Influencer Beauty Standards Are Aging You Faster

[@peepaw0_0]

At this point if I age, I'm just gonna age.

[@highestqualitypigiron]

Probably the smartest choice really

[@Alex_in_Wonderland111]

So what? Be a normal human?

[@_____134]

good sentiment, but what do you mean “if”?

[@redeye1016]

Easy to say when you’re young 😂 Edit: I agree but think you need to be in the scenario before you can state what you’d do

[@peepaw0_0]

@@redeye1016 look at my name and pfp

[@HighAsHeckPriestess]

I'm not against plastic surgery, but I'm sickened by how many stunning humans feel like it's just as necessary as air.

[@user-dv9xx3yy8v]

That's actually why you should be against it, right?

[@gabyelizabeth9624]

Me too. I get suggestions from r/nose, it's all people asking if they should get a nose job and literally every person I think "omg please don't change it". Even if they do have a larger nose it always fits their face and looks pretty. It's such a shame we are made to hate ourselves so much.

[@Potatosalad5-sg9yr]

I am

[@The_Catnip]

It seems to me that if you get one surgery, it is almost certain you will get another 3... at least.... They can't stop and the doctors won't stop them either.

[@mrs.h2725]

What's super scary is even Ed doesn't understand how fillers work. Filler material does not go away, cuz the body can't process it. But the body does recognize that it's a foreign object so it tries to get rid of it, and it dissipates out to surrounding tissue. So the fillers seems to deflate, and they refill over and over. Then they develop that awkward, puffy plastic K Klone face look all these girls have.

[@enigmadrath1780]

The irony of disfiguring yourself in an attempt to look young while you're still young, only to end up prematurely ageing yourself.

[@icespiceate]

Hmmm

[@Ljb123-o1k]

It’s so fucking funny IM SORRY

[@NoMoreCrumbs]

If you're ever feeling weird about how you or others look, go to a local waterpark. It's a fun day out and it helps reset your expectations for how normal bodies look

[@Anna81Louise]

Yes! Get off-line, go outside and look around at normal people.

[@briannawatt4741]

THANK YOU. People are always gonna look like people

[@welivina]

Tbh, going out and seeing real people only solidifies my low self-esteem. Why is everybody so freaking gorgeous?!

[@TomMinnow]

​@@welivina do you live in southern California?

[@HusbandoCollector]

@@welivinawhere do u live where it’s like that??

[@Jjeywyd]

I truly feel for Emma Chamberlain! Had to delete Tik Tok for the same reason. Too many toxic people giving bad advice and everybody thinking it’s normal behavior.

[@rs-mt6kl]

I'm so glad I've never had a TikTok and haven't used Instagram in like a decade. It truly made such a difference once I deleted Instagram!

[@Jjeywyd]

@@rs-mt6kl Yes!! I noticed how much my mood has changed since deleting both apps

[@Zeverinsen]

Purposefully didn't get tiktok, and severely cut down on my Instagram usage. I basically only use Snapchat and KZbin nowadays. *It's nice!*

[@chiaraa1468]

Good thing I'm on the art side/fandoms so idrc about beauty influencers 😂

[@jneilson7568]

I just watch the unrealistically aesthetic cleaning and tidying home videos instead 😂 much more soothing.

[@Adrastia]

I think the reason why these young women look older is that the types of procedures they are getting are usually associated with middle aged trophy wives and not women in their 20s. The aesthetic doesn't fit at all. And unscrupulous surgeons will try to sell you as many procedures as possible even if you didn't walk in thinking you needed them. Don't let yourself be talked into that.

[@seashellgarden2227]

I remember seeing a video that covered why so many people in older photos looked significantly aged. It's because we associate their fashion with older people; but of course they delved deep into the physiology of it.

[@Ralph_Kreutzberger-Blumenfeld]

Also, all these chemicals they put from spending money on products that cost hundreds of dollars. I only use drug store lotion and face cream which does fine for me.

[@caoimhedaly7262]

also specifically for the UK the regulations around who can perform the procedures are a lot more relaxed compared to other countries like AUS. not saying that its not possible for the same thing to happen in other countries but the reprocusions of the medical malpractice would be greater than those in countries with a more unregulated market

[@lawjent]

​@seashellgarden2227 you talking about that vsauce video?:D

[@seashellgarden2227]

@@lawjent yup!!! lol

[@boopbeep2310]

Brb starting my anti-anti-aging routine - gotta smoke 50 sigarettes a day and frown at everyone who tries to talk to me

[@RitualoftheHabit]

Literally just my life tbh

[@HellAndDamnation]

Don't forget ingesting a ton of alcohol and caffeine! It did wonders on my aging

[@luchirimoya]

Don't forget to only sleep 4 hours a day!!

[@Wow-uk2on]

don't forget constant sun with no sunscreen! drink from straws!! smile wider, eyebrows higher, really stretch that face out!!

[@Flesh_Wizard]

5 HUNDRED CIGARETTES🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[@sophiaisabelle027]

These beauty standards reinforces that idea you must look older to look sophisticated.

[@PrettiestAI]

It’s kinda odd considering people people are afraid of aging lol

[@pathofthetrickster]

Yeah and Hollywood likes to hire young women 😂

[@petiaivailova2563]

But who likes them, really? Besides people who look like them? How is this a standard? It might be common in some places in the US, or in certain environments, but I've never seen a person who looks like that in person. I've seen pictures on Instagram of people I know who look almost like this, but they don't look like this in real life at all 😄

[@PossibleBat]

It’s always been like that mature=sophisticated, we just have completely removed the "awkward" in between/teen looks. We don’t see ugly teens and young adults anymore, no acne, no ridiculous fashion, nothing. When you turn 14 you must become Barbie.

[@Carrybean]

I disagree, I only agree that if you’re under 20-25 the beauty standards tell you should look older. Tweens and teens are being made to feel like they need to look like fully developed 25-year-olds to be taken seriously. However if you are 25+ of age, the same beauty standards tell you you have to do everything you possibly can to stay looking that age for the rest of your life. Never get a single wrinkle or have your skin sag in any way, always stay super skinny but with a big ass and huge boobs, always have big lips via injections and get a brow lift, always get quarterly botox, no matter if these things suit your face or not you have to do all these things to look a very specific way and to attempt to be frozen in time.

