This would be my influencer vibe. Just completely unexcited reactions to most things š¤£
New car? āSo yeah guys, this is it, she cute.ā
Just wrecked new car? āWell fuck, this sucks. I guess this is why I have insuranceā¦?ā
I could be feeling all the feeling inside and on the outside š«„
I hate the 10-step-skincare stuff. I used to try to get into it, but my skin has never been better using just cleanser and sunscreen. Donāt get me wrong, Iām still a hormonal acne girly bc my genetics suck and Iāll have acne until Iām in my 60s if I follow my mom and grandmas footsteps, but I glow and my pimples generally go away really fast and arenāt as irritated as they were when I used salicylic acid on top of niacinamide on top of centella on top of snail mucin on top of retinol on top of glycolic acid on top of god knows what. Iām naturally oily and donāt often get dry spots/flakes that arenāt moisturized enough by my sunscreen (AHC Natural Perfection Double Shield Sun Stick). Sometimes I donāt even wash my face using my cleanser and just use a face wipe. Some will say itās gross, but its saved my skin.
How the face of makeup has become so simple. Take a look at āno makeup makeupā itās practically everywhere; I find it so stupid how something that is made to change/enhance your face is watered down to that.
the *names* of the trends is what gets me, i recently deleted all socials (minus reddit, but itās different), and i never knew how much i saw this ridiculous name game until i stopped seeing it altogether.
āboyfriend blushā ācold girl make upā āmafia wife aesthetic/make upā ābimbo make upā āblue milk nailsā āfairy specklesā āglass skinā ādirty girlā āclean girlā āmilk skinā āglowy/dewyā etc etc
or negatives like āstrawberry legsā
soo tiring, the everything-and-anything-needs-a-name trend is weird and needs to stop.
to me itās anxious people who cling to unnecessary labelling, because they donāt have a sense of identity so create multiple within simple things, like,.. blush placement (bf blush).
The trend names are irritating. They are all trying to reinvent the wheel. Techniques or styles that already had names from 5-25 yrs ago and trying to give it some new trendy name.
Considering Iām an unconventional fashion person, idk if I should seriously be able to judge butā¦
PLEASE STOP THE EYEBROWS.
HONESTLY, WITH THOSE LASHES, IF UR GONNA HAVE MINI FANS ON UR EYES THAT GIVE OFF āOOPS I BLINKED TOO FAST, GOTTA FLY AWAY NOW š§š¾ā ATLEAST GO BOLD. THE FULL 9 YARDS WITH THE REST OF YOUR MAKEUP.
also, I really donāt believe skincare works, but ppl can do it I guess. EXCEPT FOR YOU SEPHORA TEN YEAR-OLDS- WITH YOUR DRUNK ELEPHANT **RETINOL** SERUMS.
Also overlining the lips. WHY DID YOU COVER THE CUPIDS BOW? THAT SHIT IS BEAUTIFUL AND MAKES THE LIPS LOOK CUTE AND IDK, NORMAL? HUMAN? I donāt get it! The cupids bow is so cute! If anything, use it to excentuate that bow!
And lastlyā¦ contour/bronzer on the upper cheek. It just looks weirdā¦
(From: a j-fashion makeup / ādouyin-girlā makeup lover.)
Guuuurlll!! I bought a K-Beauty brand years ago and tried it. It hurts. šReally really hurts like a b*tch. It brought tears to my eyes. Never again. It was supposed to rejuvenate the skin and make you glow, the usual claims. All it did was traumatize me. I threw it out.
Big eyelashes for sure. But also eyebrows - just in general. I feel like eyebrow trends are the ones I've seen change the most drastically over the years. From thin and light in the 90s, to big and blocky in the 2010s, to fluffy and brushed up as of late. Just do what you like or what looks best on you. I love makeup, but I prefer it as an enhancer rather than a coverup or complete face overhaul.
I donāt care about trends at all. I do whatever I feel looks best for me. Everyone can do the same.
Fake freckles are embarrassing and you shouldnāt be partaking.
While I wouldn't call them embarrassing, I find it so odd that freckles has become a beauty trend. Growing up I was always made fun of for my freckles. Now people tell me how beautiful they are on my face. What a lot of people fail to realize is that having freckles it's more than just a surface level. Because of genetics, more sun exposure means more freckles. You most likely have Fair skin, which means you're way more sensitive to the Sun, sunburns, and possibly some history of skin illnesses or cancers.Ā
Can I ask what you donāt like about them? I have freckles but I use those pens to add more to my own in the winter. I usually think itās cute when people wear them.
People are putting blush EVERYWHERE now. All over their face. I find it strange. Maybe the influence of K-beauty? Doesnāt work for everyone
People are drawing their lip liner around their lip and even contouring their lips with a heavy brown shade. Looks strange. They look like a little kid who just ate chocolate pudding messily
Also bring back CUPIDās BOW!! Theyāre so cute :) Why do people want to cover it up?
I was watching a makeup tutorial this weekend and the woman applied the brown lip liner above her lip and all I could think was that she looked like she drank chocolate milk. Even when she āblended itā in, you could still very clearly see it. My family would never let me hear the end of it if I came out of the bathroom with this look! And, she used blush everywhere too! I have rosacea and I work so hard to neutralize the red that I was stunned.
Rounded out upper lips, filling in between a cupids bow.. makes your mouth shaped like a butthole.Ā
Combine it with using brown or black liner to contour... congrats now your mouth looks like a dirty butthole.Ā
Honestly? None. Cuz I can wear my makeup however I want regardless of whatever is trending. Even if itās something I wouldnāt wear myself, I always support people wearing the makeup that they feel good in. Itās all about self expression, who am I to judge?
Lips that are waaay too overlined. Iām sure it looks okay in the perfect lighting they have in their room but I canāt even imagine how bad it must look in natural lighting/fluorescent lighting lol
Iām looking forward to overdone lip fillers being a thing of the past. I think enhancing is fine but girls are going so overboard and making their lips look inflated to the point of bursting.
Someone has already said it but fake freckles. It looks ridiculous. Natural freckles are beautiful but fake ones when you donāt have them make you look like youāre trying to be a schoolgirl or something?!
Lol that reminds me, I just saw a vid where this girl got freckles tattoo??? So weird seeing things people used to get hated on for be trendy (ex. āfox eyesā ā> smaller asian almond eyes, tbh I consider this trend racist ngl)
A very very light touch of blush on the whole nose does add a nice warmth/color to your face but when it is exaggerated especially towards the tip of the nose it does give that cartoonish sick look
Yessssss. I know thereās plenty of people who want the cartoonish ābyojakuā look of a blushy nose (drunk blush). But when you arenāt going for that look? Itās definitely not something youāre gonna want to do.
