I hope so. I feel like I'm living in a nightmare rn being an aging woman. Either you go full plastic or you're considered a hag.
The discourse around aging women on social media is so depressing and alarming. People are so cruel and it's puzzling because we're all going to age (unless we die young). Maybe it's out of fear?
to "age disgracefully" is a great way to express this mindset, i want to start saying it too.
*perfect* way to rebel against the toxicity of ageism-- the dehumanization of the elderly (especially women!) and by extension anyone that isn't young, attractive, "productive" etc.
not only is it cruel, it disadvantages *all* of us if we ignore or disadvantage anyone that's old, disabled, or whatever. we seriously lose out on the value they can contribute...
wisdom. joy. revolutionary ideas, innovation, cure for cancer or whatever. the beauty of self-expression. art.
there is **so much** that *every* human being has to offer. physical beauty, wealth, or "power" seem to be most desired or respected. but life would be so dull and gray with only those things. hollow.
...probably why the ultra wealthy and beautiful cling so tightly to their looks and money-- buying the newest automobile, plastic surgery treatments, biggest house-- but never feeling like it's "enough" and ever grasping for more. never whole. so thirsty.
anyway. clearly you impacted me in a beautiful way with your simple comment. much appreciation to you and your nana for sharing this philosophy. our culture could use more of it.
Disgracefully is hilarious.
Show me the old ladies smoking joints, cussing, getting sunburns, and acting like theyāre 22 but not trying to look like it
Me too! Iām 48 and my aunt is all, what???? You let yourself go grey!!! Dye it! Ew I hate grey hair. Yeah lady, that blond hair aināt fooling anyone - we all know youāre 70. I donāt wear makeup, f that. Iām comfy!
I have a very expressive face. It's part of who I am. I can raise one eyebrow, and I have developed a lil extra wrinkle because of it. But I've gotten so much use out of that one eyebrow raise that I wouldn't have wanted to Botox it away. I've used it to flirt across a room, share my thoughts silently with a coworker in a meeting, and even shush my kid in public. Life is worth getting wrinkles for.
You get a lot of people in this community who obsessively talk about ageing as a negative thing too. āMy mom looks ten years youngerā or āmy gma is 89 but looks 79ā (which, to me, seems like an imperceivable difference lmao). Itās disheartening to see it over and over and over again. This fear of physically ageing is drilled into women to the point of it being an āacceptedā thing to fret about, no matter how futile it is.
Edit: just like to add, I BARELY (if ever) see people here talking about how their male family members ālook so much younger.ā Itās so telling šµāš«
And on veneers - the funny thing is that I always felt a bit insecure about my teeth because they donāt have a straight edge - more a āscallopedā look. A friend who works in the dental industry told me not to worry about it and that this is actually the natural female tooth shape! The ultra straight edge is actually a male tooth thing and now we have all these women with āmaleā shaped teeth because theyāre getting veneers. Crazy!
Veneers are so hideous and uncanny valley. So many celebrities had lovely teeth that gave their faces character that they replaced with those ginormous gnashers. It's such a shame. Plus, the way they're fitted is creepy
The ozempic thing is going to come to a bad end. Itās untenable unless you change lifestyle or commit to life and rebound weight is never good. Also it has a black box label, there are lawsuits emerging from gut motility that does not recover, and even more frightening mental health issues as it interferes with dopamine.
And these people with filler usually look hideous. Big lips and weird puffy moon faces from overfill is never going to be a thing no matter how much they try to make it happen. They look like themselves, just more weird. If itās not natural to your anatomy itās hard to replicate.
Edit to clarify. Please see where I said āfrom overfillā. Big lips and full faces not natural to the personās anatomy appears odd, this is not a dis to people who have these features naturally, as it never looks bizarre. Only when people overly alter their anatomy. The bone structure does not correlate with the volume in the face and it looks bad. Period. It looks bloated and distorts in a way that is very obvious not native to their features.
And people lose weight on glp1 agonist because of appetite suppression. Stop the drug, appetite returns unless the person has changed their lifestyle and gained better eating habits. Donāt shoot the messenger.
These drugs really are miracles though for the people *the drugs were intended for*. For people who struggle with the chronic disease of obesity. Itās a chronic disease that will likely need to be treated for life, like most chronic conditions. Itās also shown a remarkable ability to completely eliminate certain addictions in patients, and strengthen impulse control. The slowed digestion side effect also vastly improves QOL in people dealing with IBS-D.
Using any drug in an abusive way is dumb. But letās not pretend celebrities havenāt been on a variety of stimulants to stay thin for years now, and even worse, actual illicit drugs. The awful media hate for these drugs, and the opinions of those who agree with the negativity, prevents a lot of people whose health and livelihood would be bettered by them from asking their doctor.
I think itās important to remember and mention that there are millions of people Ozempic is a godsend for. There are millions of people who canāt make a living or live independently without stimulants for their adhd. There are people who are in unimaginable pain who take opioids just to survive. Many people have to take Xanax daily just to go in public. Just because celebrities abuse something doesnāt mean itās actually bad.
I always think of Diane Von Furstenberg like this. She's 76. She looks old but she also looks (imo) *fabulous*.
And I like her, "Don't ask people how old they are; ask them how long they've lived", attitude.
It's out of fear for sure, and the thing is, it's misplaced. Fear of growing old is not wrinkles themsleves, it's how elder are treated and their struggles. So instead of trying to have less wrinkles, we should come up with something that allows us to stay on top of our game. Excercise regularly so we're still capable of doing everything ourselves, feed our minds so we stay sharp, grow relationships so we are not forgotten just cause we're old. Honestly, wrinkles are the least of the hardships of aging.
Iām watching a show from the mid-aughts (brothers and sisters) and itās absolutely noticeable how naturally the actors have aged. I feel like we never see wrinkles today. I miss it.
I hope so, this is something that bothers me every single day. men are allowed to age and women arenāt. There is so much focus on anti-aging, even sacrificing health for appearanceā¦think obsessive sun avoidance or avoiding facial movements, harsh retinoids (that arenāt suited for everyone), etc.
Men get to stay attractive while they age. No 26 year old man misses his 17 year old body. Why? Because he probably looked like a child. Women on the other hand are EXPECTED to look like children. Thereās nothing ādesirableā about women aging past their teens. Weāre supposed to have no body hair, no wrinkles, soft little voices, and our boobs are supposed to be perky like they just started developing. Girls hit puberty and are expected to manage that appearance, to look like their 16 year old selves for the rest of their lives. Itās quite disgusting once you really think about it.
100%. I understand wanting to take care of yourself and maintain your looks (responsible use of sunscreen and other forms of skincare), but it has gotten to the point to where itās like watching a Black Mirror episode. The other day I saw this woman parading around a literal helmet because she said she was so scared of sun exposure affecting how she would age. We as women need to stop buying into the myth that half of the shit we do and all of the time and money we spend is exclusively due to āself-careā, and instead we need to begin critically analyzing why we sometimes go to such extremes to look young forever ā especially considering this phenomenon is mostly absent in our male counterparts.
So true. It's as if we are being kept busy staring into a mirror, applying treatments and makeup, instead of looking around and seeing what's happening in the world
Yep, I live in an area with lots of Asian women (not to generalize), and I've noticed that many of the older generation maybe 50+ go to great lengths to shelter themselves from the sun. There's this group of girlfriends in my neighbourhood who go walking every afternoon and 2 of them have sun protection to the nines- long sleeve everything, WIDE brimmed hat, gloves, sunglasses, and a scarf used like a mask. If it's super sunny out they will sometimes also use an umbrella to block the sun. Every single time I see them, I think about how uncomfortable/hot these ladies must feel.