[@saltedfish_passingby]

Sorry but your outfit made think you were wearing a green scrub suit with a doctor's coat for a one sec 😂

[@Chillikilli]

I see it lol

[@jazleen5743]

loool i had to check again, i thought the same thing initially😂

[@quokkaloveshugs00]

それな

[@quokkaloveshugs00]

それな

[@ecmi7]

Didn't see it before... But now hahaha

[@ArissaHaque]

Wrinkles are like a badge to show you’ve come far in life

[@Morbid_Freyja27]

Yes!

[@Kamisuitendo]

Cope

[@1Skorpia]

I don't want to look like a shar-pei thanks. 😂

[@cherrisaki]

​@@1Skorpia Ur gonna have them one day inevitably lmao

[@fiercediva135]

​@Vkeiaddiction Not unless I get work done. Besides, maybe I'll be lucky and be one of those well aging people

[@s3rnielsen]

I'm . . . . very thankful for my tiktok algorithm. It's all cats, shit posts, some clown from cincinatti, and baldur's gate 3 fancams.

[@aisyahh2003]

Same. Mine's full of cats too, along with shitpost, Memes, and horror stuff.

[@chimchimchococones]

that's a cool fyp!!!! we have the same algorithm (plus cooking recipes & tips)

[@MyBlxckHeart]

not cincinnati 💀

[@bumblehoney7206]

Yeah mine is all hobby related because...I watch hobby stuff

[@bearystarberry]

Clown? Like… an actual 🤡?

[@FlutteringShadows]

It always baffles me that these twenty year olds are surprised when people say they look 30 even though they’ve basically modeled themselves after 30 year olds who were playing teenagers onscreen 😅

[@horseconfused]

“They switch out their beautiful, *urethral* looking faces every 2-3 business years.” URETHRAL?

[@sannahbouzeghoub3871]

I think it might have supposed to be 'ethereal' (or 'unreal') ? Tbh I'm not sure 😀

[@DeadKraken]

It was a meme some time ago, some dude spelled "urethral" on Twitter, while describing something "ethereal" and everyone clowned on them.

[@JP-ve7or]

So....narrow? #HankHill 😄

[@shadowsoulless6227]

Bruh called their faces urethral I'm 💀

[@horseconfused]

@@DeadKraken is it some sort of internal joke on this channel or just an internal internet joke overall?

[@ahmedbanaga8185]

I feel like people start with it as preventative measures but then get carried away because if you're constantly looking for something to improve, especially if you have the money, you forget that you shouldn't be looking like a 40 year old trying to look young at the age of 25

[@sadegodfrey4738]

A lot of so called "preventative work" isn't preventative either, it's just normalized body dysmorphia that ends up doing quite the opposite. "Preventative" botox can actually cause your face to age faster because it accelerates muscular atrophy, for example. Just like you can't treat a disease that a patient doesn't have, you can't prevent wrinkles that haven't even been formed. It's all mass hysteria.

[@голубаялуна-е7э]

There is no such thing as “enough amount of botox”. Filler migrates over time, so a person will need more injections to regain that appearance they had after the first botox injection. It’s not about improving, but about maintaining the temporary effect of fillers.

[@LiterallyJustAnActualPotato]

@@голубаялуна-е7эBotox and filler are not the same thing lol. You don’t get more filler to replace the Botox, or whatever you said 😅 but you’re right that filler is a never ending cycle for people starting in their 20’s and 30’s. It migrates, dissolves, and stretches the skin so you end up needing more to fill out the skin and wind up adding a ton of volume/mass to your face. You end up looking like the moon emoji.

[@tdelioncourt1268]

Preventative is BS though, it's just a new customer cluster to scam

[@snowbunnie1113]

What’s worse, looking 40 when you’re 20 or looking 12 when you’re 30?

[@cniknik9863]

There is too much shame associated with aging. Oh no! A completely normal and honestly blessed thing is happening...and to a woman too! Egads!

[@Nezumi_Yasu]

not exactly blessed on the health aspect but everything else is fine

[@jacquelineess1141]

They all base their self-worth on whether people want to eff them. Simple as that.

[@hagelslag9312]

They're in for a rude awakening when they find out you cannot stop ageing and once they reach that time period of "it is done, I'm now visibly ageing and cannot stop it" it might look really awful because of all the procedures prior. If we continue at this point it's almost special to have wrinkles lol so might as well rock it.

[@CuteAnimalVideos2580]

@@Nezumi_Yasu for real, after 30 I gained so much weight and I have problems with my immune system. no one knows whats happening to me.

[@nicolecheyenne7937]

Exactly. Aging really is a blessing. I've known several people who didn't make it past their 20s. They will never get to see wrinkles on their faces and they'll be forever young only because their lives were cut so tragically short.

[@coffee8599]

I've slowly learned that people online care WAY MORE about you (in negative ways) than anyone in your real life.

[@jeangentry6656]

That 1st girl listing all the stuff society expects us to do spoke to my soul.

[@Catbeantoes]

I bet in the future “natural beauty” aka someone who never had surgerys will be the new beauty trend and people will get plastic surgery to look like they haven’t gotten plastic surgery.

[@jeangentry6656]

yup.

[@carrained]

I'm already feeling this and can imagine the trends following suit (not sure that's the correct english). I follow a hair dresser in LA, I don't like influencers but I loooove seeing people change their hair, and her costumers are so young and so damn operated on and botoxed etc so when she finally had ONE natural and not stick-thin (no shame, I've been stick thin and healthy, but every single costumer looked the same is my point) I was so surprised by her natural beauty and she immediately looked much more beautiful than the rest, they look like blow up-dolls and I'm not saying that to be mean, I wish someone in their life could tell them because new research does show that all of these fillers DOES ruin faces.

[@caitlinwhatthefrick2361]

No way! I thought those ladies were 45-50!

[@TianXiaoMao]

I'm 42 and they definitely look older than me. 😮

[@caitlinwhatthefrick2361]

@@TianXiaoMao you’re right! Probably more like 55! Crazy!

[@jessbarnes8521]

They look about 50- too heavy makeup and harsh features.

[@emmareiman64]

I went with a guess of 60 Like, I rarely see people under 70 with that many wrinkles There's nothing wrong with natural wrinkles either, it comes with age But when a person in their 20s looks like they're 60+ ..... It just makes you ask a lot of questions

[@teamwestco]

These 24 year olds look 40 man 💀

[@zarinaromanets7290]

I'm not sure where people are coming from with this, any job site I work at this is what the average apprentice has always looked like. Beards just do that.

