False eyelashes!

MerylStreep

GrannyGravy13

How would those mocking young women for their choices feel if they were being constantly judged for how they look and dress in their twilight years?

Oooh, 😂 now you’re asking. 🤔

Hmmm ... what is it about us Essex girls?

My nails are currently a deep crimson/raspberry and I love them. I've thought about false eyelashes, but I'm so long-sighted that I can't see myself in a mirror without glasses, but unfortunately my eyes are behind the glasses.

Do you seriously think that those nails would be allowed in the places you mention Theyre not!!!

What makes you so sure MerylStrerp Maybe not officially but then rules & guidelines vary and are often broken or not enforced.

Some people will wear them if they can get away with it. I came across an example in a well known coffee shop chain last week and also very recently in a healthcare setting so it happens.

I don’t like Botox lips, but false eyelashes have been a thing since the 1960s - Twiggy was always wearing them, and here’s Diana Ross in some that would put todays to shame! With hindsight, the thin plucked lines for eyebrows of our era were worse than the slugs of today, because theirs will grow back as they aren’t plucked much, whereas some of us are still living with the consequences of the seventies.

Mary Berry wears false eyelashes and she's in her 80s! Just saying

Third date with dh, me 48 and him 43, we went swimming. I must have passed ok.

AreWeThereYet
After the ball was over
She took out her glass eye
Threw her false leg in the corner
From her hair shook the dye. etc etc

Reminds me of that song

AreWeThereYet

As others have said, looking back most of us did some weird things as young women. I suppose most of them want to look like their friends. Some just don't like what they have and want to look different.

The thing I've always wondered about is - what do the young men think when they first see them the morning after the night before? Minus hair extensions/wigs, false eyelashes, massive eyebrows, glossy lips, pushup and padded bras, 6 inch heels and underwear to keep their flabby bits in check 😃

My great niece is a slip of a thing with short blond hair. When she goes out she not only wears 6" heels but uses hair extensions to make it look like she has masses of curls pinned on her head. When she comes home and slings her shoes off she goes from looking me in the eye to looking over my shoulder 😅

Tip for chaps on a first date - go swimming😁 Not for me actually as I like my makeup.
I was surprised, watching First Dates, when a young man said he liked girls with a fake look, all the things this thread has spoken of with horror.
Obviously there is a liking for it out there, probably fuelled by porn sadly.

Pantomime cows come to mind 🐄🐄🐄

I think I got some free self-adhesive false eyelashes with a teenage magazine when I was young and daft.

I wore them for all of five minutes as they were so uncomfortable and felt silly. Goodness knows what the modern variety feel like.

Primrose53

The girl who does my eyebrows and pedicure has very beautiful eyebrows, she pays about £280 for them but they are perfect and the most wonderful shape. She also has false eyelashes but they are all put on individually so look really natural.

I look at her and think “ooh I would like those” and then I realise I am nearly 70!! trouble is I don’t feel old until I look in the mirror. 🤣

£280 how often? Add nails and filling, replacements, etc. Botox here and there, quality hair extensions and colour + cuts and maintenance- what is the cost per year I wonder? We are talking about many thousands.

I am just thankful that I am not young now or I’m sure I would have the lashes, brows and nails! I hope I would have resisted the rest.
I once had lashes that touched my eyebrows- well nearly! It was sort of different back in the day though. It seemed to be about fun more than it is now.

dragonfly46

Gosh how judgmental you all sound. Each to their own I say.

The OP is not 'judgemental' but an opinion- if you read it again.

Last night I spoke to daughter on the phone- and she brought up the subject. 14 year old, and all her friends at school are wearing them, and DD is very upset because GD's real eye lashes are damaged, with bits missing, due to glue and putting onand off. She is a beautiful girl, with lovely eyelashes- I find it really sad. I so hope she won't get into all the pouty lips and gel nails. Wearing false nails ruin real nails underneath, and can cause all sorts of infections, and endocrine issues even.

Judgemental? Not really- just find it sad. My point in OP is that they are not attractive, so why do it and ruin your own beauty underneath. It is the pressure to conform, the magazines- the social networks and so called 'influencers' - the resulting body dismorphia in young women is huge and so destructive.

