The Internet Has Mixed Feelings About the Faux Freckle Trend
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Faux freckles have become a popular beauty trend on TikTok for adding dimension to the skin and providing that effortlessly sunkissed look. On the platform, beauty fans share their favorite products for achieving freckles, along with tips on getting them to look as natural as possible. But like tons of other TikTok beauty trends, faux freckles have become especially controversial — leading to a widespread debate about the ethics of using makeup to draw on freckles.
Beauty trends online are often subject to scrutiny, but the faux freckle trend in particular has become synonymous with disapproving comments. Some users on the app claim to have been bullied for their natural freckles and therefore deem faux freckles as insensitive. "Bullied for freckles my whole childhood and now everyone wants them," one commenter writes.
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