People Are Sharing Their Glow Up Pics After Moving Out Of The Conservative Households That They Grew Up In Interview
There’s nothing like seeing a person gain the self-confidence and courage to be who they really are. Sometimes, it takes a big change like leaving your family home or your hometown to feel free enough to express who we always were deep inside. TikTokers are sharing their impressive personal transformations after they left their conservative households or towns, and the jaw-dropping results are inspiring others to reveal their own stories of change.
The person who popularized this latest trend is a 19-year-old TikTok user from Utah, Cherryemojigirl, whose ‘glow-up’ is very radical: the difference is like night and day. Scroll down to see some of the very best TikToker ‘glow-ups’ and let us know which ones left the biggest impression on you and why.
Bored Panda reached out to 24-year-old teacher and writer Jay Burleigh (aka jaybaebae96) who shared her glow-up video after coming out to her family and friends as queer. According to her, this was a huge turning point in embracing her identity. “I was terrified for so long of the judgment I’d face and the relationships I’d do but I finally decided that I needed to prioritize myself and accept who I am,” she said. Read on for the rest of our interview with Jay.
TikTok user Cherryemojigirl started a viral trend
She shared how she felt pressured to dress and look a certain way while living at home
However, when she moved out, she completely transformed herself
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Her video got over 10.1 million views. You can watch it right here
@cherryemojigirlif you knew me in middle and high school, no you didn’t ❤️ feel free to use this audio ##gloup ##transformation♬ growing up conservative glo up – cherryemojigirl 🍒
Cherryemojigirl’s viral TikTok video got a massive amount of attention on the video-sharing platform: it got over 10.1 million views, 2.7 million likes, and 10.6k comments.
And, of course, the video got others sharing their similar stories about completely overhauling their appearance after moving out.
According to Cherryemojigirl, she wasn’t allowed to express herself through her appearance because she grew up in a conservative household. Her main issue was that how she looked in middle and high school didn’t represent the ‘real’ her; she felt pressured by her family, peers, and society to look a certain way.
After graduating, the TikToker felt that she was finally free to dress and look how she wanted to. She changed her hair, got piercings and tattoos, and got new vibrant clothes to fit her new sense of style. She barely resembles who she was just a few short years ago.
What do you think about Cherryemojigirl’s new look, dear Pandas? Which particular change stood out the most for you? Do you have any stories about your own personal transformations? Share your thoughts and opinions with all the other Pandas in the comments.
One of the people who shared their glow-up videos, Jay Burleigh, told Bored Panda about coming out as queer to her loved ones
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@jaybaebae96If you’re from hs and seeing this, yes I know I wasn’t cool but I’m on ~top~ now. ##iykyk ##gaytiktok ##lesbian ##lesbiantiktok ##lgbt ##lgbtq ##fyp ##glowup♬ growing up conservative glo up – cherryemojigirl 🍒
Since coming out, Jay embraced and explored her gender fluidity. “I’d been so used to such strict expectations of what made a person a woman and what made them a man so anything in between wasn’t seen as ‘girly’ or ‘manly.’ I had to release those ideas and restructure my ideas of what made me feel more feminine and what made me feel more masculine and what just let me float in between. With this, I really learned to love myself for every piece of me.”
Jay shared some advice for anyone who’s feeling pressured by their family and friends to look and act a certain way. “It doesn’t matter how hard you try, you’ll never please everyone, but by embracing yourself the self-love you feel will overcome the judgment around you,” she said.
“Be okay with the idea that people will leave your life, learn from the lesson they left, and be bravely and beautifully you despite the hate that lives around us. It’s a long and hard journey but it’s well worth the climb,” Jay gave some motivational advice for anyone and everyone who might be struggling right now.