[@teamwestco]

@@zarinaromanets7290 oh no absolutely, beards don’t make people look much older in my opinion, but I’m talking about the women with extreme amounts of plastic on their face.

[@zarinaromanets7290]

@@teamwestco Ah those for sure, I get what you mean! It's very easy to see when someone is less than natural, if it is not a top world surgeon.

[@sugarzblossom8168]

That being a problem is a problem

[@Poemi10304]

That's so scary.

[@geoxm6384]

I'm 24 and still not passed my acne routine, let alone starting any anti-ageing. But also, Love Island is absolutely not representative for Gen Z or young Milleinial ageing (especially in the UK). I know more people from the UK who look younger than their age than those in the US. I still get mistaken to be barely 18 (Which is a blessing and a curse).

[@Whitebushido]

I feel that >_> I'm 34 and without my mustache people still consider me a teenager/early 20s. Think my complete lack of sun lifestyle and chubby face is what does it.

[@queenofcats9240]

I’m 25 and I also get mistaken for being 18 a lot. I worked a summer job at a snack bar to make some extra money and most of my coworkers were aged 14 to 17. They all talked to me as if I was their age and used a bunch of late Gen z slang with me. I didn’t interact with them much so they just thought I was shy. One of them finally asked my age after working together for 2 months and none of them hid their shock when I told them I was 25 😂

[@user-rx7pd1xv4k]

@@queenofcats9240 I'm the same age as you and I've had a number of 17-18 year old coworkers and college classmates who were shocked to learn I was a lot older than them. At this point I just think 18-20 years olds have no concept of how old people look. It is kind of annoying huh

[@queenofcats9240]

@@user-rx7pd1xv4k It’s semi annoying. It’s mostly people who are either way younger than me or way older than me who mistake my age. If someone is around my age or slightly older, they usually guess close to my actual age

[@user-rx7pd1xv4k]

@@queenofcats9240 Yes, exactly, much older or younger are always way off lol

[@kellyfish920]

The women in my family live to their 90s. I got so many years to figure out taxes!

[@rinedee6247]

I would love a video on some more weird beauty trends throughout Asia, but not just east asia please! Include more west, central and north in your works!

[@mal_348]

😃☝️

[@funnymonkie411]

South and Southeast Asian too!

[@CH-vm6cq]

I can tell you are Asian by the weird pluralization of the word “work”

[@SchlichteToven]

He's probably focusing on what he knows, East Asia and North America. He can't do beauty trends of the entire world - what about beauty trends of Sub-Saharan Africa, beauty trends of Syria, beauty trends of the Amazonian jungle?

[@sanjanat1085]

I'm 19 and a lady on the bus I was conversing with asked for my age then said "Gua shua and tret(inoin), trust me, you need it. You're 19 already so that's already pretty late for an anti-aging routine, get on it already!"😭 It's crazy, an "anti-aging" routine shouldn't be made the norm for people under 40 geez

[@shadowsoulless6227]

I'm 31, have never done any anti-aging anything, My 21-year-old coworker thought I was the same age as her..... I don't wear any makeup to try to make myself look younger, Don't dye my hair, Even when I went in for surgery last week the doctors thought I was in my early twenties..... Like every single one of them. Then again everyone kept thinking that my mother who's in her mid-50s was my sister so, mine is legitimately probably a genetic thing.

[@tdelioncourt1268]

Started skincare in my early 20s (anti-aging is overpriced and not different than normal skincare btw studies proved it, most eye creams are diluted face cream, just aiming to make people buy more) and 10 years later people think I'm in my mid 20s, you're good!

[@maylynbayani]

Disagree. Prevention is better than cure. I started mine on my 20s. I fairly look the same at 36.😅 but at 19 you can just get fit and eat right. Put sunscreeeeeeeeen!

[@sanjanat1085]

@@maylynbayani Sunscreen isn't anti-aging, it's sun PROTECTION that should be used even on children who go out in the sun. I meant the pressure on women to go FURTHER than the basic maintenance routine to use tretinoin ([prescription grade drug) and specifically xostlier products from 19-20. No 19 year old needs the anti-aging effects of tretinoin at this age. Get a grip!

[@ricebeansrockroll882]

Sunscreen is all you need right now.

[@haunted_lunchbox]

I'm just going to continue to take care of myself and age as gracefully as possible.

[@Dial8Transmition]

You should. Take care or yourself and avoid unecessary stress and you'll be fine 😌😌

[@BashaerB-h2c]

Same here 👍🏼 Eat clean, move and keep a good spirit.

[@thatgirlwithbangs]

I’m 25, I have acne, grey hairs, and smile lines - it’s incredible how now is when I’m finally feeling the most comfortable with my body

[@TyTrack_127]

Im so happy for you. Im 25 too and i not so beautiful

[@jenblueangel05]

I'm 32 and I still get pimples 😂 but I'm more okay about it and have just accepted it. At least it's not as bad as when I was in high school.

[@Ria-xl7kz]

You think you're stopping aging, but you can't. Believe me, as a 50yo, i just realized you can't. When you're old, you're old. It feels great to IDGAF tho. Hell, i'm 50yo, i can look fugly if i want to. No shame.

[@codychickadee5095]

Congrats on making it to 50! I knew many who didn't make it anywhere near there.

[@itzcrystalzz]

@@codychickadee5095woah.. that got dark😢 hope ur ok

[@MsPiinkFllamingo]

I never did anything to my skin and stayed out of the sun. When tanning was the craze I stayed pale and got teased for it. Now I look at least 5-7 years younger than I am. Ppl are shocked when I tell them my age. My friends look a lot older!

[@leemana352]

Same. I’m 37 and everyone I meet is shocked at my age and tells me they thought I was in my early twenties. I still get carded trying to buy alcohol or lottery. I’m naturally very pale, so I just stayed out of the sun all my life. Now I’m reaping the benefits. (I also got teased for my skin when I was younger. Once a random guy on a bike riding by yelled “Get a tan!” at me. He probably looks decrepit now)

[@firefly3003]

I'm 22 with grey hair already. Mostly due to childhood stress, but now that my son is on the way soon, I have accepted the fact that my hair is probably going to be grey completely before 30. I had people assume I was one of the parents when I was in girl scouts as a kid. I don't even look old aside from the few grey hairs, but with all the people assuming I'm ancient before even hitting 18 I grew to just not care anymore about how old I looked. Happy Update: My son is here. I'm exhausted and I'm only getting maybe 4 hours a sleep a day so that probably doesn't do much better for my looking old lmao. Wish me luck because he's already a little gremlin.

