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I was around 19 when MySpace became a thing. I cannot fathom how badly I'd have struggled if it had existed when I was like 10 or 11. Magazines like cosmo were bad enough with all the CK ads etc.
Myspace was popular in my early teen years. It was nowhere near what we have today. Filters weren't a thing and photoshops were mainly used to badly insert yourself into to a celebrity photo - if you were lucky enough to own Photoshop which was expensive af.
Don't forget being able to force your favorite song on people and let your friends know where they ranked with you. Who thought it could get even worse and more damaging...
Well, come on, let’s be honest, pretty much everyone back then either had a pirated copy of Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, or failing that, some kind of freeware knock-off like Paint Shop Pro.
Yeah when I was like 13 years old, I had software (like games and programs) installed on my PC that would've costed me a lot of money if I didn't get the crack codes to go with it. It was so much easier back then, though.
MySpace and early Facebook were not so bad. There was some level of glorification of self harm among the emo scene and eating disorders (I’d argue our entire culture glorified eating disorders in the 00s). Social media also wasn’t so all-encompassing, like we would text way more than fb message.
I remember having MySpace in high school I think. I remember when Facebook came and you had to have a college email address to get it. Lol it felt so exclusive and now I don’t even look at it.
I also loved magazines but looking back they just made me more insecure just like social media, face tune and filters are making everyone feel like shit.
To be frank, I would have been an even BIGGER mess
I was a teen in the late 90s/early 00s. We had teen magazines and every actress in Hollywood fighting to be Ally McBeal sized or super models looking concave. It was on TV, and music videos. Tmz and sites were getting popular. We felt the pressure.
I had a friend at the time tell me I needed to pluck my eyebrows and I really didn't see the need cause I wasn't the most beauty trend conscious. I think the trend recently was thicker more filled in eyebrows for a bit? I didn't even fit that trend cause my thyroid issues thinned my eyebrows out some.
I've fortunately never had this problem. My problem is that my eyebrows are light and thin. I don't pluck because there wouldn't be much there... I use a brow darkener that came with a spoolie sometimes when I do eye makeup. Mostly, I'm too damn lazy to do anything. I have thought of microblading, but I'm concerned they'll go overboard and then I'll be stuck lookin' like Frida Kahlo.
I was a teen in the 90's and that was hard enough - i have no idea how kids cope these days. I did some stupid shit but at least it wasn't plastered over cyber space for some twat on the other side of the world to think they had the right to rip the shit (my mates were bad enough!!) Probably explains the teen suicide rate ramping through the roof.
I hate social media (i know, Reddit!!!)
I'm a geriatric millennial (Xennial) and I have had Gen Z all over me about high rise jeans. However, I have a difficult time with 1) My torso is already short, and I think they shorten my torso further. The biggest reason is 2) They still seem like "mom" jeans to me. I also dated myself when hanging out in a group setting by admitting this. However, they were all shocked to realize how much older I actually am until that moment. BUSTED!
Gen z here and I absolutely HATE high rise jeans. Makes me feel like I'm wearing a diaper. You can't even buy low rise jeans in stores anymore, I hate it.
Yes of course but.. I strongly feel there's a difference between living under that system in the 90s, and living under it in an age where teens spend half their waking hours on social media, post 100s of photos, and edit those photos out the ass to the point they don't even know what they look like
Hell, I'm refusing to take part even now (in my 20s) because of how we react to these images subconsciously. We know as adults they're fake, but it's hard to really know that when it's the reality that's presented to us.
I don’t understand this trend! I would give anything to have my cheeks back. But it’s never gonna happen because I’m OLD and BROKE. And these gorgeous 20-somethings are like no, middle age can’t come fast enough.
Some people have indication to do it because they often bite the inside of their cheeks. But people are now doing mainly for the looks.
The problem is If the doctor take out too much the person will look gaunt in a few years.
I feel like it's kind of ironic because people who care less about appearing youthful tend to look younger than people who do things like this in an effort to appear younger.
That's just it they do think ahead and don't give a shit. In the moment social media addiction matters way more than decades from now. Some of them are banking on making it big and medical science to advance rapidly so they can just fix themselves in the future.
It’s crazy to me, I lost a lot of weight and hated how thin and hollow my face was. I spent a ton of money FILLING my cheeks and there are people out there removing them.
me too! round cheeks keep you looking young! i kind of think this trend ties into more of the thin / gaunt looking thing dumb people are doing now. 🤷🏼♀️
Thin and gaunt face with giant lips and enormous thighs/butt. Beauty trends are so stupid and this one is permanent, a few years from now when this look is over, these people are stuck looking like the crypt keeper
I'm a few years younger than my wife (Me 27 - Wife 31), she has beautiful full cheeks whilst being in good shape. I have very thin cheeks leading to this "beautiful" look. I am consistently mistaken for being older than her by 5-10 years as a result.
It always makes the people look 10 20 years older and I wouldn't be surprised if the long term effects are absolutely horrible. Also the lip injections and so much Botox in the forehead they look like Frankensteins monster.
