Illustration created by the Nano Banana neural network.
We are used to fashion dictating the length of the skirt and the shape of the heel. But behind the endless discussion of rags, we somehow collectively missed the moment when fashion reached our appearance. Our faces began to go out of fashion, informs Ukr.Media.
If you put side by side photos of nineties supermodels like Cindy or Kate and modern influencers, the gap between them is obvious.
The front-facing cameras of smartphones once simply broke us. They distort proportions ungodly, and in order to somehow survive this stress, we got hooked on filters. And then somehow smoothly carried these filters to the cosmetologists' offices with the words “do me like this.” When you see yourself perfect on the screen, it's hard to look in the mirror.
I'm sitting in a cafe the other day. Three girls are sitting at the next table. They're drinking their coffee, laughing, and I'm getting a sense of deja vu. Their faces are very similar. Sharp, razor-sharp cheekbones, “fox” eyes pulled to the temples, overly elongated chins, and lips that enter the room a second before the hostess.
I look at them and realize that they are almost the same age as my son. They are about twenty years old.
Girls massively reshape themselves before they even have time to understand what nature has awarded them. They erase their individuality and paint a universal “improved face” on top. And my peers, women who already have something to tell this world, are chasing another mirage – youth. They freeze their foreheads so that they cannot physically be surprised by the prices of food, and pump up their lips in the hope of cheating time.
But you know what's the funniest thing about it now? That perfect, gel-filled cyber-face that everyone was so obsessed with three or four years ago is now hopelessly outdated.
I look at these frozen masks and feel only a terrible fatigue from artificiality. It seems that we have finally played into the ideal. Slowly but surely, living people are returning to fashion. Suddenly we remembered that a hump on the nose is sexy. That an asymmetrical smile is much more attractive than perfect veneers. And wrinkles around the eyes only mean that a person laughs a lot, not that they are old.
The face is not a Zara sweater that can be thrown away at the end of the season. When the next standard of appearance changes (and it will), what to do with all these fillers and braces? Sew them back?
I decided for myself a long time ago: let my forehead sometimes fold into an accordion when I'm angry about deadlines, and my lips remain as they were. No matter how you say it, a good moisturizing serum and normal sleep do much more for your face than trying to pull someone else's trendy mask on yourself. The fashion for perfect features will pass, but your breed, charisma, and your own story will remain. Imperfect, but real.
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