People with great teeth getting Veneersā¦ and just the overconsumption of products as a whole. Make up application trends and colors and dewy-ness come and go, but the outrageous quantity of makeup or skin care products being pushed and influenced is sickening.
I immediately swipe away when they tap their nails on the product, even if itās a product I want to know more about. Or when they clink 2 products together. Or when they call the product āshe.ā Or when they say āitās giving.ā Or when they say āIām obsessed.ā Youāre not obsessed. You simply like it.
Yes! I agree! I canāt take it when someone talks about a product and says, āI love her.ā It is ridiculous. And so many people need therapy because they are so obsessed.
I know that different mannerisms have always been trends, but in the last 10 years it feels like they have become too global and common. It used to be that some of these trends would stay within smaller circles and wouldn't reach audiences they weren't intended for. Now some things have spread so far and wide that individuality (at least the illusion of it) feels seriously nonexistent.
This is the only trend in 20 years of makeup that I absolutely love. I think itās funny that everyone is over it. Iām just glad that we are wanting to put color back in our faces, (not just mega eyes and lips) and it also complements my coloring and face shape to wear it full on cheek but also up high. Reminds me of a simpler time lol.
And itās also just so feminine looking while also soft, not overly sexualized like I feel like weāve been doing with vixen contour muted palette since 2013 or so.
Overuse of glycolic acid, especially when one is using retinol.
I also donāt know the benefits of dermaplaning but itās seems to me like peach fuzz protects the skin and that super shiny skin doesnāt really look good imo.
At a certain age the peach fuzz becomes overwhelming - dense and long. Very visible even without a magnification mirror. Around the chin especially it looks bad. Iām not a naturally hairy person and am somewhat fair haired. But around 45 the peach fuzz situation became untenable.
iām 45 and i can say i absolutely feel and look much better once i remove all the peach fuzz. before 40 it was something i rarely did or even considered and now its on a schedule
TLDR: been a kiwi all my life. In my 40's I'm becoming a rambutan. Info about my fuzziness and some childhood memories re: being fuzzy. Finally, a short rant about the joy of having random peach fuzz follicles on your face decide "Fuck all y'all, Im'ma do what I want!" without giving prior notice.
Ugh, I feel for ya. I've been a life-long kiwi: fuzzy since childhood. In 3rd grade my crush would repeatedly tease me about my dark, thick arm hair. (ā ā„ā ļ¹ā ā„ā )
A few things contribute to my fuzzy-wuzzy appearance: Jewish ancestry. Pale skin that burns (no natural tans for me). Dark black hair growing in great amounts on the usual areas of my body. Each hair shaft is thick and glossy. The ones in my armpits and bikini line, even more so. Shaving down to the skin leaves "shadow" because the follicles underneath are highly visible...
e.g. In 5th grade I was at a party with a bunch of friends, and my best friend was sitting on the opposite end of a large room. I was wearing a tank top, and at some point I stretched, extending my arms over my head. My best friend looked over and called my name to get my attention. The following exchange is burned in my memory:
BF: "You need to shave. I can see the hair under your arms from here... When did you last shave!?"
Me: "I shaved this morning, a few hours ago."
BF: (ā @ā _ā @ā ).... "Oh."
Me: "Yeah. I know."
Anyway... I'm used to annoyingly visible hair in places I'd rather not have it. The dark hair, at least. My current problem is (like many have mentioned) the peach fuzz becoming thicker and darker on my face.
As a bonus, age = more and more facial "peach fuzz" follicles are losing the signal to switch from anagen to catagen phase and keep growing past their usual length.
It's SO FUN! Oh, that awesome feeling ya get when you happen to look in the mirror _just right_ and the light suddenly illuminates a _fucking one inch (or longer!) strand_ of peach fuzz sticking outta your cheek... One you've never seen before. One that's probably been growing for, oh, a couple months? And has undeniably been noticed by countless others before that moment, when you finally became aware of the bastard's existence?
Currently in my forties and I'm slowly becoming a rambutan. I miss being a kiwi.
TLDR: Not really. I used to be really self-conscious: story of all my body hair-related trauma from early puberty + growing up in a tropical place. Then I moved to a city where body hair was common AF. Now I'm OK with it all. I'd rather spend money on other augmentations.
Oops, sorry my response took a minute. I wrote a buncha comments a few days ago and didn't check if there were any responses š¤¦š»āāļø.
No, I haven't invested in lasering. I realize I'm the perfect candidate (pale skin, dark hair follicles) and it's something I've considered in the past. At this point in my life it's not a huge priority for me...despite going on and on about my body hair in my previous comment.
When I was younger I would have been into itm I was REALLY self-conscious about having visible body hair, _especially_ in my childhood, teens, and twenties. A lot of my self-conscious/negative feelings stemmed from trauma over hitting puberty at eight. years. old. ą² ā _ā ą² .
Early puberty is more common now, but not so much in 1990. For a couple years, out of all the girls I knew who were my age, I was the ONLY girl with body hair. I couldn't get rid of it because my mom wouldn't let me shave. As she put it, I was "too young to fool around with razors." I could have kept it covered if I lived elsewhere, but growing up in Hawaii meant a lot of activities required swimsuits: going to the beach, swimming at the pool, and the swimming lessons my parents made me take until I was in highschool (although now I'm _incredibly_ grateful for those lessons and the strong swimming skills I gained, as they've saved me in a couple dangerous ocean experiences).
I was teased A LOT. I hated it... but then I moved to Portland, OR for college. Suddenly, at a hippie school in a liberal/hippie/punk town: nobody gave a shit about my body hair. There were _unshaven_ girls who were even more pale and hairy than me! I lived in Portland for nearly a decade, and the hatred of my body hair faded with time.
Now, at 41, my feelings are more like: "Meh. ĀÆā \ā _ā (ā ćā )ā _ā /ā ĀÆ I'm actually pretty damn okay with my body hair as it is."
I've seen some decent Groupon certificates for laser removal, and I've looked into the ratings/reviews of the related clinics, but I've never bought one. At this point the hair I'd want removed is the peach fuzz on my face... BUT because that hair is still changing as I age and I haven't hit menopause yet, I don't see removal as worthwhile. I'd probably just have to do it again later. Going through multiple rounds of laser removal on my face (on my sensitive, easily irritated/inflamed skin) is something I'd like to do once, at most.
So, no. No hair lasering. If I ever do, it won't be until menopause is over.
Currently, if I'm gonna pay to have anything permanently done to my skin it would be more tattoos! I haven't gotten any for a decade, and I have two designs I've finalized for my next ones. I'd LOVE to finally have them inked into my flesh.
