8 Beauty Trends That Need To Die Already!

[scarlett]

As someone who loves fashion and beauty, I frequently keep up with the latest beauty trends, new techniques, and styles. Beauty is fun and something I enjoy immersing myself in. However, there are some things that I think have gone too far and need to die already! Here are 8 beauty trends that are past being cute and have gotten into the realm of insanity.

*Disclaimer: Ultimately, people can still do these things if they want to. This myTake is just one person's opinion and I'm only writing this for a bit of fun and humor so if you are someone who does any of these things, don't take it too seriously. You do you boo. Now, on to the list!

1. Excessive highlighting and contouring

First just let me say, I love my highlight and contour, BUT there IS such a thing as too much. Highlighting is meant to brighten the parts of your face that naturally catch the light while contouring is supposed to bring shadow to the face in order to better define features like your jawline and cheekbones. Ideally, this should look fairly natural but some people take it too far, especially the tip of the nose highlight.

2. Kylie Jenner lips (yes, I know she didn't start this trend but it gets my point across)

You know what I'm talking about. The overblown balloon lips that we ALWAYS see on beauty guru's and lipstick models. It's just too much and so many of these women got lip fillers to achieve this look. If your lips naturally look like this, great, this is not aimed at you. I'm talking about the people who intentionally get their lips done. They all end up looking exactly the same, like little clones of each other.

3. "Festival" makeup

I get it. You go to a music festival and you want to dress up and get artsy and more creative than usual. But I think we can come up with something new and fresh. The typical "festival" makeup of drawing designs on our faces seems a bit overdone by now.

4. Faux freckles

I want to know who started this trend and ask them why? I have natural freckles and guess what? All through school I got made fun of for it and now all of a sudden it's a beauty trend to cover our faces in the fullest coverage foundation and then draw on fake freckles? Again I say....WHY?

5. Metallic lips

Didn't this die out in the 90's? Why is it back? So many makeup brands are coming out with new metallic liquid lippies and I'm sorry, I just can't get on board with it.

6. "Instagram brows"

Everyone wants to have perfectly groomed, "fleeky" brows all the time now, partly (or fully) due to Instagram. But why? What's wrong with keeping our brows a little more natural? To me, sometimes these just look TOO clean to the point where they look obviously fake.

7. Baking

Look, I have no issues with setting makeup. I totally get it, we don't want all of our hard work to crease and get gross as the day goes on. However, haven't we taken the baking trend a bit too far? Applying heavy layers of powder can maybe look great in photos but in person it can sometimes just make things look cakey.

8. Unicorn-inspired beauty

I know, I know, I'll probably get a ton of hate for this one but yes, I said it! The unicorn trend has gone too far. With brands like tarte launching full rainbow and unicorn products to Instagrammers going crazy for overpriced Farsali primer just because it's pink and gives a "unicorn" vibe. I think this trend has been overplayed.

So tell me, are you tired of any of the trends above or anything else I may have missed? Let me know in the comments. :)

[QuarterNote]

I agree with 1, 2, 4, 6, and 7. They all seem to EXAGGERATE the "ideal" characteristics of "beauty" to the point of nausea. Like, "oh people like highlight? Well I'mma make my face CAKED IN HIGHLIGHT" or "oh, people like full lips? WELL HOW BOUT THIS: LIP FILLERS ARRRRRRRRGH!"

[LittleSally]

I agree with ALL of these - besides metallic lips - like the ones you posted, some can really look nice.

[scarlett]

I can agree that they aren't always bad looking, they just remind me so much of the 90's. But I guess fashion/beauty styles are always coming and going. :)

[LittleSally]

That's true... And I understand where you're coming from: I hate all 80's fashion and trends... they just seem to tacky to me. I guess you feel the same about the metallic lips. xD

[CubsterShura]

Interesting to see everyone's opinions! Lemme post mine:
1) I hate excessive highlighting and contouring too. I love my round face and the only compute contour I do is under my jaw to define it more. I can't contour my cheekbones cause I don't have any lmao. And nose contour makes me nose looks like I rubbed it on dirt. Not a good look.
2) Seriously tho people should love their lips the way they are. I come from a place where people hate big lips but nowadays for the internet this generation loves plump lips. I'm medium yay!
3) Festival makeup, well I don't know what people really mean by it but does my profile pic count? Anyway I'm neutral about it except cultural appropriation.
4) Faun freckles are done to give a more youthful look because freckles are more visible at younger ages. It also gives the illusion that your foundation is not heavy. I'll never do it tho. Again, neutral.
5) For lipsticks, I really don't care what lipstick it is I'll just wear it if it looks good on me. If I find a metallic shade that suits me well, then whyyyy not :)
6) I don't mind Instagram brows. But my brows are think plus I don't remove any brow hair. I just fill in sparse areas because I believe I look hot in bushy brows. :p
7) Baking is actually my life saver because I have oily skin. I still do get a bit of shine after a few hours but otherwise my makeup requires very less touchups and lasts all day without any setting spray.
8) Unicorn makeup is something I never tried but I guess doing it would be fun. I know this trend won't last long so I'm chill.

