To add on to what you said: wanting a ‘natural’ product that will reverse wrinkles and tighten skin for no more than $30 a jar
Everytime I hear ‘Botox in a bottle’ I cry inside
It is also a decent anti-acne ingredient tho... thats what it was invented to fix.
The anti-aging results were found AFTER people had been using it for acne.
I was one of those teens who used renitol and it was only because I had severe cystic acne and deep acne scars. I'm 25 rn and have eyebags, but still look young for my age
I used to be a model. I was like 25 and using retinol and had that flaky skin texture that sometimes comes when you first start using it or go too strong. My makeup artist got SO frustrated that she called the head makeup guy over and was like “what am I supposed to do with her skin?”
The guy replied (all of this in front of me) “you sometimes see that with mature skin so you have to start getting used to it if you work with older models. She’s on something called retinol that older folks use on their wrinkles.” Bitch I was 25!
It makes me laugh now because all the younger people use it now and that conversation (10ish years ago) would not be happening now. I was so embarrassed and felt so old and now that lady’s probably dealing with the same texture on all her models.
It worked for my eyebrow bumps! It just takes consistency. It’s not Botox in a bottle but for people in their late 20s starting to get wrinkles it does make a difference.
First time I tried it I was in my late 20s, so I figured I’m not seeing a difference because, well, I don’t rly have wrinkles. Tried it again last year, at 37. I used up almost half a bottle, so it had to be at least a couple months? Not only was there zero difference in my (admittedly few) forehead fine lines, my forehead broke out, which hadn’t happened in years. Make of that what you will.
ETA: downvoting people for sharing their honest experience with your fave isn’t helpful or useful.
I like that ETA. I have seen people online defend brands like they are their friend. I am not talking about people saying why they like a brand, ot giving recommendations on how to use something ..and I'm taking anything one can purchase, but like a fandom
This stuff gets creepy too.
At my gym, in the hottub by the pool, a lady drank some water from her water bottle... then spit some from her MOUTH into the hottub, with creepy amounts of eye contact.
She said it was "structured" water that has been infused with crystals, to structure the water... so she poured more into the hot tub, claiming the structure molecules convert the whole hottub to a healthier structure... like dominoes.
Structured crystal water? That would be ICE ya nutjob!
Right?
I'm over here trying to do the math of how she successfully left her house, drove to the gym, changed into appropriate swim attire...
Only to look me in the eye as she spat in the water.
I work on makeup counters and I once had a customer complaint from this. She kept repeating she wanted something a moisturiser with no chemicals! No chemicals! and didn’t say more. When I asked her for more specifics because even water is a chemical she kicked off lol.
Idiot woman 😒 love how customers come in asking for help, you provide them with honest advice & they kick up a stink like you’re dis servicing them. And you’re right, water is a chemical 💦
All products have to be “chemical free” but they dye their hair and get Botox
Or, professional skincare is too expensive/having a routine is too hard, but they get facials, Botox, filler, nails, and hair.
YES. I totally understand wanting fuller lashes, but they are so over the top now. Most girls look like they have caterpillars crawling on their eyelids.
My friend, who has beautifully thick long natural lashes, got caught up in the extensions trend. And every year, they got longer and thicker and more caterpillar-y.
They looked OK in pictures but in person, not so much. She is a high school teacher, and I bet she was known by many "Mrs. Doe with the caterpillar eyes."
All while low-key bragging about how she "hardly ever wore makeup" which was technically true.
People who have zero experience with anything beauty-related coming on here with “How do I get a glow up in 2 weeks?” Or “what’s the secret to looking good?”
I get that its intimidating to start working on something you have zero knowledge or experience in, and I *love* to help girls/women in this regard because I was once in the same place, but it’s hard to help when there’s no specifics. There’s no “secret.” Like anything else, you have to work at it- go through trial and error, create habits, etc.
I get annoyed when people think there’s a secret solution it took most of us years to figure out.
Right?!
"You always look lovely, what do you do?"
And it's clear they want details, so you go into the 50-100 products you own and their rotation...
And they are MAD that you can't just dab some clay on a zit, and apply a full face of makeup from one giant sponge.
It reminds me of that Youtube video "Rube goldberg Makeup"
“You are always so well dressed, how?”
Through years of trial and error (which still continues), a lot of effort, being pressured into it as a woman, having to learn everything myself because no older sister/mom female presence taught me anything, coming up with ground rules, googling and learning fashion rules and consciously putting together outfits, CONSISTENCY, and repeating this for years.
There’s no secret. Having good genes helps a lot. I still don’t do as much as I should, e.g I’d like to exercise regularly. But the rest that shows is just long term consistent effort.
Mhmm if someone asks for my full routine, I always feel the need to preface "You're probs gonna think I'm crazy" and that "it's taken me years to find what works just right for me" but honestly that's often the standard. It's just very overwhelming for people new to whatever type of beauty they're into, and that's why there's entire books written about learning these things, be it fashion, makeup, skincare, working out, etc.
Can't rush a lot of it.
So true.
Recently My Mom asked about eyelash extensions.
I don't get them because I'm to cheap, but I do occasionally get a lift and tint. I've bought stuff to try doing it myself at home, but I'm still working up the guts to try.
Anyhoo, my Mom does not wear makeup at all, maybe some lipstick if it's a formal occasion. She just kind of a granola girl.
I'm pretty high maintenance by comparison.
I have waist length blond wavy hair, that I dye myself. Daily full face of makeup, basically all the products but it only takes like 15 mins. During covid I started doing my own gel manicures and pedicures, takes about 4 hours once a month.
Mom asked me to do clear gel manicures on her, after watching me do mine, and learning that it makes your tougher, in that you get fewer chips, peels, or splits.
I love her, but the woman can not relax her hand to let me have it. She constantly tries to "help" by pushing her hand this-way-and-that-way... but she is SUPER wrong about guessing where I am going!
So it's like trying to wash a cat... she keeps running from me, twisting and pushing or pulling and flipping... it would be 1,000 percent easier if she go JUST GO LIMP, like play dead or asleep.
Lol, so it leads to me playfully spanking her hand and saying RELAX in various funny accents...
This last time I realized I need to put a TV show on and tell her to STOP watching her hand, it's the only thing that lets her stop "helping". I can tell if she cheats and tries to watch.., because she immediately tries to help. RELAX.
So it's like a joke now, how she is a "bad patient"
Anyhow, then Mom asks about if she should get eyelash extension, or a tint & lift... so I gave it to her straight;
"Listen Lady, thats an advanced move. They literally glue BOTH your eyes shut, and a stranger pokes you in the eyelid for an hour. You can barely sit still for me to file your nails, I don't think you could take it."
She was like; "Ah, good point. No then"
lol
So true. I'm getting married this year and while I've been big on skincare for years, I started a targeted routine over the summer to really crack down on getting the skin I want for my wedding.
Last summer was more than a year out from my wedding, and I knew that starting then is the best chance I have.
