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

[whatisheupto]

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!

Ha! This is a very good point. About 2 years ago my skin looked awful, especially around my eyes, because I just wasn't looking after any part of my self. I've introduced things iteratively - the collagen capsules came first - and so it doesn't feel like a lot to me, but yeah. It's a lot.

And now I can see that it's worked I can't stop.

Yeah I look at that photo and think she’s forgotten to put her powder on 😂

If I did this I'd be covered in spots!

I agree glass skin looks amazing. I don’t know how it aligns to rubbed raw skin as it doesn’t look red and raw?

I'd love that!

I don’t aim for glass skin per se, but I use minimal makeup (no foundation) and absolutely love Nuxe l’huile prodigeuse in the pink colour. A tiny bit on my cheekbones or added to moisturiser gives me a dewy glow.

I used to love the tiny blotting paper books Bodyshop did (and bring back the passionfruit cleanser, so many posters have asked for this over the years!)

The kids at school use the little tins of Vaseline on their lips/cheeks. I use the pink tin on myself. I quite like the slightly dewy/hectic/feverish look!

I’m finding I need much more moisturiser as I age, Vaseline probably isn’t the answer, especially as last time I bought some was for my husband’s bike!

There's many products and procedures now to achieve glass skin.

If you have a combo of Botox, certain other in-clinic procedures, a specific skincare routine that certain brand offer, and also certain types of makeup and primers/ top layers, that will give you the full effect.

I'm near 40 now and don't think glass skin is a good look, it looks too obviously fake. However, I use SPF which makes my skin glow vaseline-style as a side effect, and a specific BB cream on top, and sometimes I get 'wow you have almost glass skin' comments - not sure how I feel about that!

Yup, I've spent my whole life trying to avoid the oil slick look!

The Korean woman looks gorgeous, but the other woman looks ridiculous. I don't like The Glass Skin look at all (on most people.) Abi from Corrie looks ludicrous with her super shiny skin, her ridiculous lips, her perfectly manicured nails, and the big white veneers on her teeth.

As has been said, she is an ex drug addict, and a mechanic! She wouldn't look like this in real life.

30 years ago she would not have been hired for Corrie with all the procedures she has done to her face (and if she was already there and had it done, they would have 'let her go...')

For me its nivea. I'm always putting in on, all day long!

Yes it’s always British women in their own little bubble of stupidity whilst the clever sophisticated Europeans Americans Australians Chinese Egyptians etc are soooooo more smarter then them and never follow fashion trends on tik tok badly.

there is nothing I love more than being in a sophisticated hotel abroad and then a gaggle of ugly poor cluelsss British women come in and I can have a huge laugh at how dumb they are. It gives me life, it does. Even better if I can get the skinny beautiful Europeans to point and laugh with me so they know I’m not one of them.

I do it at night, but not full on in the day for fear that my hair would get caught in it. Like the gloss lipsticks of about 20 years ago! It's great for my mid 50s skin.

I saw a YouTube add and one of them was talking about how to get shiny hair and at the end her face was just as shiny.

It’s odd but trends come and go.

Looking at the photos they all look like they’re having a hot flush. They’ll get that look for free when they get a bit older

Omg, just googled glass skin and it just looks like they’re quite sweaty! 🤣😅

Shirley Ballas was sporting the look on Strictly last night.

As were two contestants who were dressed and made up as thunderbird puppets 🤣

As a few pps said, Bonnie Blue has this 'look!' Wouldn't want to look anything like her!

I did laugh when I googled her, because her wiki page came up, and it says she's an 'actress!' 😂

Oh thank you so much for make me laugh hard at this. 😁

How would any of us even know what that would look like?

She's a pretty woman who would look even prettier without that shiny skin. It looks very red, as well.

You didn't meet any Belgians then.

Big bums are in fashion because loads of people are fat and it's less effort to wobble that fat bum about a bit than go on a diet.

Bonnie Blue looks like a doll in that photo, like AI. Looks very unrealistic.

Eeew!