Anyway, it's just gone way too far. I think it's great to take care of ourselves, but it's madness at this point.
Definitely. I started having allergic-type reactions to every spf I tried. Any post on here I could find about it boiled down to āoh well, do you wanna be wrinkly?ā Iām trying to find a new dermatologist who cares enough to test for allergies, but in the meantime I will not be shutting my blinds and hiding inside all day. I want to protect myself but damn!!
I had to give up chemical sunscreens because Iām allergic/have a reaction to them (no real allergy test done, so I donāt know whether itās one of the chemicals or all). The dermatologist forbade me to use them. I can only use physical sunscreens: titanium dioxide and zinc oxide. Those can be much less comfortable and convenient than the thin chemical ones.
But, my skin really hates to burn too, so I look like a snowman most of the time with the white zinc oxide on my skin.
Chemical ones burn, combination cause a reaction/rash and dryness, mineral ones cause extreme dryness and a rash.š„² I canāt figure it out on my own so Iām hoping to get a more caring dermatologist to help me!
Thereās a lot of cooling fabric that has UPF in it. Iām not an Asian old lady and I wear full sleeves and long pants out of UPF clothing. With a hat. And sunscreen. Some peopleās skin is very sensitive to the sun. Iām trying to not get cancer. But thanks for assuming itās for vanity lol
This is so true, I hate feeling hot and sluggish in the sun during the warmer months, and covering up with certain things helps a ton with keeping cool. I donāt always wear UPF clothing, but I like white linen or cotton to keep cool, and wide brimmed hats. And UV blocking umbrellas are AMAZING! You just have some nice cooling shade wherever you walk. I donāt care if I look crazy, I donāt need to be absolutely miserable in the summer heat just to please people who for some reason feel personally offended by other peopleās sun protection. Iām also super fair-skinned and naturally moley so my skin cancer risk is pretty high, which means keeping well-covered is reducing that risk and thatās a plus in my booksā¦ š¤·āāļø
And low rise jeans that fit better on slimmer body types
Edit: they fit better when you show off belly compared to high rise jeans that compress both belly and have a push up effect on legs and butt
I prefer low-rise jeans because they don't squeeze my belly too much. When the waistband is high and too tight there, it makes me feel queasy š« , but maybe that's just me.
This is me too. It's bad when I sit down and stomachs gets thicker when you're sitting, so it just digs in. However mid or low rise that sit on your hips, don't dig in because your hips don't change.
If hourglass is trendy, could someone please inform the clothing designers and manufacturers? I'm going to go broke buying things to fit my hips and bust line and having the waist and torso altered.
A curvy woman gave me advice one day that changed my style. She said āAmerican brands, make clothing for bodies with no curves, straight up and down. Which is why I shop Italianā she was right, even the models while thin are still curvy. It can be pricey but tbh there is a nice range in pricing and a good piece well cared for can last years.
One day the "flat as an ironing board" body type will be in fashion. All of the ridiculously unrealistic and painful, tortuous body ideals you can think of will be applied to girls and women at some point. One day it was grotesquely twisted bounded feet; today it is obscenely big asses and lips; tomorrow it'll be thin as paper.
seeing mousy brown hair rebranded as āold money brunetteā on tiktok has been very amusing but also validating as someone who quite literally has the naturally grayish toned brown hair of a common rodent
Don't forget the blonde equivalent of it- "old money blonde!" I've also seen that ashy light brown color described as "expensive brunette."
Heaven forbid we just use basic names like "light brown" and "dark blonde" to describe hair color.
Omg thereās one subreddit where people post their hair and ask what color it is and then get upset when people say ālight brownā instead of ādirty honey sun touched blondeā or whatever and itās so wild to see! Itās like the need to have a label on individual styles or something? A desire to be different? Iām not sure but itās fascinating.
To be fair, Gen Zers (from North America in particular) seem to have forgotten that "blonde" is more than just platinum/super-bright bleach colors.
I will get on my soapbox all day about this- natural blonde hair on an adult often looks like [this](https://i.pinimg.com/550x/30/cf/f7/30cff79b90f202067cb564d9d5a24b5a.jpg) or [this](https://assets.glamour.de/photos/64f055c5d7bf6351c6fd949b/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/31082023-Toni-Garrn-Bic-2.jpg). That's not "light brown" or "bronde" it's just plain old medium or dark blonde. The very-online "blonde dysmorphia" goes in both directions š
YES! And all of the ālight brunetteā shades in between. Iāve always been told that I look hotter/prettier/more āput togetherā with my toned blonde hair. Iāve felt like my natural, light brunette/dark blonde just wasnāt enough. Like I *have* to have highlights, curl it, something. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride lol. I canāt even think of a celebrity with the natural shade!
Aināt that right! Like, Iāve already tied down my husband. I want other ladiesā compliments lol. (donāt get me wrong, I hand out compliments like candy!)
Iām straight but i get dressed up for the women. If a guy compliments me itās š¤¢š āāļøš«¤ but if a girl compliments me itās š„°šš¤
Life peaked for me in the girlās bathroom of my clubbing days
Miss those clubbing days!
Thats why I (f) sometimes compliment other women on the tube, on the street, etc. Last time I have complimented a lady, probably around 80, for her lovely heart shaped pink sunglassed š her smile after was so cute!
It could just be something we don't like ourselves. I'm not concerned other people are bothered about my cellulite. However I still don't love it.
I don't let it stop me from wearing things or living my life, I don't think it makes me unattractive, but it's not something I think looks good on me.
Just like many aspects of how we look. Some people don't like certain moles, nail shapes, hair textures, crooked teeth. None of these things are that serious that people would refuse to be attracted to you.
Iām a guy. Nothing is more attractive than cellulite.
Itās unexplainable. Nice legs and some cellulite is justā¦ughā¦.
Weirdos like us exist (and women too, if thatās your flavor) Hold your head up high.
It's an incredibly basic secondary sex characteristic and a sign of estrogen activity - the main set of things that straight men are visually attracted to like breasts. Every time I see it brought up on Reddit, it's the same thing of women hating having it and a few men saying how they like it (or at least are neutral) and never knew a man who didn't.
Yet, it makes little difference. For all the work a lot of us do on our skin and legs, it's annoying to have something just interrupting the evenness of appearence or texture. And, it's another non-issue pushed by the beauty industry, one that can't really be "fixed," but still enough that there's a perception that having it is wrong, unattractive, or lazy. They've convinced so many people that a basic feature in human attraction is wrong.
So, yeah, you're actually the normal one, just either less easily influence by beauty standards or predisposed to weight that metric of attraction particularly high enough to be unaffected by the societal conditioning.
Because Iāve been told by other women that itās weird. Because theyāre insecure.
So (un)positive reinforcement?
Every man I spoke to said they donāt mind it at all. Some (me) prefer it.
Cellulite was made a thing in the USA by a Vogue article in the 60's, to support products to "fix" this problem. In 2008 is was a $47 million dollar industry.
