Dearest Gabby,
I don’t dig the flawless makeup trend where everyone watches the same videos to look the same way. I feel like you can just copy and paste the paint on people’s faces nowadays.
Then it’s all filtered to hell in the same poses with the same hashtags. I’m nothing but supportive, people like that lifestyle, but I kind of feel cheated sometimes by the trends.
I feel like I’m seeing less of who someone is inside because of the amount of time we spend expressing ourselves through our appearance compared to our emotions is so… off. Do we even love ourselves, no filter and candidly anymore? Or do we just love the way our brows and photos look?
I’m not trying to be harsh on how someone looks, it’s not how they look that’s making me feel so odd. It’s the look. The new look that everyone’s got to have, or else they’re not a part of the trend. I think trends have gotten much more… viral. What do you think?
Sincerely,
Trends on Trends on Trends
Dear Trends on Trends on Trends,
I’m glad I am not the only person who feels this way. Ideals of beauty are so farfetched nowadays, that it is almost unachievable to reach the level of attractiveness you dream of.
Trends come and go, but the thing that seems to be sticking around is the ability to filter how we look or transform ourselves by contouring our faces with an excessive amount of highlighter and bronzer.
Everyone looks the same—it’s crazy!
Don’t get me wrong, I am the first person to admit I’ve watched plenty of YouTube videos and try consistently to change my face shape just by contouring. I have edited so many photos that my phone memory is overloaded with multiple edits of one photo, but the biggest thing that worries me is the constant struggle we have with ourselves on the inside.
The beauty that is on the outside is not portraying our thoughts about how we feel about ourselves on the inside—not that we want to because the majority of us don’t categorize ourselves as beautiful. I feel as though the makeup and the filters has now become a way to cover ourselves up rather than to enhance ourselves.
Especially in our society today, social media plays a huge role in the way we see ourselves. We see someone with better brows or cheekbones and we feel as though we need to mimic it, instead of being happy with who we are. I think looking “different” is viewed as not being pretty or being a misfit.
It’s now about finding the right angles that make you look like you were taking a candid photo, but it was really posed because of course no one wants to be in the moment or viewed as “ugly” while they are laughing with their scrunched nose and crinkled eyes.
Side note: I love when people embrace their quirks!
However, that gives us personality. Our looks define us, just as our personality does, but I think we have gone too far. When will we realize that the makeup and the brows do not make the person? It’s not about the best filter or how “perfect” you can be, it’s about being yourself and showing yourself not through your overly lip-lined lips, but what makes your eyes sparkle by themselves not the glittery Chanel eyeshadow.
Be you, go against the trends,
Gabby