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Trends I Hate – Lime Green

Impracticality – 1/5
Unsightliness – 4/5
Suitablility – 2/5

Look, I love a bright neon shade as much as the next girl, but I much prefer it when that neon shade is not assaulting my eyes with how bright it is. Neon green is apparently this season’s go-to shade, and I am not here for it. I went out the other day for some retail therapy, and instead came back with my eyes watering because of the offensively bright matching displays in most of the clothing shops. I am putting my foot down. Lime green is one of the nastiest shades of green, and whilst I will admit that it can look passable when paired with black, apparently bright white is more in this season, which honestly is the worst. I’m also really not here for the all-lime-green-matching-everything vibe that retailers are currently putting down. That being said, if you’re someone who has a medium-to-dark skin tone, lime green can look absolutely incredible on you, but as a milk-bottle white girl myself, lime green makes me look like a warning sign. I could make rock it as a very small element of a plaid pattern, maybe as element of an eye makeup look, potentially as a shoe if I’m feeling adventurous, but apart from that lime green and I will never be best buds. It’s just too bright and yellow-tinged to entice me, and honestly seeing it everywhere is really putting me off going into shops, which is excellent for my bank balance but not so good for my wardrobe. I hold out hope for spring, and the return of more muted, pastel shades once more.

Trends I Hate – Low Rise Jeans

I was having a lovely winter break. Seeing my family, friends, feeling very festive and very much in the spirit of good will to all. I even wondered how on earth I’d come up with a trend to hate, considering my glowy outlook on the world at the moment. Then, what should I find whilst scrolling through social media? An article about how low-rise jeans are coming back in for 2019.
WHY?!
If you’re going to dredge up a wholly unflattering trend from the early 2000s, why not slogan crop tops? Skinny scarves? Even Uggs would do – at  least we’d be comfy whilst sacrificing our dignity on the altar of fashion. I have been wearing exclusively high-waisted jeans since I was about 14 and I have no desire to stop doing so now. Not only do low-rise jeans leave you in danger of flashing everyone your undies, if you wear literally any top with them that isn’t cropped, you expose just the lower sliver of your tummy, which, let’s be honest looked weird then and will undoubtedly look weird now. Who decided that lower bellies were all the rage again? I was perfectly happy with upper midriff!
Look, I get it – we all want to go back to the early 2000s. It was a simpler time. Everything seems as though it was a little more shiny back then (mostly to do with the excessive amount of shimmer shadow, bronzer and lipgloss everyone was using, but still). However, can we all accept that there’s no such thing as time travel and trying to forcibly shove everyone back to the 2000s by was of fashion trends is not the way to go. It’s time to move onwards and upwards, like the waistbands of our jeans did.