Inspired by the trend, other TikTok users shared their own glow-up stories and showed how much they changed
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@masondenverrI’ve never felt so seen by an audio before.♬ growing up conservative glo up – cherryemojigirl 🍒
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@ashertattoosSorry Mahm 🥳♬ growing up conservative glo up – cherryemojigirl 🍒
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@captainofthecowsi had to google how to use tik tok to make this but this has me DYING. how do i find ##trans tik tok 👁👄👁♬ growing up conservative glo up – cherryemojigirl 🍒
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@cybr.grlexposing my past 😳 my parents chose my clothes so I didn’t have much freedom wearing what I wanted to…but now that I’m grown I can 🤪 ##rainbowlady♬ growing up conservative glo up – cherryemojigirl 🍒
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@leonardoxdeasisThis sound read me for filth so I knew I had to do it. 😂🤣 I got a mullet now but I HAD to bring back my old hair for this haha! ##fyp ##guam ##gloup♬ growing up conservative glo up – cherryemojigirl 🍒
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@moodie.maggiehad to hop on this trend 👀 ##fyp ##alt♬ growing up conservative glo up – cherryemojigirl 🍒
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@myakateeoops 🤭♬ growing up conservative glo up – cherryemojigirl 🍒
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@nikidemarthis is called graduating catholic school glow up ##greenscreen ##fyp♬ growing up conservative glo up – cherryemojigirl 🍒
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@quiet.cosIt’s the Snapchat filters for me ##greenscreen ##fyp ##glowup ##goth ##trend ##stepintolove ##SongOfTheSummer ##moodflip♬ growing up conservative glo up – cherryemojigirl 🍒
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@scary_stylesaye yo. alabama check ##BeautyEssentials ##moodflip ##transformation ##glowupchallenge ##fyp♬ growing up conservative glo up – cherryemojigirl 🍒
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@thiccydykemy friends arent “PrEpPy” but i had to hop on this audio ##greenscreen ##fyp♬ growing up conservative glo up – cherryemojigirl 🍒
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@thiiiisfoolia5150Graduated 9 years ago and am finally finding out who I am ##fyp ##glowup♬ growing up conservative glo up – cherryemojigirl 🍒
I raised my daughter to understand that how she behaved, how she treated others, and how hard she tried were the things that mattered. Appearance was just a matter of personal preference. She started high school with a mohawk in our very conservative small town. Nobody said a word, I'm glad to report.
Thats good parenting
Bravo for allowing her to be herself. I feel like too many parents, mine included, saw their children as representations of them so they had to be mini models. I hated it and felt jailed within my own body.
Jo Choto.... would you adopt me? :D Seriously though....you're a very very cool parent (for allowing your kid to have a mohawk AND teaching them that their behaviour is more important than just their appearance)
This is cool and all, but f*ck tiktok.
why?
Alessandra... No, it doesn't. Even if it did, Facebook, Instagram, and literally most of the other social medias you probably use, steal your stuff in the first place. Your GPS is active on Google, too. And Instagram. And Facebook. Guess what other social medias and search engines ALSO have algorithms that use AIs to study what your interests are, and what your personality is like. None of that is evil, it's a benign thing. It's not used for "evil" things, they just want you to keep scrolling longer and see stuff that you may want to buy, so that you buy something from an ad, and they pay the search engine/social media money because they showed their ad on their website to get more traffic for the ad they were sponsering.
why did yall downvote my comment for asking a question🕴️
It's made to steal ur data; it has a collection of all your apps installed and removed, reminds of all your locations if your gps is active, it saves how much of photos or videos you have on your phone, how much numbers you have saved and more. Plus it has a weird algorithm that changes very often in order to not get investigated. Plus some parts of his program composition change too for the same reason.
Because it’s China owned and they steal your data.
Why?
Why not?
Dear parents, allow your kids to express themselves while young so once they reach adulthood they don’t do a 180 on you. Quit caring so much about what Karen next door will say. They’re your kids. Let them be happy. Sincerely, one of those adults who grew up with strict parents
Well said!
You had me here with everything, except for the Karen thing. It needs to stop. My name is Karen and this is nothing more than bullying. And for those of you out there that want to say, that I'm just behaving like a "Karen". You can't think of anything better to say, so that's your go to. I'm a nice person. I'm a good person. I'm a kind person. I'm not a racist and I'm tired of having to tell people this. If you think it's funny. It's not. You're all using my name as a slur and it's hurtful.