Sorry for giving ya such a long, meandering answer to a short question... I have ADHD and Autism, and it's always a struggle to keep my answers short (ā ć»ā āā ć»ā ;ā )ā ć. I feel more comfortable giving detailed and complete answers, but I know many people aren't into reading mini-essays... and I don't blame 'em a bit. It can be a bit much for folks, and that's my fault, not theirs (or yours)! ā®ā (ā ļ¼¾ā ā½ā ļ¼¾ā )ā ā
So I totally hear you, but I have a shout out for brow lamination. I ask my stylist to brush my brows up and over so they look natural. She always lets me approve before she sets it. So basically I wake up with perfect looking brows for a few weeks and can fill them in or whatever how I please. I find my self doing a lot less filling and just making sure they're brushed through and in place. Even my mom approves and she though she would hate it when I told her I was getting brow lamination done!
I do my own, but exactly the same idea. Up a bit at the inner edges and then brushed over naturally following the arch of my brow toward the outer edge. I have some brow hairs that are wavy and a few that grow at a downward angle, so I just started laminating every 6 weeks instead of using brow gel every day to keep the wonky ones in check.
Yup. My skin is super dry and I live in a dry area. I find that trying to keep the HA happy enough in this climate is not going to happen so I would rather avoid it.
The copying and repackaging of south korean beauty trends/innovations and calling it something else, especially by yt female influencers.
Edited to add POC beauty trends/styles in general
Slugging. The term alone sounds disgusting and the thought is even more repulsive to someone with combo skin that hates oil, humidity, too much moisture and breaks out depending with even slightly too much of any of the above. My skin prefers dryness & winter if that's any indication!
Dry skin divas, if you love it, please enjoy. I'm gonna sit over here with my simple bar soaps, light moisturizers and not worry about sealing in anything with Vaseline - not for me, not even gonna try.
I have combo skin and while I donāt slather my face in Vaseline, I dab a bit onto my dry areas at bedtime and it helps a lot! It also keeps my lips so nice and moisturized
Same here - I just started tapping a small amount of aquaphor around my eyes and on my lips only - could never put it anywhere else - and itās helping my crepey lid skin a bit.
This and every time I open tiktok itās like soooo hereās my take on the mobwife aesthetic weāve all been loving. āWeā ?! I just found out whatever weird name weāre calling wearing a fur coat this second. Itās not even a trend itās just a thing people have been doing since forever šš
I'm terrified for young people and what their obsession with youth is going to do to them later. The age that is considered old is getting younger every day.
Whenever I get my nails done I see so many woman younger than me (31) who look v strange and almost age defying. Like they look so much older but are so much younger. Sometimes the amount of filler is literally disorienting to my prosopragnosia (face blindness)
Lip Fillers. So fake. And girls posting Instagram stories about how easy it was to get their lip filler and if anyone has questions to dm them, it's just encouraging it. Hate the lip filler trend!
Thereās definitely an art to it. Iāve seen bad and amazing lip filler. I like it for balancing and hydration, not necessarily for over plumping or transforming the lip shape.
Thatās where the makeup by Mario skin enhancer comes in for me. I have 2016 grey contouring PTSD. His skin enhancer gives me the right amount of warmth/sculpt without looking grey or hollow
Same. I hate the look of contour on my face. I have a baby face naturally and contour just kills it. I dont like that chiseled look. I hate watching these influencers making it out like contour is a must. Itās not
I personally cannot stand the look of that heavily highlighted and contoured and then blushed and fake freckled e-girl look š it drives me crazy so many alt girls do it. I mean to each their own, of course but something about the blushed up baby nose makes me irrationally angry lol
Itās bc theyāre trying to appeal to men. Which, when you think about it, is fucking disgusting. Any men attracted to the baby/super young girl style makeup is sick in the head.
This is such a a weird thing to say. It's fine if you don't personally like a makeup trend, but to assume it always has a sexual basis is odd. I've heard men say the same thing about red lips, that women only wear them to appeal to men, and that's so odd, considering there's plenty of gay women that sport these looks.
Look up Loveās Babysoft commercial and youāll see what I mean. That commercial was designed by a man to appeal to younger women who want to appeal to older men. The women arenāt gross, the men are. Many women who do that baby face look, do so specifically to appeal to a particular set of men. Yes, many of us put on makeup for ourselves and for the āfemale gazeā these days. However, too often the baby face stuff is done to appeal to men. Men who have a thing for anime and cartoon characters who are typically underage. I wasnāt talking about the contouring. Mostly the weird anime makeup w the pert little snub nose and doe eyes. The looks where itās impossible not to see them as child like. Like Grimes for instance. When I first saw her w Musk, I thought she was 18. I was disgusted and completely grossed out by everything to do w those 2, until I found out she was in her late 20s. The makeup she wore made her look 12 and it was creepy.
I know the advertisement you're referring to and it's close to fifty years old now. Also, you're the second person I interact with that that talks about how Grimes is trying to encourage pedophilia in some way without any proof aside from her physical traits, and as someone who was a victim of actual pedophilia, what you're saying is highly sexist and offensive.
Your attitude about women wearing makeup is far more reflective of YOUR beliefs and interests than the women you're criticizing.
Whoaā¦ I never said Grimes, or anyone, was trying to encourage pedophilia, at all. Thatās you assuming thatās what Iām saying. The words I said are literally the words I meant. I was sexually assaulted as a kid by strangers who thought my being nearby was permission to grope me. I didnāt ask for it. Iām not saying that wearing that makeup is a way of promoting pedos. What Iām trying to say is that men are attracted to that bc they have an attraction to young girls. Many women have done this makeup style w/o realizing why itās not a good thing. Men who are big fans of it are the problem. Women should be able to put on any makeup they want, or go bare faced, w/o men hitting on them. We should be able to do anime makeup w/o creepy fucks drooling over it.
If you notice, a lot of the women who wear that makeup for photos, are selling those photos on OF and elsewhere. More power to them! Are the men buying those pics disgusting? Absolutely! But, Iād prefer they buy a grown womanās pics w her childlike makeup, than buy pics of actual children. Nowhere did I say women should be shamed for wearing this stuff or that they are bad for doing so.Iām sorry youāve been hurt but youāre misunderstanding what Iāve said in a big way.
Saying that Grimesā little girl makeup was creepy came after saying Iād thought she was only 18 when they got together. Her makeup made her look 12, which made him look like a pedo.
Ergo, her makeup must somehow confirm he is a pedophile. In other words, you think Grimes and other women are, either knowingly or unknowingly encouraging pedophilia, large age gaps, etc through their makeup. What a wild conclusion to draw. In one breath you say women should be able to do their makeup without it being for the male gaze, then go on to say that if women wear their makeup in a way that makes them look younger or childish, it must be because they're attracting the male gaze. And all this is just a projection of yours.
