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As far as I'm concerned, all fashion/'beauty' trends are illogical and pointless. Whether it's caking on paint on your face (because it will "make you look beautiful"), slapping on the moisturizer (because it will "keep the wrinkles away and make you look younger"), lathering up the Rogaine (because it will "grow back your hair") or wearing what a stranger tells you to wear (because you'll look "fashionable" and feel "powerful"), it is all absurdly illogical. People fall for that everyday, of course, and I don't blame them; multimillion-dollar marketing and social conditioning are an incredibly powerful combo that very few people can resist.
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Well I could go on and on. I was in Macy's last month and there was a big display of sweaters that were ripped. Like, OH NO, you realized the sweater was in the yard and your lawnmower ran over it before you could yank it back out. What the heck?
What is the deal, with selling so many clothing items that are purposely meant not to look new? Why don't we want to wear something that looks new? Shredded jeans? Threadbare t-shirts, mostly from Old Navy, or aeropostale, with the lettering cracking off? hooookay.
But the worst offender is big swarthy looking young men with ridiculous little girl hairdos - like little pigtails, or WORSE, a little curly pony tail coming out of the top of their hair dyed pink. Tonight I was in the grocery store, and a checker had this hairdo, and an old man who looked probably like a WWII vet just stood there and stared in disbelief. Hey, I'm with ya, man.
This doesn't come under fashion but it does under 'beauty' and I've always had a hard time figuring out the logic of it.
Most of what I've ever read says to be gentle with your face, pat dry, don't rub, treat your under eye skin as very delicate, etc, etc, etc.
Then it's suggested to periodically use a facial scrub or exfoliant !
OK, since I've always been negligent about skin care, tell me what I missing in the logic of this.
I saw a thing online for "nail art" using fun fur. Seemed pretty unsanitary.
Though I don't for three seconds buy it as an actual "trend."
Gotta love (well, not actually so much) these clickbaits that suggest some oddball notion is a NEW TREND THAT'S SWEEPING THE NATION! 'Cause no one was actually really outraged about red Starbucks cups, and I doubt if really very many young idiots tried to eat laundry pods, and no, dying your armpit hair is not the latest and greatest, even if the odd colorful young woman decided it seemed like a fun thing to do, and I doubt if I'll ever see an actual human being who has covered their fake nails with fake fur. Really now.
I'm pretty tired of all the "Click and be outraged! Everyone around you is stupid!" pages that keep showing up on social media. Like is this what they have the Russian troll farms doing to keep them busy between American elections, or what? What's going on here? lol
Baseball caps worn backwards. The whole point of a visored cap is to shield your eyes from the sun, so wearing the visor in the back serves no purpose, and the plastic adjuster thingee ends up on the forehead. It just makes the wearer look dumb.
My old man, God rest his soul, HATED seeing a ball cap on backwards unless you played catcher.
Hopefully this won't turn into a tattoo thread and get shut down.
What do they have against tats?
I'm guessing that those arguments get nasty, insulting, and judgmental enough back & forth, the mods saw it happen enough times they made the rule against threads about this. "We are sick to death of having to clean up and close these stupid threads. Since you kids cannot play nice, we're gonna take the toy away." I don't blame 'em one bit.
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