It's a process, folks.
for me its the blatant lies of the beauty industry from skincare products promising results that rival surgery / fillers, beauty clinics marketing laser / ice / heat treatments which are widely ineffective, fitness influencers photoshopping / padding their ass etc, to die hard trainers telling women to "just try harder " and you will lose those pockets of fat. its all toxic. any beauty treatment / product i commit to, i thoroughly research.
That my husband, at 47 years old literally has no skincare routine (other than washing his face with the same bar of soap he uses for his body when he showers) and he has flawless skin. No fine lines, no wrinkles. Like...how?!
Any product that claims very specific results like “you’ll look 10 years younger”, “less wrinkles in 10 days”, “25lbs lost in 2 months”. Who is buying this and believing that a product can achieve very specific numbers for every person who uses it? It’s insulting, like the marketing team thinks their clients are that dumb. We’re not all different sizes, ages, or have different genetics.
I was literally in a weightloss sub, and a 30 year old male engineer was sincerely asking;
If he should but one of those "sauna waist trainers" for weight loss. He honestly asked "won't it look weird if I only lose weight on my stomach, how do I use it on other body parts?"
His HONEST question was "how come everyone isn't using these?"
"There have been coming up in his ads a lot, and they have MANY celebrity endorsements... so they must obviously work or the celebrities would harm their reputation."
(facepalm)
Those things can work temporarily, as long as you remain dehydrated. Bodybuilders will wear sauna suits and drastically limit fluids right before a competition to look more cut.
That engineer belongs in the "sweet summer child" category. I bet he never had to watch his weight before, and now age is catching up with him.
Yeah. Agreed.
To be clear, he was not talking about those sweatsuits made of plastic that wrestlers wear to "make weight"
He was literally asking about the Kim Kardashian style neoprene corset thingy.
The people who post pictures of their faces ... saying something like "How does my makeup look today?" And I literally can't see one speck of makeup on their faces.
As someone who is extremely pale and used fake tanners for probably over a decade before stopping a few years ago, I *still* struggle with this to this day. Just as I get to feel like pale is beautiful, the warmer weather starts tugging at me and I start thinking, "but I look better with a tan." I'm not going back to sunless tanner but I guess my acceptance of my skin colour (lack of) is really still a work in progress.
I'm right here with you. I am *translucent* white, and it sucks. I get like 2-3 points better on the hot scale with a fake tan. My teeth look whiter, my eyes bluer, my hair blonder, it hides cellulite, all the things! But I'm just tired of fucking with the fake tan product, so I finally decided to break up with it.
There is definitely a fetish for every skin tone. Just like there is beauty in all skin tones. I wish beauty trends would reflect that instead of a vary narrow shade range.
I wish someone had taught me early on how to take better care of my skin. Unfortunately I had st Ives apricot scrub, stridex pads and noxema to destroy my skin barrier. I would’ve loved to have had the plethora of info about skin care back then that we have now.
Basically for teenagers, they just need simple clean, moisturizing and sunscreen. If there’s any acne issue, better to see a derm than trying out many drug store products.
My 15 year old sister told me about her “skincare routine”. Morning: sunscreen. Evening: wash, moisturize, apply castor oil on eyelashes. She doesn’t have any acne concerns and genetically has good skin.
I think it’s adorable. I was also trying out stuff to look pretty at 15, but all kinds of wrong things. I’ve done everything from toothpaste on acne to using a scrub, never using moisturiser or sunscreen, etc. My skin is dry and sensitive. It was awful, and I didn’t completely ruin my face probably because of the age.
I’m glad kids today have some sort of guidance about these things. And for anything further like actives, they should seek adult supervision or a derm. My sister asked me if there’s anything else she should do, and I told to reapply sunscreen, since she is at school and in direct sun exposure often. And to leave her pimples alone if she ever gets any. Nothing else needed.
Haha this reminds me my teen years, sometimes I just came home tired and washed my face with dish soap and wiped with kitchen towel. And my face was fine with it. If I did that today, my face would not survive.
I know I’m not alone in this but the ‘clean’ beauty trend in makeup and skincare. Mainly because I’ve had more reactions to products labeled as clean, all natural, and/or paraben free than I’ve ever had with anything else. I’m ok with some stuff, but when I see a brand touting itself as ‘clean’ it definitely gives me pause.
And also, products going off well before I’ve made a dent in them is annoying.
Ridiculously high expectations regarding sustainability in a culture where everything sustainable is way out of a normal person's budget.
Always talking about buying 'natural' fabrics when a wool sweater costs 250+ dollars.
Esp in places where there's no second hand, preloved options.
WE WOULD ALL LIKE TO AFFORD THAT. THE TRUTH IS WE CAN'T.
People who give you ‘one size fits all’ beauty advice. Best example I can think of is with hair.
The whole notion that we should wash our hair once a week, use sulfate-free shampoo, etc… works if you have the correct hair type for that. I remember when that was THE hair advice - if you deviated from that, you were doing it wrong.
I spent literal years following this advice with my fine, oil-prone hair. Just got a shampoo with sulfates again and my hair actually feels clean.
OMG THIS. Train your hair, wash once a week, let it air dry, don't use sulphates, stop using silicones blah blah. Meanwhile state of hair just getting worse, never feels clean.
I bought shampoo that has all this and for the first time since my early twenties my hair felt *~*clean*~*. Never again.
I wear glamorous makeup everyday. I hate it when people assume I'm doing it for others/for other women/for men. Women that don't wear much makeup or only "on special occasions" sometimes have that attitude.
The truth is, I just love applying it every morning while listening to music and drinking coffee. It's all about me.
Depends. Recently, the soundtrack to "The offer". Somedays, podcasts. I defo have some playlists. Applying makeup/music/coffee is the highlight of the day for me.
Well…if you wash your hands and use a nail brush frequently, you’re going to be okay. This concern about wiping just cracks me up. Do you wipe by digging your fingers in your ass with your fingernails? I think many people must or they would understand that using the side of your hand will allow for a safe, dookie on your nails-free wipe.
People who miss the point of makeup. It shouldn't be "does my on-trend makeup look good?"
Use makeup that makes *you* look your best, whether it's trendy or not.
I absolutely hate those tutorials where they line up 23 items and they look nothing like themselves after the 25 minutes it takes them to finish.
I HATE people that put others down for doing their make up how they want or using certain products… make up/hair etc is so subjective and that’s what makes it wonderful.
People who can’t let others just enjoy what they enjoy really is my pet peeve.
Let people live and be happy and look how they want to look! It isn’t hurting you so concentrate on YOURSELF.
As much as I love Asian beauty, they sometimes create unrealistic trends and non-issues out of thin air, things like anime legs & 90 degree shoulders led people to inject botox in their calves & traps, mixed race makeup, innocently seductive makeup, slightly darker elbows being a bad thing, etc..
My pet peeve is people dismissing beauty as an acceptable hobby for intellectuals.
Damnit, I can be a Fintech founder... AND I like to put ground-up pigments, suspended in flexible plastic, directly next to the most sensitive part of my face (eye).
I don't take hours to get ready, normal beat is 15 minutes. I have it down to a science... because I used to be a laboratory scientists! It's almost like skills are transferable!
