Don't understand fashion/ cosmetic trends

[HoppingKangaroo]

AIBU to think the big thick dark eyebrows and lip injections (that look like duck lips) just looks awful on everyone who has it? I don't understand why you would pay good money to look like that?
Also the trend of guys getting what looks like a poddle perm on top of their head - it just looks silly.
AIBU or am I just to old to understand why it looks good?

Why do these threads appear every couple of weeks?

Do people really think their opinion on style and trends matter to others? If you don't like something, don't do it.

You don't have to start a thread when no one asked for your opinion in the first place.

We always see

"I don't like the Royal Family"

"I hate skinny jeans"

"I hate dogs"

"I hate Megan"

It's not a discussion. You might as well get a bell and announce your views town crier style.

You don't have to start a thread when no one asked for your opinion in the first place.

That would be 98% of threads on Mumsnet though.

What’s a soft fluffy eyebrow? That description sounds like a kitten.

Yes! recognised them instantly!

Am I the only person who was in my 20s during the '90s who has no memory of super thin eyebrows? I see this a lot and I just don't remember it at all being a thing. Oh well.

Super straight hair I remember though. I nailed that one despite my natural frizz.
Swiiiish

That sounds so disturbing.

I came here to say exactly the same thing. I was in my teens and 20s through the 90s and none of my peer group plucked their eyebrows unless they had a unibrow or stray hair. It was Cindy Crawford natural eyebrow era. Thin eyebrows came in right at the end of the 90s and more a millennial trend.

Also the slug eyebrow and fillers look is well pre-pandemic.

Oh it was a big thing alright. Drew Barrymore was the ultimate 90s brow gal imo.

Paint whatever you like on your face, or anywhere else. Be careful what foreign substances you insert into your body, though. There’s enough evidence by now that it doesn’t always end well.

FKATondelayo, yes, I remember early eighties to early nineties being the era of the supermodels and they all seemed to epitomise the strong, healthy body and quite natural look - Elle MacPherson, Christie Brinkley, Brooke Shields, Iman, Paulina Porizkova.

Lip fillers look awful. I dont understand why anyone thinks it looks good?
I am certainly not fashionable though and never have been. Don't wear make up really nowadays either

It was Xtina who was the style icon for us

And she looked like shit. Sorry, she was and is extremely beautiful and an amazing singer, but trousers with the arse cut out?

In your opinion.

Also she famously wore those trousers in one music video. It's not like she wore them constantly throughout her career.

Christina looks like how all the chavvy girls looked back then. It certainly wasn’t a style to emulate, although it existed.

She wore them all the time. She was famous for it. And they looked fugging awful, as trousers with the arse cut out inevitably will do.

You can't be that old if the men with poodle perms is new to you. That's a trend revived from the 80s. First it was perms on the top like now, then the trend moved to growing and perming the back 'the footballer perm'. And yes, the mullets coming back. Strangely it looks better than you'd think. But that's maybe because the men having it tend to be young and good-looking.

You can't compare what people are doing now to the likes of 80s makeup and 60s beehives. This is people injecting poison pretty much into their faces. It's terrifying. I for one am teaching my little girl that she is beautiful just as she is.

Pictures of me in the 80s reveal blue mascara, thick teal kohl, frosted pink lipstick and a mullet. I don’t think I’m in any position to mock the way anyone looks. How about you @HoppingKangaroo, what cosmetic faux pas did you commit?

I think the puffy lips look awful but well done powder brows look great! Much better than a thin pencil lined brow imo. I think some brows are done so well you wouldn’t actually realised it was semi perm make up

I thought fluffy brows and/or laminated brows were in now, not the thick ones? Not that I can keep up.

Recently I have realised for the first time that I am truly old because I think most young fashion looks dreadful. Also, you're supposed to look awful when you are young, how else can you look back at your photos and laugh/cringe.

@10HailMarys Exactly right. I always laugh when people say 'all fillers/botox look awful and you can always tell' because logically that makes no sense. You can only tell someone has had something done, when you can tell. There could be (and definitely are) 100s of others with natural work done and you would never know!

I voted YANBU. Quite a lot of nasty replies on this thread. I'm on the autistic spectrum and have never 'got' fashion - it's like your own sense of what's aesthetically pleasing somehow takes second place to some... groupthink. I find it quite difficult to process how something can be incredibly naff one minute and all the rage the next. If it's naff it's naff (and duck lips are naff IMHO)

Every decade has style/make up trends for younger people and every decade has older people who don’t like/understand them. Your parents probably thought the same about your fashion/make up choices, and your grandparents probably did about your parents too. Your kids will feel the same about their kids. Tale as old as time. It’s nothing new.

There's a bit of a difference between 'why are you wearing so much eyeliner?' and 'why are you injecting chemical substances into your face?'

It's quite tedious when people act like makeup and injectables are the same thing.