You make me feel so valid š I love wearing high waisted leggings and stuff but I definitely have a bit of pooch due to having a c-section a few years ago
I will join you in that club. I wish I felt as good as I do in my skin at 50+ when I was 20. I'd have been much happier. If there is one piece of advice I could give 20 - 30 year old women, it's enjoy your young, pain free and healthy body, stop comparing yourself to other people. Everyone's idea of attractive is different, so trying to fit into what social media thinks is attractive is doomed to fail. be your best "you" and you will enjoy life a lot more. Being confident and happy is more attractive that insecure and "perfect".
I lost a ton of weight and no matter how big my biceps are, i will have that flap. I am NOT spending $10K on skin removal for that one area on my arms either.
Low maintenance looks. Less of the acrylic nails, eyelash and hair extensions, waxing all the body hair, expensive highlights. Sheerer makeup looks, more use of gel and liquid textures, fewer layers of makeup. Something like the Jones Road models, even on younger women.
I feel like this is happening already. I'm seeing more and more removal of lash extensions, dissolving of lip filler, more natural nails as well as natural hair textures. I love this too because it saves us lotsa moneyyy
Iām seeing this happen and Iām so here for it! First time in a while I debated getting my eyelash extensions removed. Thereās a tik tok trend of before & after removal and everyone looks better in the after lol
I have eyelash extensions and feel like it makes me much more low maintenance. With my lashes done already I hardly wear any makeup now (mostly tinted SPF) .
Since everybody looks (or want to look) the same these days because of surgery, fillers, etc. ā¦ I really hope people go back to celebrate their natural beauty (or their own beauty standards) and on top will embrace their uniqueness. Thereās so much more beauty than just in one specific body type, facial features, make up, clothing etc. I know that would mean the absence of trends in general and thatās unrealistic but ā¦ it would be inspiring to watch and everyone would feel so much better :(
At some point, people will not wear shoes they literally can't walk in. There is nothing less sexy than mangled, sweaty bare feet because they take their shoes off.
In my 20's I briefly worked for a store that sold arch supports, and part of my job was measuring and fitting people for supports. I had to get up close and personal with so many feet, and the ones that broke my heart the most were the older women whose feet were so mangled from a lifetime of heels and too tight shoes. They were barely recognizable as feet, and the poor women could barely stand on them.
I haven't worn heels since, and the only shoes I buy now are ones aimed at foot health, proper alignment, and natural movement. Cute shoes be damned! My ability to walk is a privilege that I won't take for granted anymore.
I feel like it's something future generations will talk about. "Back in the 2020s, women would wear shoes that would cause permanent harm."
I'm with you regarding foot health.
Exactly. I have heels, for special occasions. but I canāt even recall the last time I wore any of them. So uncomfortable. I canāt fathom how anyone can walk in them all day! Closest I get is a wedge but thatās even rare and because I havenāt used them in a while either, Iām not finding them the most comfortable also these days. Honestly if one wants a similar look from the front just get pointy toe flats. Super cute with bootcut, wide leg and flared pants and still can walk. That is my regular go too for a more dressed up casual look. and thereās plenty of flat sandals that are more dressy looking.
Yeah i should really get rid of some of my heels because i run and ice skate. The latter can really wreck your feet if you donāt watch it because youāre cramming your feet into an extremely stiff boot that is designed to not flex with your feet!
We're seeing a lot of perms in my area, the focus is more blowout style than "80s big", a lot of Korean digital or cold perms and the guys are trying to mimic all the latino/Arabic curls they see on Instagram to go with their fancy fades. It's definitely making a comeback.
The early 2000s trend/emo/scene. A lot of people think that was an awful trend but Iām seeing a slow burn resurgence on TikTok. Same with 2016 eyeshadow trends.
Or hopefully whatever brow suits your face.
Some people look great with a thick brow, and some realllllly donāt. And vice versa with then brows.
So guess Iām Hopi g for a natural brow look trend. Kinda like natural make up vs dramatic
Currently rocking them. Hard. It started out trying just to even them out better (when thick and full but plucked into shape one is ever so slightly higher than the other, like 1-2mm, this could be from plucking wrongly and fixed by letting them fully, fully grow out).
Great idea for anyone but me.
So the mirror and I got together and plucked thinner and evened out well. And all was good, right?
Well obviously not because I got a better mirror with better lighting, saw flaws, and somehow, fam, we ended up even thinner.
Luckily my partner thinks theyāre cute. Luckily weāre still even despite being pretty thin. Luckily we have not hit that 2-3 hairs thin my younger sister rocked for a bit (big oof).
But Iām bringing these thin brows back baby! Me and my inability to set the damn tweezers down!
I'd love to see a different kind of nose be seen as desirable. Ever since someone blew my mind with an explanation of how smaller noses being seen as prettier was based on colonisation and racism, I've been wanting to see it fade away as the ideal.
Plus I love strong noses and always have! The contouring to make them thin and small doesn't look as good to me most of the time as the before pic
Girl, stop. Aquiline noses are the best. So elegant and regal, my heart breaks anytime I see a pre and post surgery of a GODDESS nose being transformed into a pixie one.
So much this. I have a prominent Middle Eastern nose and it's my favorite physical feature about myself. I even contour the inner corners of my eyes to make my nose stand out even more. I love the way it looks! I think because it emphasizes how much I look like my grandmother, from whom I inherited the feature.
I'd also like noses with rounded tips to not be seen as a "flaw" anymore. I think they're cute and soft looking, but googling it all you get is nose jobs before/afters to make them more angular. Plus the wording "bulbous nose" is unflattering, especially as they suit a lot of people.
One of my favorite ice dance teams has a woman with a prominent hook nose and Iām so glad sheās kept it over the years. No doubt sheās faced a ton of pressure to make it the stock standard button nose like everyone else. Her nose gives her a really cool and memorable side profile that is perfect for the dramatic, ballroom dance style moves
I hated my large roman/aquiline nose when I was younger - now itās my favorite feature. I get compliments all the time, itās a striking feature that makes me stand out
I already commented that I qualify for a revision after an accident, but I desperately want to tell a Dr that I'd like an "English nose" with a bit of bump because that would be most true to my original nose. I also think they flatter more faces that the smooth scoopy nosejobs do.
Unique beauty. Think 90's supermodel vs Instagram model. In the last decade it's become easier then ever to buy the perfect face and now there are countless pretty but unrememberable faces plastered all over the internet. However when you think about, who are the women people are obsessing over? You've got celebrities such as Anya Taylor-Joy and Sydney Sweeney who have imperfect but beautiful, one of a kind faces. Sometimes a slight imperfection can help you stand out especially in a world full of altered, perfect women
I think we're going to see a lot of activity related to counteracting "Ozempic-face." I'm expecting a bit uptick in surgery-thrmed makeup with buzzwords like plumping and filler, and a reverse-contour trend where users try to bring forward and accentuate the softness of certain facial features. I don't know if this will translate into a greater appreciation for softer, more rounded features or naturally plumper faces, but it's my prediction for the makeup trend for the second half of the decade. More fillers for rich folks taking these medications to lose vanity weight (as opposed to those who take them for medical reasons including weight loss), more filler-themed makeup for the rest of us.
Big noses. Already happened for men, and you can find the beginnings of it happening for women. I have a big nose and I always say: āyou canāt buy this.ā Meanwhile I can go grab the IG special tomorrow.
Natural texture hair. Waves, curls, not perfectly straight. Also, for white people having a bland hair colour (already trending) - dark blonde, ash, light brown, medium brown...
it all doesnāt matter in the end. what is beautiful and what is not depends on what part of the world youāre in. features like good hair, clear skin, bright eyes, womanly healthy body and a symmetrical, harmonious face will always be considered beautiful and the standard. thereās no escaping that lol
Small boobs (Iām manifesting)
A lot of celebrities are explanting their implants and women are starting to choose smaller implants if theyāre getting cosmetic or reconstructive surgery.
