From NY Magazine: "Are the Teens Really Jealous of Our Under-Eye Circles?" Quoting various editors:
"One of my childhood friends had an extremely chic mom who always had visible dark circles. They made her look interesting and mysterious, like she’d been up all night with her handsome young lover. So I’ve always thought they were kind of sexy"/"Right, and the people showing off the trend on TikTok all conform to conventional beauty notions in every other way"/"I think the dark circles are more about a rejection of wellness culture, and I like it from that perspective. Like 'heroin chic' in the ’90s"/"So maybe everything is fake … including this trend."
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More "life as drama" drama. Noted.
Victimology, including empathetic and sympathetic appeal, is a trillion dollar industry. Also, selfieism.
It's the new "free bleeding".
"Today people are wanting to express 'what they are going through right now.'"
That's easy. Perfectly adaptable to titschlok too. Here's what you do. Strip naked, smear yourself in peanut butter, pad your room and tie yourself into a straight-jacket while bouncing yourself off the walls and screaming at people that you're gay.
It's what all the cool kids are going through right now. Only the nerds are doing heroin.
Microblackface.
Who has under the eye circles anymore?
You see them quite prominently in old photographs, freakishly so, but not anymore.
Whew. It's on TikTok. Had me going there for a minute.
Sounds like the later years of the French Revolution when women cropped their hair a la guillotine.
But is it true?
It only looks good on Olivia Williams.
My father had a long train commute that went against his night owl preference. Growing up, the bags under his eyes to me were his defining physical characteristic. This is bizarre.
They can have mine.
I have always had rather dark circles under/around my eyes. Sometimes depending on colour/contrast, it even looks like a black eye (only no swelling). Inherited from my father. I rather like them, to be honest -- sometimes they even them out in formation photos, and my face is a bit flat without them.
Heroin chic was a look popularized in early-1990s fashion and characterized by pale skin, dark circles underneath the eyes, a very skinny body, dark red lipstick, stringy hair, and an angular bone structure.
Me: "Wow. It's true what they say about what's fashionable being cyclical. Who'd have thought the Wednesday Addams look would be cool again?"
TikBots: "Who's Wednesday Addams?"
I assume black circles under the eye means someone is waiting to drop from a Heart Attack. (Sorry Balfegor)
As the late Erma Bombeck wrote "Fads and Fashions that have Underwhelmed Me."
God I’m glad I was born in the thirties.
My fashion sense peaked in 1987.
Luckily for me, I have butch lesbian friend who taught me how to apply makeup for the camera, because I don’t know squat about cosmetics. Before she fixed me, I was still using glittery eyeshadow I’d bought when I was a tween and Son of Sam was in the headlines. She can even make my formidable Italian under-eye circles disappear with some weird blue pencil. She also picks my clothes. The woman can find couture in a Goodwill. I have an actual bespoke Kenneth Cole jacket-dress she found in a second-hand store. It cost $5. I would be one sad mess without her, and my husband appreciates the results.
I wonder when goiters will make their return, this time as a fashion statement?
Über first-world problems...
Kind of reminds me of the 'Heroin Chic' look that was all the rage among fashion houses at one point.
'Hey, let's make our models look like junkies, that'll sell clothes!'
It probably worked, and maybe the models were junkies indeed...
Also, sounds like white privilege...
I, for one, await the inexorable exaltation of the earlobe as the height of sensual appeal. Will hairy pinnas be waxed, or left natural?
mikee said...
I, for one, await the inexorable exaltation of the earlobe as the height of sensual appeal. Will hairy pinnas be waxed, or left natural?
2/4/21, 3:21 PM
"Is that fur coming out of your ears?"
Who's modeling for Derelicte this season?
Did someone say Wednesday Addams was cool again?
Dark circles under the eyes. Isn't that white privilege?
"I think the dark circles are more about a rejection of wellness culture..."
Go on...
I remember when Asian gals were trying to whiten their skin with— bat guano.
Or did I make that up...
Then there is the gray hair dye that some of the young women use. I find the other not-found-in-nature colors (blue, green, etc.) more appealing than the fake gray.
JMW Turner said...
Dark circles under the eyes. Isn't that white privilege?
Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago says 'no.'
Once again, knowing what the cool kids of NY are talking about makes me happy to not be among them.
The meaning of life as told by Tik Tok? Maybe they're just assholes.
So I guess Brian Stelter - he of the fat n’ rouged cheeks - is a man far behind his time.
Iman - Tater Stelter is the shame of all Tuber-Americans.
TFG who has no shame causes massive amounts of shame among teh spuds... sounds about right, Mikey!
So, women: wives, mothers and daughters, would strive, for themselves, for family, for community, and now they imbibe, smoke, kneel, and sacrifice for social progress. This evolution reminds me of the disparate character of neighborhoods, where neglect and avoidance fosters a progressive, often generational, climate. Some, Select Lives Matter, indeed.
Jeez, what an insignificant generation.
Gen Z: Oh, I'm so tired...
Quaestor: Correction,cupcake, you're so tiresome.
I remember one day as a youngster complaining about being tired and unsure what to do about something so important I can’t remember it now. But I remember the story my dad told me about being tired and uncertain about what to do while he was busy being shot at in Hue.
Put it in perspective.
And I was always amused by young women during WW2 who used eyebrow pencil to draw lines up the backs of their legs to simulate seamed stockings. Under eye bags are not amusing.
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“ Blogger Clyde said...
Then there is the gray hair dye that some of the young women use. I find the other not-found-in-nature colors (blue, green, etc.) more appealing than the fake gray.”
The gray-hair-on-young-women look creeps me out a little bit.
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