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 can't imagine brushing my eyebrows up and cementing them like that with eyebrow gel (like glue)
I don't get how people can afford lashes, nails, tan, eyebrows and hair all done every few weeks!

Most of the girls I know who look like that a) live at home with parents and work or b) are heavily in debt or c) dare drug dealers
or all of the above
i was In hairdresser last week and a young girl about 20 sat next to me she looked deformed with fillers was really shy it was very sad. Another girl was saying she’s thousands in debt but is there paying £40 to get her make up done.

This

I think because tgd procedures are expensive some girls think it makes them look wealthier. But in reality most genuine well off women (except the odd WAG or influencer) don't feel the need.

It's sad because they people that waste money on all this are often the ones that can least afford it.

I'm guessing you didn't live in a small Northern town in the arse end of nowhere. My mother actually threatened to pretend she didn't know me in the street (not that that was much of a threat) 🤣

I agree that the fillers and so on are just a different kind of modification, though.

The men are the same though, all their body hair removed, except maybe a beard, but not the underarms, highly groomed hair styles (in the barbers every week), they all wear the same clothes and spend hours in the gym, bulking and shedding, drink the protein shakes, quick round of steroids, spray tans and get Turkey teeth. It's not just women who are suffering, and a lot of the things like fillers and Turkey teeth aren't just a passing fashion. They are a lasting body modification.

The ganguro style in Japan is similar - not my thing at all but fascinating. More stylised than how girls wear it here, though.

To be fair, I don't think Barbara Cartland made a bad job of it, considering her shaky hands and Coke bottle glasses.

One of my friends has a 19 year old daughter she is 44 and her and the daughter both look like they have 2 slugs on their faces, spiders as eyelashes and sprayed in orange paint
Not a good look
Both naturally attractive and they have also had lip fillers

I get a19 year old experimenting but at 44 you just look stupid!

Some of them look like they've been tangoed 🤣🤣

The duck lips, orange face paint, daft eye lashes, Botox and so on all look utterly ridiculous in my opinion. But the sad irony is that I reckon everyone who's had all this done looked really pretty beforehand, only to pay good money to ruin themselves. Surely it's down to low self esteem?

We had no eyebrows in my era. Also Rimmeled to the 9s with cheap foundation on people with perfect skin. Those who had acne also used to plaster their faces in it. Also we were told to strip our faces in acid for problem skin. It made a lot of problems worse. At least now people have better guidance for different skin types.

My hair does this on its own since I had some long layers put in. I just wash it in the evening, comb a bit of serum through, put in a clip and scrunch it up a bit in the morning. Not sure if that would work for all hair types but worth a try?

It's the lips that I don't understand, truly bizarre!!

I absolutely WISH this was the case, but even though I have done no shampoo, no silicone, etc etc mine will always be straight as a die.

Don't forget the collagen in the top lip that makes them look like ducks.

I agree. Of course young women have always experimented with style, and their parents disagreed with how they looked, but this particular look is particularly horrible. I'm not in the UK and that look is not nearly as common here - thank goodness.

Absolutely spot on.

*As pp said, in the 80's we had peroxide blonde spiral perms and blue mascara.?

Except the vast majority of people didn't. The people who carry the latest fashions to the extreme always look bloody stupid!

Are you sure? With all that it sounds as if you look like every other person doing the same.

The thing is, you are the 2020’s equivalent of the shellsuit wearers!

The fillers really do reach a point where if you happened to fall unconscious in public there's a chance your condition could be mistaken for anaphylaxis

Nrtft

In the immortal words of meatloaf, you took the words right out of my mouth. I know there are fashions, but surely we’ve learnt, or at least, fashions should have improved. I have a SIL, DH & I refer to her as my Umpa Lumpa sister, because she’s so fucking orange, her and my mother, the whole orange, fake lashes, nails, dressing way beyond age or body style. I’m just grateful the whole mince and cheese look has gone.

I had the conversation with my tweens, if they ever come home all fake and looking like umpa lumpas I’d disown them. Of course I won’t, but im hoping to teach them they don’t have to fake it all.

I dont have a problem with fashion, or trends, I’ve been victim to a few myself, but there is a line I draw and it’s anything fake looking.

What is the mince and cheese look?

Alot of the replies on this thread are so horrible and catty, saying people look deformed and like they have slugs on their face or not classy enough, and alot of these posts specify that theyre "young girls" too, just smells a bit like jealousy that you don't think they're doing the right thing with their looks, or you're angry because you think they're appealing to "porn" images as some posters have said. It's a very feminine focused look and not really for men, it's a woman's idea of beauty to an excess just like the male version is juiced up with a huge jaw.

I don't wear any makeup unless I'm going out somewhere fancy and always have my hair back but I can appreciate people who are all glammed up with extensions and fake tan and filler if that's their thing, it's interesting to look at and if they like it and can afford it good for them. Imagine if this was said about overweight people, or boden frumps or people who used tret looking like they have leather for skin, it wouldn't be received well.