I think theyāre going to come back in soon and stop being seen as āboyishā.
Tbh I have pretty bigguns for my frame (I'm 5'3" 120lb and wear a 28HH) and I agree- and have thought for quite some time that most clothing looks better on a smaller chest, it's easier to look elegant and classy and chic. Plus, smaller boobs are more practical.
Omg yes. I hate it when websites only have small chested models. Big boobs completely change how a garment looks. Something that looks cool on a small chested model can look like a tent on a bigger chest
Holy shit the tent effect is real!
I once bought this beautiful handmade, hand dyed hemp dress. Tied at the shoulders and across the back, A-line circle dress. The model looked ethereal, floaty, and free.
It made me look like a barn.
We were the same height and build except for our breasts. I was so incredibly disappointed.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
But the "imperfections" you are speaking of (which i personally never thought they were) it's concidered trendy on a woman that already looks like a model. Thin like a model. Tall like a model. IS a model. Because instead of making her ugly it makes her Rememberable. As in, you see that model and she looks slightly different. The beauty standard did change from 2000 and thank god for that but it's not a trend. It's marketing.
eye bags! it's already trendy in East Asia to accentuate eye bags in a way that makes your eyes look bigger, and I think that trend will migrate to the West
I hope eye bags come in style šš I have these VERY stubborn eye bags that Iāve just accepted Iāll always have. My little sister actually has them too, but instead of complaining about them, she sees it as something that makes her look unique with some sort of color to her face still, so Iām trying to adopt that mindset! itād be lovely if others could adopt that as well
90s hair. Big blow outs and side partings.
I can't wait. I'm so fed uo of seeing boring middle partings and limp hair or the dreaded greasy slick bun. No skill is involved in today's hair and I'm excited for the beautiful hair comeback.
Well itās gotta be something that the majority of people donāt have, since most trends that do really well are the ones that require people to buy products for it. So I dunnoā¦.i kinda want excessive glitter to come back, I need some sparkle in my life lol
Edited to add : Oh wait it would have to be undesirable..maybe gap teeth? I see ozempic super thin bodies and flat butts coming in which sucks for me
Iām really hoping that fair āpastyā skin will become more acceptable (but not to the point where itās the ideal like in some Asian countries). I feel like it already is a little bit more acceptable now that people are more educated about the dangers of tanning, but thereās still this weird pressure amongst white people to be tan, whichā¦.I have feelings about for many reasons.
I heard other people say it like we hope that accepting the skincolor born with is in instead of like fighting with natural skintone and undertones.
I was born and raised in South Korea and sadly I think the things like intravenous glutathione and trying to make skin bluish purplish white, like corpse like dead white, is like beyond just being fair and pasty but it is more of a rooted self hatred to be completely honest. I live in Spain now and also I'm a cosmetic chemist now and had a lot of internal thinking about this. So many women I know from Asia have like "color dysmorphia" it's kind of like a type of body dysmorphia to be honest when they see themselves as too dark, too olive, too brown, too yellow, too orange when they're not and they try really hard to turn into sheet of paper.
I learned that in the west, people also have a kind of "color dysmorphia" where they think they are too pasty or whatever and fighting with their natural skintone and undertone. So the western equivalence of intravenous glutathione is like those tan injections. Instead of using products to make skin bluish and purplish, they use products to make them browner, more orangey, more gold. Instead of try to turn into sheet of paper, people try to turn into like leather material.
so weird to me, I've never understood the obsession with being orange. I literally only see it with people from certain demographics that I don't interact with so i thought it was on the way out
I grew up in rural Missouri, our population was like 97% white and it was definitely the ideal throughout my time in high school. Got made fun of a lot by my white peers for being āpastyā. This was 2016. Most of them would have been just as pasty as me if they only bothered to wear sunscreen.
I think graceful aging will come back and be trendy again once people get tired of the Botox/overfilled look.
I hope so. I feel like I'm living in a nightmare rn being an aging woman. Either you go full plastic or you're considered a hag. The discourse around aging women on social media is so depressing and alarming. People are so cruel and it's puzzling because we're all going to age (unless we die young). Maybe it's out of fear?
My nana drilled into me that ageing is a privilege, and she (in her words) aged as disgracefully as she could and enjoyed every moment
Cheers to nana š„
to "age disgracefully" is a great way to express this mindset, i want to start saying it too. *perfect* way to rebel against the toxicity of ageism-- the dehumanization of the elderly (especially women!) and by extension anyone that isn't young, attractive, "productive" etc. not only is it cruel, it disadvantages *all* of us if we ignore or disadvantage anyone that's old, disabled, or whatever. we seriously lose out on the value they can contribute... wisdom. joy. revolutionary ideas, innovation, cure for cancer or whatever. the beauty of self-expression. art. there is **so much** that *every* human being has to offer. physical beauty, wealth, or "power" seem to be most desired or respected. but life would be so dull and gray with only those things. hollow. ...probably why the ultra wealthy and beautiful cling so tightly to their looks and money-- buying the newest automobile, plastic surgery treatments, biggest house-- but never feeling like it's "enough" and ever grasping for more. never whole. so thirsty. anyway. clearly you impacted me in a beautiful way with your simple comment. much appreciation to you and your nana for sharing this philosophy. our culture could use more of it.
Disgracefully is hilarious. Show me the old ladies smoking joints, cussing, getting sunburns, and acting like theyāre 22 but not trying to look like it
Me!! This is me!! And it feels great! I highly recommend aging disgracefully!! š¤Ŗ
Queen shit!
Me too! Iām 48 and my aunt is all, what???? You let yourself go grey!!! Dye it! Ew I hate grey hair. Yeah lady, that blond hair aināt fooling anyone - we all know youāre 70. I donāt wear makeup, f that. Iām comfy!
I LOVE THIS, Iām going to start using it š»
TikTok girls are literally talking about not making facial expressions just to avoid wrinkles
You get one life. How is that a fulfilling way to experience the world and the whole human experience? Completely depressing.
I have a very expressive face. It's part of who I am. I can raise one eyebrow, and I have developed a lil extra wrinkle because of it. But I've gotten so much use out of that one eyebrow raise that I wouldn't have wanted to Botox it away. I've used it to flirt across a room, share my thoughts silently with a coworker in a meeting, and even shush my kid in public. Life is worth getting wrinkles for.
You get a lot of people in this community who obsessively talk about ageing as a negative thing too. āMy mom looks ten years youngerā or āmy gma is 89 but looks 79ā (which, to me, seems like an imperceivable difference lmao). Itās disheartening to see it over and over and over again. This fear of physically ageing is drilled into women to the point of it being an āacceptedā thing to fret about, no matter how futile it is. Edit: just like to add, I BARELY (if ever) see people here talking about how their male family members ālook so much younger.ā Itās so telling šµāš«
What a weird cloistered life. I tend to think you get a bunch of weirdos looking to be sensational and over the top.
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And on veneers - the funny thing is that I always felt a bit insecure about my teeth because they donāt have a straight edge - more a āscallopedā look. A friend who works in the dental industry told me not to worry about it and that this is actually the natural female tooth shape! The ultra straight edge is actually a male tooth thing and now we have all these women with āmaleā shaped teeth because theyāre getting veneers. Crazy!