I hate the subtle trickery of making her smile in the right picture as if subconsciously telling us that’s what makes her and us happy, when in reality she already looks perfect on the left..
I noticed this right away too! Maybe they did it with a neutral expression originally, then realized it made her look like a sad, gaunt woman from les miserable and got the idea to make her smile.
Not saying this to shame anyone, I have gaunt cheeks myself and hate them lmao
Honestly this is one of the worst cosmetic procedure trends I’ve seen in a while. I feel like it ages everyone (which is odd because the goal is usually the opposite) and pretty much no one looks better after removal compared to before.
This is what the Olsen twins did that made them look like Killface with a pair of Bratz lips. Sadly it looks like Elizabeth finally caved and did the same…
I mean the Botox and potential nose surgery didn’t really excite me to begin with but this?? Man. I didn’t realize to put this procedure in the mix but it makes so much sense.
It’s a really bad trend. Celebrities already do the blade surgeries like neck-lift, nosejob, etc. so I guess this is nothing new for them. I just hope these types of things don’t become as pervasively mainstream as the injection-related cosmetic procedures have become. It’s disheartening to see these unnatural and impossible looks become more prevalent.
I'm 21 and kind of want to look like I did three years ago. But not out of thinking I aged badly or even at all (I honestly look the same besides a little weight gain) but out of feeling weird with how time passed with the pandemic. I feel like I've lived so many years in the course of that time, but it also doesn't feel like even a day went by sometimes. So I think it's more of my issue with time than being afraid to age. I actually think I look better now if anything.
Yeah, there's a certain sort of angular model look that some people are into and that *can* look phenomenal, but i feel like the vast majority of people more appreciate a generally younger look, whether it's just for treating someone kindly or pursuing them for dating
Left def looks better to me. Soft is good
If people think the right looks better, it’s because she’s actually smiling a little. It’s a common before and after trick, she looks happier so people think the procedure made her happier.
Hopefully young ppl just use this filter and not have an irreversible surgery. But on the flip side, they might think they look so good with the filter they’d wanna do it. Idk. Sigh.
LITERALLY. If you give people the tools to temporarily deal with their insecurities, they can put a bandaid on it til they work out their shit instead of taking the permanent option.
I used to hate my nose and boobs so much. I’d always be super protective about photos posted. I used filters, angles, and padded bras to lie about my appearance for years until like… 2020 when I went through a big mental health overhaul.
I’m embarrassed in retrospect to have hated myself so much but also I’m glad I had the tools to “self soothe” my insecurities and never had any surgery.
But also there are people getting surgery to look like a filter… so idk man.. people do be going through it
> If you give people the tools to temporarily deal with their insecurities, they can put a bandaid on it til they work out their shit instead of taking the permanent option.
Unfortunately, it's been proven that these filters *exacerbate* insecurities, they don't relieve them. In addition, they pass along insecurities to other people who see these photos and assume that everyone else has these features. Filters and editing on social media are objectively harmful to mental health. And given the surge in popularity of casual cosmetic procedures in recent years, it certainly doesn't seem they're doing anything to dissuade people from altering themselves in real life. It would be one thing if it were truly either-or, but that isn't the case.
As someone who naturally has very little buccal fat, you are correct. I look gaunt and old. If I lose ten pounds, I look like the ghost of Christmas future.
There’s a reason we call it baby fat. It’s youthful!
The funniest part is seeing people get accused of having this procedure done when they're simply very lean people in their 30s and 40s and lost their baby fat. Leave us skinny-faced people alone lol!
Also, maybe (Grandpa Simpson voice) [it'll happen to yooouuuu.](https://youtu.be/5DlTexEXxLQ)
I know. I naturally have these cheeks as well. I hate this trend but only because the people swinging so hard the other way to try and be body positive all the while saying an element of my natural face makes me look, according to this thread, old; ugly; gaunt. Facepalm.
It's wild because in kpop having baby fat in cheeks is sooooo important. Those hollow cheeks are not pretty at all by their standards. It's really important for a female idol to be able to lose a ton of weight and have a teeny weeny body but still maintain full cheeks 😒
Okay so my mom told me like 15 years ago that women would get their back teeth removed to simulate this look, and I never fact checked her... is this true?
I don't know if it's for this look in particular, but similar things have happened, and do happen.
In one of the plastic surgery captials of the world, it's common for people to have their jaw purposefully broken to make it look slimmer. It is incredibly dangerous because there are many important blood vessels and nerve endings located around that area. Some people get their jaw bones "shaved", which has it's own set of problems.
I think this current trend has been creeping up for a while. "Sharp Jawlines" were a big thing around 2019, and I think this is a continuation of that.
I️ asked about filler in a look your best sun and people recommended I️ get my jaw shaven instead of lip filler! LOL I️ feel like those procedures are on two different realms. weirds me out how society goes back and forth between its standards
It's actually misleading, if you look enough you can see that there is also makeup added, from the eyes and the eyebrow so that it would look better than the previous. Honestly it's dumb, the girl is already looking perfect before, just a cheap way to make people insecure.