[@MarjaMariachi]

Hey, that happened to me as well. The weird thing for me once it finally went completely white around 30 and I quit dyeing it, everyone just thinks it's platinum blonde and I do it on purpose!

[@firefly3003]

@@MarjaMariachi My hair is naturally very dark so as much as I really want it to go white, the most it'll probably do is be salt and peppery. I would love for it to just go solid white naturally!

[@MarjaMariachi]

@@firefly3003 Mine was dark, too. I'd dye my hair black and not be able to tell it's growing out. I figured I'd go gray -- even though I started finding white hairs around 17, I expected it to happen around 50, not 30! So ya never know.

[@tmm6884]

My hair and eyebrows are white/translucent. My friend gave me a basket of overtone products and now my hair is whatever color I fancy. Although, I'd love silver hair.

[@pinacolada1393]

. Some bald, some grey.

[@jestyr5979]

the whole "eyebrow blindness" trend has confused me to no end bc i knew at the time that it looked bad, and everyone was clowning on anyone that had visible distortion in their over filtered pics. fashion trends and beauty standards are very cult like in that the people around you and those you look up to slowly convince you that what they're doing is normal and good and that you should do it too, and i didn't compromise myself for beauty so i was never convince that any of it was normal

[@shadowsoulless6227]

I never understood whenever women started having the big blocky eyebrows.... As a woman I did not understand these women. Why do you eyebrows need to be 2 in thick

[@jestyr5979]

@@shadowsoulless6227 yeah and then these girls are looking back now and saying "Why did we ALL think this looked good?" Like, girl, who is "we" YOU thought the Kardashians were peak fashion and beauty, not me

[@BarbaraKibira]

African aunties and Asians aunties you've been called to the chat...your ruthless skills in humbling the young ones are needed.

[@jeangentry6656]

as I've hit Auntie age, here's some advice- none of this is new, ppl were trying to look forever young 20 yrs ago. Want to look young now and in the future? Eat right, exercise, get some sleep, manage stress. If in a happy, stable relationship, have a lot of sex. learn to dress well. If you like makeup, learn to apply it well. Most importantly, stop worrying so much about what people you don't know and celebs you'll likely never meet think, look, dress, etc. It's all a pointless illusion anyway. When you love yourself, what strangers think doesn't matter.

[@cremapastelera00]

​@@jeangentry6656 thank you auntie ♡

[@-N0V4-]

The obsession with physical is almost paralysing sometimes. Gone are the days of just moisturising your skin, its insane. The emotional burden must be insane for kids especially with how little anonymity there is on the internet now

[@LizzieShiro]

Emma is absolutely right about TikTok. The way I CONSTANTLY got overstimulated and overwhelmed is fascinating.

[@timothybaker1970]

what’s important for people to remember is that 99% of beauty and “health” advice outside of a proper medical professional is just trying to sell you something. for example today i saw on twitter someone talk about going to a salon and being told they have poor blood circulation… if they had poor blood circulation they would be dead or have missing limbs and the salon is clearly just trying to sell massages

[@Beeleeteecee]

Historically, we were used to seeing “done” faces from older women wanting to recapture their youth, especially celebs trying to stay relevant. Obvious cosmetic work was only seen on more mature people. When we see obvious cosmetic work on younger people it automatically gives off the vibe of an older person trying to look young.

[@vvitch-mist20]

I'm 32, and some of these people look older than I do. This isn't a problem, but Gen Z isn't gonna like this in like 15-20 years when people call them old.

[@reid3031]

It's already happening, there's vids of 22-year-olds reacting to being mistaken for 30-year-olds and they're not pleased

[@vvitch-mist20]

@@reid3031 I'm sorry but that's ABSOLUTELY hysterical. Hello Fellow Kids 😭😭💀

[@CrimsonDawn-ou4og]

Im in group therapy, 18 and everyone else is about 14. They all look like they can be my age or older

[@worstusernameintheworld9871]

dude I don't even use tiktok or get any surgery (i just look older than most Asians and stuff) and I'm already sick of being seen as "older" than my age just because I genetically have features that make me look older (I'm literally still a student)

[@vvitch-mist20]

@@worstusernameintheworld9871 I'm not gonna be a dick this time but PLEASE get into the habit of not applying something to you if it doesn't apply. It will save you so much headaches online.

[@Elenalamp]

It doesn’t even take a week in customer service to see most people are normal, decent individuals going about their day. That shouldn’t have been surprising to me 🤦‍♀️

[@nature9010]

strangely, everything you do for beauty eventually makes you look older. Following old trends makes you look older (and since all trend eventually become old, they'll all make you look "dated" once the trend passes), a lot of face work and filler (which is common for older people to do to attempt to look younger) gives you a distinct look that's associated with older people, even being too skinny and getting bucal fat removal makes you look older the best thing people can do is stay hydrated, try to eat healthy, maybe get a little bit of movement during the day, and let your body do what it naturally does

[@jilliancrawford7577]

11:05 ethereal... i think the word was supposed to be ethereal... 😂

[@ChanelAthena]

LMAO I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE

[@_Dark222Angel_]

urethral took me out 😂

[@voidatethesun]

okay i was like ik I’m not trippin-

[@saturnsextilevenus]

LMAOOO that is a reference to another one of his videos where someone wrote that on a post, i just don't remember what video it was

[@lovelyreen9936]

So glad you mentioned it! Went scrolling to see if someone else caught it!

[@limarba9062]

I’ve noticed in photos from the 1940s and 1950s that people who were teenagers looked like they were in their 20s.

[@Ketaminogue]

Vsauce did a video on this: the reason they look older is that to us, they’re wearing the trends and clothes that “old people wear nowadays”, but to them it was the clothes and beauty standards that were considered youthful at the time. Basically, whatever you’re wearing now will one day be “old people clothes”. People don’t randomly decide one day to wear slacks and polo shirts.

[@pflanzenmuddi2019]

@@Ketaminogueso you’re saying I’ll still rock my low waist cargo pants when I’m 80?? Thrilled.

