Let’s talk about the top half of women’s mouths right now — have you noticed what’s missing? Appropriating one of my favorite 90s song by Paula Cole “Where have all the cowboys gone”, I started asking myself this question the past year: “where have all the cupid’s bows gone? Because there has been a gradual exodus of natural lips through plastic surgery and/or cosmetics. You just can’t “read” a women’s lips anymore — they have been Kardashianized (the bastardized term for these sisters having such an assault on natural beauty).
K2 and Everest are pretty much the same height and that’s what Anya Taylor Joy possesses in her top half: two glorious peaks that I don’t think any woman has right now. They really showcase the feminine curves of the lips as we have with the curve to our bodies. Meanwhile, I see woman left and right on Instagram with the same old “Kilimanjaro”— one big mound, whoopdeedoo. I say we head back to what made us unique in the first place because ya’ll are starting to look like lip clones. On that note, I’ll name some of my other of my not-so-favorite cosmetic and facial beauty trends over the year. As a portrait artist I have a very keen eye on faces (and am a big fan of watching plastic surgery commentators on Youtube), so here are some beauty trends that have been very obvious to me over the past decade of social media and real life:
Ashanti, is that you?
Anya vs Kylie: the war on natural lips through the disapearance of the cupid’s bow
BROWS
Cara Delevingne and Lily Collins — hold up! I have always thought these were too overwhelming to look at. Lily is one milimeter too close to having an unibrow if her brows move any closer together.
Carolyn Bessette Kenndey, 1920’s Flapper girls, Bella Hadid and Pam Anderson —those are MY kind of eybrows. In my opinion, they provide a softer demure look to frame the face.
EYE LASHS
Enough white caterpillars hanging off. Reminds me of Jenna Marbles first viral makeup video
NOSE
Rudolf the beige-nose Reindeer! The sheen on the tip of the nose provides a more “button nose” look — but everyone is starting to have that same button nose is the problem. It’s quite amazing, though— look at that transformation! I feel like this could be photoshopped…