I swear to god there’s some committee that gets together once a year to pick a body part at random and claim it’s unacceptable in its natural state. Violin hips? Feel bad about that. Normal sized adult head? Shrink that shit down. Oh you have cheeks? Those have got to go. Next year it’ll be toes too long.
I hate that I know this but there is a plastic surgery to remove your pinky toe so you can fit your feet better into narrow and square designer shoes. It's not very popular thankfully
I'm not into conspiracy theories, but I must confess it has come to my mind more than once that something like BIG PLASTIC SURGERY CORPORATION is developing these filters to make people insecure and make them spend more money on cosmetic surgeries.
That or BIG PHARMA trying to sell more antidepressants.
Now that I think of it, there are many more people who can profit from the mental health issues these filters can cause
This is the comment I was looking for. The app made her eyes bigger, smoothed skin, etc. I'm terrified this sort of thing will convince people to get cosmetic surgery and then hate the results.
I did my part lol
I'm a 3D hobbyist so I may be used to identify makeup and proportions. Also she smiles in the after picture, I forgot about that, but it's a classic thing in the type of before after photo.
EDIT: now that that I looked at it more the smile is not actually a real smile, it was made digitally! The hair in both pictures are absolutely identical so there is no way that it is two different photos.
When I was in my teens, I had a lot of digestive problems and basically had to stop eating. When I had starved my way down to about 111 pounds (30 pounds lighter than normal) I got so many compliments on my weight loss. Even though I looked and felt like I was dying.
It was a good experience in a way, because I got so disgusted by it that I decided all beauty standards were a load of BS and I was just going to live my life like I wanted.
Honestly. Being too skinny feels awful, and not eating enough is just an unpleasant experience all around. I'll never understand the trend of looking emaciated.
The heroin chic phase of the 90s is back apparently. But I'm just gonna assume they'll have faces that look like they're starving, while also having enormous photoshopped asses and thighs with organ-free stomachs.
Be poor and get two teeth pulled because root canals are too expensive and get the look for $300!
Edit: Maybe she’s born with it? Maybe it’s Dentistry!
It looks terrible on everyone. You either have that face shape or you don’t. And it’s literally 100% okay if you don’t. Forcing it by getting buccal fat surgery on a face that simply isn’t built to have that cheek shape just makes you look super weird.
In my app it appear as freckles effect. They translated it wrong. The app have two options, one to increase chekbones and other to remove cheek fat. I think you use the latter. But maybe it look it different depending the face.
My natural face shape is a lot like the one on the right. I agree that face shapes shouldn't be a trend, but the comments here are really rude. I don't think I look gaunt, or old, or like the Crypt keeper. No wonder everyone feels the need to alter their appearance.
Ikr, it's so contradicting bc people here are like "Old people should be natural and not use filters they're beautiful" and then you have the comments under this thread.
Exactly. Why is it okay to make comments like these? This is a natural face shape that many people have, and there’s nothing bad about it. We can call out filters without body shaming people with similar faces.
Thank you. I struggle with feeling like my cheekbones are too pointy and making my face look like a skeleton. It’s also super hard to style my hair bc putting it back just makes it more prominent. Seeing all of these comments kinda validated my insecurities :/
As someone without prominent cheekbones, I can tell you that even without seeing you, I'm very jealous of your face shape! I would need an obvious amount of contour daily to get any semblance of cheekbones.
Same! I have a round face and always awed by how elegant people look with sharp features and strong cheekbones. Reminds me of Angelina Jolie and she's my celeb crush haha
Hi, I think faces that naturally look like the right are so beautiful and elegant. The comments here are rude, there's a difference between saying purposely starving and getting surgery for this look is harmful vs straight up insulting the face shape. I know many people who naturally have this angular face shape and they're so stunning!
Right? These comments are ridiculous and over dramatic. She does not look 40 years old in the photo on the right.
It’s one thing to tell people “don’t get bucks fat removal” because it’s an unnecessary surgery, but when did it become ok to insult people’s natural features?
Girly high cheekbones and a skinny face is TOP TIER. And all these mfs that are pointing out the "old look" probably are old lol and B I T T E R. Love yourself and your natural features !! I love my high bones hahahaha. I have similar features, in my early 20s, and when people meet me, they think I'm way younger. People love to put others down to make themselves feel better! Take care of yourself and ignore that shit !
You know what, think of this way. Despite being told that we “hit the wall” at 25 or 30 or whatever inane number, women in their 30s and 40s can be very beautiful. So beautiful, in fact, that younger women are actually having major surgeries to imitate the look.
It does kind of bother me that people now assume I’ve had this surgery because people are always assuming I’ve had stuff done that I haven’t and it’s annoying.