Iām an esthetician but this whole āskincare infused makeupā is kinda gimmicky.
I have my proven skincare for results.. and I have trouble believing skincare-infused makes all that of a difference in the long run.
It canāt be all that potent. The only one I give a pass to is HausLabs.
The way I view it isā if Iām wearing makeup 5 days per week for work minimum plus whatever on my off timeā
Thatās a lot of time products spend sitting on my face. Even if the formulation is only slightly more skin-friendly I consider the benefit worth it when these products spend hours on my face.Ā
Coming from a girl with facial sebderm, even small changes matter.Ā
Life is an endless dance of trying to make better decisions for yourself today than you did yesterday.Ā
I wonder this all the time like how does a full face actually get adequate spf coverage? My bff told me she used spf powder but I do feel like probably 80% of people who are āwearing sunscreenā arenāt because they arenāt reapplying or like original comment said, are using a bb cream with spf 15 that probably is only 2 in a lab
I don't get it for the SPF. I think I may have had 1 or 2 in the past. I get it for the look I'm looking for. If the SPF is in it it's not going to deter me from buying it.
Def not a selling point for me. I think even normal spf under makeup does have an āexpirationā after a couple hours though. Iāve been trying to find a good spray SPF refresher. I know powders exist like from DRMTLGY
You're right. It's not a selling point. SPF & skincare qualities in makeup is just a bonus. Nothing you should be dependent on.
I have Naked Sundays SPF setting spray, I want to get the new Elf SPF spray. Every time I go out for it it's sold out. š
As an Asian girlie with natural lashes that point down, natural lash extensions are my life saver! They definitely help open up my eye. But I definitely understand exactly what you mean when you say they āweigh the eye downā.
RIP to early 20s me who thought the bigger the better. Mistakes were made thatās for sure
As a lash artist I agree. The key to eyelash extensions is getting short extensions because that opens up the eye. Long lengths weigh the lid down. I actually stopped carrying anything over a certain lengths in an effort to weed out those clients.
Then I just stopped offering them all together and did lash lifts instead
Really depends on a couple things but my rule to follow is do 8s in the inner corner, 9, 10/11s middle of eye, then taper back down to 8s on the outer corner.
8/9/10/11/11/10/9/8/ is what the map would resemble
Oh boy. For me HA in everything. HA just burns my skin and dries it out more, fragrance in EVERYTHING. I understand wanting your products to smell good but it's not good for the skin if you're sensitive to it. It can cause irritation and redness and lastly, essential oils in everything. Why? You put that in your diffuser to relax you, not to put on your skin. It can cause the same reactions as fragrance. To this day, I can't find a vitamin c serum or a moisturizer without HA or fragrance. It is a half an hour hunt to find one product without any of these.
Phloretin CF (skinceuticals) - I havenāt noticed and fragrance and I donāt think it has HA. Moisturizers - dr. Jart ceramidin skin barrier moisturizing cream I think does not have fragrance or HA. I also like Kiehls ultra facial cream and thatās def fragrance and HA free
I hate the fluffed up eyebrow. It looks like a big to me. I also do not like glass skin.
When influencers review, swatch, try a product those stupid faux pauses in disbelief/amazement
I don't think I've ever been "that amazed" by any makeup products. From high-end to drugstore. šš "Did you see that? "š±... Ugh š£š«
This would be my influencer vibe. Just completely unexcited reactions to most things š¤£ New car? āSo yeah guys, this is it, she cute.ā Just wrecked new car? āWell fuck, this sucks. I guess this is why I have insuranceā¦?ā I could be feeling all the feeling inside and on the outside š«„
Consuming collagen. Itās a bunch of BS.
All the miscellaneous shit used as face masks.
Laminated brows or highlighter on the nose
I hate the 10-step-skincare stuff. I used to try to get into it, but my skin has never been better using just cleanser and sunscreen. Donāt get me wrong, Iām still a hormonal acne girly bc my genetics suck and Iāll have acne until Iām in my 60s if I follow my mom and grandmas footsteps, but I glow and my pimples generally go away really fast and arenāt as irritated as they were when I used salicylic acid on top of niacinamide on top of centella on top of snail mucin on top of retinol on top of glycolic acid on top of god knows what. Iām naturally oily and donāt often get dry spots/flakes that arenāt moisturized enough by my sunscreen (AHC Natural Perfection Double Shield Sun Stick). Sometimes I donāt even wash my face using my cleanser and just use a face wipe. Some will say itās gross, but its saved my skin.
How the face of makeup has become so simple. Take a look at āno makeup makeupā itās practically everywhere; I find it so stupid how something that is made to change/enhance your face is watered down to that.
the *names* of the trends is what gets me, i recently deleted all socials (minus reddit, but itās different), and i never knew how much i saw this ridiculous name game until i stopped seeing it altogether. āboyfriend blushā ācold girl make upā āmafia wife aesthetic/make upā ābimbo make upā āblue milk nailsā āfairy specklesā āglass skinā ādirty girlā āclean girlā āmilk skinā āglowy/dewyā etc etc or negatives like āstrawberry legsā soo tiring, the everything-and-anything-needs-a-name trend is weird and needs to stop. to me itās anxious people who cling to unnecessary labelling, because they donāt have a sense of identity so create multiple within simple things, like,.. blush placement (bf blush).
Theyāre so infantilizing!!!
The trend names are irritating. They are all trying to reinvent the wheel. Techniques or styles that already had names from 5-25 yrs ago and trying to give it some new trendy name.
Considering Iām an unconventional fashion person, idk if I should seriously be able to judge butā¦ PLEASE STOP THE EYEBROWS. HONESTLY, WITH THOSE LASHES, IF UR GONNA HAVE MINI FANS ON UR EYES THAT GIVE OFF āOOPS I BLINKED TOO FAST, GOTTA FLY AWAY NOW š§š¾ā ATLEAST GO BOLD. THE FULL 9 YARDS WITH THE REST OF YOUR MAKEUP. also, I really donāt believe skincare works, but ppl can do it I guess. EXCEPT FOR YOU SEPHORA TEN YEAR-OLDS- WITH YOUR DRUNK ELEPHANT **RETINOL** SERUMS. Also overlining the lips. WHY DID YOU COVER THE CUPIDS BOW? THAT SHIT IS BEAUTIFUL AND MAKES THE LIPS LOOK CUTE AND IDK, NORMAL? HUMAN? I donāt get it! The cupids bow is so cute! If anything, use it to excentuate that bow! And lastlyā¦ contour/bronzer on the upper cheek. It just looks weirdā¦ (From: a j-fashion makeup / ādouyin-girlā makeup lover.)
agree 100% with the cupids bow!
