As most people do in this day and age I LOVE TikTok and often find myself scrolling to relax or to fill a spare moment. With the fast paced nature of the app trends are always coming and going and here are some of the moment that I can get behind and those that I want to see leave.

TRENDS I LOVE 💞

• Project Pans 🧴💄🧽

I love this one because I love the show and tell vibe of ‘look what I have and now I’m going to use it’. It encourages people to use what they have before being tricked into adding to the already huge collection they have of lip balm and shampoo and every other product we so love to hoard. I also think it promotes a more sustainable lifestyle amongst all the boastful shopping haul Tiktoks I so frequently see on my fyp.

• Dopamine Menus 🛁🥞🌸

This just may be my favourite trend of the moment. I love using Tiktok as a mindful (and somewhat mindless) way to relax and so these comforting, cosy vibe tiktoks of things that simply make people happy are so nice to watch. I think it’s a positive and very cutesy trend that says to people- hey look at all these things I like- how wholesome?!

• Very cutesy very demure very mindful 🧘🦔🪩

This is cute and funny and yes is it getting a bit old? Maybe! But I don’t really care, I think it’s funny and puts a smile on my face. Very ✨cutesy✨ very ✨demure✨very✨mindful✨.

• Things my toddler got mad at this week 😡👶🤣

I think this may be a bit more niche but I have so many of these on my fyp and I am 👏not mad about it👏. Mums write slideshows of reasons their toddlers got angry with them that week and the reasons vary from hilarious to hysterical and it’s just something silly that always puts a smile on my face.

TRENDS I HATE🙈

• Underconsumption👎⏳💵

Ok, yes I get it on the surface level you may ask why I am hating on overconsumption but praising project pans? Well, project pans encourage healthy and ethical consumption and the underconsumption trend certainly started out that way but quickly dissolved into ”you have more than one vaseline therefore you’re a terrible person and killing the planet, look at how I have the same lipbalm I’ve been using since 1982”. I’m all for ethical consumption but not at the expense at putting others down- it’s ok to treat yourself to something new sometimes. 🙂

• Gourmet ice restocks🧊🍸☁️

I have a love hate relationship with this one but it just teeters into hate. Yes, the videos are aesthetic and yes, I do sometimes stop to watch them but should people be making content showcasing 18 different types of ice with a separate freezer for all that ice? It encourages overconsumption and frankly is such a waste of water.

• Fridgescaping 🍓🎀 🎞️

This trend truly enrages me. Don’t get me wrong I’m an aesthetic girly (or at least I’m trying) and I’m all for making random things pretty- BUT THE FRIDGE?! I understand organising produce so you use it up but seriously does the fridge need mini photo frames of horses and ribbons attached to the drawers? I just can’t get behind this one sorry guys.

See you soon and enjoy the end of summer!

Yours, justjaslettering xx