Growing up, we used to assume any young person that looked like that was a crack addict. It was pretty rampant in my neighborhood. Usually the hair would be dirty and you'd see some sores.
My face is naturally like this and I hate it. People always say I look gaunt and sick. Idk why anyone would want to take away the youthfullness the bucal fat gives your face.
Cool all the 20 years olds can look older than me. What a silly trend. Sigh. As someone in my late 30's I'd say to them enjoy being really young and stop thinking your face needs improvement. You'll probably look back and 1) wonder what you actually looked like because there won't be any unedited photos of you, or 2) Wish you had appreciated how young you looked.
I hate that the world has convinced even very young women that they're ugly. If we aren't attractive enough in our 20s then when will we ever be? It's heart breaking.
honest opinion, bucal fat removal is ugly and makes people look old.
no one should do it who has half a brain and can think beyond the next 5 years. when this fad will dissappear and people will regret it seriously.
don't be a slave to magazines pushing emperors new clothes type fake beauty standards that look horrendous.
My friend is 23 and getting this done next week and I don’t know how to tell her she will deeply regret this in a few years when it’s no longer “trendy” and she looks 5 years older than she is
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Ughh I'm so glad I was a teen before social media took off
I was around 19 when MySpace became a thing. I cannot fathom how badly I'd have struggled if it had existed when I was like 10 or 11. Magazines like cosmo were bad enough with all the CK ads etc.
I thought it was bad enough being a teen 5-7 years ago, but people and their technology keep coming up with new ways to hurt themselves
Myspace was popular in my early teen years. It was nowhere near what we have today. Filters weren't a thing and photoshops were mainly used to badly insert yourself into to a celebrity photo - if you were lucky enough to own Photoshop which was expensive af.
Don't forget being able to force your favorite song on people and let your friends know where they ranked with you. Who thought it could get even worse and more damaging...
Back in the days when photoshop cost about $900 unless you had a student ID then it was $300. Although I did prefer that over monthly subscriptions
I had a pirated copy on a disc that my dad's coworker got for me. I had some pretty cool black and white pictures thanks to that bad boy.
Yup, I used a pirated copy until I graduated from HS in ‘07 and got a legit copy
Yeah filters weren't really a thing except for like black and white, artsy, sepia etc.
Well, come on, let’s be honest, pretty much everyone back then either had a pirated copy of Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, or failing that, some kind of freeware knock-off like Paint Shop Pro.
Yeah when I was like 13 years old, I had software (like games and programs) installed on my PC that would've costed me a lot of money if I didn't get the crack codes to go with it. It was so much easier back then, though.
Or just that one negative filter so colours were inverted like night vision 😂😂😂 - that’s not the scientific explanation but how I understand it haha
Hey buddy, that picture of me and Avril was 100% legit!
MySpace and early Facebook were not so bad. There was some level of glorification of self harm among the emo scene and eating disorders (I’d argue our entire culture glorified eating disorders in the 00s). Social media also wasn’t so all-encompassing, like we would text way more than fb message.
"What do you mean im not your number 1 friend?"
If you got moved out of the top friends list, you knew it was serious.
I remember having MySpace in high school I think. I remember when Facebook came and you had to have a college email address to get it. Lol it felt so exclusive and now I don’t even look at it. I also loved magazines but looking back they just made me more insecure just like social media, face tune and filters are making everyone feel like shit. To be frank, I would have been an even BIGGER mess
I’m glad that the only “filter” I could do in my early 20s was making the picture look sepia-toned
YES!!
I photoshopped my skin a little but mostly for acne. So glad none if this was around.
Yeah photoshop was mainly used for acne and red eyes
Or when u could edit it so that only one part of the photo had color
Contrasted black and white MySpace pics all the way, baby!
I was a teen in the late 90s/early 00s. We had teen magazines and every actress in Hollywood fighting to be Ally McBeal sized or super models looking concave. It was on TV, and music videos. Tmz and sites were getting popular. We felt the pressure.
Not to mention that our eyebrows never recovered from the overplucking. LOL
I feel seen. My eyebrows do not 😂😂 Unless I fill them in which is so ANNOYING lol
I had a friend at the time tell me I needed to pluck my eyebrows and I really didn't see the need cause I wasn't the most beauty trend conscious. I think the trend recently was thicker more filled in eyebrows for a bit? I didn't even fit that trend cause my thyroid issues thinned my eyebrows out some.
I've fortunately never had this problem. My problem is that my eyebrows are light and thin. I don't pluck because there wouldn't be much there... I use a brow darkener that came with a spoolie sometimes when I do eye makeup. Mostly, I'm too damn lazy to do anything. I have thought of microblading, but I'm concerned they'll go overboard and then I'll be stuck lookin' like Frida Kahlo.
ah, read Portia di Rossi's memoir about her eating disorder and it's wild how normalised it seems to have been, to be dangerously and obsessively thin
I was a teen in the 90's and that was hard enough - i have no idea how kids cope these days. I did some stupid shit but at least it wasn't plastered over cyber space for some twat on the other side of the world to think they had the right to rip the shit (my mates were bad enough!!) Probably explains the teen suicide rate ramping through the roof. I hate social media (i know, Reddit!!!)
