There’s no limit when it comes to micro TikTok beauty trends \u2013 strawberry girl, latte girl, glass skin, soap nails. It’s equal parts fun and exhausting. But one of the latest quips is just that: exhaustion. Puffiness, eye bags, dark circles \u2013 everyone wants to look sleepy right now. But why?<\/p>\n
I think there’s a few contributing factors, the first being that some of us are literally just tired \u2013 concealing our under eyes<\/a> is yet another job to do. The world is bleak at the moment; looking bright and energised feels at odds with the current state of affairs.<\/p>\n It also feels like a response to the prevalence of lower blepharoplasty, a surgical procedure where excess fat and skin is removed from the lower eye area (basically your eye bags are sliced out before the skin is restitched resulting in a tighter, more youthful appearance). People should absolutely do what they want with their faces, but eye bags are actually pretty common from a biological standpoint. Some of us are getting older and thus loosing collagen while for others, hollowness and sagging are just genetic. The same goes for dark circles. Yes, there can be a thinning of skin and more visible blow flow because of it, but most of the time it’s predisposed.<\/p>\n It’s part of the reason as to why L\u00e9a Seydoux is trending online \u2013 her puffy under eyes are being called out as sexy, chic and French. And they are. But the point is not to position eye bags as more desirable than no eye bags (because some people literally don’t have them) but instead to emphasise the fact that we’re all hot the way we are, tired or not tired. Jessica Defino actually wrote a great piece about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n