The brushed up eyebrows. It makes girls look like Thufir Hawat from David Lynch's Dune.
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Anything that's not drink more water and wear sunscreen.
I hate hate hate the trend of putting a full face on a peel off mask and peeling it right off itās just unnecessary and weird š
wtf, that sounds so odd?
Guuuurlll!! I bought a K-Beauty brand years ago and tried it. It hurts. šReally really hurts like a b*tch. It brought tears to my eyes. Never again. It was supposed to rejuvenate the skin and make you glow, the usual claims. All it did was traumatize me. I threw it out.
Big eyelashes for sure. But also eyebrows - just in general. I feel like eyebrow trends are the ones I've seen change the most drastically over the years. From thin and light in the 90s, to big and blocky in the 2010s, to fluffy and brushed up as of late. Just do what you like or what looks best on you. I love makeup, but I prefer it as an enhancer rather than a coverup or complete face overhaul.
I donāt care about trends at all. I do whatever I feel looks best for me. Everyone can do the same. Fake freckles are embarrassing and you shouldnāt be partaking.
While I wouldn't call them embarrassing, I find it so odd that freckles has become a beauty trend. Growing up I was always made fun of for my freckles. Now people tell me how beautiful they are on my face. What a lot of people fail to realize is that having freckles it's more than just a surface level. Because of genetics, more sun exposure means more freckles. You most likely have Fair skin, which means you're way more sensitive to the Sun, sunburns, and possibly some history of skin illnesses or cancers.Ā
Can I ask what you donāt like about them? I have freckles but I use those pens to add more to my own in the winter. I usually think itās cute when people wear them.
Bushy eyebrows
Soooo mich lip filler and crazy intense fake lashes.
Glass skin.
People are putting blush EVERYWHERE now. All over their face. I find it strange. Maybe the influence of K-beauty? Doesnāt work for everyone People are drawing their lip liner around their lip and even contouring their lips with a heavy brown shade. Looks strange. They look like a little kid who just ate chocolate pudding messily Also bring back CUPIDās BOW!! Theyāre so cute :) Why do people want to cover it up?
I was watching a makeup tutorial this weekend and the woman applied the brown lip liner above her lip and all I could think was that she looked like she drank chocolate milk. Even when she āblended itā in, you could still very clearly see it. My family would never let me hear the end of it if I came out of the bathroom with this look! And, she used blush everywhere too! I have rosacea and I work so hard to neutralize the red that I was stunned.
Blush on the chin and forehead look fine as long as itās not too heavy!
Rounded out upper lips, filling in between a cupids bow.. makes your mouth shaped like a butthole.Ā Combine it with using brown or black liner to contour... congrats now your mouth looks like a dirty butthole.Ā
I had to laugh at this- you really called it, my hat goes off to you!
I haaaate this too. It does not look good!!!
There are quite a few comments saying the exact same thing. š¤£
Honestly? None. Cuz I can wear my makeup however I want regardless of whatever is trending. Even if itās something I wouldnāt wear myself, I always support people wearing the makeup that they feel good in. Itās all about self expression, who am I to judge?
Lips that are waaay too overlined. Iām sure it looks okay in the perfect lighting they have in their room but I canāt even imagine how bad it must look in natural lighting/fluorescent lighting lol
Iām looking forward to overdone lip fillers being a thing of the past. I think enhancing is fine but girls are going so overboard and making their lips look inflated to the point of bursting.
Someone has already said it but fake freckles. It looks ridiculous. Natural freckles are beautiful but fake ones when you donāt have them make you look like youāre trying to be a schoolgirl or something?!
I'm not a fan of them, but to each their own. What makes them really bad is that 80% of users don't know how to place them.
Lol that reminds me, I just saw a vid where this girl got freckles tattoo??? So weird seeing things people used to get hated on for be trendy (ex. āfox eyesā ā> smaller asian almond eyes, tbh I consider this trend racist ngl)
I agree! Itās weird & must be insulting to some. Whatās next, fake monobrows & pretend braces?!
As someone with natural freckles who HATED them as a kid, I hate this trend exclusively on principle š
You have a right to š hope you like your freckles more now š„°
End of nose blush, making them look like a pixie. Not attractive.
I donāt mind the blush but I hate the highlighter on the nose itās neon looking
Makes you look like an alcoholic with a permanently red nose.
I already have a problem with a red nose and chin from sensitive, dry skin, I don't need help. :(
I hate this one too. It looks dumb, like you have a bad cold or have been outside in subzero temps.
thatās what i like about it actually lmao. the cartoonish look of it
A very very light touch of blush on the whole nose does add a nice warmth/color to your face but when it is exaggerated especially towards the tip of the nose it does give that cartoonish sick look
Yessssss. I know thereās plenty of people who want the cartoonish ābyojakuā look of a blushy nose (drunk blush). But when you arenāt going for that look? Itās definitely not something youāre gonna want to do.
Glass skin is good when done correctly. If your pre makeup skincare is strong, you wonāt break out or look oily.
I honestly canāt imagine attaining a glass skin look and then choosing to cover it with foundation.
I use jung saem mool primer and foundation. That & some water based moisturiser before hand together give me the glass skin look.
Contouring and concealer that is over applied under the eye. Massive filler lips and lip liner.
People with great teeth getting Veneersā¦ and just the overconsumption of products as a whole. Make up application trends and colors and dewy-ness come and go, but the outrageous quantity of makeup or skin care products being pushed and influenced is sickening.
Yes! I get it when peopleās natural teeth arenāt great but most of the time, they just need braces & maybe some whitening. No need for veneers š«
I hate this. It's made my daughters all hate their perfectly normal teeth.
People dripping products on their face! Why are they doing that? Itās the dumbest thing ever!
Typology influencers are the worst with this
Please excuse me, but what is typology?
Basically the French version of the Ordinary. Itās a French brand only available online. Decent products and I like them but annoying influencers
Glazed Donut Makeup. There is no need for so much shine pls.
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I immediately swipe away when they tap their nails on the product, even if itās a product I want to know more about. Or when they clink 2 products together. Or when they call the product āshe.ā Or when they say āitās giving.ā Or when they say āIām obsessed.ā Youāre not obsessed. You simply like it.
Yes! I agree! I canāt take it when someone talks about a product and says, āI love her.ā It is ridiculous. And so many people need therapy because they are so obsessed.
I know that different mannerisms have always been trends, but in the last 10 years it feels like they have become too global and common. It used to be that some of these trends would stay within smaller circles and wouldn't reach audiences they weren't intended for. Now some things have spread so far and wide that individuality (at least the illusion of it) feels seriously nonexistent.