[CubsterShura]

Ignore my silly typing mistakes and random words in between lol.

[backtoblackkkk]

I agree with most of these points. I'm blessed with naturally thick brows and I kind of laugh at the girls who draw caterpillars on with those pencils. Not being an asshole about it; it just doesn't look natural at all when overdone. Thick brows don't fit everyone and sometimes thin ones look just fine. However, some girls want to change how they look by doing that and who am I to say they can't? You do you, boo. I disagree a bit with #2 and 5. Full lips can benefit any girl and they look amazing! Kylie looks way better now after the surgery and lip fillers. However you're right about it making everyone look the SAME. Nowadays, nearly every makeup guru and instagram model has really full lips and with everyone looking the SAME, where's beauty? Unicorn makeup is childish, why is it even a thing? Every girl has a different facial structure and once she figures out what fits her best, she'll look her best. Emphasizing your good features, drawing attention away from the bad ones, and NOT caking on--> perfection.

[Hollywood-Glam]

There are few beauty trends that I don't like but I mostly love the rest. As far as what I don't like it's the faux freckles, festival makeup, and Instagram eyebrows. What I don't like about fake freckles is freckles are supposed to be natural beauty, and using cosmetics to achieve that look is taking away from its purpose from freckles being naturally beautiful. The other two it's just because of personal preference. I don't like brows with too much makeup because it looks so obvious and boxy, microblading is better and seems more subtle. As for festival makeup, it's not my cup of tea because it involves eyeliner and so much eyeshadow (I hate heavy eye makeup). I don't think it's stylish, even in runways, they don't go heavy on the eyes when it's not an Avant Garde or eccentric show.
Ok, this is embarrassing because I have so much to say about beauty trends, now I feel unintelligent lol. For this reason I'm not going on detail about why I love the other beauty trends. I think contouring, highlighting, and baking are great hacks. I love color and shine, I find myself drawn to anything metallic or colorful.

[_lauren_]

what do you mean by "freckles are natural beauty", all of these trends are based off of things that are natural beauty. girls fill in their eyebrows because it's considered attractive to have naturally full perfectly shaped brown. they wear foundation because the want to mimic the beauty of naturally clear skin. we look at natural faces and try to use makeup to mimic the things we like about them.

[Hollywood-Glam]

@_lauren_ Never mind what I said about freckles, they're not even what I dislike the most. They can look pretty and nothing against to those who like them. I just think they're less necessary because they're incomparable to how better natural freckles are. I feel neutral about faux freckles, really.
Over all, I love everything except for thick brows, eyeshadow, and eyeliner. Speaking of mimicking natural beauty, what makes me dislike eyeshadow and eyeliner even more is that they don't mimic natural beauty.

[_lauren_]

that's like saying you don't like clothes because they don't look like our naked bodies. that's kinda the whole point of eyeshadow and eyeliner, they're not supposed to look natural. no one has gold eyelids, however, that doesn't mean it doesn't look good.

[Hollywood-Glam]

@_lauren_ The statement I made about eyeshadow obviously doesn't apply to everything. Most eye makeup is only something extra to me, I'd much prefer contouring and a bold lipstick, but that's just my personal preference. Don't get me wrong, I really love most makeup. It's beautiful and it does make you look posh.

[DeeperMeaning]

Honestly, makeup just seems gross to me. It's chemicals that you're plastering on your face every day and then when you breakout you use more makeup to hide your blemishes. I don't know how other women can be okay with the feeling of something just sitting on their face. I would feel like my skin was dirty.

