As someone who defines herself as relatively stylish, I try and stay up to date on current trends. From my understanding, all trends when it comes to beauty and fashion revolve in a circle. Stuff from the 90s and early 2000s are coming back and becoming popular again. While I am all for vintage style choices, there are a few trends I hope we never see come back.
1. Metalic Lamé Leggings
Lamé (pronounced la-MAY) is shiny and stretchy material you'll probably remember if you did dance, cheer, gymnastics, or figure skating as a child. While it makes beautiful costumes, they just don't hold up when it comes to leggings. I'm always team leggings as pants, but this material just isn't flattering as actual pants. I'll stick to using it for just accents.
2. Platform Sandals
Platform Sandals ala my favorite living Bitmoji, Lizzie McGuire were really popular in the early 2000's. I remember BEGGING my mom for a pair, which I finally got (in baby pink, obviously). It wasn't fifteen minutes later that I already started turning my ankles and falling. For the safety of the people, I beg this trend stays in the past.3. Frosted Tips
No one can make this hair coloring look good, yet every boy band member or boy band member wannabe thought this looked sooooo cooooool. Not only is bleach terrible for your hair, you'll also look like you dunked your head in powdered sugar. Like my Tamagotchi, this trend should stay dead in the 90's.
4. 90's Boy Hair
It seemed like every boy in the 90's had this hair (or some variation) at some point. I'm not sure who was the authority in saying bowl cuts with a middle part was the height of male hair artistry, but I'm just glad we were able to move past this as a society. Also, Leonardo DiCaprio, if you're reading this: Never again. Please.
5. Intricate Butterfly Clip Updos
For one, these things HURT. Maybe I just have a sensitive scalp but my head would always ache after taking a million of these out of my hair. Plus, bend them back at the wrong angle and they snap in half! It would take like half an hour to get these positioned perfectly and for what? HEART AND HEADACHE. I say good riddance.
6. Futuristic Style
The millennium brought in a new wave of pseudo-futuristic style ala the space boom of the 60's (Think: The Jetsons). Metallics, plastics, and faux materials ran wild in the magazines. While in small amounts, this can look super cool but full head to toe looks can go overboard. Even as we're in the future, we can lay this dated look to rest.
7. Head to toe neon
Neon, like the futuristic look, can be tolerable in small amounts. But if you have a whole outfit centered around anything highlighter yellow, you'll cause headaches and not happiness. If we want to bring this trend back again, I say only in tiny amounts. Unless you're a hunter, you truly don't need to do it.
8. Skinny brows
All the girls in the 90's wanted the skinny and demure brows that all of the celebrities they adored also sported. Not only did over-tweezing HURT, it also left you with permanent damage and bald spots when you tried to inevitably grow your brows back in the late 2000's (Mom, thank you SO MUCH for not letting my tweeze my brows.) I hope for the sake of everyone's sensitive eye skin this trend stays dead.
9. Bindis/ Face Jewels
Not only are using bindis a form of cultural appropriation (it's 2018, knock it off) but the whole concept of face jewelry is murky at best even without the cultural part. You want to adorn your face with crystals, but do you know how hard it is to keep those suckers on your face all day? What if it's humid or hot out? What if your skin is oily? What if the glue gives you a rash? There are too many things that could go wrong even if you didn't go the cultural appropriation route. Leave this trend in the 90's.
10. Puffy vests
Many a Fall school day was spent in the puffy down vest. But the whole rationale behind puffy vests is weird. A heavy, jacket-like vest covers your torso but leaves your arms to stay cold. Is it actually insulating you if your arms are freezing? Do you take them off or leave them on all day? Why do we have these?
11. Sunglasses with colored lenses
Men, women, boys, and girls of all ages had pairs of these ridiculous glasses. In shades of pink, red, blue, yellow, and orange, our worlds were temporarily tinted. It was double horrible if your pair also featured some rhinestone detailing on the lenses. I can remember having a pair with a rhinestone butterfly in the corner and I had to inevitably give them away because my eyes would only focus on the rhinestone butterfly. Shame when you're also not coordinated and walk into things frequently.
Some vintage trends are cool. Some are fun. Some should never come back.