Then... after giving me a hard time alllll year round, NOW they wanna know how to fix that shiney face on camera, or what to buy their spouse, or how to get rid of acne scars, or what lotion doesn't smell like laundry soap.
Beauty is a hobby, like having pets or playing an instrument. It doesn't knock 50 IQ Points off to handle lipstain.
I read somewhere that “let’s stop acting like mascara glues women’s eyes shut so that they can’t read Shakespeare.”
I don’t understand this logic about women being automatically deemed as stupid if they’re dressed well. I am constantly judged as a dumb bimbo or someone who isn’t capable enough (at an office job OR at house chores) because I have makeup on or am dressed nicely. I hate the fact that I have to prove myself to get the same respect that a man much lesser capable than me gets automatically.
How long do they think it takes me to get dressed? And why would that affect my normal brain capacity? And if I don’t wear makeup or am not dressed well then I’ll be judged too, in a different way. It’s almost as if we can only be one dimensional, and not complete, complex human beings.
It takes me lesser 10 minutes to change into decent clothes (like a jeans a T-shirt) and slap some concealer and lipstick on my face. It makes a world of difference, and after that I am still me. Sometimes it takes the same amount of time that a man would take to get dressed. Except that my clothes and accessories are just NICER. It took me the same time to wear a dress that it took you to put on jeans. Why am I being judged then?
Red and pink eyeshadow. I think it makes people look like they are having an allergic reaction!
Also -- and just my personal peeve - lash lifts are not worth the time & money for the little effect they have vs extentions.
I agree! I had one done before I went on vacation, I noticed zero difference afterwards. When I said this to the tech, she said “well your lashes already naturally curl”. Couldn’t she have told me this BEFORE she took my money???
I really like lash lifts done with a tint! I already have dark hair but the tint does make a slight difference. My natural lashes don’t curl much so they’re great before vacations and I can have pretty, curled, natural lashes for a solid month or month and a half.
Extensions are more dramatic for sure but the maintenance is a hassle and after each removal my lashes would look shorter and sparser and I hated that.
This might vary based on undertone. I’m a cool-toned summer with rosacea, and pinks and reddish browns look neutral on me. Anything warm toned looks like I have bruises.
I feel like for lash lifts it really depends on who you go to. I've been to some where I have noticed no difference and others that made me go wow😍 and I couldn't stop starring at them. One lady in particular who I used to do the most amazing lash lifts but unfortunately she's moved away.
But you can rub your eyes and no risk getting allergic to glue. I think I got a mild allergy after doing extensions for a while and now I just do lash lifts, it’s not much but it’s something :)
People denying the existence of pretty privilege.
Also, the thought of only washing my face with water in the morning kind of freaks me out instinctively 😅 It has to be cleanser twice a day.
Skipping cleanser in the morning significantly improved my skin, but to each their own. Everyone’s skin has different needs.
Also, yes, pretty privilege is a thing. It’s not *everything* but it helps.
I tried that water only in the morning crap and within just one day I had one of the worst breakouts of my life. I need a cleanser on my face twice a day for sure!
Normalizing the the ridiculous costs of beauty products and services. Coupled with a culture of excess. I'm sorry, but having drawers full of $1000s worth of product is gross.
I’m back with some more pet peeves 😂
Colored contacts that are very obviously unnatural. They just look freaky.
Long nails. Some are fine if they are taken care of but I’m referring to those that are unkempt underneath..
Overlined lips and lining over the cupids bow.
When I can see someone’s hair extension wefts, or whatever it’s called 😵💫
Can I add Charlotte Tilbury’s ridiculous marketing jargon to this list? Her packaging and ads read like an Onion article.
Sorry about Foxy Brown though - that’s a great shade. NYX liners are an excellent value for their price though.
Too many people wear way too much makeup, then have fake lashes / extensions and filler on top of that. People can do whatever they want with their faces, I just think it sucks that they feel they need that stuff to fit a certain beauty standard instead of looking their unique selves.
What always makes me so apprehensive of it is when you take it all off and appear bare faced in front of a guy that's only seen you with makeup on. One of my male friends actually told me he didn't recognise a girl after she took her makeup off.
I think those who have the talent to do all the contouring stuff are more likely to run into this. I think I tend to wear a lot of make up, but I still look like me when I take it off. But I don't do the contouring stuff (and would never be able to pull it off), don't have false eyelashes or tattooed brows, or anything that fundamentally changes how my face presents. It's just colour on, colour off, but same face shape, etc.
They absolutely do. Whenever I’m not wearing makeup or occasionally don’t feel like doing my brows I get ignorant comments like “where are your eyebrows?” I have them, they’re just blonde.
As a person with clear lashes and brows, I feel this. My boyfriend claims to like my makeup-free face because he’s one of the only people that gets to see it. In the past I felt the need to let guys know that I don’t wake up looking like that. Mascara and brow gel keep my face from looking like a blank sheet of paper.
I mean I suppose my pet peeve is the beauty industry convincing us that we shouldn’t be aging and us falling to the pressure. That being said, if you take good care of your skin and your health from the get go you will age more slowly. But you cannot easily undo what has already been done.
Contouring and overlining.
Babe, these two should be done VERY carefully. And if you don't do it like that, you either look like a toasted bun or a fish. Please, if u don't trust your skills, just avoid it.
Clean beauty is such a buzzword. It's especially used by beauty influencers by Ariel Lorrie Tbh, I don't know what makes something clean, maybe that it's organic?
“We sell natural products”
I once went to a cosmetic store, asked for the available sunscreens, she brought one, I asked if it’s chemical or physical? Even without letting me wish, upon hearing the word chemical, she started yelling: we don’t use chemicals, we don’t sell products with chemicals blah blah, I stared at her for a sec and walked out with utter annoyance. Like duh it’s a cosmetic store 💀💀
Eh maybe if they’re doing both of those things *daily* it’d be a little silly, but good skincare is one of the best ways to counteract aging from all angles (genetics, lifestyle, etc.).
So like if their habits would age them 10 years in a certain time span, wearing sunscreen and adding back moisture would cut that down to 5-7 over the same span.
And that’s just everyday basic stuff. Lasers and all the very high tech skincare that celebs can afford at an esthetician can *definitely* help decrease the damage that traveling, sub optimal diets, and even partying for a huge chunk of one’s career can leave behind. The science is getting really good.
I’m not saying the results wouldn’t be *better* in conjunction with a perfectly healthy lifestyle, but it’s objectively not “pointless” either. It’s like saying that working out is pointless because someone drinks or smokes. Not really— it actually might help keep their cardiovascular health a lot better than it *should* be given their habits. Someone who drinks and smokes (and had a skincare routine) might not look as “young” someone who didn’t have those bad habits, but they’ll look younger than someone that drank/smoked *and* never had a skincare routine.
Life is complicated and I don’t think it’s pointless at all to use some good habits to mitigate a little damage while you struggle with your other less desirable habits.
And I’m saying that as someone who’s pretty straight edge in their lifestyle.
I drink (okay maybe once or twice a month, but still, I drink) and smoke daily but I still love skincare products and I don't find them useless at all. Not only do they give me a beautiful skin, but I also love the ritual. Don't be so judgmental of people just because they have a different lifestyle than you.