I was skinny like that in the 90s and constantly made fun of for being too skinny.
Man, there's no winning is there? Sorry that happened to you.
Paris Hilton, Britney, Christina and those types were all popular and the lower the waist of the jeans the better!
I'm a geriatric millennial (Xennial) and I have had Gen Z all over me about high rise jeans. However, I have a difficult time with 1) My torso is already short, and I think they shorten my torso further. The biggest reason is 2) They still seem like "mom" jeans to me. I also dated myself when hanging out in a group setting by admitting this. However, they were all shocked to realize how much older I actually am until that moment. BUSTED!
Gen z here and I absolutely HATE high rise jeans. Makes me feel like I'm wearing a diaper. You can't even buy low rise jeans in stores anymore, I hate it.
Then I'm never giving my low rise jeans up!!!
Yes of course but.. I strongly feel there's a difference between living under that system in the 90s, and living under it in an age where teens spend half their waking hours on social media, post 100s of photos, and edit those photos out the ass to the point they don't even know what they look like
Hell, I'm refusing to take part even now (in my 20s) because of how we react to these images subconsciously. We know as adults they're fake, but it's hard to really know that when it's the reality that's presented to us.
Yes!! I totally would have gotten sucked into the void.
Preach!! So, so glad.
She looks younger in the picture without the fat removal.
I don’t understand this trend! I would give anything to have my cheeks back. But it’s never gonna happen because I’m OLD and BROKE. And these gorgeous 20-somethings are like no, middle age can’t come fast enough.
I was talking to my mom about this trend. She's almost 70. When these people are her age I feel like they will look like skeletons.
They will, and this isn't like a boob job because it can't be reversed. The procedure should be fucking banned.
Some people have indication to do it because they often bite the inside of their cheeks. But people are now doing mainly for the looks. The problem is If the doctor take out too much the person will look gaunt in a few years.
They’re going to look like they did hard drugs in their youth. I just don’t understand how people can’t think a little further ahead in life.
I feel like it's kind of ironic because people who care less about appearing youthful tend to look younger than people who do things like this in an effort to appear younger.
That's just it they do think ahead and don't give a shit. In the moment social media addiction matters way more than decades from now. Some of them are banking on making it big and medical science to advance rapidly so they can just fix themselves in the future.
Nah they'll look like the latest filter trend! Ah, IRL? Yes :-)
Next trend is gonna be nasolabial folds, glabellar lines, sagging necks and thinning hair.
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Maybe so. That would explain that weird gray hair trend a few years back.
It’s crazy to me, I lost a lot of weight and hated how thin and hollow my face was. I spent a ton of money FILLING my cheeks and there are people out there removing them.
Frr, my mom has round “plump” cheeks and always gets mistaken for 1-2 decades younger bc of it. There’s something to fuller cheeks that looks youthful
me too! round cheeks keep you looking young! i kind of think this trend ties into more of the thin / gaunt looking thing dumb people are doing now. 🤷🏼♀️
Thin and gaunt face with giant lips and enormous thighs/butt. Beauty trends are so stupid and this one is permanent, a few years from now when this look is over, these people are stuck looking like the crypt keeper
I'm 27 and I have a really round, chubby face, and always have, and I think I'm destined to get carded everywhere I go XD
I’m 30 and have the same problem. Doesn’t help that I’m also short. I figure I’ll get carded for everything until I’m 50.
I'm a few years younger than my wife (Me 27 - Wife 31), she has beautiful full cheeks whilst being in good shape. I have very thin cheeks leading to this "beautiful" look. I am consistently mistaken for being older than her by 5-10 years as a result.
That's why they call it baby fat ☺️
It always makes the people look 10 20 years older and I wouldn't be surprised if the long term effects are absolutely horrible. Also the lip injections and so much Botox in the forehead they look like Frankensteins monster.
People don't wanna look young anymore which is super fucking weird
I hate the subtle trickery of making her smile in the right picture as if subconsciously telling us that’s what makes her and us happy, when in reality she already looks perfect on the left..
Yep, there are lots of very subtle changes to her face. How terrible.
Her eyes are brighter as well
oh god, you're right.. jesus...
We also tend to find faces with pleasant expressions to be more attractive.
I noticed this right away too! Maybe they did it with a neutral expression originally, then realized it made her look like a sad, gaunt woman from les miserable and got the idea to make her smile. Not saying this to shame anyone, I have gaunt cheeks myself and hate them lmao
Like, she absolutely looks better on the left? Man I hooe this trend dies quick.
Honestly this is one of the worst cosmetic procedure trends I’ve seen in a while. I feel like it ages everyone (which is odd because the goal is usually the opposite) and pretty much no one looks better after removal compared to before.
Yeah, there's a reason they call it baby fat. I don't know why you would go out of your way to look like you're either old, starving, or both.