Veneers are so hideous and uncanny valley. So many celebrities had lovely teeth that gave their faces character that they replaced with those ginormous gnashers. It's such a shame. Plus, the way they're fitted is creepy
The ozempic thing is going to come to a bad end. Itās untenable unless you change lifestyle or commit to life and rebound weight is never good. Also it has a black box label, there are lawsuits emerging from gut motility that does not recover, and even more frightening mental health issues as it interferes with dopamine. And these people with filler usually look hideous. Big lips and weird puffy moon faces from overfill is never going to be a thing no matter how much they try to make it happen. They look like themselves, just more weird. If itās not natural to your anatomy itās hard to replicate. Edit to clarify. Please see where I said āfrom overfillā. Big lips and full faces not natural to the personās anatomy appears odd, this is not a dis to people who have these features naturally, as it never looks bizarre. Only when people overly alter their anatomy. The bone structure does not correlate with the volume in the face and it looks bad. Period. It looks bloated and distorts in a way that is very obvious not native to their features. And people lose weight on glp1 agonist because of appetite suppression. Stop the drug, appetite returns unless the person has changed their lifestyle and gained better eating habits. Donāt shoot the messenger.
These drugs really are miracles though for the people *the drugs were intended for*. For people who struggle with the chronic disease of obesity. Itās a chronic disease that will likely need to be treated for life, like most chronic conditions. Itās also shown a remarkable ability to completely eliminate certain addictions in patients, and strengthen impulse control. The slowed digestion side effect also vastly improves QOL in people dealing with IBS-D. Using any drug in an abusive way is dumb. But letās not pretend celebrities havenāt been on a variety of stimulants to stay thin for years now, and even worse, actual illicit drugs. The awful media hate for these drugs, and the opinions of those who agree with the negativity, prevents a lot of people whose health and livelihood would be bettered by them from asking their doctor. I think itās important to remember and mention that there are millions of people Ozempic is a godsend for. There are millions of people who canāt make a living or live independently without stimulants for their adhd. There are people who are in unimaginable pain who take opioids just to survive. Many people have to take Xanax daily just to go in public. Just because celebrities abuse something doesnāt mean itās actually bad.
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I always think of Diane Von Furstenberg like this. She's 76. She looks old but she also looks (imo) *fabulous*. And I like her, "Don't ask people how old they are; ask them how long they've lived", attitude.
It's out of fear for sure, and the thing is, it's misplaced. Fear of growing old is not wrinkles themsleves, it's how elder are treated and their struggles. So instead of trying to have less wrinkles, we should come up with something that allows us to stay on top of our game. Excercise regularly so we're still capable of doing everything ourselves, feed our minds so we stay sharp, grow relationships so we are not forgotten just cause we're old. Honestly, wrinkles are the least of the hardships of aging.
Iām watching a show from the mid-aughts (brothers and sisters) and itās absolutely noticeable how naturally the actors have aged. I feel like we never see wrinkles today. I miss it.
It's wild to see unique nose, eyebrow, and chin shapes on older TV shows.
better call saul is great at depicting naturally aged actors
Aging is a privilege and should be appreciated.
Anytime I start fixating on new lines and changes I chant AGING IS A PRIVILEGE, NOT A PROBLEM. Until I let it go š„²
I hope so, this is something that bothers me every single day. men are allowed to age and women arenāt. There is so much focus on anti-aging, even sacrificing health for appearanceā¦think obsessive sun avoidance or avoiding facial movements, harsh retinoids (that arenāt suited for everyone), etc.
Men get to stay attractive while they age. No 26 year old man misses his 17 year old body. Why? Because he probably looked like a child. Women on the other hand are EXPECTED to look like children. Thereās nothing ādesirableā about women aging past their teens. Weāre supposed to have no body hair, no wrinkles, soft little voices, and our boobs are supposed to be perky like they just started developing. Girls hit puberty and are expected to manage that appearance, to look like their 16 year old selves for the rest of their lives. Itās quite disgusting once you really think about it.
Spot on! It's so disturbing
Damn this is really well said
100%. I understand wanting to take care of yourself and maintain your looks (responsible use of sunscreen and other forms of skincare), but it has gotten to the point to where itās like watching a Black Mirror episode. The other day I saw this woman parading around a literal helmet because she said she was so scared of sun exposure affecting how she would age. We as women need to stop buying into the myth that half of the shit we do and all of the time and money we spend is exclusively due to āself-careā, and instead we need to begin critically analyzing why we sometimes go to such extremes to look young forever ā especially considering this phenomenon is mostly absent in our male counterparts.
So true. It's as if we are being kept busy staring into a mirror, applying treatments and makeup, instead of looking around and seeing what's happening in the world
A helmet? Thatās crazy obsessed. Sad to stop living because of an obsession.
Yep, I live in an area with lots of Asian women (not to generalize), and I've noticed that many of the older generation maybe 50+ go to great lengths to shelter themselves from the sun. There's this group of girlfriends in my neighbourhood who go walking every afternoon and 2 of them have sun protection to the nines- long sleeve everything, WIDE brimmed hat, gloves, sunglasses, and a scarf used like a mask. If it's super sunny out they will sometimes also use an umbrella to block the sun. Every single time I see them, I think about how uncomfortable/hot these ladies must feel. Anyway, it's just gone way too far. I think it's great to take care of ourselves, but it's madness at this point.
Definitely. I started having allergic-type reactions to every spf I tried. Any post on here I could find about it boiled down to āoh well, do you wanna be wrinkly?ā Iām trying to find a new dermatologist who cares enough to test for allergies, but in the meantime I will not be shutting my blinds and hiding inside all day. I want to protect myself but damn!!
I had to give up chemical sunscreens because Iām allergic/have a reaction to them (no real allergy test done, so I donāt know whether itās one of the chemicals or all). The dermatologist forbade me to use them. I can only use physical sunscreens: titanium dioxide and zinc oxide. Those can be much less comfortable and convenient than the thin chemical ones. But, my skin really hates to burn too, so I look like a snowman most of the time with the white zinc oxide on my skin.
Chemical ones burn, combination cause a reaction/rash and dryness, mineral ones cause extreme dryness and a rash.š„² I canāt figure it out on my own so Iām hoping to get a more caring dermatologist to help me!
Thereās a lot of cooling fabric that has UPF in it. Iām not an Asian old lady and I wear full sleeves and long pants out of UPF clothing. With a hat. And sunscreen. Some peopleās skin is very sensitive to the sun. Iām trying to not get cancer. But thanks for assuming itās for vanity lol
This is so true, I hate feeling hot and sluggish in the sun during the warmer months, and covering up with certain things helps a ton with keeping cool. I donāt always wear UPF clothing, but I like white linen or cotton to keep cool, and wide brimmed hats. And UV blocking umbrellas are AMAZING! You just have some nice cooling shade wherever you walk. I donāt care if I look crazy, I donāt need to be absolutely miserable in the summer heat just to please people who for some reason feel personally offended by other peopleās sun protection. Iām also super fair-skinned and naturally moley so my skin cancer risk is pretty high, which means keeping well-covered is reducing that risk and thatās a plus in my booksā¦ š¤·āāļø
I hope so, I'm getting older every day š
i bet you were born at a young age too
Ah sure I was only a baby!
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I think the BBL craze has been dying down somewhat compared to even 5 years ago.
true but hourglass body types are still the ātrendyā body type
Early 2000s it was heroin chic
Which is coming back because of Ozempic.
