The orange skin/fake lashes/massive eyebrows type of look…

[CommuterMummy]

Fake nails, fake hair, fake everything really… where does that originate and why does anything think they look good in it?
Yes I know, we are all free to do what we like, of course. But honestly, I find it so bizarre and truly ugly, nobody ever looks good with it, it’s so bad.
How does one become convinced that’s the way to go to look good!?

I hadn't ever thought of it like this but I see your point! X

I agree I see girls my daughters age (20) full of filler and they were beautiful before it’s very sad

A lot of it is designed to look good in still images with careful lighting and posing.

I wonder if people get so used to seeing themselves this way that they forget it doesn't really translate to motion/daylight/other angles.

Straight out of porn .

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t look at someone with filler in their face and think “she has money”. The time I’ve seen people who look like what the OP is describing actually in the flesh was on a work trip to Liverpool, and they looked distinctly like they were from a lower socio-economic group. One of them was the receptionist at the hotel, for example.

I looked a pillock throughout the 80s and 90s, and I heard versions of most of the comments above from one or both parents at one time or another. Meh.

Kardashians, TOWIE, online porn, drag queens...

I find that look is just cheap and ugly.

It is also the triumph of consumerism/marketing. Young women have been conditioned to think that they need to redo/fake everything about their appearance, fake hair, fake eyelashes, fake nails, fake tan, the same long straightened hair...

I think it is rather sad.

When you think about previous trends, 90s grunge, punk, goths, Emos, 70s hippy chicks or whatever...at least there was a sense of freedom & individuality.

This look is just to me just says over-made up, not too bright, sheep...

I think it is a very British thing too, most young women in the rest of Europe would never want to dress or look like that because there is nothing classy or sophisticated about it and it just does nothing to enhance how these girls look.

“It doesn’t make money for the people who look like that but it sure as hell keeps people in business. Lashes are £40-60 every few weeks, hair £100 plus depending on what you get more for extensions. Tan £20-30 a spray , Botox is £150 and lips £50-100 there is now also tattooed eyebrows & lips. Plus waxing and facials”

So not exactly a bottle of sun in and a perm. I don’t know where they get the money from or the bloody time to do it. Where will fashion go from here? What next? Probably hit DD 🫣 😫

Just the fake eyelashes alone makes me eyeroll. If you need to add more why not make it look natural, why stick on this over exaggerated ones that means u can barely keep your eyes open.

Then all the other stuff I mean when it all comes off the difference can be so shocking. Imagine dating a guy who look so fundamentally different at night when it all came off. I just couldn't

Three things I thought randomly

saw two studenty girls in the airport the other day, off somewhere with backpacks. They were recycling a sort of grunge 90s Kirsten dunst look - no makeup, thin brows, almost short mullet hair styles… and they looked so GOOD, and modern, and fresh! I think when you get to the end of a trend (and the hair lashes fillers trend has been knocking around for ages) then the exact reverse suddenly looks cool.

Second, v posh girls have been wearing no brows no fillers and barely-there makeup for ages… Mrs Alice springs to mind, some Aristotle society bride from daily Mail recently wore zero visible makeup on her wedding day, a lot of the posh English people in my industry will spend a literal actual fortune on clothes, skincare, exercise but will religiously wear naturally dried hair and zero makeup (it’s both a posh and ‘intellectual’ industry, not me I’m a pleb). Posh people will always want to do the exact opposite of the masses as they feel it sets them apart.

my third insight was equally valuable but as I have had a glass of wine I have forgotten it. Sorry!

oh! It’s come to me. Was looking at a 90s photo of Kylie and Christy Turlington… you can do the same with virtually any celeb or awards show from that time. It’s almost insane how relaxed and ‘undone’ they all look compared to todays red carpet / paparazzi expectations. People like Cameron Diaz and drew Barrymore just out on the razz with a bit of lipgloss and mascara on and bias cut spaghetti dress. No 8 hours with a stylist before sticking your head out of doors.

