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Hello Gorgeous! Beauty + Life

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Scary beauty trends to avoid

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Rachel Weingarten
Oct 30, 2025
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Hello, Gorgeous!

It’s Halloween tomorrow, which means that we’ll be seeing all kinds of ghosties and goblins hanging around. At least that’s for one day of the year. The rest of the year we have to worry about sketchy beauty trends that are truly scary.

Here are some to avoid year-round (except for Halloween, of course).

  • Over-laminated brows: Let’s all agree that the soap brow look —where actual soap is used to groom eyebrows — has gone too far. While those stiff brows might work on social media, in real life it’s hard to focus on anything but those unnaturally shaped brows.

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