[@aenyanevers4860]

It's also interesting to think of all the enviromental factors. At least in the US, food, drugs, and cosemtics weren't really regulated prior to 1938 so who knows what substances people were ingesting or absorbing. People also smoked way more, or were exposed to some form of smoke/fumes daily if they wanted to cook anything. Nutrition wasn't as good and people were exposed to the sun more. Teenagers in the 40s would have been children during the Great Depression (lack of nutrition and health care), and teens in the 50s would have been children during World War II. Both events are huge, daily stressors, and chronic stress accelerates aging. Both events also resulting in child labor laws being less enforced.

[@redencarnacion]

It’s all the smoking.

[@muscleandhate]

Makeup and skincare was nowhere near as advanced in the vast majority of cases, too

[@Nai0100]

Whenever I’m stressed about it, I remember how the issue only exists for me when I’m using my phone

[@yana-l2e]

1:10 saw this share pic by a German author which said sth along the lines of: "cool hobbies for people with a full time job: commuting home, grocery shopping, cleaning house, doing laundry, cooking, sighing, falling asleep in front of the TV". And yeah, honestly, seems fake to me: Work 40+ hours a week, entertain hobbies, household, sleep, cook and eat, fitness, social contacts, education, pets and/or children. All of these things do not realistically fit into the time a day or a week has. It just doesn't. Let alone all this self-optimisation, like time-intensive beauty routines. One will have to choose. Regarding the use of fillers I wonder if it's a slippery slope distinguishing good from bad outcomes. But idk, I'm new to the topic.

[@gabyflores9412]

The girl at 1:09 pretty much sums the current anxiety

[@r.brooks5287]

No one would choose to go on Love Island unless they were desperate for attention, and the show won't choose anyone unless they are going to provide drama. Since there is a big emphasis on looks they choose people that create looks drama which gets news photos ect, it's all advertisement for the show.

[@yuliazni3389]

'Beauty standard' make human forget how a real human look like .

[@ywntmha]

I am 31 and so grateful that the beauty tip that was majorly drilled into my generation was to wear sunscreen every damn day.

[@shadowsoulless6227]

I naturally hate the sun so I think it worked out for me LOL

[@maylynbayani]

I know. I wear sunscreen in 5 degree C weather. 😅fermented rice water helps as well.

[@realestatejada]

Same, 365. Unless I'm too sick.

[@Widdekuu91]

I live in the Netherlands, I need sunscreen 10 days a year

[@AndrAiaNighthaven]

At 38, I still occasionally get carded at the liquor store, and Ima stay that way thanks! 😂

[@codychickadee5095]

Haha, it's been a while for me!

[@tdelioncourt1268]

I'm a 30yo white person and got carded in Seoul, proud moment lmao

[@ingridklh]

I’m high maintenance, i take pride in my beauty routine & my shape and i think wanting to be healthier and look better is great, but the internet takes things too far. There’s always a gray area with everything, social media makes things black and white

[@Dial8Transmition]

You are right, there is definetaly a balance to this as with everything

[@Lily-ig1rt]

i like that you mentioned how plenty of people who get filler look fine when they don't overdo it. I get a little lip filler in my upper lip because it's significantly smaller than my lower lip and the filler also helps fix my gummy smile. no one except for my boyfriend knows that I do this and they can't tell I had work done. they just say "wow, you look great!" and compliment my smile more than ever.

[@cheesefondont1579]

Brit here. We don't all age crazy. I'm in my mid-30s and people often think I'm in my mid-20s! I think all the procedures, fillers, and heavy makeup on some of these girls doesn't help, plus you get a lot of girls who go absolute ham on fake tanning, tanning beds, and tanning irresponsibly in general, which just makes people look like leather handbags.

[@chocothebananacat7686]

Yeah, I do find it funny that whoever the commentator was looked at that Love Island clip and went "ah yes, this must be what the average Brit looks like". Whilst you can definitely find girls who look like that here, it is hardly a majority of the population.

[@evda4919]

@@chocothebananacat7686right thank you I watched a KZbinr speak on the same topic she watched one TikTok video where the girl exaggerated saying that you can get filler done for £30 quid and that I could do it in my bedroom which isn’t te care training and qualifications is taught by qualified beautician.

[@cheesefondont1579]

@@chocothebananacat7686 It does remind me of growing up watching some of the 90s American shows like Saved By The Bell and Mighty Morphing Power Rangers, where the actors were much older than the characters, and thinking "wow, Americans age different!"

[@cheesefondont1579]

@@evda4919 Cheap procedures definitely seem to be an issue. Anyone can claim to be a beautician because they've watched online tutorials. There's also worrying things like people going to Turkey for cheap procedures. Seen a few nightmare videos and articles on botched dental work and surgery because people want things done cheap.

[@jennifers1040]

5:53 it's also because people are using heavy filters for every video and picture now.

[@TeddieBean]

The age guesses vs actual ages of the women... Shocking! A surgeon guessing too wtf 😂

[@SchlichteToven]

Well the pictures he had to go on looked heavily filtered or photoshopped. Very hard to tell age with accuracy with those kinds of photos.

[@caitlinwhatthefrick2361]

All anyone “should” do is just wear spf everyday (including your neck) to prevent aging skin and of course skin cancer

[@codychickadee5095]

Honestly it seems there are more people at risk of getting scurvy than there are people getting too much sun.

[@genzo454]

Not for me dawg, I don't go outside enough for this to be an issue for me Check in 5 years though, maybe by then something will have changed

[@Sinthecity]

@@codychickadee5095based on what? Your feelings?

[@caitlinwhatthefrick2361]

@@genzo454 even being by a window while indoors gets harmful uvb rays on your skin that cause aging skin

[@caitlinwhatthefrick2361]

@@codychickadee5095 even being by a window indoors causes damage from uv radiation that leads to skin aging

[@zk33m]

the last bit about quitting socials is so true. ive been off socials for almost half a year now. with some socials i open once or twice a year. since then i feel a lot better about myself. ur perspective changes when u look at normal people more than attractive well thought of and planned pictures of someone.