I agree completely CatWoman312. As someone who also had strict parents, and then never had a chance to express myself, because I was working from age 12.... I will 100% be actively encouraging my kids to experiment with their looks. It's the one time in life when there are so few repercussions for it (ie you won't get fired for having blue hair etc). Seriously - let them frikken play!!! <3
Maybe they were expressing themselves in the before photos as well as the after photos. They reflected who they were, who they were hanging out with and the fashions at the time. Anybody who can read facial expressions can tell the after photo for cherryemojigirl shows an angry smile. If anybody looked at me with that expression I would give them a wide berth. Besides many of them in ten year's time will look back at the after photos and wonder what they were thinking at the time and how they looked better in the before photos. Nikidimar looks unhappy and quite aggressive and scary_styles looks peeved. It's like most of them have got in with a bad crowd after leaving home and had to adapt their appearance to appease them.
Moodie.maggie looks surly in the after photos. Most of the appearance changes go along with a change of attitude towards being surly and unapproachable.
I agree with you except for one thing. Sorry to nitpick but I hope people stop using 'karen' as an insult. It's harmful because its used often as a catch-all insult towards women, with the goal to shut them up and stereotype them as whiny and entitled. Usually by white dudes who dont like hearing what someone has to say or who want to paint any angry woman as a 'karen'. There's no real male equivalent, and moreover, it's not very clever nor original as an insult. If you want interesting articles about why it's bad to use the term, look up 'is karen sexist' or the guardian has a good article about it too. The fact me just saying this gets me labelled with 'ok karen' or whatever is exactly what I mean.
Yes that is true, but some women actually do act like this, as someone who's worked in retail, middle aged white women are far more likely to act rude
Beans easy
You are happiest when you are free to be yourself
Why does everything need to be extreme? Parents hinder their children in developing self-esteem, children compensate with a strive for total transformation. It unlikely will make them really happier...gaining self-conscious and finding unconditional love would. At the same time, we know nothing about these people. Some may truly suffer from their childhoods, some may live a delayed puberty and some might simply like to show off.
*everything* isn't 'extreme', or nothing would be. These people are just enjoying the freedom to live and look how they want to. Some may continue their whole lives, others will go back to looking more conventional. I don't see why people get het up over this.
I agree. They didn't look frumpy in the before photos just conventionally attractive. I don't see why people feel they have to dye their hair blue or green, wear heavy make up, look like the opposite sex and/or cover their bodies with tattoos. They eventually grow out of it anyway when they get a professional job, mortgage and/or family. As for those transing some of them do regret it later on.
When I turned 18, I got my ears pierced with 2 holes in each ear. My mother found out, and she hit the roof, saying things like how I went to the 'other side' and how I was probably hanging with some local gang. I was neither, and I was always more respectful of others than she ever was. But, that goes to show you how little faith parents have in their children.
Ironically, I was supposed to have my ears pierced at birth, I only got them pierced at 9- past my communion where I was also supposed to get them pierced, as I declined. My mother has 6 holes in each ear, I'd also love to do that, If the holes wouldn't close up (they don't hurt or infect my ears)
People learn these dumb rules about life that they enforce on their children and they don't even stop to question where these beliefs came from in the first place. It's like, hereditary misinformation and mental blindness.
No offense, but your mom sounds crazy.
Raine's.
deanna woods Raine's or Lola's?
Our society seems to postpone teenage rebellion into the next decade. It seems that 20-somethings are the new adolescents. It would be more interesting if they focused on a group 10 years older and showed how, once they got the weirdness out of their system, many of them were able to get back to reality and lead productive lives.
Seems weird to assume that they're not leading productive lives just because they're letting go with tattoos and hair dye.
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Most employers wouldn't employ someone looking like that especially if they have to work with the public or in a managerial role. You can put on the clothes, make up and jewellery for a night out and take it off again when you got to bed but visible tattoos and body modifications are a no-no in the workplace. People used to use temporary hair dyes, wigs or hairpieces for an alternative look for a carnival, festival or night out and then kept a more conventional look for work.
What about the trans people?
Some of them do regret later on including the ones who have had sex change operations as well as taking hormones. There is a pressure on young women now to look conventionally feminine, like they are a member of Little Mix, with false nails and eyelashes or be completely butch, call themselves a transman and take testosterone.