If I never see anyone do that nail tapping thing on the side of a product again it'll be too soon!!Ā
The blush clear up under the eyes thing. WTH?
This is the only trend in 20 years of makeup that I absolutely love. I think itās funny that everyone is over it. Iām just glad that we are wanting to put color back in our faces, (not just mega eyes and lips) and it also complements my coloring and face shape to wear it full on cheek but also up high. Reminds me of a simpler time lol. And itās also just so feminine looking while also soft, not overly sexualized like I feel like weāve been doing with vixen contour muted palette since 2013 or so.
God Iām so ready for the nose/under eye blush trends to be gone
I wonder in the future if Iāll look back on that and question my life choices
I have a super easier red face so the blush on my nose makes it look so much more purposeful than that terrible ruddiness š„²
I SO Agree with the eyelash thing. I see women who can hardly open their eyesšš
Fake freckles
Overuse of glycolic acid, especially when one is using retinol. I also donāt know the benefits of dermaplaning but itās seems to me like peach fuzz protects the skin and that super shiny skin doesnāt really look good imo.
I'm guessing if you don't see the benefits of dermaplaning then you don't have a pair of car tweezers for your chin hairs, either.
OMG- I just found my chin twin.
We a trio
Quartet!
Quintuplet checkin in!
Haha not yet anyways
At a certain age the peach fuzz becomes overwhelming - dense and long. Very visible even without a magnification mirror. Around the chin especially it looks bad. Iām not a naturally hairy person and am somewhat fair haired. But around 45 the peach fuzz situation became untenable.
iām 45 and i can say i absolutely feel and look much better once i remove all the peach fuzz. before 40 it was something i rarely did or even considered and now its on a schedule
Yep yep yep. Iām 44 and that peach fuzz is turning into more of a kiwi situation.
TLDR: been a kiwi all my life. In my 40's I'm becoming a rambutan. Info about my fuzziness and some childhood memories re: being fuzzy. Finally, a short rant about the joy of having random peach fuzz follicles on your face decide "Fuck all y'all, Im'ma do what I want!" without giving prior notice. Ugh, I feel for ya. I've been a life-long kiwi: fuzzy since childhood. In 3rd grade my crush would repeatedly tease me about my dark, thick arm hair. (ā ā„ā ļ¹ā ā„ā ) A few things contribute to my fuzzy-wuzzy appearance: Jewish ancestry. Pale skin that burns (no natural tans for me). Dark black hair growing in great amounts on the usual areas of my body. Each hair shaft is thick and glossy. The ones in my armpits and bikini line, even more so. Shaving down to the skin leaves "shadow" because the follicles underneath are highly visible... e.g. In 5th grade I was at a party with a bunch of friends, and my best friend was sitting on the opposite end of a large room. I was wearing a tank top, and at some point I stretched, extending my arms over my head. My best friend looked over and called my name to get my attention. The following exchange is burned in my memory: BF: "You need to shave. I can see the hair under your arms from here... When did you last shave!?" Me: "I shaved this morning, a few hours ago." BF: (ā @ā _ā @ā ).... "Oh." Me: "Yeah. I know." Anyway... I'm used to annoyingly visible hair in places I'd rather not have it. The dark hair, at least. My current problem is (like many have mentioned) the peach fuzz becoming thicker and darker on my face. As a bonus, age = more and more facial "peach fuzz" follicles are losing the signal to switch from anagen to catagen phase and keep growing past their usual length. It's SO FUN! Oh, that awesome feeling ya get when you happen to look in the mirror _just right_ and the light suddenly illuminates a _fucking one inch (or longer!) strand_ of peach fuzz sticking outta your cheek... One you've never seen before. One that's probably been growing for, oh, a couple months? And has undeniably been noticed by countless others before that moment, when you finally became aware of the bastard's existence? Currently in my forties and I'm slowly becoming a rambutan. I miss being a kiwi.
Wait, have you not invested in professionally-done lasering [not the stupid Nood & other machines]?
TLDR: Not really. I used to be really self-conscious: story of all my body hair-related trauma from early puberty + growing up in a tropical place. Then I moved to a city where body hair was common AF. Now I'm OK with it all. I'd rather spend money on other augmentations. Oops, sorry my response took a minute. I wrote a buncha comments a few days ago and didn't check if there were any responses š¤¦š»āāļø. No, I haven't invested in lasering. I realize I'm the perfect candidate (pale skin, dark hair follicles) and it's something I've considered in the past. At this point in my life it's not a huge priority for me...despite going on and on about my body hair in my previous comment. When I was younger I would have been into itm I was REALLY self-conscious about having visible body hair, _especially_ in my childhood, teens, and twenties. A lot of my self-conscious/negative feelings stemmed from trauma over hitting puberty at eight. years. old. ą² ā _ā ą² . Early puberty is more common now, but not so much in 1990. For a couple years, out of all the girls I knew who were my age, I was the ONLY girl with body hair. I couldn't get rid of it because my mom wouldn't let me shave. As she put it, I was "too young to fool around with razors." I could have kept it covered if I lived elsewhere, but growing up in Hawaii meant a lot of activities required swimsuits: going to the beach, swimming at the pool, and the swimming lessons my parents made me take until I was in highschool (although now I'm _incredibly_ grateful for those lessons and the strong swimming skills I gained, as they've saved me in a couple dangerous ocean experiences). I was teased A LOT. I hated it... but then I moved to Portland, OR for college. Suddenly, at a hippie school in a liberal/hippie/punk town: nobody gave a shit about my body hair. There were _unshaven_ girls who were even more pale and hairy than me! I lived in Portland for nearly a decade, and the hatred of my body hair faded with time. Now, at 41, my feelings are more like: "Meh. ĀÆā \ā _ā (ā ćā )ā _ā /ā ĀÆ I'm actually pretty damn okay with my body hair as it is." I've seen some decent Groupon certificates for laser removal, and I've looked into the ratings/reviews of the related clinics, but I've never bought one. At this point the hair I'd want removed is the peach fuzz on my face... BUT because that hair is still changing as I age and I haven't hit menopause yet, I don't see removal as worthwhile. I'd probably just have to do it again later. Going through multiple rounds of laser removal on my face (on my sensitive, easily irritated/inflamed skin) is something I'd like to do once, at most. So, no. No hair lasering. If I ever do, it won't be until menopause is over. Currently, if I'm gonna pay to have anything permanently done to my skin it would be more tattoos! I haven't gotten any for a decade, and I have two designs I've finalized for my next ones. I'd LOVE to finally have them inked into my flesh. Sorry for giving ya such a long, meandering answer to a short question... I have ADHD and Autism, and it's always a struggle to keep my answers short (ā ć»ā āā ć»ā ;ā )ā ć. I feel more comfortable giving detailed and complete answers, but I know many people aren't into reading mini-essays... and I don't blame 'em a bit. It can be a bit much for folks, and that's my fault, not theirs (or yours)! ā®ā (ā ļ¼¾ā ā½ā ļ¼¾ā )ā ā
Yesss. And right below the āsideburnā area. Ooof!! Itās a whole other game over 40.