I know one lady who has dark hair and fake tan to the extent that she looks mixed race. Which is totally inappropriate and borderline blackfishing. She doesn’t seem to realise that she’s race faking.

The only reason 'previous trends' didn't include stuff like this was because it wasn't freely available or affordable. Had it been, I'd bet money that a fair percentage of us would have been all over it.

I had my nose and my eyebrow pierced when I was seventeen and that was considered pretty niche at the time (1989); now piercings and body mods are commonplace. I liked the way it looked, I still do and I had my fair share of judgemental comments from wankers. Nothing changes.

I've got lip filler, botox, subtle eyelash extensions, acrylic nails, bleach blonde long hair, etc. No orange skin or big eyebrows. I like how it looks, I think it looks bad when done cheaply but I've invested a lot into how I look both long-term and short term procedures. But when people with money create a trend, it always gets imitated by people without money so it loses it's novelty.

At least we don't get perms and wear shell suits...

I think the fake tan look is faking skin cancer, fake tan looks fake and as for the rest all it is shows me is it theyvlike to look fake, they are not harming anyone

I do not get why people want to fake something that can kill you but like anything if they thinks it looks good that is up to them

I guess the people it 'impresses' is the other people who like it

Fixating on how women dress and style themselves is internalised misogyny. No one creates these threads about how men look.

Did you not see the Liam Payne thread...

Imagine if someone had been able to create a new version of a perm that just created very slight beachy waves without destroying your hair.

to be fair I would have loved that for much of the last ten years!

It's the lack of individuality that I find interesting. At their age I could be Goth one week, Ska the next etc, so many different looks to go with the oh so many different types of music

Funnily enough I just wrote a long post about young men/boys and their virtual uniform where I am, no matter what background! I actually think it’s more restrictive than that of women!

In fairness though while lots of men get tattoos and piercings, they don’t seem so under pressure to get liquids and silicons put INTO them.

Eh, it's just another way of doing one's hair and makeup, out of millions of other ways on this planet. Very different to my style, but there it is.

I'm sure these women are aware that their look doesn't appeal to everyone in the world. It's an expression of their social subculture, and that's fine.

Each to their own. I'm sure people would look back at the 90's style and think it was fucking horrific 🤷‍♂️. The frosted lipstick made it look like you'd been dug up.

Yes. And the women being discussed are further insulted with the trope that they must be 'pressured' to look X or Y way to impress others and are thus unable to think for themselves, rather than just because they enjoy it and like the results.

There's probably a link between that and the fact that it's almost always poor or working class women; I can't imagine what that link might be.

I think it’s such a shame - it’s more than just a fashion trend as a lot of it is about altering your face with fillers and so on and the rest of it is about making yourself look entirely different to what you really look like but exactly the same as everyone else your age. I don’t get it. It’s also a very porny look which isn’t pleasant.

I work with a lot of teenage and young women in a job where they have to come to work in casual clothes and no make up. They are all so naturally pretty and fresh looking - no stunners, just fresh, individual looking girls and young women. However, when they go out for the evening and out their pics on FB and Instagram they are completely unrecognisable. I would walk past them in the street and not have a clue who they were. Everything that is naturally attractive and appealing about them is covered up. I sometimes wonder how men decide which girl they fancy (when based on looks only) as they all look the same.

I had my nose and my eyebrow pierced when I was seventeen and that was considered pretty niche at the time (1989); now piercings and body mods are commonplace. I liked the way it looked, I still do and I had my fair share of judgemental comments from wankers. Nothing changes

I was 17 in 1981. By the time l was 20, loads of people had pierced eyebrows and noses.

People are modifying themselves as there’s nothing new going off clotheswose. Everything’s been done, so the only thing left to modify is yourself.

Ahh yes, the jet black lashes that look like plates in a whales mouth combined with bleach blonde hair that's fried through.

I can't get people who take it so extreme, you'd have to be seriously captivated by social media to think that looks anywhere near good