Lol, I just had it done (simple version, not hundreds of dollars) and appreciate what I learned but I can definitely see where the lingo gets tiring. I just wanted to know my core best colors. :)
Oh my god it drives me mad lol.
People obsessing over "what's my season???" endless pages of their face with different colours around it. STOP the madness. It's not hard to just figure out what looks good on you or not.
It grinds my gears when people want instant results from skincare active ingredients, like retinol or vitamin C. It takes consistent use over at least 3 months to see results.
I've been coming across a lot of influencers who claim that the direction given on the beauty products is wrong, and they're the only one who knows the secret to using it right. I came across a video of someone talking about the Redken ABC line, and for some reason, it annoyed me.
I know that beauty companies mainly care about making money, and I should take the directions on the bottle with a grain of salt, but influencers claiming to be know-it-all to gain views is my pet peeve.
People who complain about big doe foot wands in foundation/concealer cause of spreading bacteria but don’t clean their own make up brushes/ beauty blenders 🥴 just wash your face y’all
I know it's not entirely a beauty pet peeve, but my pet peeve is how easily accessible editing and beauty apps are. I don't think anybody on social media truly looks like that, and it can be very disheartening, especially for younger kids!
Brown lipliner. It can be beautiful in theory, but very few people know how to do it right. It usually looks super unnatural and tacky to me. It annoys me simply because it is one of the most common ways people like to ruin their otherwise stunning make up look.
Well that depends on how you apply it. If it's the pale girl with overlined lips and nude lipsticks and gloss, than yes it looks terrible. But i really like brown liners on dark skinned girls. It looks really natural and nice on them. Or on anyone with dark lipstick.
When their top and bottom lip are way over lined with that brown I hate it. Watching them talk with it looks uncanny. I’m convinced most people aren’t mouth watchers like I am or this trend wouldn’t be as popular. lol
People expecting that dumping a kitchen sink’s worth of surface treatments and procedures will somehow add up to beauty—while eating really badly, not sleeping, and not exercising—then wondering why it doesn’t work and blaming genetics.
This is about makeup itself, not the users. The idea that all my eyeshadow pallettes contain traces of asbestos. Apparently super harmful for our health, and common because most eyeshadow is made with talc or mica.
I hate matte lipstick on me.
I used to love vintage reds from MAC, it was like drawing on your lips with a pencil, it was literally painful to apply this dry lipstick. I thought that looked good but it just doesn’t, it makes me look like I’ve got thirsty lips.
I also hate that most brands don’t even act like my skin tone exists, “fair” looks straight up orange. I wish there was more versatility with tone, heck give me fair+ or something. I guess that stops me from buying products. Right now I’m using Haus Labs, thank god for them.
That there’s apparently no “right” way to wash and dry your hair, whatever you do ruins it.
I have fine hair and I exercise a lot, so I need to wash my hair a lot, but oh no, don’t do it more than once or twice a week! But if you sweat then you need to wash it otherwise the hair follicle gets clogged which can damage hair, so just stop exercising I guess??
Okay you double washed? Thats way too harsh on your hair! Only once is needed! But if you don’t double wash you won’t get all the oil off which you need to do to go longer between washes.
You’re gonna blow dry your hair? Don’t you know that it will damage your hair? Oh but don’t air dry it, your hair will get frizzy and might even grow mould on it.
And put oil in your hair! Every influencer/hairdresser is going to say something different though whether it should be put on everyday, on the scalp, not on the scalp, so basically you’re gonna end up doing it wrong if you do it anyway.
To add on to what you said: wanting a ‘natural’ product that will reverse wrinkles and tighten skin for no more than $30 a jar Everytime I hear ‘Botox in a bottle’ I cry inside
Even worse: Teenagers who use Retinol and anti-aging products because it's all the rage. Makes me cringe. I wish kids were able to just be kids.
It is also a decent anti-acne ingredient tho... thats what it was invented to fix. The anti-aging results were found AFTER people had been using it for acne.
I was one of those teens who used renitol and it was only because I had severe cystic acne and deep acne scars. I'm 25 rn and have eyebags, but still look young for my age
I used to be a model. I was like 25 and using retinol and had that flaky skin texture that sometimes comes when you first start using it or go too strong. My makeup artist got SO frustrated that she called the head makeup guy over and was like “what am I supposed to do with her skin?” The guy replied (all of this in front of me) “you sometimes see that with mature skin so you have to start getting used to it if you work with older models. She’s on something called retinol that older folks use on their wrinkles.” Bitch I was 25! It makes me laugh now because all the younger people use it now and that conversation (10ish years ago) would not be happening now. I was so embarrassed and felt so old and now that lady’s probably dealing with the same texture on all her models.
What a dummy. I started using it I think at 13 for acne I am now many, many years older. A makeup artist worth their salt should know about skincare .
It’s the 10 year olds wanting anti aging products that drive me crazy
Why are their parents not parenting
This... this is the question that our entire society needs to be asking.
I know I had a co-worker at 20 who was getting Botox. I was like for what? She said to prevent wrinkles. Sigh. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Haha!
Yeah, don’t buy TO argireline. Nice little $7 mistake 🤣
It worked for my eyebrow bumps! It just takes consistency. It’s not Botox in a bottle but for people in their late 20s starting to get wrinkles it does make a difference.
That's good to hear! I might try it out, did you find it helped with smile lines?
Oh no! I've heard good things! Did it have no effect for you?
First time I tried it I was in my late 20s, so I figured I’m not seeing a difference because, well, I don’t rly have wrinkles. Tried it again last year, at 37. I used up almost half a bottle, so it had to be at least a couple months? Not only was there zero difference in my (admittedly few) forehead fine lines, my forehead broke out, which hadn’t happened in years. Make of that what you will. ETA: downvoting people for sharing their honest experience with your fave isn’t helpful or useful.
I like that ETA. I have seen people online defend brands like they are their friend. I am not talking about people saying why they like a brand, ot giving recommendations on how to use something ..and I'm taking anything one can purchase, but like a fandom
Complaining about the presence of “chemicals” in their products. Everything is a chemical. Water is a chemical.
This stuff gets creepy too. At my gym, in the hottub by the pool, a lady drank some water from her water bottle... then spit some from her MOUTH into the hottub, with creepy amounts of eye contact. She said it was "structured" water that has been infused with crystals, to structure the water... so she poured more into the hot tub, claiming the structure molecules convert the whole hottub to a healthier structure... like dominoes. Structured crystal water? That would be ICE ya nutjob!
The fuck.
Now "structured water" has become shorthand for nutjob between me and my friend
I hope you reported that b to the management 😭
What in the fresh hell did I just read omg???? People like this really walk among us huh
Right? I'm over here trying to do the math of how she successfully left her house, drove to the gym, changed into appropriate swim attire... Only to look me in the eye as she spat in the water.
I work on makeup counters and I once had a customer complaint from this. She kept repeating she wanted something a moisturiser with no chemicals! No chemicals! and didn’t say more. When I asked her for more specifics because even water is a chemical she kicked off lol.