[@blyez2165]

People need to understand medical procedures need to anchor themselves to our body in order to sustain. If you are putting a procedure in top of another procedure, SPECIALLY that young in life where features are mostly shifting, you are gambling with the odds against you. I always feel sad for those people that just can't stop having more surgeries, it becomes such a snowball effect. I can't imagine the nightmare of waking up one day and you are caged in a body where you don't even recognize yourself =(

[@fone9665]

We don't ALL wear heavy makeup It depends on where you live, to what the trends are It's big up North

[@PieceMeals]

Not all northern UK girls wear a lot of make up. I come from the north and have lived in London. In general, UK girls wear a lot of make up compared to say Parisian girls or Italians etc. Also, fillers, surgery etc is on the increase everywhere because Baby Mills and Gen Z live under a microscope over their looks via social media and the neverending competition to be pretty, gym fit etc etc.

[@KtT-sn8cy]

@@PieceMealsThinknit heavily depends on city, rural and things like that, I see massive differences from people in large cities and people who don’t

[@KtT-sn8cy]

Love and stars are a specific type of people to be fair, don’t think it really makes sense to generalise. It’s like generalising all Americans based on the real housewives or something lol

[@niah_19]

saw the title and instantly agreed 😭

[@charliethasnail]

Keeping up with beauty standards is exhausting. I aspire to be a bog witch that everyone fears

[@charlottebreton6796]

Im going back to school at 27, and it definitely feels too late. Even though im not even close to middle-aged, i feel like it's too late for me to try to change my life.

[@Crystal_Clout]

No way, people way older than you change their lives, go back to school etc, don't put yourself down. You're so young, but with any luck it will be easier for you than someone just out of high school, because you have some life experience. I went back to school as adult (ADHD messes up schooling) and it was wonderful experience. Best of luck.

[@Denidrakes69]

Definitely not. I had an amazing professor, who'd left school at 14yo and didn't go back to school until 57yo. She was brilliant. She'd had ALL the experiences.

[@conejitaaa]

I love that i have a round face and oily skin. I love that ive stayed out of the sun and not drank/smoked. I love that ive always put good food into my body. These things will keep me looking young and are the key. Moisturize your skin starting as a teenager.

[@cyberwitch7161]

5:17 I actually ranted about this to my sister and friend not too long ago. I hate the current state of KZbin and media right now. People telling you what to buy, how to live, how you should react, how to get rich quick, how to glow up because looks matter now, everyone is beautiful, love yourself, you can't love yourself because you have no hobbjes and nothing to love, blah blah blah. And the worse part is that in a few months those same people will start telling you to do the exact opposite of what they were originally saying. Emma put into words the odd feeling the recent content has veen giving me " too much information". If I'm being honest, even this video fits into that category of 'too much yap' and yet here I am watching 😅

[@MooWuu]

That’s good for Emma, I’m happy she knew that it was all too much for her. I wish more ppl could see things this way :c

[@breakfastclosed]

The jaw filler TikTok noooo😭 suddenly I don’t mind my barely defined jaw .. your video about teeth really helped with my confidence about my asymmetrical smile too.. doing the lords work here

[@clairycakes538]

I’ve been watching your videos for a while and just got into kpop this year. I love being able to understand your kpop references now

[@RexytheRexy]

I have no hope of meeting the beauty standards. I just do my own thing. Aging is an honor and a privilege. It's a gift to laugh, cry, and live enough for those emotions and memories to be etched into your face. Embrace it.

[@Cationna]

Ever since i was aware of Kylie Jenner, i thought she was like 30. I just found out apparently she got lip fillers at 16 and a year later was selling out lipsticks grown-ass women believed would make them look like her. I don't understand this world.

[@EurydiceAllAlong]

There was a guy in my school (graduated probably 2012-2013) that straight up looked like a 45 year old man. Had a full beard, the dad bod and a receding hairline. At one point a substitute in the front office thought he was a grown man trying to infiltrate the school.

[@margonaut]

never compare yourself to others, especially online

[@fortunatecookie]

10:23 I don’t wanna kick him while he’s down, but my instinctive reaction to this was “bro’s got gills!”

[@Rattyfanboy]

PSA: majority people don't care how you look. They're too busy thinking everyone thinks they're ugly

[@taythemay4451]

It’s hard to compete with all these women too. My marriage feels like it’s in shambles because my husband follows so many adventurous fitness girls. I feel like I have to be like that but it’s just not me. I’m waiting till he just replaces me with one someday. I’m not conventionally pretty and I’m not thin. These apps have ruined my self esteem.

[@SuperWhatapain]

Tell him to quit watching then... He's not a female😊. Remember everyone had their own look sweetie. Be kind to yourself.❤

[@prettytopia]

​@@SuperWhatapainunfortunately that won't work. A cheater will cheat regardless of how the "replacement" looks

[@tmm6884]

Sounds like you have a husband problem, not a "beauty" problem. Divorce his lame butt. And, own your own unique gorgeous self.

[@squidthing]

It sounds like he is the problem here. You deserve to be treated better. I guarantee he wouldn't be okay if the roles were reversed.

[@Labrecque-]

Please don't view other women as competition, you need to speak to your partner about this and how it's making you feel.

[@racheldeschaine]

The way I felt that first video she was speaking my mind girl!

[@JHjh88]

Love your covering this!❤ From Australia 🐨 (where filler & Botox has now firmly taken a foothold😖).

[@atomicgoblin]

The consumerism brainwashing is scary. Literally all you need to do is wash and moisturize, and the items don't have to be expensive... I use off brand noxema and jergins face cream and sometimes witch hazel. That's the extent of my skincare routine. I'm almost 40 and folks mistake me for being in my mid 20s. It's just genetics though. I make the joke that us indigenous folks look like we're 19 until we hit 40 then we look like we're 119 overnight with no in between. The harder you try to fight your natural aging, the harder it's going to smack you back. With interest.

[@dawnrichardson8230]

This was a really good video Edvasian! I really enjoyed the thoughtfulness in your script and that way you edited it together.

[@prenimystic]

I have never gotten filler before, I've never even gotten a professional facial or make up done on me I don't think I look old, but I do think I don't look young, and that's because of social media I just want to live my life without worrying if I could be shamed, "fixed up" by a beauty tiktoker, judged on a show, or on the street, or *anythinggggg* 😭 Sure, I want bigger lips, but I don't want to look 40 by getting them. I want a more rounded chin, but I don't want to look like a weird baby doll or a plastic girl. There is just so much to worry about, and it's becoming a toxic roundabout where the thing you're trying to fix is causing you to have what you wanted to prevent, and is now the thing you're trying to fix

[@zizwan5826]

Damn, JYP catching strays...

