Imagine this: It’s 7am and your ears are burning. You have just spent the night engaged in a new beauty trend that prides itself on transforming ugliness into radiant beauty overnight. The strategy involves wearing a chin strap so tight you feel your chin is on a leverage around your ears. It’s said to help banish a double chin, tighten the jawline, and shoo away seemingly saggy nasolabial folds. Call yourself vulnerable or inquisitive, but you find this new fad dubbed the “morning shed” very intriguing.
The “morning shed” is not a surgical operation, nor is it an award-winning spa treatment. It’s a trend that has taken the digital world by storm, gathering millions of views and hundreds of thousands of likes. This beauty trend advocates a unique night routine of sowing yourself with beauty products and paraphernalia before you hit the hay. By morning, you are supposed to have flowered into the most radiant version of yourself. This procedure often includes the use of an overnight face mask, heatless curlers or a silk bonnet, mouth tape, a chin strap, mouth guard or retainer, under-eye masks, anti-wrinkle patches, and lip masks. If you find yourself looking immense scary by the time you are done gearing up for the night, then you are on the right course: the scarier the better!
The “morning shed” phenomenon is typical of a new generation of beauty enthusiasts who believe in squeezing benefits out of every hour in the day. This is a beauty evolution that rivals the old and seeming endless routines that stole the show in the past. In the quest to optimize beauty without doubt, many have bought into the trend. They are not oblivious of their susceptibility to online trends that often don’t work. Yet, the seductive frames of women, all bundled up behind serums and fabrics, exposing glowing skin, neat jaws, and gorgeous curls after unwrapping, seem a persuasive marketing detain.
The proponents of the “morning shed” are eager to espouse the narrative that it’s the long-earned investment likely to help keep injectables or other more costly and intricate anti-ageing techniques at bay. But, the reality check on trying out this trend might pop quite a few bubbles. Adding all the elements of the “morning shed” one by one before bedtime feels like embarking on an arduous journey. Unraveling the beauty wraps in the morning, you’ll find some still in place, the rest literally thrown all over the room. For those daring, expect to meet a disheveled face that barely recognizes itself in the mirror.
After all said and done, this trend indeed extracts the beauty blossom called the “morning shed”, though, you may be left drained due to some uncomfortable preparations. Besides, you might not be ready to restrain your late-night water and snack intake, keep looking bizarre to bed, and spend your hard-earned money on beauty gimmicks that seem to steal some valuable hours of your life. But who knows, it might just be time to take a chill on hardcore beauty hacks. We all have to agree; enduring daily turmoil doesn’t have to mean enduring nightly ugliness. The decision, after all, lies in your hands, and in this case, also on your face!
