What style/beauty trends defined the decade?

[QueenOfTheAndals]

I thought this might be a fun NYE thread, especially for those of us who have children and are therefore housebound!

For me:

Beauty - highlighting/contouring, huge dark eyebrows, eyelash extensions, and lip fillers. Basically the whole InstaFace thing.

Style - midi dresses with trainers, mom jeans, chunky trainers, and pretty much everything we wore in 1996!

Anything else?

And not so much a style thing, but vocal fry!

Totally @instagramwilleatitself! How in ten yrs did instagram go from showing diversity & alternative looks to literally everyone looking & dressing the same & the rise of the cat/alien face?

sorry that was for @QueenOfTheAndals

fecking Kardashian's again

Fugly black straight - edge eyebrows and toilet plunger faces .
Nobody looks like that in real life thank god .

Cold fucking shoulders.

I don’t know anyone that wears mom jeans. I think it isn’t really a jeans decade. It’s all about dresses and skirts. The naughties I lived in jeans. Quite a lots in the tens. I haven’t bought a new pair for quite a while now.

Skater skirts and dresses are a particularly prominent style.

Fine gold jewellery.

Quilted jackets.

Hipster beards.

The return of false lashes, as well as the brows and contouring.

Things that I never saw till the last decade are
Rose gold
Cold shoulder
Contouring

Lots of reruns of styles from 90 s

Bretons and scarves in the early part

Apart from the ridiculous OTT lip fillers and eyebrows it’s mainly been about the tattoos.

In previous decades we’ve been able to move on from the clothes and make up that dates us. We’ve been able to just laugh with embarrassment at old photos and say ‘what were we all thinking?

Unfortunately, having a face like a blow up sex doll or being heavily tattooed in a style that is no longer fresh or interesting is something you are stuck with for life.

Lip fillers, done cheaply
Microbladed eyebrows
Gel nail polish more accessible for home use
Blunt hair cuts, much less layering and feathering
LVL lashes and lash enhancing serums
Lonnnng parka coats
Dr Martens Big revival but maybe recently rather than 2010s
Cath K florals, vintage and shabby chic
Rose gold everything
Ted Baker jewellery
Narrow glasses, shifting to large again

Eyebrows and balyage/ombre obviously

Paperbag waist trousers/jeans
Maxi dresses
Mirrored sunglasses
Less waterline eyeliner

Holes in clothes - cold shoulder, distressed jeans (some of which look dreadfully cheap, IMO)
Nail art, both professional & done at home. Both potentially good but I've seen some shockers, & the fashion for impractical nails with art that people surely can't function normally with, baffles me.
Weird slug eyebrows. In fact heavy, transformative makeup seems to be increasingly the beauty standard amongst some groups.

Agree with PP's comments about it not being a jeans decade. Even the "jeans" aren't really jeans - they mostly include elastane, so at best they are a hybrid between jeans & leggings. It's really hard to find proper, simple jeans now. And they don't last anything like as long, either. That's another point - fast fashion - many clothes are cheap (price-wise and in terms of quality) as the majority of the public are not expected to want to wear anything for more than a couple of years at most... so things aren't manufactured to last... so people don't search for, expect, or buy, good quality clothes any more. And so much of it just goes to landfill after a few months.

I really hope skinny jeans & leggings never go out of fashion, straight leg and bootcut jeans just don’t fit in my wellies properly 😭

‘Toilet plunger faces’ 😂😂😂😂

I'm certainly noticing that more and more women are having lip fillers these days. I think it's getting cheaper so it's now more affordable. But there's a massive difference between fillers and good fillers!

Accessible, not affordable! Though obviously the two go hand in hand.

Something that I have noticed over the last decade ... some people wear a full face of (heavier) make up, even on a normal work or out shopping for groceries. I realise people have worn heavy make up in past decades, e.g., punk / goth, but it feels to me that more people do this now, and for mundane occasions. I can walk along my high street on a boring Tuesday morning and see a good proportion of people glammed up. Just an observation ...

I've noticed a lot of people getting professional make up just for a night out.

I started wearing skinnies around 2005, I don’t think they will go anywhere as they are just so practical. I’ve been wearing other types of trousers lately and you have to worry about your shoes, the length, getting caught in your bicycle chain...

What has really struck me is the difference in teens/young people (hitches up old lady pants at the grand old age of 35 )

My generation, and my parents etc - teens had terrible make up. Wrong colour foundation, thick powders, awful eye make up etc. It was almost a rite of passage, ha ha. I nostalgically remember myself wearing covergirl foundation and powder in one (the aforementioned thick slap!) with purple eyeshadow and mascara for a time.

The girls these days have all these tutorials and honestly look professionally done compared to how we were! They genuinely look so much older than we did too.

Oh and the trend for them wearing high waisted jeans and crop tops. So 90s. My teenage self wouldn't have been seen DEAD in those. Low rise jeans with the top of your thong showing, if you please!

It's difficult to think back to the early 20teens but I'd say-

Hipster beards
Tattoos for both men and women
Contouring make up
Ugly fashion, dad trainers (more recently)
Bodycon dresses
Glasses that my mum and dad would've worn in the 80s (again, more recently)
The Towie look in general--I see it in Essex anyway!
Gel nails.

Could shoulder tops! In the previous decade it was Peter Pan collars.

That insta make up look, where you can’t even see if there is real skin underneath!