Mr L is pretty laid back and always says live and let live but fails to understand why lovely young woman want to look like deformed silicon dummies.
Most hated words - influencers and hack.
This reminds me of what my mother used to say about me when I used to go out with make up on and dressed up to the nines. "Why do you want to make yourself look like a freak!? - That was the most common one I used to hear. I'd often wear "gothy" make up including black nail varnish, dye my hair in unnatural shades, and on occassion had a rather extreme hairstyle going on, and the fact I had my ears pierced in three places was enough to send her into paroxysms. It was a phase, of course which I grew out of, but even during the phase, once I'd got home from that night out, off came the make up, the jewellery, the clothes, and to them I looked like a normal human being again (until the next time)!
The big difference nowadays are that these looks are permanent, the ways in which to achieve these looks are invasive, and sometimes bloody dangerous, and don't even get me started on tattoos! In my day, they were the staple of old sailors, and a few rather "scary" women (for the want of a better word).
If I wanted a fuller lip, I'd go over the edges with a lipliner, wear a strong coloured lipstick and then top if off with lipcote - Job done, and if anyone suggested back then that I could have them injected with some kind of filler to make them permanently fuller - I'd have been utterly horrified at the thought! As I'm typing this, I've been reminded of a frequent newspaper advert for "Sister Rose" cosmetic surgery and you could fill in a form and request a brochure, and how for a joke we'd fill them out for our friends and threaten to send them off ! I don't remember ever doing this, but my boyfriend do this to one of his mates and ordered him a whole set of encylopaedias!
Sounding like my late mother, and grandmother...These young girls do look like freaks, and unlike my generation, they're stuck with it for good!
Lati...I agree....I hate the term influencers....it's ridiculous...Don't mind a good old life hack though!