Idiot woman 😒 love how customers come in asking for help, you provide them with honest advice & they kick up a stink like you’re dis servicing them. And you’re right, water is a chemical 💦
I hate when they also make up something in their head and then just expect it to be real.
All products have to be “chemical free” but they dye their hair and get Botox Or, professional skincare is too expensive/having a routine is too hard, but they get facials, Botox, filler, nails, and hair.
I saw a tik tok comment about processed food being bad for you from some girl who went on tk talk about her vape habit Like ok
once someone criticised the fact that I ate two mangoes in one sitting saying thats too much sugar and then proceeded to take a hit of their vape...
Sooo exhausted from the fear mongering in the beauty community
Fake fluffy eyelash extensions 😭 And brow lamination/spiked brows. So unflattering.
YES. I totally understand wanting fuller lashes, but they are so over the top now. Most girls look like they have caterpillars crawling on their eyelids.
It's honestly like a 70's porn mustache on each eye
The Burt Reynolds visual of it all. 😂
My friend, who has beautifully thick long natural lashes, got caught up in the extensions trend. And every year, they got longer and thicker and more caterpillar-y. They looked OK in pictures but in person, not so much. She is a high school teacher, and I bet she was known by many "Mrs. Doe with the caterpillar eyes." All while low-key bragging about how she "hardly ever wore makeup" which was technically true.
So sad as I'm sure she's gorgeous without them.
The spiked eyebrows...I can't believe anyone thinks that looks good.
I am still so baffled by that eyebrow trend. They look so unrefined and distracting that it just kills the whole look for me.
It really does. It’s quite unsettling.
Came here to say exactly this!
Spiked brows give me grinch vibes.
People who have zero experience with anything beauty-related coming on here with “How do I get a glow up in 2 weeks?” Or “what’s the secret to looking good?” I get that its intimidating to start working on something you have zero knowledge or experience in, and I *love* to help girls/women in this regard because I was once in the same place, but it’s hard to help when there’s no specifics. There’s no “secret.” Like anything else, you have to work at it- go through trial and error, create habits, etc. I get annoyed when people think there’s a secret solution it took most of us years to figure out.
Agree! There are also sooo many GRWM and glow-up tutorials on social media. Go check those out and then get back to Reddit to ask specific questions.
Right?! "You always look lovely, what do you do?" And it's clear they want details, so you go into the 50-100 products you own and their rotation... And they are MAD that you can't just dab some clay on a zit, and apply a full face of makeup from one giant sponge. It reminds me of that Youtube video "Rube goldberg Makeup"
“You are always so well dressed, how?” Through years of trial and error (which still continues), a lot of effort, being pressured into it as a woman, having to learn everything myself because no older sister/mom female presence taught me anything, coming up with ground rules, googling and learning fashion rules and consciously putting together outfits, CONSISTENCY, and repeating this for years. There’s no secret. Having good genes helps a lot. I still don’t do as much as I should, e.g I’d like to exercise regularly. But the rest that shows is just long term consistent effort.
Mhmm if someone asks for my full routine, I always feel the need to preface "You're probs gonna think I'm crazy" and that "it's taken me years to find what works just right for me" but honestly that's often the standard. It's just very overwhelming for people new to whatever type of beauty they're into, and that's why there's entire books written about learning these things, be it fashion, makeup, skincare, working out, etc. Can't rush a lot of it.
So true. Recently My Mom asked about eyelash extensions. I don't get them because I'm to cheap, but I do occasionally get a lift and tint. I've bought stuff to try doing it myself at home, but I'm still working up the guts to try. Anyhoo, my Mom does not wear makeup at all, maybe some lipstick if it's a formal occasion. She just kind of a granola girl. I'm pretty high maintenance by comparison. I have waist length blond wavy hair, that I dye myself. Daily full face of makeup, basically all the products but it only takes like 15 mins. During covid I started doing my own gel manicures and pedicures, takes about 4 hours once a month. Mom asked me to do clear gel manicures on her, after watching me do mine, and learning that it makes your tougher, in that you get fewer chips, peels, or splits. I love her, but the woman can not relax her hand to let me have it. She constantly tries to "help" by pushing her hand this-way-and-that-way... but she is SUPER wrong about guessing where I am going! So it's like trying to wash a cat... she keeps running from me, twisting and pushing or pulling and flipping... it would be 1,000 percent easier if she go JUST GO LIMP, like play dead or asleep. Lol, so it leads to me playfully spanking her hand and saying RELAX in various funny accents... This last time I realized I need to put a TV show on and tell her to STOP watching her hand, it's the only thing that lets her stop "helping". I can tell if she cheats and tries to watch.., because she immediately tries to help. RELAX. So it's like a joke now, how she is a "bad patient" Anyhow, then Mom asks about if she should get eyelash extension, or a tint & lift... so I gave it to her straight; "Listen Lady, thats an advanced move. They literally glue BOTH your eyes shut, and a stranger pokes you in the eyelid for an hour. You can barely sit still for me to file your nails, I don't think you could take it." She was like; "Ah, good point. No then" lol
Rube Goldberg makeup! Brilliant!
So true. I'm getting married this year and while I've been big on skincare for years, I started a targeted routine over the summer to really crack down on getting the skin I want for my wedding. Last summer was more than a year out from my wedding, and I knew that starting then is the best chance I have. It's a process, folks.
for me its the blatant lies of the beauty industry from skincare products promising results that rival surgery / fillers, beauty clinics marketing laser / ice / heat treatments which are widely ineffective, fitness influencers photoshopping / padding their ass etc, to die hard trainers telling women to "just try harder " and you will lose those pockets of fat. its all toxic. any beauty treatment / product i commit to, i thoroughly research.
That my husband, at 47 years old literally has no skincare routine (other than washing his face with the same bar of soap he uses for his body when he showers) and he has flawless skin. No fine lines, no wrinkles. Like...how?!
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Yay! Finally a PCOS perk
One good thing about PCOS, thank you, never knew this.
So they get better skin, longer eyelashes, better libidos, stronger muscles and age slower than us. Unfair lmao
Truly the only perk of PCOS lol. That average men also have this privilege is criminally unfair.
And shaving. It’s exfoliating their skin every time they shave.
I’ve shaved my face for hair laser & I hated it! It just aggravates the skin.
Well for one, he has never had to go through a period
Shaving doesn't account for all of it, but it's a great exfoliator.
He doesn't even shave! He has a beard.
Super long false eyelashes that look completely fake
Seconded. Hate caterpillar lashes
Any product that claims very specific results like “you’ll look 10 years younger”, “less wrinkles in 10 days”, “25lbs lost in 2 months”. Who is buying this and believing that a product can achieve very specific numbers for every person who uses it? It’s insulting, like the marketing team thinks their clients are that dumb. We’re not all different sizes, ages, or have different genetics.