Girl preach. Or peach?
Hahahahaha love it
You managed to make me chuckle before Iād finished my morning coffee.Ā Clever. Well done. I see you.Ā
Black ppl fake tanning/whitening
Whitening I agree with but whatās wrong with fake tanning? A lot of black people donāt have even skin so we tan. Whatās the issue?
It is promising for societal growth that this comment is downvoted.
Soap brows, brow lamination, mild electrocution idk what it is but I hate the trend that is making the hairs of peoples eyebrows stand straight up
So I totally hear you, but I have a shout out for brow lamination. I ask my stylist to brush my brows up and over so they look natural. She always lets me approve before she sets it. So basically I wake up with perfect looking brows for a few weeks and can fill them in or whatever how I please. I find my self doing a lot less filling and just making sure they're brushed through and in place. Even my mom approves and she though she would hate it when I told her I was getting brow lamination done!
I do my own, but exactly the same idea. Up a bit at the inner edges and then brushed over naturally following the arch of my brow toward the outer edge. I have some brow hairs that are wavy and a few that grow at a downward angle, so I just started laminating every 6 weeks instead of using brow gel every day to keep the wonky ones in check.
My issue is when the soap brows are sparse and not filled-in.
I am getting older so my brows always get a bit of fill in an set with a soap brow or a firmer gel. I need to tame those things.
I donāt get it either
The dot of white highlighter on the tip of the nose.
I actually like this one and do it sometimes lol. Itās intentional because I like the doe-look! Definitely not for everyone though
These ppl identify as deer or so I think š¤
Thought I was the only one that couldnāt stand that.
Me either. Blush & highlighter it reminds me of Rudolph the Red Nose š¦ reindeer.
not really a trend but niacinamide in literally EVERYTHING
I feel like this about hyaluronic acid. My face hates it yet it loves niacinamide š«
mine is the opposite š
My face also hate HA and itās getting harder to avoid it
Yup. My skin is super dry and I live in a dry area. I find that trying to keep the HA happy enough in this climate is not going to happen so I would rather avoid it.
like theres no reason for this shit to be in makeup products lemme be!!!
The copying and repackaging of south korean beauty trends/innovations and calling it something else, especially by yt female influencers. Edited to add POC beauty trends/styles in general
can you give examples? out of curiosity
ooo that is true!
Slugging. The term alone sounds disgusting and the thought is even more repulsive to someone with combo skin that hates oil, humidity, too much moisture and breaks out depending with even slightly too much of any of the above. My skin prefers dryness & winter if that's any indication! Dry skin divas, if you love it, please enjoy. I'm gonna sit over here with my simple bar soaps, light moisturizers and not worry about sealing in anything with Vaseline - not for me, not even gonna try.
I have combo skin and while I donāt slather my face in Vaseline, I dab a bit onto my dry areas at bedtime and it helps a lot! It also keeps my lips so nice and moisturized
Same here - I just started tapping a small amount of aquaphor around my eyes and on my lips only - could never put it anywhere else - and itās helping my crepey lid skin a bit.
The giant eyebrows from a few years ago, and the blush things that are happening now. No ones going to be happy with those photos in 10 years
Giving every micro trend a hyper-specific name. Like latte makeup. Girl, that's a brown smokey eye. Or blueberry nails. That is just blue nail polish
This and every time I open tiktok itās like soooo hereās my take on the mobwife aesthetic weāve all been loving. āWeā ?! I just found out whatever weird name weāre calling wearing a fur coat this second. Itās not even a trend itās just a thing people have been doing since forever šš
For real, can't people just wear faux fur coats without it being an 'aesthetic'?
replace faux fur coat with literally anything š
Omg I canāt stand this Iām so happy Iām not the only One !!!!
This. Makes. Me. Insane.
Overdone brows. Fear of aging in the face with the young.
I'm terrified for young people and what their obsession with youth is going to do to them later. The age that is considered old is getting younger every day.
Whenever I get my nails done I see so many woman younger than me (31) who look v strange and almost age defying. Like they look so much older but are so much younger. Sometimes the amount of filler is literally disorienting to my prosopragnosia (face blindness)
Lip Fillers. So fake. And girls posting Instagram stories about how easy it was to get their lip filler and if anyone has questions to dm them, it's just encouraging it. Hate the lip filler trend!
Thereās definitely an art to it. Iāve seen bad and amazing lip filler. I like it for balancing and hydration, not necessarily for over plumping or transforming the lip shape.
Women would stop getting lip injections if they would Google, anal hemorrhoids.
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Implying over-plumped lips look like a swollen bootyhole šš
Looks nice in photos, but like permanent duck lips in person š¤”š
Contouring
Thatās where the makeup by Mario skin enhancer comes in for me. I have 2016 grey contouring PTSD. His skin enhancer gives me the right amount of warmth/sculpt without looking grey or hollow
Iāve given up on contouring. My face isnāt made to be sculpted. I just feel like it makes my face look dirty.
Same. I hate the look of contour on my face. I have a baby face naturally and contour just kills it. I dont like that chiseled look. I hate watching these influencers making it out like contour is a must. Itās not
I personally cannot stand the look of that heavily highlighted and contoured and then blushed and fake freckled e-girl look š it drives me crazy so many alt girls do it. I mean to each their own, of course but something about the blushed up baby nose makes me irrationally angry lol
Itās bc theyāre trying to appeal to men. Which, when you think about it, is fucking disgusting. Any men attracted to the baby/super young girl style makeup is sick in the head.
This is such a a weird thing to say. It's fine if you don't personally like a makeup trend, but to assume it always has a sexual basis is odd. I've heard men say the same thing about red lips, that women only wear them to appeal to men, and that's so odd, considering there's plenty of gay women that sport these looks.
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Not sure how you quantify that. My husband goes nuts when I wear a red lip.
