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25 Jun

Bottom teeth talkers and TikTok’s acceleration of beauty trends

Bottom teeth talkers and TikTok’s acceleration of beauty trends
Following the newest body part discourse – whether showing your top or bottom teeth while speaking makes you superior – Chloe Laws writes that TikTok is running out of random body parts to scrutinise I even have beauty standards vertigo. It’s a horrible condition, filled with self-doubt, confusion and crippling insecurity. This is just not a legitimate medical diagnosis (yet), but something I even have coined on the abject whiplash I get from TikTok on a weekly, if not day by day, basis. One week I’m meant to be getting Botox in my trapezius muscles to offer me a Barbie-like shoulder slope, the following I’m rearranging my mouth after I speak in order...
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30 May

Functional Beverages Take Off with TikTok’s Sexy Water Trend

Functional Beverages Take Off with TikTok’s Sexy Water Trend
It’s time to take a sip of TikTok‘s hottest recent trend: sexy water. In 2020, content creator Kelly Grace Mae was listening to The Skinny Confidential podcast and heard Lauryn Bosstick speak about sex-ing up her coffee. The phrase stuck and he or she quickly created her own version: sexy water, which may be achieved by mixing water with fun and functional ingredients — electrolyte powders, mineral tinctures, lemon, etc — likely in a cute glass with a fun straw.   “Sexy water became this romanticized time for me to, within the morning, drink my water and make it more fun,” Mae said. “It felt like less of a chore and more of this self care ritual that I got to...
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23 Feb

Can TikTok’s subliminal messages really make your lips greater?

Can TikTok’s subliminal messages really make your lips greater?
From straightening uneven teeth to creating your boobs grow, subliminal message videos are promising to unravel your body image concerns via playlists How you can change your physical appearance, according to TikTok: begin by making an inventory of what you’d like to vary, may that be a sharper jawline or straighter teeth. Then, hunt down videos on YouTube and TikTok that can beam subliminal messages about those desires into your subconscious. Next, make a playlist of those videos to hearken to in your sleep. Finally, go about your life as if these changes have taken place. In time, the outward changes you wished to manifest will come good, spurred on by the subliminal...
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5 Dec

TikTok’s recent ageing filter is making people cry… with

TikTok’s recent ageing filter is making people cry… with
Should you were on TikTok this summer you will likely be very accustomed to the platform’s “Aged” filter. Using AI machine learning, just like the Daring Glamour filter, the Aged filter “predicted” how users would age by adding facial expression like wrinkles, sagging skin, thinner lips and hyperpigmentation. The filter quickly racked up over 10 billion views, with the general sentiment being considered one of dismay and distress at the outcomes. “I don’t prefer it, I don’t prefer it in any respect,” Kylie Jenner said in a video where she tests out the filter. “No. No.” Other users joked they were going to start Botox and pretended to cry. While a few of these reactions were little question played up for...
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