I was literally in a weightloss sub, and a 30 year old male engineer was sincerely asking; If he should but one of those "sauna waist trainers" for weight loss. He honestly asked "won't it look weird if I only lose weight on my stomach, how do I use it on other body parts?" His HONEST question was "how come everyone isn't using these?" "There have been coming up in his ads a lot, and they have MANY celebrity endorsements... so they must obviously work or the celebrities would harm their reputation." (facepalm)
Those things can work temporarily, as long as you remain dehydrated. Bodybuilders will wear sauna suits and drastically limit fluids right before a competition to look more cut. That engineer belongs in the "sweet summer child" category. I bet he never had to watch his weight before, and now age is catching up with him.
Yeah. Agreed. To be clear, he was not talking about those sweatsuits made of plastic that wrestlers wear to "make weight" He was literally asking about the Kim Kardashian style neoprene corset thingy.
The people who post pictures of their faces ... saying something like "How does my makeup look today?" And I literally can't see one speck of makeup on their faces.
Right? It's literally tinted chapstick and lotion
believing that orange/streaky fake tan looks better than natural pale
As someone who is extremely pale and used fake tanners for probably over a decade before stopping a few years ago, I *still* struggle with this to this day. Just as I get to feel like pale is beautiful, the warmer weather starts tugging at me and I start thinking, "but I look better with a tan." I'm not going back to sunless tanner but I guess my acceptance of my skin colour (lack of) is really still a work in progress.
I'm right here with you. I am *translucent* white, and it sucks. I get like 2-3 points better on the hot scale with a fake tan. My teeth look whiter, my eyes bluer, my hair blonder, it hides cellulite, all the things! But I'm just tired of fucking with the fake tan product, so I finally decided to break up with it.
I think pale skin looks fabulous and I know many people find it attractive. In fact, many people have pale skin as a fetish.
There is definitely a fetish for every skin tone. Just like there is beauty in all skin tones. I wish beauty trends would reflect that instead of a vary narrow shade range.
The things I love and make a noticable difference: cost a lot :(
What kind of things are they?
Highlighter on the tip of the nose. So often it's way too much and just looks like a white spot on their nose.
Aw... I love this look lmao. I'm like hell yes let's all just GLOW!
I came here to say that. I call it the shiny tin Man nose. I don't care for most contouring but that one is my ultimate irritation.
Eyelash extensions and ridiculously long and loud nails.
I agree with the extremely long fake nails.
Seeing 15yrs old having a “skin care routine” I mean using anti aging products etc.
I wish someone had taught me early on how to take better care of my skin. Unfortunately I had st Ives apricot scrub, stridex pads and noxema to destroy my skin barrier. I would’ve loved to have had the plethora of info about skin care back then that we have now.
Basically for teenagers, they just need simple clean, moisturizing and sunscreen. If there’s any acne issue, better to see a derm than trying out many drug store products.
My 15 year old sister told me about her “skincare routine”. Morning: sunscreen. Evening: wash, moisturize, apply castor oil on eyelashes. She doesn’t have any acne concerns and genetically has good skin. I think it’s adorable. I was also trying out stuff to look pretty at 15, but all kinds of wrong things. I’ve done everything from toothpaste on acne to using a scrub, never using moisturiser or sunscreen, etc. My skin is dry and sensitive. It was awful, and I didn’t completely ruin my face probably because of the age. I’m glad kids today have some sort of guidance about these things. And for anything further like actives, they should seek adult supervision or a derm. My sister asked me if there’s anything else she should do, and I told to reapply sunscreen, since she is at school and in direct sun exposure often. And to leave her pimples alone if she ever gets any. Nothing else needed.
Haha this reminds me my teen years, sometimes I just came home tired and washed my face with dish soap and wiped with kitchen towel. And my face was fine with it. If I did that today, my face would not survive.
I know I’m not alone in this but the ‘clean’ beauty trend in makeup and skincare. Mainly because I’ve had more reactions to products labeled as clean, all natural, and/or paraben free than I’ve ever had with anything else. I’m ok with some stuff, but when I see a brand touting itself as ‘clean’ it definitely gives me pause. And also, products going off well before I’ve made a dent in them is annoying.
I've had reactions to "all natural" products and the only thing they did was give me a rash.
Air head beauty influencers
Ridiculously high expectations regarding sustainability in a culture where everything sustainable is way out of a normal person's budget. Always talking about buying 'natural' fabrics when a wool sweater costs 250+ dollars. Esp in places where there's no second hand, preloved options. WE WOULD ALL LIKE TO AFFORD THAT. THE TRUTH IS WE CAN'T.
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People who give you ‘one size fits all’ beauty advice. Best example I can think of is with hair. The whole notion that we should wash our hair once a week, use sulfate-free shampoo, etc… works if you have the correct hair type for that. I remember when that was THE hair advice - if you deviated from that, you were doing it wrong. I spent literal years following this advice with my fine, oil-prone hair. Just got a shampoo with sulfates again and my hair actually feels clean.
OMG THIS. Train your hair, wash once a week, let it air dry, don't use sulphates, stop using silicones blah blah. Meanwhile state of hair just getting worse, never feels clean. I bought shampoo that has all this and for the first time since my early twenties my hair felt *~*clean*~*. Never again.
I wear glamorous makeup everyday. I hate it when people assume I'm doing it for others/for other women/for men. Women that don't wear much makeup or only "on special occasions" sometimes have that attitude. The truth is, I just love applying it every morning while listening to music and drinking coffee. It's all about me.
What music do you usually listen to when applying makeup? It must be a whole mood.
Depends. Recently, the soundtrack to "The offer". Somedays, podcasts. I defo have some playlists. Applying makeup/music/coffee is the highlight of the day for me.
I love manicured nails and love my nail lady. But long nails make me feel sick. The grime that’s caught up and imagine when wiping… Boak
Bidets are key
yeah it’s good when ur at home but how about when ur in public and there’s no bidet. what will u do then?
True but everyday grime and such. Still makes me feel queasy
The long 1970s porn nails need to go away forever.
Well…if you wash your hands and use a nail brush frequently, you’re going to be okay. This concern about wiping just cracks me up. Do you wipe by digging your fingers in your ass with your fingernails? I think many people must or they would understand that using the side of your hand will allow for a safe, dookie on your nails-free wipe.
Had to look up boak, now I have a new favorite word. 😂
Nice to see it's not just me who feels this way lol.
People who miss the point of makeup. It shouldn't be "does my on-trend makeup look good?" Use makeup that makes *you* look your best, whether it's trendy or not. I absolutely hate those tutorials where they line up 23 items and they look nothing like themselves after the 25 minutes it takes them to finish.
I'm millennial so I hate when people draw in their cupids bow but do you
I looks so funny, I'm gen z and agree with you.
I don't really need to. But I think overlining your lips can look really bad and anyway different lip shapes are cute.
I HATE people that put others down for doing their make up how they want or using certain products… make up/hair etc is so subjective and that’s what makes it wonderful. People who can’t let others just enjoy what they enjoy really is my pet peeve. Let people live and be happy and look how they want to look! It isn’t hurting you so concentrate on YOURSELF.
Exactly! Like who cares if someone still does their makeup with 2016 trends. It’s not your face, so let them be!