As others have said, looking back most of us did some weird things as young women. I suppose most of them want to look like their friends. Some just don't like what they have and want to look different.

The thing I've always wondered about is - what do the young men think when they first see them the morning after the night before? Minus hair extensions/wigs, false eyelashes, massive eyebrows, glossy lips, pushup and padded bras, 6 inch heels and underwear to keep their flabby bits in check 😃

My great niece is a slip of a thing with short blond hair. When she goes out she not only wears 6" heels but uses hair extensions to make it look like she has masses of curls pinned on her head. When she comes home and slings her shoes off she goes from looking me in the eye to looking over my shoulder 😅

I shouldn’t judge myself as I remember having coal black eyes (still like a smoky eye), white face and very pale lips. Dyed long black hair (curtains my mother said) and a mini skirt more like a belt.
The difference is I could remove the makeup whilst a massive trout pout and tattooed eyebrows, tattooed body etc are mostly around for quite a while.

GrannyGravy13

How would those mocking young women for their choices feel if they were being constantly judged for how they look and dress in their twilight years?

Oooh, 😂 now you’re asking. 🤔

The girl who does my eyebrows and pedicure has very beautiful eyebrows, she pays about £280 for them but they are perfect and the most wonderful shape. She also has false eyelashes but they are all put on individually so look really natural.

I look at her and think “ooh I would like those” and then I realise I am nearly 70!! trouble is I don’t feel old until I look in the mirror. 🤣

How would those mocking young women for their choices feel if they were being constantly judged for how they look and dress in their twilight years?

No sorry Meryl I realise that and agree with the dissenters.

Dragonfly46
With respect, not all of us

Gosh how judgmental you all sound. Each to their own I say.

I wore them as a teenager, possibly into my early twenties, not all the time, I had quite long lustrous eye lashes of my own back then, where the hell have they gone?, sparse is how I'd describe them now, never mind my hair is still thick, thank you for that God at least, particularly as a friend told me hers is thinning. Far less make up these days generally, I remember seeing a very elderly Barbara Cartland appear on television years ago, made up to the nines, loads of slap on her face, vivid eye shadow and false eyelashes, she still looked about a 100, yes less is definitely more at certain stages of life!

My very close friend is a Senior Nurse on a ENT ward.
They have young women coming in as day cases for Urgent Dental work, it drives her mad, that a significant number come on with large false eyelashes, enhanced lips and eyebrows, beautifully manicured gelled nails, but they wouldn't spend the money at least once a year to see a Dentist.

SachaMac

There should be some rules about long painted finger nails in certain settings, especially anywhere involving prepping or serving food or doing any form of personal care, including nursery workers etc. Not only are they ugly but they’re also unhygienic and dangerous even when gloves are worn.

I can’t stand those really long claw like nails, you do wonder how people do any work or even manage to get washed and dressed in a morning with those things on!

Do you seriously think that those nails would be allowed in the places you mention ?
They’re not!!!

I had body dysmorphia and eating disorders in the sixties. It’s just that it wasn’t recognised back then and I thought I was the only person suffering from it. I dread to think what I’d be like if I was a teenager now . Even more pressure.

GrannyGravy13

Fleurpepper

Juliet27

Not to mention the overplumped pouting lips!

Ah yes !

GrannyGravy- there is something to be said for this- sure.
But the point is, it is not attractive- but worse, it puts huge pressure on other young women to do so- at huge cost, and sometimes, even danger (lips and other enhancements). Wearing those nails constantly is a health risk- and not sure about effect on eyes long term to wearing magnetic paint to hold eyelashes in place, for instance.

I think there’s has always been pressure on females, normally from other females.

Back in the day arsenic was used as skin cream.

We all make choices whether or not to conform with the current trends

I wish- but I truly believe young women, teenagers too and even below teenage, are bombarded in a way we never were. And some find it very difficult to make choices or to conform- body dysmorphia and eating disorders are massive issues- which never existed when I was a teenager (60s)