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!

I'm a heck of a lot older and thanks to good genetics, never smoked and always used high factor sun cream on my face. Never had botox or shit, I hardly have any lines let alone wrinkles.
Guess I'm very lucky.

For a Margiela show last year, makeup artist Pat McGrath made the models look like porcelain dolls using a mask made with Kryolan liquid latex and many other products. The faces caused a sensation. McGrath now sells a somewhat shinier mask for home use - but, like the porcelain ones, it will be broken by any facial movement so you can't speak!

I find it so interesting how we attribute a lack of wrinkles with luck.

I feel lucky to age, wrinkles shouldn’t matter.

Our obsession with youth is why people in thier 30’s are getting Botox.

Western girls trying to look Korean. Korean girls trying to look white. Buying a tonne of chemicals to slap on your face to pretend to look natural. Poring over filtered celeb pics while fussing over pores in the mirror.

Fuck the "beauty" industry and do something useful with your money instead.

Whatever older women do they get judgement from people. Follow trends and it 'looks ridiculous' be natural and you've 'let yourself go and look old and frumpy' do some understated discreet grooming and you're 'invisible'. People (on here anyway) love trying to make older women feel bad. Perhaps it makes them feel better about themselves and their own aging.

Your probably right, as I'm sure putting Vaseline on eyebrows was a thing in the 80s to get the Brooke Shields look.

🤣🤣🤣

No it isn’t, it’s nothing to do with product, glass skin isn’t wet or greasy or sticky.

It’s a look obtained when the bare skin is almost devoid of texture and totally smooth so it reflects light.

I have it a little across the top of my cheeks from long term use of Tret.

yes true glass skin is not achieved by slathering vaseline or latex on. It's smooth, luminous moisturized skin that gently reflects light. Of course it takes a lot of work to acheve this, so people fake it with vaseline-like products, which gives you the greasy, shiny look.

Well… there were the birds and the bees, and…

I once had a (male) hairdresser like that. His face just looked weird and inhuman to me. I thought he'd probably had his whole face waxed. My face is really rather furry!

Which is obtained by a skin care routine?

im not talking about slathering on Vaseline daily 😂 im talking about it being the result of a skin care routine. Watch any video on how to achieve it and that is clear ( James Welsh has a good one)

I had it once…after a beautician did dermaplaning then microneedling then a facial. It lasted a few days but I felt naked! Not something I’d ever repeat.

It's called a chemical peel. As name suggests, removes a later if skin.

I'm amazed how many don't know what it is. Shows age of the forum perhaps.

Its face oil in a spray used once you've applied found action, powder etc. You have to spray more than you think you will need but it works well.

I'm middle aged with a child. I have never seen what that looks like nor would I want to.

You've never given your OH a hand job?

Wrong. You're judging other people - 'everyone' indeed - by your rather low standards.

I'm relieved to reach the age I am and not be one bit like you.

Correct, never have. I think I'd be freaked out actually handling his privates, he gets aroused (a few times a year) and we do PIV intercourse, that's it.

Wow. I wouldn't want to be in your marriage.

You've never seen your husband's penis after he comes? It would look the same as a "freshly wanked cock".

No, never. Would you actually want to see that?

You're talking nonsense. We all judge on appearance, every day of our lives. Men, women, everyone. It is very foolish to pretend otherwise.

Appearances, to an extent. Opinions like yours below? Not one bit. I have no time for people like you who seek to tear women down based on their appearance in this way.

It looks awful even on the young and beautiful models who promote it. On a menopause age woman it would look utterly ludicrous

I always find it rather unfortunate when people cannot express their opinion without resorting to insulting other people. You seem to be incapable of a normal exchange without being rude. It always indicates a lack of intelligence, emotionally and otherwise.

Anyway, you have your opinion, I have mine. They are polar opposites. We shall not persuade the other, so let's go about our days.

Hear hear.

The casual, cruel judgement on menopausal women is particularly unpleasant. Another bored misogynistic man, perhaps.

I had a tester from Charlotte Tilbury called real skin. It has some colour but not a lot. It's more of a highlighter but it might be worth a look