[@JoSw23]

11:24 like this girl, my plastic surgeon put lip filler mainly in my top lip and kind of under my lips (?? not great explanation lol) to push the top lip up and out a bit, naturally making it appear bigger. he also put just the smallest bit of botox near the corners on my mouth to push those corners up a tad, which also makes lifts helps to lift the appearance of my lips/mouth/face in general. but yeah, you just have to find a good surgeon/injector (fr just ask your mom who she sees lol) who has been doing it FOREVER and really cares about their art, and wants to keep you looking like you !

[@stanfatou2002]

I genuinely can't wait to be a older lady with my family and be the sweet grandma. Or be a hot 40 year with my mom bod and all

[@koii319]

i never used tiktok and dont have it right now either. Because of this im very distanced from beauty influencers and the new “beauty trend” that happens every 2 minutes. And even though i have my own insecurities im happy to say that i dont worry about my appearance as much as other teenagers do my age. I honestly think people should follow trends of their hobbies like art, sports, gaming, etc, instead of beauty standards.

[@AutumnHaunts]

Aging is a privilege. I don’t care if I get wrinkles, it’s a part of life. I’m 30 and have a few fine lines around my eyes, but it’s all good. I hate the look of Botox, filler and plastic surgery it looks awful imo. If you really want to avoid premature aging though, avoid the sun. The sun is the number one cause of premature aging. Wear sunscreen.

[@DjD5]

Have you ever looked at the “chemical ingredients” in sunscreen? Yeah, after rubbing those chemicals all over our skin, we go into the sun and bake those chemicals into our bodies! Make it make sense…..✌🏼

[@murtleturtle4027]

The whole 10 step skin routine trend, I've been doing that sort of stuff since I was in my teens, to be fair I have an 7-8 routine (morning and night) and sometimes it can go up to 9 if I'm wanting a whole spa day with masks. I'm 28 now and my skin looks a lot better than people my age from what I've seen. Very plump and healthy, that being said I've been doing this for years, I know what my skin does and doesn't like, and I even use some things (like physical face exfoliation) that a lot of people now adays say is terrible for your skin but for me works wonders (then again I have a very light/gentle hand). I've never had surgeries though, and I don't think my routine is meant for everyone, I just really like it and have a passion for it. It's why I went to cosmetology school, I love skincare and beauty. I can't speak for surgeries, when I can for skincare, and the point of skincare is care for your skin. Skin is an organ and it can be maintained well, but it needs the right things that work for you, not the trends. I can also say it's not the screen times, I've worked online for many years too, my eyes were glued to this screen, while I can't say it's the best for your head and eyes, I can say, from my experience, it does not do anything or much to the skin if so.

[@TheHermitTeller]

The trouble is we work a lot more now than we ever have done before in human history. You'd be surprised but we spend more time working than we do with family or friends. Whereas maybe before the industrial revolution, we had all the time in the world to just be bored and be present in our day-to-day lives. We were more connected within our immediate communities and didn't need to worry so much about what was happening thousands of miles away, on the other side of the world. As our lives became busier and more demanding, businesses naturally responded with making things more convenient: Cars, public transport, washing machines, microwaves, hoovers, kettles etc. All technological advancements dictated the framework that is the 9-5. Businesses thought to themselves, how can we squeeze as much energy out of our workers for the most profit in the most efficient way. The crazy thing is, we're working more hours than ever but the production rate isn't any higher because we are all sick to death of being so stressed and over worked. And we're still perpetuating the problem but now with AI! We're not actually addressing the root problem in that the way that we work is wrong. Instead we're all being forced to adjust to a dysfunctional society with these band aid solutions that only make life ''convenient'' in the moment whilst we still suffer with our mental health and chronic illnesses. Some technological advancements are amazing and extremely useful: solving climate issues, providing clean water, irrigation, cleaner energy usage etc. But we could learn A LOT from the old world - about how to go back to nature, back to our ecological selves, back to homeostasis, back to a sense of feeling at home and at ease with ourselves. We just need to bridge our two worlds together in a way that is harmonious, not destroying each other.

[@oliviastratton2169]

I agree that there were benefits to pre-industrial lifestyles that we could learn from. But the idea that it was less work is just wrong. Getting up at dawn to care for livestock, tending crops, sewing your own clothes by hand, making making every meal (which often had to feed 5-10 children) entirely from scratch, washing all your laundry by hand, keeping your house clean without a modern broom let alone a vacuum. There's a reason so many people left farms to work in garment factories and manufacturing plants during the industrial revolution. Even though the working conditions in those places were far worse than anything you'd experience in a retail or office job today. There were benefits to agrarian society. Most of the work was done in the home, so you had more time with your family even if it wasn't leisure time. The work was labor-intensive, so you'd stay pretty fit, and the work was less specialized, so you'd have more variety in the kinds of tasks you did throughout the day. But it was absolutely much more work overall.

[@TheHermitTeller]

@@oliviastratton2169 not everyone was a farmer and growing/rearing their own livestock though. But if you earned well you lived a pretty comfortable life for the most part. The work was hard in the ways that you mentioned because of the lack of technology/knowledge we had at that time and people left like you said because there was no money in farming anymore but in textiles because of the demand and trade for it. The roles are changing again and people are going back to homesteading/farming etc. and I still stand by in believing we should try and marry the modern and old world together.

[@oliviastratton2169]

@@TheHermitTeller Before the industrial revolution, 80-90% of people worked in agriculture. And even if you were lucky enough to be a tradesman like a blacksmith or a baker, that was still very hard work. I said I agreed there are aspects of pre-industrial life we should reincorporate into our own. You claimed that we work more now than we ever have in human history. This is the claim I was disputing. The average person in pre-industrial times worked much harder than the average 9-5 worker in a current developed economy. Also, I know some people that do homesteading. Even with modern technology, it is hard work. It can be very rewarding and there are many reasons to prefer that lifestyle to an urban one. But it is not a lifestyle that brings more leisure time.

[@unknownkook8560]

Why people dont understand most of our face body aging is related to genetics and same things wont work for other people someone can have the best routine and someone who doesnt care can have the same look and aging

[@OJO5750]

Let’s be super clear about the fact that it’s not just screen time or the internet inherently. It is the type of content we consume. I am online all the time but choose not to use social media (besides youtube) and other socially popular platforms. There is so much more information the internet has to offer besides just social media. We have been taught to basically disregard the good parts of the internet in service of the harmful ones (it brings in revenue). Also, it works into keeping people misinformed and unable to grasp reality because they never learned to differentiate good info vs bad info in the first place. Once you get in, they keep you trapped in those echo chambers and that data bleeds into what we search, get recommended and buy across our devices. We need to keep trying to teach people more about how to correctly use these services. Cause the reality is, they ain’t going anywhere and the responsibility sadly falls on the consumers.