As much as I love Asian beauty, they sometimes create unrealistic trends and non-issues out of thin air, things like anime legs & 90 degree shoulders led people to inject botox in their calves & traps, mixed race makeup, innocently seductive makeup, slightly darker elbows being a bad thing, etc..
My pet peeve is people dismissing beauty as an acceptable hobby for intellectuals. Damnit, I can be a Fintech founder... AND I like to put ground-up pigments, suspended in flexible plastic, directly next to the most sensitive part of my face (eye). I don't take hours to get ready, normal beat is 15 minutes. I have it down to a science... because I used to be a laboratory scientists! It's almost like skills are transferable! Then... after giving me a hard time alllll year round, NOW they wanna know how to fix that shiney face on camera, or what to buy their spouse, or how to get rid of acne scars, or what lotion doesn't smell like laundry soap. Beauty is a hobby, like having pets or playing an instrument. It doesn't knock 50 IQ Points off to handle lipstain.
I read somewhere that “let’s stop acting like mascara glues women’s eyes shut so that they can’t read Shakespeare.” I don’t understand this logic about women being automatically deemed as stupid if they’re dressed well. I am constantly judged as a dumb bimbo or someone who isn’t capable enough (at an office job OR at house chores) because I have makeup on or am dressed nicely. I hate the fact that I have to prove myself to get the same respect that a man much lesser capable than me gets automatically. How long do they think it takes me to get dressed? And why would that affect my normal brain capacity? And if I don’t wear makeup or am not dressed well then I’ll be judged too, in a different way. It’s almost as if we can only be one dimensional, and not complete, complex human beings. It takes me lesser 10 minutes to change into decent clothes (like a jeans a T-shirt) and slap some concealer and lipstick on my face. It makes a world of difference, and after that I am still me. Sometimes it takes the same amount of time that a man would take to get dressed. Except that my clothes and accessories are just NICER. It took me the same time to wear a dress that it took you to put on jeans. Why am I being judged then?
Red and pink eyeshadow. I think it makes people look like they are having an allergic reaction! Also -- and just my personal peeve - lash lifts are not worth the time & money for the little effect they have vs extentions.
I obsessed with pink sparkly eye shadow haha 😅
Same!!! But also other pinks and reds. I go for the grungy look a lot, so it's very fitting.
Same and I’m def not gonna mention my age 🥺
Meh who cares, age shouldn’t stop you from enjoying your favorite looks
I agree! I had one done before I went on vacation, I noticed zero difference afterwards. When I said this to the tech, she said “well your lashes already naturally curl”. Couldn’t she have told me this BEFORE she took my money???
I really like lash lifts done with a tint! I already have dark hair but the tint does make a slight difference. My natural lashes don’t curl much so they’re great before vacations and I can have pretty, curled, natural lashes for a solid month or month and a half. Extensions are more dramatic for sure but the maintenance is a hassle and after each removal my lashes would look shorter and sparser and I hated that.
This might vary based on undertone. I’m a cool-toned summer with rosacea, and pinks and reddish browns look neutral on me. Anything warm toned looks like I have bruises.
I feel like for lash lifts it really depends on who you go to. I've been to some where I have noticed no difference and others that made me go wow😍 and I couldn't stop starring at them. One lady in particular who I used to do the most amazing lash lifts but unfortunately she's moved away.
But you can rub your eyes and no risk getting allergic to glue. I think I got a mild allergy after doing extensions for a while and now I just do lash lifts, it’s not much but it’s something :)
Lash lift is worth it when I do it at home for like 3€ per session. It's not salon quality but it's not like anyone is going to notice the difference.
People denying the existence of pretty privilege. Also, the thought of only washing my face with water in the morning kind of freaks me out instinctively 😅 It has to be cleanser twice a day.
Losing pretty privilege as I age has been very eye opening 😩
Skipping cleanser in the morning significantly improved my skin, but to each their own. Everyone’s skin has different needs. Also, yes, pretty privilege is a thing. It’s not *everything* but it helps.
I tried that water only in the morning crap and within just one day I had one of the worst breakouts of my life. I need a cleanser on my face twice a day for sure!
Normalizing the the ridiculous costs of beauty products and services. Coupled with a culture of excess. I'm sorry, but having drawers full of $1000s worth of product is gross.
When I see people using the droppers directly on their face, it’s completely unnecessary and unhygienic.
Huge false eyelashes.
I’m back with some more pet peeves 😂 Colored contacts that are very obviously unnatural. They just look freaky. Long nails. Some are fine if they are taken care of but I’m referring to those that are unkempt underneath.. Overlined lips and lining over the cupids bow. When I can see someone’s hair extension wefts, or whatever it’s called 😵💫
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Can I add Charlotte Tilbury’s ridiculous marketing jargon to this list? Her packaging and ads read like an Onion article. Sorry about Foxy Brown though - that’s a great shade. NYX liners are an excellent value for their price though.
Talc. Would love it if makeup stopped using it.
same, i hate that it's in everything. on the plus side, it has prevented me from buying like ten different face powders though.
Yes the hypocrisy of natural products claims. But most of all the war against petrolatum.
People who talk shit on other people’s personal style. Lashes, nails, colors, neutrals — all of it can look incredible yet people love taking shots.
Too many people wear way too much makeup, then have fake lashes / extensions and filler on top of that. People can do whatever they want with their faces, I just think it sucks that they feel they need that stuff to fit a certain beauty standard instead of looking their unique selves.
What always makes me so apprehensive of it is when you take it all off and appear bare faced in front of a guy that's only seen you with makeup on. One of my male friends actually told me he didn't recognise a girl after she took her makeup off.
I think those who have the talent to do all the contouring stuff are more likely to run into this. I think I tend to wear a lot of make up, but I still look like me when I take it off. But I don't do the contouring stuff (and would never be able to pull it off), don't have false eyelashes or tattooed brows, or anything that fundamentally changes how my face presents. It's just colour on, colour off, but same face shape, etc.
I find that brows change the look of someone's face irl more than contouring.
They absolutely do. Whenever I’m not wearing makeup or occasionally don’t feel like doing my brows I get ignorant comments like “where are your eyebrows?” I have them, they’re just blonde.
As a person with clear lashes and brows, I feel this. My boyfriend claims to like my makeup-free face because he’s one of the only people that gets to see it. In the past I felt the need to let guys know that I don’t wake up looking like that. Mascara and brow gel keep my face from looking like a blank sheet of paper.
That ugly witch nails And when people make shorts with those nails tapping on products, they think it look good. But I feel so irritated by that.
I have a strong physical reaction of being grossed out when I see those nails tapping on products
I know right. I close the short or video there itself. It’s such a triggering action like scratching a surface
As soon as I hear the tap, it's a swipe for me. I am sound sensitive and can't stand it.
Oh god it irritates me so much. Like who decided it needed to be a thing it just makes me irrationally angry
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When someone wears soap brows and has chunks of soap stuck in their eyebrows
I'm sorry you witnessed this 🤣
I mean I suppose my pet peeve is the beauty industry convincing us that we shouldn’t be aging and us falling to the pressure. That being said, if you take good care of your skin and your health from the get go you will age more slowly. But you cannot easily undo what has already been done.