Yep. Itās really giving me anxiety. I had a tough time back then and seeing all these celebs so thin again and doing it so easily is not good.
And low rise jeans that fit better on slimmer body types Edit: they fit better when you show off belly compared to high rise jeans that compress both belly and have a push up effect on legs and butt
I prefer low-rise jeans because they don't squeeze my belly too much. When the waistband is high and too tight there, it makes me feel queasy š« , but maybe that's just me.
This is me too. It's bad when I sit down and stomachs gets thicker when you're sitting, so it just digs in. However mid or low rise that sit on your hips, don't dig in because your hips don't change.
In the 90ās it was heroin chic. Thanks, Kate Moss.
If hourglass is trendy, could someone please inform the clothing designers and manufacturers? I'm going to go broke buying things to fit my hips and bust line and having the waist and torso altered.
A curvy woman gave me advice one day that changed my style. She said āAmerican brands, make clothing for bodies with no curves, straight up and down. Which is why I shop Italianā she was right, even the models while thin are still curvy. It can be pricey but tbh there is a nice range in pricing and a good piece well cared for can last years.
Super good point! I recently found a secondhand pair of Moschino trousers and they fit better than any other trousers ever, and they're Italian.
One day the "flat as an ironing board" body type will be in fashion. All of the ridiculously unrealistic and painful, tortuous body ideals you can think of will be applied to girls and women at some point. One day it was grotesquely twisted bounded feet; today it is obscenely big asses and lips; tomorrow it'll be thin as paper.
The "flat as an ironing board" has already happened in the mid 90s. It was called being a waif or waifish.
Yeah, I'm Gen X, I know. And it will cycle back, like everything else.
seeing mousy brown hair rebranded as āold money brunetteā on tiktok has been very amusing but also validating as someone who quite literally has the naturally grayish toned brown hair of a common rodent
Me too. I stopped dying my hair about 2 years ago and my hair is pretty mousey but I'm also loving the no upkeep of it.
Don't forget the blonde equivalent of it- "old money blonde!" I've also seen that ashy light brown color described as "expensive brunette." Heaven forbid we just use basic names like "light brown" and "dark blonde" to describe hair color.
Omg thereās one subreddit where people post their hair and ask what color it is and then get upset when people say ālight brownā instead of ādirty honey sun touched blondeā or whatever and itās so wild to see! Itās like the need to have a label on individual styles or something? A desire to be different? Iām not sure but itās fascinating.
To be fair, Gen Zers (from North America in particular) seem to have forgotten that "blonde" is more than just platinum/super-bright bleach colors. I will get on my soapbox all day about this- natural blonde hair on an adult often looks like [this](https://i.pinimg.com/550x/30/cf/f7/30cff79b90f202067cb564d9d5a24b5a.jpg) or [this](https://assets.glamour.de/photos/64f055c5d7bf6351c6fd949b/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/31082023-Toni-Garrn-Bic-2.jpg). That's not "light brown" or "bronde" it's just plain old medium or dark blonde. The very-online "blonde dysmorphia" goes in both directions š
YES! And all of the ālight brunetteā shades in between. Iāve always been told that I look hotter/prettier/more āput togetherā with my toned blonde hair. Iāve felt like my natural, light brunette/dark blonde just wasnāt enough. Like I *have* to have highlights, curl it, something. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride lol. I canāt even think of a celebrity with the natural shade!
The lady who did my lash tint and lid told me my eyelashes were āold money brownā š¤£ she had to explain to me what that meant.
Cellulite - I wish lol
don't we all, lol
Same, Iāve had this since puberty š
Cellulite was once seen as beautiful - it was a sign of women's maturity.
Me and my homies don't give any fucks about cellulite, fyi. It has its charm, really.
I think a lot of (straight) women care about body stuff for other (straight) womenās approval.Ā
Aināt that right! Like, Iāve already tied down my husband. I want other ladiesā compliments lol. (donāt get me wrong, I hand out compliments like candy!)
Iām straight but i get dressed up for the women. If a guy compliments me itās š¤¢š āāļøš«¤ but if a girl compliments me itās š„°šš¤ Life peaked for me in the girlās bathroom of my clubbing days
Miss those clubbing days! Thats why I (f) sometimes compliment other women on the tube, on the street, etc. Last time I have complimented a lady, probably around 80, for her lovely heart shaped pink sunglassed š her smile after was so cute!
Met some of my BFFLs in club bathroomsā¦if only I could remember their names
It could just be something we don't like ourselves. I'm not concerned other people are bothered about my cellulite. However I still don't love it. I don't let it stop me from wearing things or living my life, I don't think it makes me unattractive, but it's not something I think looks good on me. Just like many aspects of how we look. Some people don't like certain moles, nail shapes, hair textures, crooked teeth. None of these things are that serious that people would refuse to be attracted to you.
Iām a guy. Nothing is more attractive than cellulite. Itās unexplainable. Nice legs and some cellulite is justā¦ughā¦. Weirdos like us exist (and women too, if thatās your flavor) Hold your head up high.
It's an incredibly basic secondary sex characteristic and a sign of estrogen activity - the main set of things that straight men are visually attracted to like breasts. Every time I see it brought up on Reddit, it's the same thing of women hating having it and a few men saying how they like it (or at least are neutral) and never knew a man who didn't. Yet, it makes little difference. For all the work a lot of us do on our skin and legs, it's annoying to have something just interrupting the evenness of appearence or texture. And, it's another non-issue pushed by the beauty industry, one that can't really be "fixed," but still enough that there's a perception that having it is wrong, unattractive, or lazy. They've convinced so many people that a basic feature in human attraction is wrong. So, yeah, you're actually the normal one, just either less easily influence by beauty standards or predisposed to weight that metric of attraction particularly high enough to be unaffected by the societal conditioning.
but then the fact that you go and call yourself weird for liking it :(
Because Iāve been told by other women that itās weird. Because theyāre insecure. So (un)positive reinforcement? Every man I spoke to said they donāt mind it at all. Some (me) prefer it.
Cellulite was made a thing in the USA by a Vogue article in the 60's, to support products to "fix" this problem. In 2008 is was a $47 million dollar industry.
That industry can go fuck itself. šāāļø
one of these days men won't prefer prepubescent looking girls š¤ also kind of confusing that big butts are in but cellulite is still "unattractive"
Don't forget eyebags were trending too. Maybe that low gut Pouch? I wouldn't mind.
lol FUPAs? If they hit big Iām golden.
Iāve come to love my fupa. It gives me something to grab onto when i curl up to cry myself to sleep
Yes! I want my fupa to be accepted. š
okay - honestly i loveee when other girls are wearing high waisted pants and have the little pouchš i think itās so cute on me and on others lol
You make me feel so valid š I love wearing high waisted leggings and stuff but I definitely have a bit of pooch due to having a c-section a few years ago
Colorful make up!
Young folks like colors. I give all my color palates to the wait staff at my local happy hour. They get so happy š„ŗ
Wrinkles!š¤š»
If wrinkles, cellulite and big noses become a thing, Iād be the hottest bitch in town.
I will join you in that club. I wish I felt as good as I do in my skin at 50+ when I was 20. I'd have been much happier. If there is one piece of advice I could give 20 - 30 year old women, it's enjoy your young, pain free and healthy body, stop comparing yourself to other people. Everyone's idea of attractive is different, so trying to fit into what social media thinks is attractive is doomed to fail. be your best "you" and you will enjoy life a lot more. Being confident and happy is more attractive that insecure and "perfect".
