After a short night's sleep, our first instinct is often to apply a good layer of concealer under our eyes. However, a new trend that is gaining momentum on TikTok is to intentionally draw dark circles!
The positive body extends to the eyes! For several years, this movement has advocated self-acceptance and stands up to the dictates of beauty. On social networks, the influencers who display their curves, their cellulite, their stretch marks, their acne and other "imperfections" are more and more numerous in order to demonstrate that all this is perfectly normal. The main thing is to be comfortable in your body!
As the Covid-19 pandemic pushes more and more women to go natural, an amazing new trend is gaining momentum on the social network TikTok. If for generations women have tried to camouflage their dark circles at all costs, teens have decided to take the opposite of this diktat of beauty. Far from arming themselves with a concealer to hide the purplish area in front of their eyes, young women prefer to highlight it or even intentionally draw dark circles.
In a video that has gone viral, Sara Carstens takes a tan to create dark circles. This emerging trend is compared to that of false freckles that emerged a few years ago when they were often mocked. "Can we make dark circles a trend?", wonders in turn Megha Singh who draws purple lines below her eyes.
Many commentaries celebrated abandonment of beauty standards by stopping to cover "natural defects ", others have found the trend confusing after being laughed at all their lives for looking tired. "I got them in a natural way," "I just say yes so I can't be judged for having them.", "I'm so happy. My pockets are huge.", could we read on the application.
Yes Instagram and TikTok are often criticized for normalizing perfection, it is frequently on these social networks that beauty trends are born that are an unfiltered representation of reality.
This new way of highlighting her dark circles, however, recalls the look of Kate Moss in the 1990s that the New York Times called the aesthetic of an industry "nihilistic" fueled by drugs, partying and sex. Addictions or depression should not be glamorized but they can be shown in order to open up the talk about it. As for the enhancement of dark circles, if it makes it possible to decomplex the normal characteristics hitherto considered as defects, it is welcome. It just follows a movement of self-acceptance where stars and influencers flaunt themselves without makeup with apparent imperfections in order to prove that perfection is not about beauty.
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