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LakeArenal
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tblue37
(68,216 posts)confusing until I realized why she looked so unlike herself.
LakeArenal
(29,949 posts)Tired of talking about looks instead of what they say.
Tired of headlines that reflect a five second sound bite that’s three minutes into some asshats unrelated comments.
Definitely about the subject line not anything about Tblue.
tblue37
(68,216 posts)would use on social media, thinking it made them attractive. I now puzzle over the extreme false eyelashes some women in public (e.g., Kayleigh McEnany) now wear. I am fascinated by the weird popularity of extreme lip filler, like Ronna McDaniel and Eric Trump's wife Lara have had done.
I realize that every era has its bizarre fashions. My generation had fuscia muumuus and white gogo boots, among other oddities.
But I still find the more extreme styles and choices fascinating.
ret5hd
(22,227 posts)
Polly Hennessey
(8,592 posts)can disappear but overly plump lips and permanent eyelashes seem forever.
Wierd cultural things fascinate me, too. Yesterday I glanced at a driver in another lane and could see she had eyelashes-- saw this all the way from my car and it was dusk!!
Here's a question for you: where did all the "baby on board" decals go?
When was it decided to take those off?
Oh, one does occasionally see one, but it seems the era of "baby on board" decals is over.
Genki Hikari
(1,766 posts)But "baby on board" was mostly a boomer fad. They're grandparents now.
Another reason they went away: Word got out with some mom networks not to advertise that they had a baby in the car after criminals targeted those kids for kidnapping or molestation. If you don't advertise that you have a kid, it's less likely a creep will try to look for your kid.
LakeArenal
(29,949 posts)Genki Hikari
(1,766 posts)Is because it's new. I remember reading a history book about how crazy people went with garish color in clothes after dyes became cheap and readily obtainable in the second half of the 1800s. After centuries of only the rich having access to bright colors and everyone else limited to muted or even drab colors, everyone went crazy for color.
Once the newness wore off, the colors toned down quite a bit.
I think the same will happen with the duck lips trend.
I'll call the crazy eyelash thing cyclical, and not new at all. Super-long and thick eyelashes were also a thing in the 60s, for the same reason as bright colors: It was new cosmetic technology in the 60s, and women went crazy to have thick, long eyelashes at long last. Once the newness wore off, the natural look came back.
Now we have a throwback of long, thick eyelashes, probably as a reaction to he "natural" look ruling the roost since the 70s. Just like Day-Glo became super popular in the mid 80s after the popularity of earth tones in the 70s and "punk" goth colors in the early 80s.
some of the really LONG false eyelashes and think, “you must use a garage door opener just to blink!”
Polly Hennessey
(8,592 posts)Nothing wrong there. Some of the fads are funny.
Conjuay
(2,920 posts)
NJCher
(42,546 posts)because then people would think I cared what they thought of me, and I definitely don't want to send that message.
What's even worse, cared enough to spend money and time on plump lips!!
Midnight Writer
(25,156 posts)
a kennedy
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miyazaki
(2,597 posts)
Genki Hikari
(1,766 posts)Grotesque visage, either way.
WhiteTara
(31,196 posts)
jmowreader
(52,918 posts)...but they'd have to put me under general anesthesia for lip filler. That sounds more like a judicial sentence than a cosmetic procedure to me.
"Mr. Mowreader, you have a choice of a year in the state pen or a lip filler procedure."
"Prison, please."