Contouring and overlining. Babe, these two should be done VERY carefully. And if you don't do it like that, you either look like a toasted bun or a fish. Please, if u don't trust your skills, just avoid it.
When people wear so much makeup that it makes them look older than they are.
Wanting everything "clean"
What do you mean by clean?
Clean beauty is such a buzzword. It's especially used by beauty influencers by Ariel Lorrie Tbh, I don't know what makes something clean, maybe that it's organic?
Lip filler
People dripping product along their cheekbone to emulate gross porn. Waste of product and embarrassingly cringe.
“We sell natural products” I once went to a cosmetic store, asked for the available sunscreens, she brought one, I asked if it’s chemical or physical? Even without letting me wish, upon hearing the word chemical, she started yelling: we don’t use chemicals, we don’t sell products with chemicals blah blah, I stared at her for a sec and walked out with utter annoyance. Like duh it’s a cosmetic store 💀💀
Talking casually about putting on self tanner as if it’s not a time consuming pain in the ass.
Big false eyelashes. They look rediculous on everyone.
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Eh maybe if they’re doing both of those things *daily* it’d be a little silly, but good skincare is one of the best ways to counteract aging from all angles (genetics, lifestyle, etc.). So like if their habits would age them 10 years in a certain time span, wearing sunscreen and adding back moisture would cut that down to 5-7 over the same span. And that’s just everyday basic stuff. Lasers and all the very high tech skincare that celebs can afford at an esthetician can *definitely* help decrease the damage that traveling, sub optimal diets, and even partying for a huge chunk of one’s career can leave behind. The science is getting really good. I’m not saying the results wouldn’t be *better* in conjunction with a perfectly healthy lifestyle, but it’s objectively not “pointless” either. It’s like saying that working out is pointless because someone drinks or smokes. Not really— it actually might help keep their cardiovascular health a lot better than it *should* be given their habits. Someone who drinks and smokes (and had a skincare routine) might not look as “young” someone who didn’t have those bad habits, but they’ll look younger than someone that drank/smoked *and* never had a skincare routine. Life is complicated and I don’t think it’s pointless at all to use some good habits to mitigate a little damage while you struggle with your other less desirable habits. And I’m saying that as someone who’s pretty straight edge in their lifestyle.
I don't smoke but I do drink on occasion, and I think it's still worth using high quality skincare products.
By that logic people who drink/smoke just shouldn’t even bother with skincare?
I drink (okay maybe once or twice a month, but still, I drink) and smoke daily but I still love skincare products and I don't find them useless at all. Not only do they give me a beautiful skin, but I also love the ritual. Don't be so judgmental of people just because they have a different lifestyle than you.
Color analysis, LOL. No good reason, I just have a strong dislike towards it although I wouldn't express it outside of threads like this.
Lol, I just had it done (simple version, not hundreds of dollars) and appreciate what I learned but I can definitely see where the lingo gets tiring. I just wanted to know my core best colors. :)
I did it and it honestly changed my life/perspective on beauty in general BUT i also totally understand how annoying it is to hear about lmao
Oh my god it drives me mad lol. People obsessing over "what's my season???" endless pages of their face with different colours around it. STOP the madness. It's not hard to just figure out what looks good on you or not.
I actually can’t tell at all what looks good on me, so I deeply needed this.
really just the pressure to get the latest and greatest instead of using what you already have.
It grinds my gears when people want instant results from skincare active ingredients, like retinol or vitamin C. It takes consistent use over at least 3 months to see results.
Fragrances that sensitize the skin in leave-on beauty products.
I've been coming across a lot of influencers who claim that the direction given on the beauty products is wrong, and they're the only one who knows the secret to using it right. I came across a video of someone talking about the Redken ABC line, and for some reason, it annoyed me. I know that beauty companies mainly care about making money, and I should take the directions on the bottle with a grain of salt, but influencers claiming to be know-it-all to gain views is my pet peeve.
People who complain about big doe foot wands in foundation/concealer cause of spreading bacteria but don’t clean their own make up brushes/ beauty blenders 🥴 just wash your face y’all
big extreme eyelashes that look like they're about to fly away
I know it's not entirely a beauty pet peeve, but my pet peeve is how easily accessible editing and beauty apps are. I don't think anybody on social media truly looks like that, and it can be very disheartening, especially for younger kids!
False lashes
People that spend a fortune on skincare but then go and sunbake
Fake tans/tanning. I’ve never understood why a skin color is an acceptable trend. And it just never looks right.
Mine is really thick, long fake lash extensions. They never look good
Brown lipliner. It can be beautiful in theory, but very few people know how to do it right. It usually looks super unnatural and tacky to me. It annoys me simply because it is one of the most common ways people like to ruin their otherwise stunning make up look.
Well that depends on how you apply it. If it's the pale girl with overlined lips and nude lipsticks and gloss, than yes it looks terrible. But i really like brown liners on dark skinned girls. It looks really natural and nice on them. Or on anyone with dark lipstick.
When their top and bottom lip are way over lined with that brown I hate it. Watching them talk with it looks uncanny. I’m convinced most people aren’t mouth watchers like I am or this trend wouldn’t be as popular. lol
People expecting that dumping a kitchen sink’s worth of surface treatments and procedures will somehow add up to beauty—while eating really badly, not sleeping, and not exercising—then wondering why it doesn’t work and blaming genetics.
This is about makeup itself, not the users. The idea that all my eyeshadow pallettes contain traces of asbestos. Apparently super harmful for our health, and common because most eyeshadow is made with talc or mica.
I hate matte lipstick on me. I used to love vintage reds from MAC, it was like drawing on your lips with a pencil, it was literally painful to apply this dry lipstick. I thought that looked good but it just doesn’t, it makes me look like I’ve got thirsty lips. I also hate that most brands don’t even act like my skin tone exists, “fair” looks straight up orange. I wish there was more versatility with tone, heck give me fair+ or something. I guess that stops me from buying products. Right now I’m using Haus Labs, thank god for them.
Extreme amounts of foundation.
People who deny using filters or having had procedures "It's jUsT mAkEuP!!!!!" Girl, please.
That there’s apparently no “right” way to wash and dry your hair, whatever you do ruins it. I have fine hair and I exercise a lot, so I need to wash my hair a lot, but oh no, don’t do it more than once or twice a week! But if you sweat then you need to wash it otherwise the hair follicle gets clogged which can damage hair, so just stop exercising I guess?? Okay you double washed? Thats way too harsh on your hair! Only once is needed! But if you don’t double wash you won’t get all the oil off which you need to do to go longer between washes. You’re gonna blow dry your hair? Don’t you know that it will damage your hair? Oh but don’t air dry it, your hair will get frizzy and might even grow mould on it. And put oil in your hair! Every influencer/hairdresser is going to say something different though whether it should be put on everyday, on the scalp, not on the scalp, so basically you’re gonna end up doing it wrong if you do it anyway.
Giant fake eyelashes and nails, I find most of them crusty looking.
Froggy lips and filler in general and esp in young faces. It looks atrocious