[scarlett]

Eh, that's why people wash their faces. Lol It's possible to wear makeup without tons of breakouts. :)

[cinderelli]

I agree with you... all of those need to die already.. there should be a natural trend.. and no I am not talking about the ''no makeup makeup'' shit.. because it's just lies.. they still put a shit ton of makeup on their faces and tell us to accept it as a no makeup look? come on.. that stuff is so visible in real life..
I so hate the kylie jenner lip trend... yes she didn't start this but ALL of the youtube and instagram makeup gurus or models have gotten there lips done.. like wtf.. same with the eyebrows and eyelashes.. almost all of them have tattooed eyebrows and false lashes... why can't we accept our uniqueness.. ? -___-

[cinderelli]

their*

[_lauren_]

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these girls are both wearing makeup. most people can't tell. how apparent you makeup looks is based entirely on products and application. you can make makeup not look obvious. Also, they're not "fooling" anybody. People who do this aren't trying to pull some scam, they feel better when they look this way, and shockingly some women like wearing makeup.
I like the big lips thing because as a black person with big lips it's finally nice to see a feature that I have in the spotlight. same for girls who have thick eyebrows, they got shit their whole life and now it's in style.
And a lot of YouTubers have their lips done, but a lot of them just over draw them. once again a lot of makeup comes down to technique.
liking yourself with makeup doesn't mean you hate the way you look. in fact, i think makeup and looking at your face and working with its features helps you to appreciate what you have.

[Anonymous]

I'm the proud owner of my original eyebrows from birth. I've never plucked, tweezed, lifted, or lowered them for any reason because I just think it's crazy that we are "supposed to" do these things. My life is not going to instantly become better or improve because someone says my eyebrows are on fleek or that they look good. It's just so incredibly low on the totem pole of things that matter to me in life.

[apple24]

I love crazy make-up. Wake up dude! I can wear green highlighter if I want. Again, I really love make-up so much that I am going to the mall with my brother to buy more. I love metallic lips and converse. I like skinner girls with abs. I like tall guys with green eyes. I want a rich husband that is also strong. So what? are u tired of this trend? why do I care?

[scarlett]

Lmao did you even read the disclaimer? You *can* wear whatever you want and I can still give my opinions on how these trends look. :)

[Bleepasaurus_RexEwww]

Lmao

[apple24]

I was drunk asleep when I wrote this.

[curiousnorway]

I'm agree with you. These trends is too exaggerated and I don't like the looks of it. But fashion changes, so I'm not worrying about this. Trends comes and dies, comes and dies. If it does a come back it won't last forever. If we don't like it we don't have to wear it and they who likes it can wear it. Everybody have a different taste and each his own. ; )

[reixun]

So basically, everything fun? Come ON you didn't have to add metallic lips in there, what'd they do to you 😭

@redeyemindtricks #LongLive MetallicLippies

[scarlett]

haha hey, if you like it then you keep rocking it. 😎 I just can't. lmao

[redeyemindtricks]

Well, fwiw, mah fav metallix ••do•• sometimes piss me off. Mostly by just not lasting as long as every other lippy thing.

But... to wish DEATH upon them? 😳😳😳😳

[KaylaJoy]

Considering I don't wear make up other than occasionally mascara- I think all of those and more need to be gone. In my opinion make up is just creating a lie. It's not the real you. What you see is NOT what you get

[_lauren_]

I'm fine with all of these. tends we need to ditch are festival makeup/clothes that appropriate native culture!

[scarlett]

Yeah, that too!

[LaikaFreefall]

beauty trends that need to die... how about most of them? lol. Why not make a list of trends that should really be kept around, might be a shorter list... much shorter.

[Genie23]

OMG, yes! Spot on! I've never really understood why this became a trend in the first place. It looks awful..🙄

[mooky06]

Oh that highlighting and contouring part makes me cringeeee 🙈 It's like painting your nails with streaks in it >.<

[OlderAndWiser]

I like girls who look natural and all of these trends are stupid. Especially the obviously drawn on eyebrows!

[TuMeManques]

100% with you on this especially the eyebrows and lips!

And leave the unicorns for the 7 year olds...

[ArabianPwincess197]

Festival makeup and Insta brows can look nice occasionally the rest I agree with
What's wrong with unicorn makeup?

[lovelyhoneybones]

If people want to practice these things, leave them to it. It's their face.

[scarlett]

Sure, which is exactly what I said in the disclaimer. I can still give my opinion though on how ridiculous I think it looks. :)

[lovelyhoneybones]

Of course you are.

[Phoenix98]

I have never really seen this in real life but I agree.

[Jemini_Crocket]

I think that the only thing that should stop is too much makeup. Natural or minimum is pretty nice but "baking" is terrible to look at.