1. Contouring

In my opinion, makeup best serves you when used to show off what is already there. Makeup can be strategically applied to emphasize certain unique features. However, there is a fine line between highlighting your natural features, and restructuring them into a completely different shape. Contouring, introduced to many impressionable young adults’ makeup routines by the Kardashian clan, is an effort to literally redraw your face. Basic contouring involves not only defining your facial features, but reshaping them. It typically involves slimming the nose, angling the cheekbones, and narrowing the chin, among other fixes.

My beef with contouring lies in the fact that the majority of contouring tools and tutorials preach about very specific beauty standards: a thin nose; ultra high cheekbones; a soft, slim jawline. This promotes the notion that these features are the ideal beauty standard, and that women should redraw their already uniquely beautiful faces to look like clones of celebrities and each other.

2. Waist Training

I was under the impression that the waist training fad had died out around the same time that women were granted the right to vote in the United States. Apparently, I was wrong. Yet again, America’s most visible reality television family has encouraged young women to alter their bodies to mirror what they see on TV. While I adore that Khloe Kardashian has found a passion for healthy living by eating clean and killing it in the gym, her use of waist trainers disappoints me. Unlike actual weight loss, waist training does not have any health benefits. It may narrow your waistline, but it comes with serious risks. According to Caroline Apovian, M.D., professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine in an interview for Health.com, waist training devices can interfere with breathing and cause heartburn. Dr. Apovian also notes that the results of waist training are temporary and will not create any lasting change to a person’s figure.

3. Spray Tans

The majority of the Kardashians seem to have faded over the years from Oompa Loompa orange to a light tangerine. While this improvement warms my heart, there is still work to be done. The spray tan epidemic is still prevalent, from the Regina George’s of my former high school to the celebrities on the red carpet. No matter who is applying them, these spray tans can be spotted from a mile away. Even the best products and applicators tend to be messy, streaky, and even smelly. It rubs off onto clothes, applies unevenly, and typically appears more Cheeto Puff than bronzed goddess.

4. Overdrawn Lips

Again, this trend grinds my gears because it suggests that everyone needs to have the exact same, specific features to be attractive. In this case, that feature is giant, overdrawn lips. This obsession with having the exact same facial features as a Kardashian led many Kylie Jenner fans to seriously injure their faces in an attempt to enlarge their lips. A passing trend is no reason to risk permanent physical damage. Big lips, small lips, red lips, blue lips - they’re all beautiful. Instead of worrying about the size or shape of your lips, try finding the perfect color to compliment your eyes or skin tone.

5. Ombré

This trend is the lazy woman’s best friend. It allows a person to let his or her roots grow out beyond the color they have dyed it and call it a new style. A two-in-one, if you will! This trend’s origins were innocent enough, but too many people have abused with subpar hair care. The style has evolved from a cascading blend of light to dark hair into two chunks of equally unfortunate hair colors stacked on top of each other. The ombré has inevitably fallen into the same category as pumpkin spice lattes and bedazzled yoga pants: #basic.