Imperfect skin is in, don’t you know. Girls are being encouraged to embrace their natural beauty and not feel ashamed for it, so it’s a beauty trend we’re totally here for.
We’re all familiar with faux freckles – from subtle little specks to a full face of sprinkles and even glitter freckles – the fun little pigment spots give your face a fresh and bold touch that is a welcome change from the overly-retouched, perfect skin image seen on the likes of The Gram.
The web is flooded with DIY tutorials on getting the ideal natural looking face dots using everything from eyeliner to lipliner. And if you’ve ever tried it, it is suuuper hard and you can quickly end up looking like one of the 101 Dalmatians.
^Actual footage of my faux freckle fail.
But now the trend is going one step further. Enter henna freckles. Yep, beauty blogger uglysxegirl was so in love with the face deco she decided to go for a more lasting approach. It might sound weird, but the results look really good.
Don’t believe me? Take a look for yourself:
Once she’d perfected the look, the Insta star decided to go another step further – and draw on big and bold pigment spots. Yep, you’ve read that right, this girl voluntarily draws semi-permanent large brown spots on her face to defy conventional beauty standards.
And here is the tutorial for those bold enough to try it out:
There’s a whole beauty market solely dedicated to getting rid of unique skin discolourations, but with beauty bloggers like uglysxegirl on the scene, we can change the mainstream image of beauty for good.
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