For this fall-winter, the fashion trend is extra-long sleeves, a diamond pattern and make-up must accentuate… dark circles.
The British newspaper
The Guardian recently noted that a number of personalities, including models, had adopted at the Met Gala in New York in mid-September, the "ultra-tired look" effect.
A vogue that comes straight from the social network TikTok where especially young women of Generation Z (people born between 1997 and 2010) highlight with a dark make-up the bags they have under their eyes.
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What does this translate?
“In class, people in my class sometimes think I had a party the night before.
I make them believe that it is the case, that amuses me ”, justifies Luisa, 15 years, in class of second in Paris.
Letting them think that the teenager is spending her nights partying is a way of getting old and telling them, in passing, "
you don't have the freedom I have
".
This is false but it gives it "a certain popularity in high school", recognizes the student.
Hello everyone and in particular my dark circles, delighted to learn that they are in the hype thanks to TikTok.
- Vincent 🍉 (@vincentFUUU) October 18, 2021
“Without even knowing it, these girls show one of the representations of the adult woman in 2021: the one whose pandemic has increased domestic costs, anguish, anxiety… In short, the dead woman. We know that the repercussions of Covid-19 have weighed more heavily on women. Did these young girls unconsciously accentuate what they saw of their mothers? It's possible. Do not we say the eyes are the mirror of the soul… ”, deciphers Catherine Grangeard, psychoanalyst and psychosociologist.
More women in health services involved in the fight against the virus, they are also overrepresented in essential (and often precarious) services, such as the sales sectors, childcare, cleaning staff or d 'home help.
Teleworking has also been experienced differently depending on the genre.
“We could say that these underlined circles are a way of expressing the fed up with beauty codes, of taking the opposite view of the injunction to appear in good shape, of claiming a slightly ramshackle side.
But the negative aspect is that it trivializes the exhaustion of women, ”continues the expert.
A young American tiktokeuse would be at the origin of this trend
The one behind this fashion is Sara Carstens, a 19-year-old American.
In December 2020, a sequence posted to the more than two million people who follow her on TikTok shows her putting on makeup.
Rather than using a concealer to work on her eyes, she then runs a purple lip liner under her eyes.
“The goal is to normalize dark circles,” she explains in an interview spotted by the New York Times.
And the latter to claim a movement that she considers "beauty positive".
A kind of plea for self-acceptance and overcoming possible complexes.
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“It gives a little tortured side, like
I don't sleep all night so I am tormented
, laughs Lou, 16 years old in first.
I know girls who do it but I don't really like this style, except to give myself a good excuse when I spent too much time on the screens at night:
but no mom, I was not sure. my cell phone all night.
It's makeup!
», Quips the schoolgirl.
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For the psychoanalyst, underlining her dark circles would also amount to underlining the fatigue of this Covid generation who was deprived of social life for a long time, who could not follow their schooling normally and whose future prospects are not really encouraging. .
According to an Ipsos survey from January 2021, 40% of 18-24 year olds were the most affected by an anxiety disorder.
Eyes circled already on the catwalks in the 1990s
This "dark circles" trend will remind older people of the "heroine chic" look that swept through the fashion world in the mid-1990s. This look was notably characterized by pale skin, dark circles under the eyes and an emaciated physique. thus opposing the healthy appearance of supermodels like Cindy Crawford or Claudia Schiffer. Kate Moss is often cited as the embodiment of this phenomenon in the modeling field, accused of having given a glamorous image of drugs and anorexia.
"Doesn't that remind you of something else, too, those dark circles eyes that are coming back into fashion?"
»Asks Catherine Grangeard.
No, we can't see.
"The swollen eyes of abused women," she says.
The Covid-19 and confinements have indeed exploded violence against women around the world.
Another of the representations of the adult woman in 2021?
