Explain the shiny, 'raw' looking faces everywhere nowadays... how is it achieved?

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Hi all, I am old enough to no longer know what the beautiful young things are doing to their skin.... This shiny, skin scrubbed raw look is a mystery to me. I love the older dewy, fresh natural look, but this is another level and it looks a bit much in my humble opinion. However, I'd love to know what they're doing to achieve this look? As someone who focuses on using simple products with very gentle, natural ingredients, I expect I won't want to partake, but I'm willing to be converted!

The second irl picture of glass skin and lip filler with scraped-back hair is EXACTLY what a young woman looked like in a pub. She looked so odd that I couldn’t help but sneak looks at her. I now understand what she was aiming for

Op, there’s only one product that will give you glass untextured skin and that is retinol/tretinoin.

It’s a shame this wasn’t in fashion when I was a teenager and had the most greasy skin I would have been on trend!

At my ripe old age (55) I tried NOT to achieve the fucking shiny look due to having an exceptionally greasy T zone! If a greasy O zone is the way forward, thank fuck I’m finally drying up……everywhere 🤣

Indeed, could have done with larger bums being in fashion then too!

I can achieve that look quite instantly. It’s called menopausal flush and a sweaty face with me!

Jones Road Beauty Balm. A bit sticky but applied carefully it brightens without attracting flying insects, as I discovered when I persevered.

Yes, I believe this was (is) a thing. Doris Day used to cover her whole body once a week with Vaseline and go to bed with it on. And Marilyn Monroe used it as a moisturiser. But the vaseline was a treatment and not day make up.

I can understand teenager girls copying this look but why does any woman think this is a good look?

I think the trend now is to look all sweaty and greasy. A few years ago the look was khaki coloured or in need of a good wash

I think the trend now is to look all sweaty and greasy. A few years ago the look was khaki coloured or in need of a good wash.

I think Botox makes the face much much shinier….. Girls are having it in their late teens these days. Crazy!

I think the skin on their faces looks distressed and the lips look sore, it’s like their whole faces are tight and stretched, add in brows laminated vertically and we have reached a whole new level of weird.

Korean skincare promotes a glass skin look. If used correctly it does help minimize pores and get rid of old skin cells so skin is softer and looks fresher. Oil based serums at the end lock in moisture as well making skin appear glassy and more glowy. BB creams instead of foundation will give a similar finish. It is not supposed to look oily or waxy like Vaseline but more of a healthy skin glow. Tik Tok just got carried away and made it into a really weird fad. Its been a thing for a long, long time.

Seen this up close and personal and can confirm it’s a mix of botox and facial treatments like peels so more medical grade than someone just slathering Elemis oils on your face!. Botox alone can’t achieve it - as all things do it costs a lot of money and needs to be done regularly so for the rich and famous!

What’s so bad about having pores?
I do wear glasses I admit but I don’t think in
my life i have ever noticed someone
else’s pores!

Scrubbed raw? Ouch. Sounds distinctly painful.

I think the look could easily be achieved with a Brillo pad and a tub of Vaseline

I agree and it’s starting to get a bit like the crowd in the Hunger Games.

I saw a girl earlier today and her lips looked so painful. Some of the eyebrows look really mad too. There is a trend here of wet looking eyebrows now, it looks like the eyebrow dye has been left on. It’s really shocking looking.

Simple answer. Botox!!Too much botox gives your face a tight shiny look. You may have noticed you only see shiny faces which dont have any wrinkles.
I notice in the Soaps that a character is written out for a while and comes back with a taunt shiny wrinkle free face. Botox and possibly face lift.
Eg. Chaz in Emmerdale .

How can they afford it? Isn't it super expensive?

This! It’s supposed to be glowy not shiny like a wax work dummy. But between Botox and social media they have taken it way off the scale.

I don’t particularly care about my pores but when i use certain Korean products like the collagen wrap mask and certain moisturisers my skin looks very glowy, or if i use my Korean vitamin C mask with a spritz of my Laneige toner after moisturising then I “glow”

The glow look can be achieved by using Korean products, personally, I can’t achieve the same look using my Clinique or Liz Earle let’s just put it that way, lol

It’s derma planning… I had a gift voucher for a facial and the first time I’d had it done after she said can I try it on you, I’m easy going so said yes and came away all shiny…. Basically shaving every tiny hair off your face!!! Not sure I’d be up for having it done again 🤣

That is exactly what it is; it’s a mixture of Vaseline; baby oil and aloe vera gel mixed together & applied to the face to give it a super boosted hydration appearance apparently; personally I think it looks awful & very greasy.

Depends where you go - good places will do it for you £150 upwards for one area (ball park as it can really vary) but beauticians now do it who aren’t trained in the nerves of the face and it’s a lot cheaper e.g £99 for one area. Plus, teens live at home and probably have a little job on the side eg uni students who work in the summer etc.

if anyone is considering botox only go to people who are medically trained! My botox has been done by a bowel surgeon at St Thomas’ (!), an anaesthetist and a dentist. All brilliant results.