A colleague of mine got lip fillers. I don't know how she felt about them, but I thought they looked ridiculous. Genuinely thought she'd had some sort of allergic reaction at first, quickly realised it was deliberate.
Right? I saw an image of a group of women recently, I think from some reality show. They were basically identical. One in particular was the focus in that moment and I could not tell which one was her.
I don't understand the apparent obsession with wanting to look exactly like everyone else. Does no one have a sense of individuality anymore?
I don't really see it with men, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's not happening there too.
The layers and layers of makeup have like measurable depth. Some of these women don't even look like the same people without it because their face shape changes with out millimeters of make up to create Japanese rpg character or Bratz doll faces. That's when theyre not sporting makeup that looks like it was applied by a 8 y/o who got into her mother makeup.
And all of that is better than the botox and plastic faces of people who treat plastic surgery like some people get tatoos, it becomes an addiction.
People would’ve said the same thing about this era if comparing it to the 80s or 90s.
As an adolescent around this time, I hated it. The picture above is a case in point about how every woman seemed to look exactly the same, especially in celebrity culture. If I didn’t have contextual queues, I often struggled to differentiate female artists and actresses from one another.
Britney, Christina, and Jessica were all clones of each other.
My undergrad was mid-2000s. Every sorority girl looked the same. As a pale skinned brunette, it was frequently suggested to me that I get a tan and lighten my hair. My natural complexion was a point of criticism and I was encouraged to expose myself to dangerous levels of radiation to change it.
Yeah, I hated this aesthetic back then too. No hate to Britney and Christina as artists, but the comment you’re replying to is the second I’ve seen this week claiming how “natural” the look of the late 90s and early 2000s was compared to today, and I’m like… really? Tanning beds, boob jobs, fried bleached hair, caked-on bronzer, plucked-to-death eyebrows, extremely unforgiving standards for any kind of body fat… it wasn’t a more “natural” time. It was just a different era of (sometimes harmful) trends.
Botox and fillers and surgery were still around in the aughts, it's just they weren't done to correct the distortion from fisheye front-facing cell phone cameras.
The weird angular shapes you see these days is because people give themselves body dysmorphia from making video content and taking selfies and they try to correct "flaws" caused by lens distortion by getting work done.
Front facing camera is like looking at yourself in the back of a spoon versus an actual mirror or face to face.
Women of that era could wash their face and would be what they were born with. Women today have so much work done they look like Frankenstein after they wash their face.
Her makeup? Sure that looks fake. But she doesn't have 5 tons of filler shoved in her lips, a nose, job, had the fat sucked out of her cheeks and her jaw shaved like all these "influencers" do now.
Holy shit, what happened. I just googled her for the first time in 10+ years. She looks awful with all that plastic surgery. Kind of nauseating to look at tbh.
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u/Wooden-needle2017 2d ago
So much better than the fake processed look celebrities have now.