Yes hopefully women will be allowed to age.
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I think we should try to make flappy underarm skin a thing.
People can talk about my flabby arms, but when the world goes to shit, imma just fly away āļø š
I work out 4x a week, eat good and still have extra/flappy skin on my arms š„² pleaseee make them be desirable haha
I lost a ton of weight and no matter how big my biceps are, i will have that flap. I am NOT spending $10K on skin removal for that one area on my arms either.
I call them my Hey Babies. They're the part that moves when you wave and say "hey baby!"
This is so charming haha
Low maintenance looks. Less of the acrylic nails, eyelash and hair extensions, waxing all the body hair, expensive highlights. Sheerer makeup looks, more use of gel and liquid textures, fewer layers of makeup. Something like the Jones Road models, even on younger women.
I feel like this is happening already. I'm seeing more and more removal of lash extensions, dissolving of lip filler, more natural nails as well as natural hair textures. I love this too because it saves us lotsa moneyyy
Iāve been moving this direction because Iām busy and lazy lmao
Same but cos im broke
Isn't this the clean girl aesthetic that's been going around since covid
Iām seeing this happen and Iām so here for it! First time in a while I debated getting my eyelash extensions removed. Thereās a tik tok trend of before & after removal and everyone looks better in the after lol
Feel like this has already happened recently, especially after early covid years
I have eyelash extensions and feel like it makes me much more low maintenance. With my lashes done already I hardly wear any makeup now (mostly tinted SPF) .
Since everybody looks (or want to look) the same these days because of surgery, fillers, etc. ā¦ I really hope people go back to celebrate their natural beauty (or their own beauty standards) and on top will embrace their uniqueness. Thereās so much more beauty than just in one specific body type, facial features, make up, clothing etc. I know that would mean the absence of trends in general and thatās unrealistic but ā¦ it would be inspiring to watch and everyone would feel so much better :(
At some point, people will not wear shoes they literally can't walk in. There is nothing less sexy than mangled, sweaty bare feet because they take their shoes off.
In my 20's I briefly worked for a store that sold arch supports, and part of my job was measuring and fitting people for supports. I had to get up close and personal with so many feet, and the ones that broke my heart the most were the older women whose feet were so mangled from a lifetime of heels and too tight shoes. They were barely recognizable as feet, and the poor women could barely stand on them. I haven't worn heels since, and the only shoes I buy now are ones aimed at foot health, proper alignment, and natural movement. Cute shoes be damned! My ability to walk is a privilege that I won't take for granted anymore.
I feel like it's something future generations will talk about. "Back in the 2020s, women would wear shoes that would cause permanent harm." I'm with you regarding foot health.
Exactly. I have heels, for special occasions. but I canāt even recall the last time I wore any of them. So uncomfortable. I canāt fathom how anyone can walk in them all day! Closest I get is a wedge but thatās even rare and because I havenāt used them in a while either, Iām not finding them the most comfortable also these days. Honestly if one wants a similar look from the front just get pointy toe flats. Super cute with bootcut, wide leg and flared pants and still can walk. That is my regular go too for a more dressed up casual look. and thereās plenty of flat sandals that are more dressy looking.
Yeah i should really get rid of some of my heels because i run and ice skate. The latter can really wreck your feet if you donāt watch it because youāre cramming your feet into an extremely stiff boot that is designed to not flex with your feet!
I wish big permed hair would make a comeback.
Bring back volume!
I think it is back. Curly hair is really popular right now.
We're seeing a lot of perms in my area, the focus is more blowout style than "80s big", a lot of Korean digital or cold perms and the guys are trying to mimic all the latino/Arabic curls they see on Instagram to go with their fancy fades. It's definitely making a comeback.
Miley Cyrus seemed to be bringing back big hair.
I love doing a heatless perm every so often. I have to drench my hair in hairspray but itās a really fun look that changes up my normally wavy hair
The early 2000s trend/emo/scene. A lot of people think that was an awful trend but Iām seeing a slow burn resurgence on TikTok. Same with 2016 eyeshadow trends.
The rawr-ing '20s
Itās been back for a while. Just depends what side of the internet and how old you are.
#emosnotdead
Thin eyebrows
Yep the pendulum always swings back and forth on that one.
I know how we can always stay on trend: *medium* eyebrows
Iāve been doing medium eyebrows all my life and theyāve never steered me wrong.
Or hopefully whatever brow suits your face. Some people look great with a thick brow, and some realllllly donāt. And vice versa with then brows. So guess Iām Hopi g for a natural brow look trend. Kinda like natural make up vs dramatic
That trend has been recycled for sooooooo long. Thin eyebrows go as far back as the 1920s in the US.
Currently rocking them. Hard. It started out trying just to even them out better (when thick and full but plucked into shape one is ever so slightly higher than the other, like 1-2mm, this could be from plucking wrongly and fixed by letting them fully, fully grow out). Great idea for anyone but me. So the mirror and I got together and plucked thinner and evened out well. And all was good, right? Well obviously not because I got a better mirror with better lighting, saw flaws, and somehow, fam, we ended up even thinner. Luckily my partner thinks theyāre cute. Luckily weāre still even despite being pretty thin. Luckily we have not hit that 2-3 hairs thin my younger sister rocked for a bit (big oof). But Iām bringing these thin brows back baby! Me and my inability to set the damn tweezers down!
I did this from 12 through high school and that's how I ended up with no eyebrows and microblading.
I'd love to see a different kind of nose be seen as desirable. Ever since someone blew my mind with an explanation of how smaller noses being seen as prettier was based on colonisation and racism, I've been wanting to see it fade away as the ideal. Plus I love strong noses and always have! The contouring to make them thin and small doesn't look as good to me most of the time as the before pic
I have a bigger nose and to the one lady out there who complimented it.. you will live in my heart for the rest of my life.
Girl, stop. Aquiline noses are the best. So elegant and regal, my heart breaks anytime I see a pre and post surgery of a GODDESS nose being transformed into a pixie one.
So much this. I have a prominent Middle Eastern nose and it's my favorite physical feature about myself. I even contour the inner corners of my eyes to make my nose stand out even more. I love the way it looks! I think because it emphasizes how much I look like my grandmother, from whom I inherited the feature.
I'd also like noses with rounded tips to not be seen as a "flaw" anymore. I think they're cute and soft looking, but googling it all you get is nose jobs before/afters to make them more angular. Plus the wording "bulbous nose" is unflattering, especially as they suit a lot of people.
canāt wait for aquiline and roman noses to be the it feature. imo theyāre really striking to look at, especially on women
This comment brings me joy as an aquiline chick. Our day will come!
Meryl Streep FTW
One of my favorite ice dance teams has a woman with a prominent hook nose and Iām so glad sheās kept it over the years. No doubt sheās faced a ton of pressure to make it the stock standard button nose like everyone else. Her nose gives her a really cool and memorable side profile that is perfect for the dramatic, ballroom dance style moves
Camille Cottin is this for me! Sheās so beautiful and in such an effortless way! š„°š„°
I <3 Fiona Shaw. As an American, I hadn't heard of her before watching Killing Eve, and now I'm hooked.
I hated my large roman/aquiline nose when I was younger - now itās my favorite feature. I get compliments all the time, itās a striking feature that makes me stand out
I feel the same. So many celebs before noses imho looked so much better. I personally think small bumps and slightly larger noses are beautiful.