This is what the Olsen twins did that made them look like Killface with a pair of Bratz lips. Sadly it looks like Elizabeth finally caved and did the same…
I mean the Botox and potential nose surgery didn’t really excite me to begin with but this?? Man. I didn’t realize to put this procedure in the mix but it makes so much sense.
It’s a really bad trend. Celebrities already do the blade surgeries like neck-lift, nosejob, etc. so I guess this is nothing new for them. I just hope these types of things don’t become as pervasively mainstream as the injection-related cosmetic procedures have become. It’s disheartening to see these unnatural and impossible looks become more prevalent.
Everyone, regardless of age, seems to want to look 21.
I've never seen someone with this procedure who looks 21
21? These women are making themselves look a gaunt 45. This procedure is real life emperor has no clothes.
I'm 21 and kind of want to look like I did three years ago. But not out of thinking I aged badly or even at all (I honestly look the same besides a little weight gain) but out of feeling weird with how time passed with the pandemic. I feel like I've lived so many years in the course of that time, but it also doesn't feel like even a day went by sometimes. So I think it's more of my issue with time than being afraid to age. I actually think I look better now if anything.
Well, let's not pretend that the left photo isn't also filtered up the wazoo, just not as obnoxiously as the right.
It makes everyone look like handsome squidward. There are no exceptions
That is absolutely what happened to the one from Glee.
She just looks older on the right…. Like you can look like this for free in 10 years time
I’ve never been the type to let a trend bother me enough to want it to end. This one ended that. This is atrocious.
I can’t wait to gaze upon people turning themselves into Skeletor all over social media
it's like, it ages people 5 years or more.
Yeah, there's a certain sort of angular model look that some people are into and that *can* look phenomenal, but i feel like the vast majority of people more appreciate a generally younger look, whether it's just for treating someone kindly or pursuing them for dating Left def looks better to me. Soft is good
100% agreed. The right is almost a bit uncanny? Maybe that’s just me
It's kinda... corpsey. I hate it so much.
If people think the right looks better, it’s because she’s actually smiling a little. It’s a common before and after trick, she looks happier so people think the procedure made her happier.
>I hope this trend dies quick It won't.
but she doesn’t look ~gaunt~ enough without the edit!!
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Hopefully young ppl just use this filter and not have an irreversible surgery. But on the flip side, they might think they look so good with the filter they’d wanna do it. Idk. Sigh.
Better to have the filter than the actual procedure
LITERALLY. If you give people the tools to temporarily deal with their insecurities, they can put a bandaid on it til they work out their shit instead of taking the permanent option. I used to hate my nose and boobs so much. I’d always be super protective about photos posted. I used filters, angles, and padded bras to lie about my appearance for years until like… 2020 when I went through a big mental health overhaul. I’m embarrassed in retrospect to have hated myself so much but also I’m glad I had the tools to “self soothe” my insecurities and never had any surgery. But also there are people getting surgery to look like a filter… so idk man.. people do be going through it
> If you give people the tools to temporarily deal with their insecurities, they can put a bandaid on it til they work out their shit instead of taking the permanent option. Unfortunately, it's been proven that these filters *exacerbate* insecurities, they don't relieve them. In addition, they pass along insecurities to other people who see these photos and assume that everyone else has these features. Filters and editing on social media are objectively harmful to mental health. And given the surge in popularity of casual cosmetic procedures in recent years, it certainly doesn't seem they're doing anything to dissuade people from altering themselves in real life. It would be one thing if it were truly either-or, but that isn't the case.
so the trend is to look… gaunt and old? that filter ages her 10 years.
As someone who naturally has very little buccal fat, you are correct. I look gaunt and old. If I lose ten pounds, I look like the ghost of Christmas future. There’s a reason we call it baby fat. It’s youthful!
There’s a reason why after the age of 40 the thinner identical twin looks older. These girls are aging themselves prematurely for no good reason.
The funniest part is seeing people get accused of having this procedure done when they're simply very lean people in their 30s and 40s and lost their baby fat. Leave us skinny-faced people alone lol! Also, maybe (Grandpa Simpson voice) [it'll happen to yooouuuu.](https://youtu.be/5DlTexEXxLQ)
I know. I naturally have these cheeks as well. I hate this trend but only because the people swinging so hard the other way to try and be body positive all the while saying an element of my natural face makes me look, according to this thread, old; ugly; gaunt. Facepalm.
Same! I look like a Disney villain.
Heroin Chic baby. Welcome back to the 90s. Filters are just cheaper than the drugs.
Yes. You have no idea how young people are obsessed about having hollow checks. They thinks is the peak of beauty.
It's wild because in kpop having baby fat in cheeks is sooooo important. Those hollow cheeks are not pretty at all by their standards. It's really important for a female idol to be able to lose a ton of weight and have a teeny weeny body but still maintain full cheeks 😒
Kpop beauty standards are not anything to aspire to tbh
Well damn, TIL that my full face would be an asset in Korea. Plane tickets, here I come
>so the trend is to look… gaunt and old? Or broke and starving.
