The second one in particular is still burned into our retinas!
When we compare our beauty routine in 2024 with the beauty routine of ladies more than thirty years ago, a lot has changed. And no, certainly not in a negative way – luckily!
Toxic beauty trends
To find out which beauty trends were all the rage in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, Huffpost asked a number of women over fifty what they thought were the most ‘toxic’ beauty trends. And we can say with certainty: there are a lot of things that they are happy to no longer exist in 2024.
Orange juice cans as hair rollers
You probably can’t imagine it now, but using orange juice cans as hair rollers was really a thing. “In the days of hair dryers and round brushes, we made our own beauty products!” reveals Jennifer Ebelhar (69), style coach and @theStyleEquation on TikTok. “We gelled our hair and rolled it up with frozen orange juice cans.” Wait, what?
Oil-and-foil
Then there is the ‘oil and foil’ technique for tanning. “Oil and foil is the first beauty trend that I am glad is gone,” says Sonio Lovett (71), who runs the fashion blog Style Beyond Age. “If you’re too young to know, this is how we got tanned in the 1960s: you oiled your skin and covered it with foil to reflect the sun. Yeah, it’s crazy.”
Excessive epilation
We have all certainly been guilty of this: excessively plucking your eyebrows. “Please don’t pick them like I did,” warns Violet Trikilis, model and style influencer. “Like countless others, they simply never grew back! In the 1990s, extremely thin and arched eyebrows were considered ‘fashionable’ and many women, including myself, resorted to excessive plucking or waxing to achieve this look as well. (…) If I could say something to the young people, it would be: ‘Leave them alone!’”
Make-up is not a must
“I’m happy that we’re starting to become more natural with our makeup trends, so we don’t see so much heavy contouring anymore,” says Mette Sørrig Andersen (53), content creator. “Pamela Anderson set a good example by appearing completely without makeup. I like that. We need to celebrate more natural looks and natural features as the ‘new normal’.”
Source: Huffpost | Image: NL Image
