Why are all young girl suddenly good looking?

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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 😂

If they dont have to go through the Heather Shimmer years then they do not get to graduate to adulthood!

It’s nothing to do with filters unless your taking a photo.

They are so much better at makeup and hair care, the tools just wasn’t available when I was younger! We didn’t have hair straighteners, or foundation that wasn’t orange. Plus youtube is really good now a days!

If we had all the same tools I think we would have done better too!

If we had all the same tools I think we would have done better too!

Nah....we'd still have had tragic perms and blue mascara!

I'm glad I'm not a teen or 20 something now. Imagine how much time and effort they feel pressured to expend on this crap.

I am always wondering, why lots and lots of these glamorous young girls, with all the hair and makeup, and sometimes sexy clothes, need to actually keep posing and pouting, and showing themselves, to all and sundry on social media, sometimes every day of the week.

Lots of them look pretty, even beautiful, abeit kind of identical in their photo's, with their looks and poses. But always wonder, why they have this need, to be seen on social media all the time, and just enjoy how they can look good, just for themselves.

Better tools, YouTube make up tutorials and there’s nothing a good filter can’t fix.
In my day it was pale blue eye shadow and a pound lip gloss.. and that certainly didn’t help matters 🤣

Yes yes yes they're like clones of each other @1forAll74 I totally agree.
Me and bf were often taken for sisters in our teens. Much to my delight as she was very pretty ☺️

What I don’t get is why big bums are considered a desirable feature nowadays. Just how did that happen?

@PyongyangKipperbang

If we had all the same tools I think we would have done better too!

Nah....we'd still have had tragic perms and blue mascara!

Omg this just reminded me!

Tragic perms... Diamond lights just started playing in my head!

Let's have some of the male hotties and fashion icons from years gone by! It wasn't just us girls being sold questionable styles!

I went to the school disco when 12 with a lovely boy who wore hammer pants that night

The fashion not so long ago for young men to wear their jeans hardly on/ under their arses was... Just wtaf!

Mate your walking down a bog standard high street, with a walk that clearly says 'I'm worried my trousers are going to fall down', and everyone can see your v boring boxers.

Yes no belt (I assume) is to do with being in police custody in USA.

But.
This look does NOT make you seem like a hard criminal type in America.

Vv funny to see though!

I'm in a support group for people who contracted botulism from Botox and it is shocking to see all the young 20's in the group doing Botox (or who used to do it because they can't do it anymore due to illness).

They also do fillers in their lips and chins, lip flips, eyelash extensions, hair extensions, something called microblading on eyebrows, lip liner tattoo, breast implants and other stuff, most of which I don't quite understand.

@NightLight2

What I don’t get is why big bums are considered a desirable feature nowadays. Just how did that happen?

Generous backside on women is not a recent fashion in plenty of countries / areas round world just FYI.

That's kind of obvious but leads to my assumption-

That got in public eye due to women who rocked the look success massive success usa?

And then made definite fashion by Kim k and prob others I don't know much about trends famous people etc.

And of course came here as well.

That's my guess sorry if wrong!

My daughter just finished university and I’ve seen what her friends all look like without makeup. I barely recognise them.

I think young women in full make up and lip fillers, straight hair look bloody awful and very ugly. They all look the same.

Yes their style icons like Beyonce's bum? Or others. There's knickers with bum inserts and bras with chicken fillet inserts.
Oh lordy how they'll be cringing 40 years on hahahaha. Presumably 🤣
Not to mention the Tatt's. 😘

*ta'oos

This thread gave me a turn. I rushed to the mirror and checked whether I had elongated ear lobes since I am in my late fifties. No, they are right where they have always been. My mother was right to counsel against getting my ears pierced though.

I just remembered my late mother's ears were tiny like mine and even in her late 80s there was no drooping. She was brought up with the dictum that it was "common" to have pierced ears.

Bring- yes.

I had a friend at work. She really pretty tiny woman. She always got full done up for work. Lovely dresses, hair straightened, plenty makeup false lashes. Always liked like made effort, groomed etc.

She asked me if I thought she should have Botox. Only 30! No lines unless frowned etc.

I was what? Why? What do you think needs to change about your face? You're lovely etc.

Anyway I managed to get her to realise that she was lovely as was, that getting onto that path will be hard to stop and can get more and more.

That was so upsetting tbh. It's just total shit full stop imo. The more and more piled onto women and girls around how look.

And I know some women are all they don't have to are they sheep etc.

But imo when it comes to beauty standards for women esp girls/ young women (and blokes as well though less still) it's easier said than done to turn your back on all the messaging, peers, society, etc etc.

Personally I really dislike the comments that are just generally nasty about girls/ young women and how awful they all look.

And it's particularly ironic (hope right word!) on s thread where OP is looking back and thinking how awful she (thinks) she looked when young.

And I mean certainly plenty of women will have had their mums etc commenting on argh why?! when they were young!

They're children/ young people.
They're no different to previous generations.

And of course parents/ GPs/ older women and older people generally have been... Very critical of the young people's fashions these days for I'm guessing ever since life stopped being child > grown up essentially, and the teen/ young bit came in!

And I mean

If someone thinks girls these days look ugly,

Well I mean so what. Assuming not trying to get off with one!

I am in my 60s and looking at my school photos and those of my DBs the change in childrens apeearance through to 18 year olds is quite remarkable. The children looking out from those photos look smaller, paler, pinched looking and in the main, unhealthier . There was awful acne, dried out or greasy hair, awful looking glasses and I remember a lot of teens stinking of BO.

Now there are more effective treatments for acne, far superior hair, skin products and information about skin and hair care. Glasses are nicer, deodorants much better, make up incomparable. Kids today look like a different species to my generation. There’s way too much pressure to get invasive treatments and look perfect but it’s lovely to see children not looking like Victorian waifs.

My daughter has shown me how to do make up ‘properly’. Contouring and the white splodge in corner of eye
It’s wizardry 😂
Plus filters on Instagram help when they post

Stay as you are!

Look at the person, not the glamour shots. It won't be too long down the track and you will see the future road map each of these young Ladies have in front of them.

@Welldarn

On the upside, imagine how dissatisfied they are going to be when they are fat and fifty and can’t be bothered anymore. They are going to look at pictures of themselves as teenagers and think, “I was gorgeous what happened?”.

Whereas we can look at pictures of ourselves with dodgy perms or mullets and terrible tie dye clothes or shell suits or 80”s. Madonna rip off outfits, at least we can believe we have improved since then

Lol, so true!

Agree with OP; my nieces and neighbor girls all have the long hair, dark eyebrows, contoured foundation and pouty lips. They look like clones.

I’m in my 50’s. Can totally relate to the post from EwwDavid. Nhs glasses, waifs, greasy hair and acne were definitely more prevalent than now. Teeth are also a big one. This generation have American style teeth with train track braces. Our generation all had wonky teeth or teeth pulled and a plate brace, which straightened teeth a bit.

Kids know so much about how to look after themselves. I knee nothing about skin routines, whereas my 13 yo dd and all her friends already use mycellar water, serums and moisturisers; fake eyelashes when they go out. Some already wear makeup regularly. One girl is full in contouring insta ready, the thickest false eyelashes you can imagine.

Consumerism is off the charts. Beauty advent calendars are a thing amongst teens. My dd didn’t have one in 2020 but most of her friends did. I bought her a predominately hair / skincare one rather than one with a lot of makeup as she doesn’t wear much.

My mother taught me nothing and there was little out there. I gleaned a little stuff from friends. Eg stick on pads when she gave me loops 🤢. We didn’t even have hair conditioner until I was about 11. I started using cleanser when I was around 15.