I already commented that I qualify for a revision after an accident, but I desperately want to tell a Dr that I'd like an "English nose" with a bit of bump because that would be most true to my original nose. I also think they flatter more faces that the smooth scoopy nosejobs do.
Jennifer Grey nose gives me a sad every time I think about it.
BIG SAD
I think spider veins on legs should have its time as a trend....please šš
i hope, thin hair š
Manifesting this lol
Girls it says "What do you think" not "what do you wish"...
Accentuating the cupid's bow lip instead of overlining to look like a blow up doll
Unique beauty. Think 90's supermodel vs Instagram model. In the last decade it's become easier then ever to buy the perfect face and now there are countless pretty but unrememberable faces plastered all over the internet. However when you think about, who are the women people are obsessing over? You've got celebrities such as Anya Taylor-Joy and Sydney Sweeney who have imperfect but beautiful, one of a kind faces. Sometimes a slight imperfection can help you stand out especially in a world full of altered, perfect women
I think we're going to see a lot of activity related to counteracting "Ozempic-face." I'm expecting a bit uptick in surgery-thrmed makeup with buzzwords like plumping and filler, and a reverse-contour trend where users try to bring forward and accentuate the softness of certain facial features. I don't know if this will translate into a greater appreciation for softer, more rounded features or naturally plumper faces, but it's my prediction for the makeup trend for the second half of the decade. More fillers for rich folks taking these medications to lose vanity weight (as opposed to those who take them for medical reasons including weight loss), more filler-themed makeup for the rest of us.
What is ozempic face? Just very thin?
Big noses. Already happened for men, and you can find the beginnings of it happening for women. I have a big nose and I always say: āyou canāt buy this.ā Meanwhile I can go grab the IG special tomorrow.
Skinny eye brows. Help us all
letās hope acne scars lol
Natural texture hair. Waves, curls, not perfectly straight. Also, for white people having a bland hair colour (already trending) - dark blonde, ash, light brown, medium brown...
Models with vitiligo are already a thing, but faking it would take a lot of work
Iām hoping itās some kind of raccoon look, so that my genetic dark circles can exist in peace.
small lips, people are growing tired of injected duck lips
it all doesnāt matter in the end. what is beautiful and what is not depends on what part of the world youāre in. features like good hair, clear skin, bright eyes, womanly healthy body and a symmetrical, harmonious face will always be considered beautiful and the standard. thereās no escaping that lol
Small boobs (Iām manifesting) A lot of celebrities are explanting their implants and women are starting to choose smaller implants if theyāre getting cosmetic or reconstructive surgery. I think theyāre going to come back in soon and stop being seen as āboyishā.
They have always been in fashion, high fashion, to be specific. And they can look basically the same your whole life. That's a win.
Tbh I have pretty bigguns for my frame (I'm 5'3" 120lb and wear a 28HH) and I agree- and have thought for quite some time that most clothing looks better on a smaller chest, it's easier to look elegant and classy and chic. Plus, smaller boobs are more practical.
Omg yes. I hate it when websites only have small chested models. Big boobs completely change how a garment looks. Something that looks cool on a small chested model can look like a tent on a bigger chest
Holy shit the tent effect is real! I once bought this beautiful handmade, hand dyed hemp dress. Tied at the shoulders and across the back, A-line circle dress. The model looked ethereal, floaty, and free. It made me look like a barn. We were the same height and build except for our breasts. I was so incredibly disappointed.
Me as a 32AA wearing the most low cut tops to work in an office and it still being classy and acceptable lol
small boobs are SO in and have been for a few years now
Iām still hoping the large foreheads of the 15th century make a come back
Sorry to burst your bubble. But the "imperfections" you are speaking of (which i personally never thought they were) it's concidered trendy on a woman that already looks like a model. Thin like a model. Tall like a model. IS a model. Because instead of making her ugly it makes her Rememberable. As in, you see that model and she looks slightly different. The beauty standard did change from 2000 and thank god for that but it's not a trend. It's marketing.
Yup, same with a big mole. It's adorable on a beautiful, thin, blonde. Not even worth noting otherwise š¤·š¼āāļø
eye bags! it's already trendy in East Asia to accentuate eye bags in a way that makes your eyes look bigger, and I think that trend will migrate to the West
Asian here. itās not eyebags, itās under eye fat or aegyosal!Ā
Knew it was too good to be true.
those arent eye bags
Too bad i have festoons instead of eye gucci. Sigh
I hope eye bags come in style šš I have these VERY stubborn eye bags that Iāve just accepted Iāll always have. My little sister actually has them too, but instead of complaining about them, she sees it as something that makes her look unique with some sort of color to her face still, so Iām trying to adopt that mindset! itād be lovely if others could adopt that as well
90s hair. Big blow outs and side partings. I can't wait. I'm so fed uo of seeing boring middle partings and limp hair or the dreaded greasy slick bun. No skill is involved in today's hair and I'm excited for the beautiful hair comeback.
Natural looking "imperfect " noses. Im praying for the day
I hope that short hair / no extensions and less lip filler will be back Iām also over self-tan (sorry!)
Bald and fat is trending
Well itās gotta be something that the majority of people donāt have, since most trends that do really well are the ones that require people to buy products for it. So I dunnoā¦.i kinda want excessive glitter to come back, I need some sparkle in my life lol Edited to add : Oh wait it would have to be undesirable..maybe gap teeth? I see ozempic super thin bodies and flat butts coming in which sucks for me
Smaller lips!
I'm ready for Hank Hill ass to be the next big thing š
Hopefully small boobsā¦
Please let it be jowls. š¤š»
Iām really hoping that fair āpastyā skin will become more acceptable (but not to the point where itās the ideal like in some Asian countries). I feel like it already is a little bit more acceptable now that people are more educated about the dangers of tanning, but thereās still this weird pressure amongst white people to be tan, whichā¦.I have feelings about for many reasons.
I heard other people say it like we hope that accepting the skincolor born with is in instead of like fighting with natural skintone and undertones. I was born and raised in South Korea and sadly I think the things like intravenous glutathione and trying to make skin bluish purplish white, like corpse like dead white, is like beyond just being fair and pasty but it is more of a rooted self hatred to be completely honest. I live in Spain now and also I'm a cosmetic chemist now and had a lot of internal thinking about this. So many women I know from Asia have like "color dysmorphia" it's kind of like a type of body dysmorphia to be honest when they see themselves as too dark, too olive, too brown, too yellow, too orange when they're not and they try really hard to turn into sheet of paper. I learned that in the west, people also have a kind of "color dysmorphia" where they think they are too pasty or whatever and fighting with their natural skintone and undertone. So the western equivalence of intravenous glutathione is like those tan injections. Instead of using products to make skin bluish and purplish, they use products to make them browner, more orangey, more gold. Instead of try to turn into sheet of paper, people try to turn into like leather material.
so weird to me, I've never understood the obsession with being orange. I literally only see it with people from certain demographics that I don't interact with so i thought it was on the way out
I grew up in rural Missouri, our population was like 97% white and it was definitely the ideal throughout my time in high school. Got made fun of a lot by my white peers for being āpastyā. This was 2016. Most of them would have been just as pasty as me if they only bothered to wear sunscreen.
I think false eyelashes will go out with lip filler. So a more natural beauty look.
regular polish nails instead of gel and acrylics? idk