With the benefit of hindsight, what is the oddest beauty standard you have lived through?

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1. not sure if this counts as what you’re looking for but living through the transition from “women should have small hips/butts” to “slimthick 😳🥵” has been… an experience.

   And frankly, a really good demonstration of how the whole cultural perception of beauty is made up anyways.

2. When women were shaving their eyebrows and then drawing them on, sometime in the late 90s – early 2000s time frame.

3. I’ll never get over 90s fashion. Like imagine 80s fashion, but bland

4. The no hip dips, with a massive ass and teeny waist. I don’t even know whats happening with that weirdness.

5. “Heroin chic” in the 90’s. It made my 115 lb teenaged self feel like a fat ass

6. https://www.allure.com/gallery/80s-hairstyles-trends

7. Beauty standards are often defined in terms of hairstyles, skin color, and body size. The measures involved in having to live up to these standards are often risky in nature. For decades, what is seen as beautiful is centered around a women’s weight and size? Today, that standard is often defined as being thin.