeance I agree!

Of course Sandinavian girls are naturally gorgeous. I literally have never met a Swedish girl that wasn't beautiful. But not everyone is a natural beauty

I read that Asian Americans spend the most on cosmetics. Given that Americans spend the most on cosmetics, they are probably one of the biggest spending groups on earth in terms of cosmetics spending on a per capita basis In the US context, asian americans usually mean east asian americans- chinese americans, japanese americans etc.I do wonder why that is; is it the effect of wanting to conform to western beauty ideals and most chinese girls lacking the features to do so i.e. single eyelids (eyes that look smaller), naturally rounder faces (more contour to make it slimmer), flatter noses. I am Chinese and when I was growing up, most of the shows I watched were European/American with the western beauty ideal and even the actresses in the Asian shows went through surgery to make themselves look more 'Western.

Even as a kid, I used to wonder why my eyes looked so much smaller and my lashes were so short; i have double eye lids, but they are tapered so they are kinda 'hidden' when I open my eyes which makes my eyes look smaller.

In Japan, I know a lot of girls mess around with double eyelid stickers; in addition to the false lashes so they can have 'Western eyes'. I don't do that but eyeliner and mascara for my stick straight lashes is a must for me! So is contour for my round cheeks (this is why chinese girls look younger when they are in their 50s). But yes in a world where your natural features look different, I think its very natural for you to want to use makeup to enhance it. I grew up in Asia and already felt like this.

I don't really know the reason why girls want to look like Kardashian these days, but my guess is probably media exposure from a young age. Shows like Love Island.

It’s not just filters though! My family and I ventured into Leeds on NYD for a PCR test for hubby. As it wasn’t a school day, the girls were out in force and I’ve never seen anything like it. They were all airbrushed, identicle faces, hair, outfits-designer bags and so so so tiny! It looked like a procession of life size Barbie dolls walking through the mall. The older girls 20+ looked no different but less alarming as they were at least adult. I wondered if this was just the Leeds look or something? Not been in the country that long so found it all a bit of a shock!

have a teenager daughter who looks like a model off duty most of the time. all learnt from YT and IG. i totally get her to give me make up tips and she does my fake eyelashes (like a couple times a year) when i make an effort hahaha !

I’m of a similar age to OP and agree to a certain extent, there is a certain look that a proportion of girls go for, though it’s by no means the only look I see.

I totally think orange foundation, crispy scrunched hair (lightened with Sun-in of course), concealer lips and too dark lipliner should be a right of passage though 😭😂🤦🏼‍♀️

I say it’s due to the Availability of Better quality makeup and hair products, better quality tools/brushes/appliances, an abundance of tutorials on the internet to show them how to do it right, not to mention archives of pictures showing how we did it ‘wrong’.

Then of course there is the insane pressure from reality TV, social media, and the media in general………….🤷🏼‍♀️

Cos they all look the same, tonnes of makeup, false lips, eyelashes, hair, nails, I think its quiet sad how our young people of today are, so much pressure on them x

Haha I was born in 86 and was considered attractive also in high school. I just put on makeup and did my hair, wore nice clothing ... I remember back then I found people easily more attractive, like certain models or actors id look at them and think they are so gorgeous.
But now I look at the same ones, same footage as back then, and they dont look as good to me anymore. Its like my standards for beauty have gone up.

So I dont see kids or teens as more attractive these days, at least not in Belgium. Many arent super styled or anything. Maybe its worse in Americ? But when I look online, then yes definitely. You see way more fakeness. Makeup,filters, posing... all of that online fake beauty has created way higher standards. And I think this is why these days its harder for me to find someones appearance beautiful, more so than when I was a kid or a teen.

A bit off topic maybe but made me think about it.

I bet most of them feel so plain and ugly just like we did in our beautiful teenage years. I think they'll look back in horror at some of their make up tricks...like the big slug/ shiny vinyl cut out eyebrows...
My friends beautiful daughter age 19 is looking like a plastic 40 year old with the amount of sh*t she's had pumped into her lips .
It breaks me heart .
Luckily my girls haven't done anything drastic..

It's definitely to do with the social media boom. I feel sorry for them like the judgement these days that kids get online is awful. I'm glad I grew up in the 00's when the Internet was just picking up.

Because everything they do has to be documented by camera.
Everything is compared and commented upon.
That didn't exist a generation ago

@PodcastFunFair if you were a size 12 in the 1990s, it's the equivalent of a size 8 now.

I was 7.5st in the 1990s and Mand S size 12. Now just over 8st in my 40s and often have to get size 8 as sizes just keep getting bigger and bigger.

Regarding your post, I totally agree. As a teen, I dressed like an 8 Yr old boy. Now they all look like supermodels.

I think as we get older we tend to think young people look amazing and forget that we once looked a whole lot better than we do now!

Also, styles change.

I used to do housework for an old lady (not natural altruism, our school insisted on it) and she often said to me that in her day (1920s) people just weren't as good-looking.

Or maybe the human race is hurtling towards perfection. I somehow doubt it, though!

I hate the Instagram look that so many teenage girls go for now. Caked in make up, massive eyelashes, weird looking eyebrows, stupid pout, skirts that would pass for belts in a previous era. All so, so fake and unnatural. I dunno, "progress" I guess, right?

^ did housework for an old lady when I was a teenager, I mean

Better tools, access to make-up tutorials online, and filters. We didn't have any of that in the 90s.

Not that I've noticed. There is a lot of overweight young people today.

I don't know many young people but most of my friends in their 40s live their lives behind selfie filters and alter the pictures of their children too. It is very sad.

Boob jobs, lip fillers, huge eyebrows, Botox, the latest craze is fox eyes,
An instrument pushed under the skin from the forehead and pulls the outer edge of the eye and clipped, shall I go on?

Give it 20 years and they’ll all be clones

@Broads93

It's definitely to do with the social media boom. I feel sorry for them like the judgement these days that kids get online is awful. I'm glad I grew up in the 00's when the Internet was just picking up.

If they didn’t keep taking selfies, they wouldn’t get on line bullying, they’re all so vain these days

@TrishM80

I hate the Instagram look that so many teenage girls go for now. Caked in make up, massive eyelashes, weird looking eyebrows, stupid pout, skirts that would pass for belts in a previous era. All so, so fake and unnatural. I dunno, "progress" I guess, right?

Fashion and style is generally supposed to look unnatural. It's about creating an aesthetic.

And the miniskirt is nothing new, that was first in style in the 1960s. The 80s were full of neon makeup. Eyebrows were pencilled in in the 90s.

How dies every generation manage to completely forget this?

I think they look awful. Fat lips, contoured face-cake covering their lovely young skin, marker pen brows, it’s sad.

This 🤣😂🤣