The Beauty TikToks Consuming My Brain This Week
Facelifts, fillers, and fantasy fragrances.
Most of my TikTok FYP is gorgeous pit bulls, Love Island USA recaps, Drag Race tea, and updates from a mom who believes her son’s imaginary friend might be her great aunt, who passed away in a house fire at age 3 (story still developing). Sometimes, beauty-related videos slip through the cracks, though.
This week, I kept seeing videos about the same topics and series that I wish I had come up with. Because some of you may not be the TikTok at all or as chronically as I unfortunately am, I thought, “Ooo, I should share them in a quick digest.” So here you go, girls.
Everyone is talking about:
This 50-year-old woman’s journey getting a facelift in Guadalajara. The results are blowing people’s minds because she looks so incredibly refreshed and stereotypically ~young that people are having an existential crisis. But everything people are commenting on can be true at once: Yes, aging is a privilege. Yes, there’s something dystopian about it all. Yes, she’s allowed to do whatever the fuck she wants to with her face because it’s her face.
Casa girl Vanna’s very obvious fillers and the implications of getting work done on your face at 21 — and possibly younger. Some weirdos she went to high school with are bringing out their yearbooks to show what she looked like in each grade and the evolution of her face. It’s upsetting from every angle you approach this from. I’ve been wondering what it’s like to be in high school when other students are getting facial fillers, as well as the thought process and actual process of getting them done and showing up to school the next day with your new enhancements.
A hairstylist who supposedly hexes their clients??????? Idk what’s really happening, but apparently, the stylist incorporates occult practices into their salon without explaining everything to their clients. As someone who is fascinated by witchcraft but also works in the beauty industry, I keep thinking about where the line is between professional service and spiritual practices.
Series I’m loving:
Fantasy Perfume I Wish Existed - Obsessed with this girl putting together the notes for her dream fragrances, like Grandma’s House (teak wood, dust, lilac, cigarette, and banana bread), Garden Salsa (cilantro, serrano pepper, lime, and tomato), and Trampoline Sleepover (vinyl, solar notes, grass, daisy, and aldehydes). GENIUS. I have always wanted:
Boba Shop- black tea, milk, melted brown sugar, ice, and a hint of jasmine
Rainbow Cookie-Almond paste, raspberry jam, sugar, and semisweet chocolate
Suburban Pool Party- chlorine, grass, watermelon, wet bathing suit accord, clean towel, wet stone, and solar notes.
These Makeup Products Were Cursed - I covered soooooo many of these launches while at Allure. I’ve come to realize that I worked there during the golden era of gimmicky makeup, and this series has made me feel grateful for that randomly. Let’s walk down memory lane for a second with some of the products the creator calls out and the article I wrote about them.