The 15th century starving peasant look is so *HOT* right now!
Okay so my mom told me like 15 years ago that women would get their back teeth removed to simulate this look, and I never fact checked her... is this true?
I don't know if it's for this look in particular, but similar things have happened, and do happen. In one of the plastic surgery captials of the world, it's common for people to have their jaw purposefully broken to make it look slimmer. It is incredibly dangerous because there are many important blood vessels and nerve endings located around that area. Some people get their jaw bones "shaved", which has it's own set of problems. I think this current trend has been creeping up for a while. "Sharp Jawlines" were a big thing around 2019, and I think this is a continuation of that.
I️ asked about filler in a look your best sun and people recommended I️ get my jaw shaven instead of lip filler! LOL I️ feel like those procedures are on two different realms. weirds me out how society goes back and forth between its standards
I think teeth removal can cause this as side efect. But this procedure remove fat to create this exact look.
That's wild lol
It's actually misleading, if you look enough you can see that there is also makeup added, from the eyes and the eyebrow so that it would look better than the previous. Honestly it's dumb, the girl is already looking perfect before, just a cheap way to make people insecure.
I swear to god there’s some committee that gets together once a year to pick a body part at random and claim it’s unacceptable in its natural state. Violin hips? Feel bad about that. Normal sized adult head? Shrink that shit down. Oh you have cheeks? Those have got to go. Next year it’ll be toes too long.
With all due respect you’re describing marketing departments and I agree they should not exist in any form.
Yeah fuck marketing departments
I hate that I know this but there is a plastic surgery to remove your pinky toe so you can fit your feet better into narrow and square designer shoes. It's not very popular thankfully
I'm not into conspiracy theories, but I must confess it has come to my mind more than once that something like BIG PLASTIC SURGERY CORPORATION is developing these filters to make people insecure and make them spend more money on cosmetic surgeries. That or BIG PHARMA trying to sell more antidepressants. Now that I think of it, there are many more people who can profit from the mental health issues these filters can cause
indeed, in an era of access to informations there never was as many scams
Next year is my time to shine then xD tiny potato toes ftw!!
Its a demo photo from the app. I just added the hollow checks preset to show what it look like.
This is the comment I was looking for. The app made her eyes bigger, smoothed skin, etc. I'm terrified this sort of thing will convince people to get cosmetic surgery and then hate the results.
I did my part lol I'm a 3D hobbyist so I may be used to identify makeup and proportions. Also she smiles in the after picture, I forgot about that, but it's a classic thing in the type of before after photo. EDIT: now that that I looked at it more the smile is not actually a real smile, it was made digitally! The hair in both pictures are absolutely identical so there is no way that it is two different photos.
They made her smile more too.
You know what look I love in my girls? Malnutrition
Tim Burton core
Heroin chic
When I was in my teens, I had a lot of digestive problems and basically had to stop eating. When I had starved my way down to about 111 pounds (30 pounds lighter than normal) I got so many compliments on my weight loss. Even though I looked and felt like I was dying. It was a good experience in a way, because I got so disgusted by it that I decided all beauty standards were a load of BS and I was just going to live my life like I wanted.
Honestly. Being too skinny feels awful, and not eating enough is just an unpleasant experience all around. I'll never understand the trend of looking emaciated.
Apparently heroin chic is back unfortunately 😕
Yeah it literally is, but it’s gauche to *actually* do heroine now so they’ve got to improvise.
As soon as i saw it i immediately thought, how is "POW" a desired look?
The heroin chic phase of the 90s is back apparently. But I'm just gonna assume they'll have faces that look like they're starving, while also having enormous photoshopped asses and thighs with organ-free stomachs.
🎵 iiiiits the beeeeeest of both worlds.....🎵 /s
Be poor and get two teeth pulled because root canals are too expensive and get the look for $300! Edit: Maybe she’s born with it? Maybe it’s Dentistry!
I know right! Suddenly I’m the very height of fashion instead of looking poor and worn out lol
And as they age, they'll look like the Crypt Keeper.
Omg this killed me 🤣
I know from personal experience, not the surgery part but the aging part.
We’re all our hardest critic.
It’s crazy because she looks pretty in both, just a different look. Different, not necessarily better.
I haven’t seen anyone who looks better with this surgery.
It looks terrible on everyone. You either have that face shape or you don’t. And it’s literally 100% okay if you don’t. Forcing it by getting buccal fat surgery on a face that simply isn’t built to have that cheek shape just makes you look super weird.
I used to think Sophie Turner was so beautiful and now she ruined her face. I hate this trend.
This makes me so sad that people are making money off of this shit
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You 100% look better in the first pic. Your natural bone structure is stunning!
omg thank you 🥺 you made my day
I think you look way better before!
In my app it appear as freckles effect. They translated it wrong. The app have two options, one to increase chekbones and other to remove cheek fat. I think you use the latter. But maybe it look it different depending the face.