[@itsthegyalgyal]

0:14 SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS🕺🕺🕺

[@dxrlingsofmine]

who am I to disagree 😩

[@melobski4]

I travel to world and the seven seas! 🎶 🎵

[@Taesune]

Everybody's looking for something 🗣

[@dxrlingsofmine]

@@Taesune some of them want to use you 😼

[@Shannon-f8w]

This conversation always reminds me of when women plucked their eyebrows off in the 1920s because it was the fashion. Then in the 1930s the fashion was natural eyebrows and a whole generation of women with ruined hair follicles had to just keep drawing on their brows every morning. Never follow an irreversible trend.

[@Uncle_Smidge]

Babe, did you mean "ethereal"? You said "urethral". As in, medical supplies that go in your urethra. Like a catheter. : o

[@punchdrunkassassin]

It's a meme 😅 but definitely referencing "ethereal"!

[@shadowsoulless6227]

I mean with how some of these people look, their face might look like the inside of a urethra

[@AIBot929]

I am chronically online, but I've never felt pressure to look a certain why, I am just the opposite of all beauty standards and no amount of fillers or surgeries is going to fix that and I'm ok with that. More people need to work on their inside first and not the outside.

[@wonderingjibril1210]

The worst thing about it is I never had tik tok downloaded. Learned a long time ago that when you engage in a social media or a social experiment as I like to make of it. You kind of give yourself over to the standards of others and usually it's not realistic standards. I think that's the problem with a lot of media itself and social media it's always taken that face value. You never know what those people are going through or how their lives really are You don't know what happens behind closed doors or what they could be hiding. And it makes sense you know where in the world we're ever getting kind of sucks from political s*** that makes no sense, to previous generations not caring about current generations or new ones and just overall global climate being a problem. Everyone wants to be something else or kind of avoid thinking about a lot of stuff and that leaves going online and making up a fantasy. And then enforcing those fantasy standards onto others, why worry about the world Bernie and you can worry about not looking over 45. Why worry about any of the bad s*** when you can sit here and spend an unhealthy amount of time stalking someone's profile with millions of others to see how their lives are so much better than your dream about having that life one day. Not mad at anybody over it and I kind of understand, it's like binge watching a TV show once you start you don't want to stop for a bit you let yourself go into a fantasy world. We already got people doing that now using your imaginations and calling it something else. It's all normal it's just too much of it right now that's unhealthy. People have taken those concepts and internalize them and I can't blame them. But you know focus on here and now sometimes, your face is going to age there is a lot of stuff that you're going to be able to do to help it which I agree with. If you can do it right and do it healthy and not hurt yourself in the long run I say go for it especially that's something you feel insecure about. Just hope people are doing that for theirselves and not because some beauty influencer or some trending videos told them they needed to do. I don't think that it's average looking people just to me usually the average looking people have different facial features. They look unique and you can see that they don't look like a copy and paste version of someone else. That's what we're getting out we're getting people changing their faces to look exactly like other people taking away their unique features that make them and my personal opinion look more human because they look more diverse😅

[@Sumsimmykins]

There is so much pressure from all angles to adhere to ever-changing beauty standards. Best not to give in but if you do it's ok you are only human❤

[@DanielHarris42024]

You're great. Glad I found your channel.

[@crystallionaire]

I have been leaving behind social media slowly over the last couple years. Its the best not hearing about new trends all the time and what I should want and need and all that. it's exhausting.. I live how I want damn it!

[@Victoria_Loves_Jesus]

i'm 35 and people think I'm 10 years younger all the time, but I also stopped wearing make up over a decade ago

[@shadowsoulless6227]

I'm 31, people think I'm in my early twenties, it's probably because I don't drink smoke do drugs, I don't go in the sun, and I very rarely wear makeup, like I'm talking about maybe a handful of times a year. Maybe it is good to not put tons of chemicals on your face everyday.

[@viridianacortes9642]

Good for you dude. 😊

[@Ralph_Kreutzberger-Blumenfeld]

You look your age and that's okay!

[@AspienWaifu]

Biologically, it’s pretty insane already that humans live as long as we do (as far as mammals go, few mammals live as long as we do) - also, by the age of 30, aging speeds up and whatever damage was done to the body begins to really show (pain, scarring, etc). I’m 33, I love my little laugh lines and my wrinkles, my stretch marks given to me by my now 13-year-old son, I appreciate all the wisdom I continue to gain as I age. Vanity is a crazy drug, man.

[@stolenrelic]

Botox isn't the issue. It's the filler. You don't see a lot of folks who get only Botox unless they're getting it for medical reasons like migraines.

[@dees3179]

Which is increasingly hard to do unless you can get it privately funded now. Certainly NHS in the U.K. seems to think it’s an unimportant thing to consider for funding. Because being in significant pain has no effect on quality of life, ability to work, contribute to society or look after ourselves or others and therefore we can just suck it up.

[@Zeverinsen]

There are a lot of them, you just don't see them because they look normal.

[@jj-gk6rj]

​@@dees3179is it really migraine relief or are you just a grifter who wants to look yassified? The NHS is not for botox 🙄

[@tdelioncourt1268]

Botox is an issue though, young people's skin moves

[@nuhasalahudeen4950]

5:10 SHES SOOO TRUEE THIS IS THE REASON WHY DELETED TIKTOK

[@rs-mt6kl]

Bro im sorry those love island women are HOW OLD? UNDER 26? Dude im 28 and the other week someone thought i was barely 21 they ID'd me for my alcohol at a bridal shower 😭

[@KtT-sn8cy]

It doesn’t surprise me tbh, people who use all those procedures are going to look that way. and don’t worry people who look younger in their twenties always end up aging faster later on.

[@LawanaWalker]

The Asian aunties comment at the end triggered me 😂💀 I had a Korean boss years ago, I had so much anxiety going into work every day bc I knew she'd say something if I wasn't looking right 😭

[@basurahan_juice]

i feel like if he gets angry it’d be so passive aggressive and he’d keep that tone