False eyelashes!

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. 🤣

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. 🤔

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.

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 😅

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.

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.

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 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.

Pantomime cows come to mind 🐄🐄🐄

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I was a bit surprised by the very long emerald green false nails worn by the young lady who took my blood recently.They actually looked quite pretty🤔

I’ve currently got my nails a nice moss green - blends with my kitchen!
I’m not keen on serious work that needs massive upkeep and a definite no to surgery, unless it’s truly remedial, however, I don’t begrudge anyone trying to maintain their appearance, if they can afford it.
Both my DDs have requested Christmas vouchers for their nails, eye brow, lashes and hair salons.

Having plucked my very definite eyebrows for many years I now have to resort to having them painted on every few weeks. Wish I hadn’t been so keen on a thin arched eyebrow, I might still have some now!

Me to *GrannySomerset. My first passport photograph, with a curly perm made me look like Leo Sayer!

I have some false eyelashes that I keep meaning to try. They're quite wispie so won't have a huge impact but may make my eyes look a bit bigger. The trouble is I'm very cackhanded and a bit blind these days and I'm not sure I'll be able to see if I've made a mess. Then there's the prospect of them starting to peel off while I'm out...

I wonder what the next expensive, OTT, fad will be?

Is anybody under the age of 70 bothered?
I remember wearing false eyelashes and also drawing eyelashes below my eyes like Twiggy in the 60’s

Ridiculous but the bees’ knees back in the day.

Well I certainly recall an obsession with trying to look like Twiggy & so did many others, half starving themselves and developing eating disorders, it's not a new thing. It's unfair to be so scathing of the young and their choices, I don't suppose any of them would be taken with the style choices of those 65+, it would be weird if they did.

£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.

Then there’s the cost of tattoos!!