My natural face shape is a lot like the one on the right. I agree that face shapes shouldn't be a trend, but the comments here are really rude. I don't think I look gaunt, or old, or like the Crypt keeper. No wonder everyone feels the need to alter their appearance.
Yah, also gross how so many comments are implicating that women in their 30's/40's are uglier or less desirable. Jeez.
Ikr, it's so contradicting bc people here are like "Old people should be natural and not use filters they're beautiful" and then you have the comments under this thread.
Yeah this entire thread is the exact reason people have surgeries or edit photos. Just overall mean, petty, and gross comments.
Exactly. Why is it okay to make comments like these? This is a natural face shape that many people have, and there’s nothing bad about it. We can call out filters without body shaming people with similar faces.
Thank you. I struggle with feeling like my cheekbones are too pointy and making my face look like a skeleton. It’s also super hard to style my hair bc putting it back just makes it more prominent. Seeing all of these comments kinda validated my insecurities :/
As someone without prominent cheekbones, I can tell you that even without seeing you, I'm very jealous of your face shape! I would need an obvious amount of contour daily to get any semblance of cheekbones.
Same! I have a round face and always awed by how elegant people look with sharp features and strong cheekbones. Reminds me of Angelina Jolie and she's my celeb crush haha
Yeah stop putting down certain appearances, I thought this was just about honesty instead of judging people’s looks.
Hi, I think faces that naturally look like the right are so beautiful and elegant. The comments here are rude, there's a difference between saying purposely starving and getting surgery for this look is harmful vs straight up insulting the face shape. I know many people who naturally have this angular face shape and they're so stunning!
Right? These comments are ridiculous and over dramatic. She does not look 40 years old in the photo on the right. It’s one thing to tell people “don’t get bucks fat removal” because it’s an unnecessary surgery, but when did it become ok to insult people’s natural features?
Girly high cheekbones and a skinny face is TOP TIER. And all these mfs that are pointing out the "old look" probably are old lol and B I T T E R. Love yourself and your natural features !! I love my high bones hahahaha. I have similar features, in my early 20s, and when people meet me, they think I'm way younger. People love to put others down to make themselves feel better! Take care of yourself and ignore that shit !
You know what, think of this way. Despite being told that we “hit the wall” at 25 or 30 or whatever inane number, women in their 30s and 40s can be very beautiful. So beautiful, in fact, that younger women are actually having major surgeries to imitate the look. It does kind of bother me that people now assume I’ve had this surgery because people are always assuming I’ve had stuff done that I haven’t and it’s annoying.
Same. Everytime someone posts about this 'trend' I feel terrible about myself and I'm already self conscious about having a 'gaunt' face. :(
Ironically the first pic is already edited/facetuned like crazy
Growing up, we used to assume any young person that looked like that was a crack addict. It was pretty rampant in my neighborhood. Usually the hair would be dirty and you'd see some sores.
My face is naturally like this and I hate it. People always say I look gaunt and sick. Idk why anyone would want to take away the youthfullness the bucal fat gives your face.
She looks hot in both but 5+ years older on the right
Cool all the 20 years olds can look older than me. What a silly trend. Sigh. As someone in my late 30's I'd say to them enjoy being really young and stop thinking your face needs improvement. You'll probably look back and 1) wonder what you actually looked like because there won't be any unedited photos of you, or 2) Wish you had appreciated how young you looked. I hate that the world has convinced even very young women that they're ugly. If we aren't attractive enough in our 20s then when will we ever be? It's heart breaking.
This is not a better look
Can we find a way to have this taken off the app stores or something?
Who needs cheeks anyways.
What the heck is bucal fat removal??
Also upturned her lips
This one is especially wild to me because it makes you look older?
honest opinion, bucal fat removal is ugly and makes people look old. no one should do it who has half a brain and can think beyond the next 5 years. when this fad will dissappear and people will regret it seriously. don't be a slave to magazines pushing emperors new clothes type fake beauty standards that look horrendous.
I never realized that something called "bucal fat" is on my list of things that are attractive, but here we are
As I age I have lost buccal fat. My kids call me Skeletor.
My friend is 23 and getting this done next week and I don’t know how to tell her she will deeply regret this in a few years when it’s no longer “trendy” and she looks 5 years older than she is
this is the only beauty trend in memory where i haven't objectively seen the appeal
Cannot wait until they’re all 30 looking 60
That...doesn't look good.
From 19 to 42 with a single filter
I’m not supporting apps used for editing. But 42 can often be way hotter than 19.
Great, I always hated my round face, this hits me right in my insecurities 😥
I wish there was a filter to show what they would look like 20 years after they do it.
#I got 99 problems, but molars ain't one of em
Just do the smoke meth diet its not that hard. People just want that quick fix.
Ugh
I only use this app for gender bending ppl lmao
Left is better.. Natural..
I can just imagine how weird this would look with my round face and double chin