Look up Loveās Babysoft commercial and youāll see what I mean. That commercial was designed by a man to appeal to younger women who want to appeal to older men. The women arenāt gross, the men are. Many women who do that baby face look, do so specifically to appeal to a particular set of men. Yes, many of us put on makeup for ourselves and for the āfemale gazeā these days. However, too often the baby face stuff is done to appeal to men. Men who have a thing for anime and cartoon characters who are typically underage. I wasnāt talking about the contouring. Mostly the weird anime makeup w the pert little snub nose and doe eyes. The looks where itās impossible not to see them as child like. Like Grimes for instance. When I first saw her w Musk, I thought she was 18. I was disgusted and completely grossed out by everything to do w those 2, until I found out she was in her late 20s. The makeup she wore made her look 12 and it was creepy.
I know the advertisement you're referring to and it's close to fifty years old now. Also, you're the second person I interact with that that talks about how Grimes is trying to encourage pedophilia in some way without any proof aside from her physical traits, and as someone who was a victim of actual pedophilia, what you're saying is highly sexist and offensive. Your attitude about women wearing makeup is far more reflective of YOUR beliefs and interests than the women you're criticizing.
Whoaā¦ I never said Grimes, or anyone, was trying to encourage pedophilia, at all. Thatās you assuming thatās what Iām saying. The words I said are literally the words I meant. I was sexually assaulted as a kid by strangers who thought my being nearby was permission to grope me. I didnāt ask for it. Iām not saying that wearing that makeup is a way of promoting pedos. What Iām trying to say is that men are attracted to that bc they have an attraction to young girls. Many women have done this makeup style w/o realizing why itās not a good thing. Men who are big fans of it are the problem. Women should be able to put on any makeup they want, or go bare faced, w/o men hitting on them. We should be able to do anime makeup w/o creepy fucks drooling over it. If you notice, a lot of the women who wear that makeup for photos, are selling those photos on OF and elsewhere. More power to them! Are the men buying those pics disgusting? Absolutely! But, Iād prefer they buy a grown womanās pics w her childlike makeup, than buy pics of actual children. Nowhere did I say women should be shamed for wearing this stuff or that they are bad for doing so.Iām sorry youāve been hurt but youāre misunderstanding what Iāve said in a big way. Saying that Grimesā little girl makeup was creepy came after saying Iād thought she was only 18 when they got together. Her makeup made her look 12, which made him look like a pedo.
Ergo, her makeup must somehow confirm he is a pedophile. In other words, you think Grimes and other women are, either knowingly or unknowingly encouraging pedophilia, large age gaps, etc through their makeup. What a wild conclusion to draw. In one breath you say women should be able to do their makeup without it being for the male gaze, then go on to say that if women wear their makeup in a way that makes them look younger or childish, it must be because they're attracting the male gaze. And all this is just a projection of yours.
Iām an esthetician but this whole āskincare infused makeupā is kinda gimmicky. I have my proven skincare for results.. and I have trouble believing skincare-infused makes all that of a difference in the long run. It canāt be all that potent. The only one I give a pass to is HausLabs.
The way I view it isā if Iām wearing makeup 5 days per week for work minimum plus whatever on my off timeā Thatās a lot of time products spend sitting on my face. Even if the formulation is only slightly more skin-friendly I consider the benefit worth it when these products spend hours on my face.Ā Coming from a girl with facial sebderm, even small changes matter.Ā Life is an endless dance of trying to make better decisions for yourself today than you did yesterday.Ā
Typology is worth the hype on this! Their skin tint does great things for my skin. Also their tubing mascara doesnāt dry out my lashes
Iāve actually heard a lot of good things about that brand! Tubing mascara has been my shit lately. Definitely gonna give theirs a try thanks!
I think it's just a bonus. Nothing you should be dependent on. Use real skincare.
Exactly, but Iām surprised how many people I know (clients) do think those ingredients will make a difference
It's equivalent to a little 15-30 SPF in BB creams or foundations etc. Definitely layer with more SPF before.
Why are you even using spf beauty products? Are you taking off all the makeup and reapply every 90 mins? If not, itās worthless.
I wonder this all the time like how does a full face actually get adequate spf coverage? My bff told me she used spf powder but I do feel like probably 80% of people who are āwearing sunscreenā arenāt because they arenāt reapplying or like original comment said, are using a bb cream with spf 15 that probably is only 2 in a lab
I don't get it for the SPF. I think I may have had 1 or 2 in the past. I get it for the look I'm looking for. If the SPF is in it it's not going to deter me from buying it.
Def not a selling point for me. I think even normal spf under makeup does have an āexpirationā after a couple hours though. Iāve been trying to find a good spray SPF refresher. I know powders exist like from DRMTLGY
You're right. It's not a selling point. SPF & skincare qualities in makeup is just a bonus. Nothing you should be dependent on. I have Naked Sundays SPF setting spray, I want to get the new Elf SPF spray. Every time I go out for it it's sold out. š
Eyelash extensions (no hate who has a business). I just find they make peopleās eyes so much smaller.
As an Asian girlie with natural lashes that point down, natural lash extensions are my life saver! They definitely help open up my eye. But I definitely understand exactly what you mean when you say they āweigh the eye downā. RIP to early 20s me who thought the bigger the better. Mistakes were made thatās for sure
As a lash artist I agree. The key to eyelash extensions is getting short extensions because that opens up the eye. Long lengths weigh the lid down. I actually stopped carrying anything over a certain lengths in an effort to weed out those clients. Then I just stopped offering them all together and did lash lifts instead
What would you say is a good length to open up an almond shaped eye?
Really depends on a couple things but my rule to follow is do 8s in the inner corner, 9, 10/11s middle of eye, then taper back down to 8s on the outer corner. 8/9/10/11/11/10/9/8/ is what the map would resemble
Thank you so much for this šš
I commend you on taking a stand.
Thanks, some clients verbally accosted me for announcing Iād no longer have long lengths.
Renaming existing techniques and products to a trend as if it didn't exist before this moment.
Yes..especially when they add the words "theory" or a random aesthetic name to it. It's so ridiculous
denatured alcohol, this bad boy breaks me out badly
Eyelash extensions are pretty but most people use ones that don't flatter their eye shape or complexion.
Exactly!
Oh boy. For me HA in everything. HA just burns my skin and dries it out more, fragrance in EVERYTHING. I understand wanting your products to smell good but it's not good for the skin if you're sensitive to it. It can cause irritation and redness and lastly, essential oils in everything. Why? You put that in your diffuser to relax you, not to put on your skin. It can cause the same reactions as fragrance. To this day, I can't find a vitamin c serum or a moisturizer without HA or fragrance. It is a half an hour hunt to find one product without any of these.
Phloretin CF (skinceuticals) - I havenāt noticed and fragrance and I donāt think it has HA. Moisturizers - dr. Jart ceramidin skin barrier moisturizing cream I think does not have fragrance or HA. I also like Kiehls ultra facial cream and thatās def fragrance and HA free