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MrMoonlight said

Mimi said
There is a certain kind of person who is repulsed by trends (and I am totally one of them) 

I am actually a little extreme with my antitrendism

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like my new word there?

When I was around 12, and all the girls in my class started wearing make up, I went automatically went the other direction, and still don’t wear it, even now I’m in high school, and it’s something that everyone just does.

when something is popular, especially in terms artists/bands, I am overlly cynical about it to begin with. It seems like a lot of Beatles fans share this quality. (I’m generalizing here) Part of the allure of the Beatles is that they are both so popular everyone has at least heard of them, but not popular in the way you can’t count on people knowing all of their names. They’re popular in an iconic way 

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they are bigger than Jesus after all 

but in many ways not as popular as 1D is, if you get what I’m trying to say. And that makes being a Beatles fan much cooler than a 1D fan, and not just because 1D is total bullshit. Artistic merit of the music aside, being a Beatles fan has so much more identity to it than being a fan of any band that is currently a trend. Obviously, the feeling of identity and originality is not the reason we are Beatles fans, its just an added bonus. 

Anyway, my point is some people just repel trends, purely because its a trend, whereas other people embrace trends for social reasons. 

Bravo

Thank you! I was having a very insightful moment into the minds of one direction fans when I wrote that

MrMoonlight said

Mimi said 

all the girls in my class started wearing make up, I went automatically went the other direction, and still don’t wear it, even now I’m in high school, and it’s something that everyone just does.

If it’s any consolation, I much prefer girls without make-up, or at least natural make-up. People look like bloody clowns these days! And they’ve all sluttified themselves, and all of that is what makes it difficult for me to find someone. With Elizabeth, she never wore make-up. She was never like the rest (but she had boyfriends and I’m just a jealous guy and it makes me panicky af), and that’s one of the best things. She was modest, she was funny, she had just that little bit of eccentricity which made my heart shrivel up just by hearing her. But because of society’s new ideals, not many people noticed her. Except for a few… but, really, I’m not one to talk about those, although everyone seemed to blame me when overhearing it… even though they pretty much shouted it out, right next to me, in a quiet room. Delightful. But I digress (this is already a tangent as it is), it was all enough to stun me, more or less, causing everything to spin… (get the Dizzy Miss Lizzy joke out of the way pls) and now it’s the same, but for all the wrong reasons, all with the wrong effect. She was one of the few girls who didn’t wear make up, didn’t have sex with literally everyone (yes, at fourteen) and I thought that was going to be it, finally. I thought I’d found my dream person. For me, attractiveness in girls isn’t based on how little clothing they wear, but who they are (and in terms of physical things, it’s more of a ‘cuteness’ for me), their personality, their humour and their skills. Gotta love a girl who plays an instrument.

Exactly. What’s funny about the whole psychology of make-up is that the girl wearing it is the only one who cares how perfectly curled her eyelashes are or whatever. No one else even notices that kind of stuff. It’s such a weird insecurity. I know people who refuse to leave the house, even if its just to get the mail or a cup of coffee without spending at least 45 minutes on the smallest detail of their face. I really don’t understand it. Besides, with the money I don’t spend on make-up, I could buy enough guitar strings to last me the next few years.