Well said.
I think it's normal for people to change as they get older. My parents allowed me to express myself however I deemed fit, but I'm definitely not the same person I was in High School or even College. Sure many of my core values are the same, but how I dress and how I present myself have changed. Some of my likes and dislikes have changed. And hey I'm only 30, who knows how I will change over the next 10 years.
The US is weird - this is fairly standard behaviour for UK kids when they go off to uni, it's no big deal.
Standard here too for as many generations as we have documented. Independent people rebel when they are controlled. These people are celebrating their rebellion. Age old story and yet there are controlling folks in here clucking as if this was the first generation to do so.
Because years ago we rebelled by dying our hair blonde or black not blue or green and wearing different clothes. Few people before the mid 90's got tattoos as it was so painful and they are permanent.
I'm glad they were all able to find themselves. Sad but sweet :)
im 23 and still havent find myself lol...nor am i allowed to
I call it the "how soon they forget" syndrome. Every generation goes through phases. Remember the hippies era? That was mine. Now we are old and have teenagers of our own. Who like purple dreds and nose rings. The parents are appalled. They don't remember how it was when their parents criticized them for their Beatles hair cut, pink wide wale hip hugger dungarees and granny glasses...
Barbara Baldwin, I'm right there with you. I remember having a mother who told me I couldn't wear two different patterns (a striped shirt and a flowered skirt) because they didn't "match". I encouraged my kids to wear what they liked. And they did go to school in "non-matching" patterns. One is now an artist, one has a bunch of tattoos, and one always has hair in vibrant colors. I love that they are people that have come into their own. I'm always being surprised by their personalities, and love it. All I've ever asked is that they be kind.
Good point except its utterly bullshit. Wearing some f*****g tye dye and cutting your hair is incompatible to mutilating your own body because you think your of a different sex. These people are mental and should be treated with medicine.
Wow, transphobia much?
Agreed. It's too permanent. A piercing here and there will eventually close up if you don't put a ring in it. But now it's got to be a huge hole in the ear lobe which is created from a piercing and then slightly bigger earrings or a horn you gradually push through the piercing. And tattoos. Hardly anyone, other than those who had been to prison or were in the Navy, had them before the late 90's. The pressure is now on young women to be a cartoon version of femininity with four inch false nails, false eyelashes, fake tan, plastic surgery to enhance breasts and buttocks, waist trainers and hair extensions or to transition to a male and a butch version of that.
Such a shame, none of these kids are actually being very rebellious but they felt they couldn't be themselves at home, home is the one place where you SHOULD feel able to be yourself..
I have a pretty conservative extended family (more old school center-right republican, none are into MAGA or QAnon BS) but my mom is a total progressive. I've always been happy about that, considering how many people I know who weren't as lucky, especially as teens.
Love all of them. It's so hard having to hold yourself back from being yourself.
Still waiting for that day
They all look stunning.
I grew up in a small town in Utah. The expectations and pressure are such that a lot of kids go a bit overboard once they escape. Some love the lifestyle, & that’s their choice. I will never understand why parents think a militant upbringing will force their kids to believe everything they do. If history has taught us anything it is that the human spirit will always seek freedom. Our kids don’t have to make the decisions we would. They don’t have to feel and love and behave in only the ways we allow. - Choose your battles parents. A happy child allowed to be themselves doesn’t equate to rebellion and fights.. that’s your misconception. A happy child is joyful, willing to cooperate, and more likely to be open to compromise. - We are not raising minions, we are raising fallible human beings with a capacity to love and embrace, or to hate and push away. It is our own actions and behaviors that will decide which direction that goes.
Some of them look pretty surly as well as putting on the heavy make up. If I was their age they would be people I would go out of the way to avoid. The one with the rainbow colours looks OK though. It could be a wig, hair paint or a permanent dye. Half the photos are of people transitioning sex.
I live in a conservative small town, however that has not stopped a lot of us liberal leaning people from expressing ourselves. People have to be who they feel they truly are and I think that it's awesome that these people are able to express themselves now. Self expression is one of the many things that separates us from other people. If we were all the same, life would be boring. To the people who are trans: I am so happy for you that you were able to transition and I wish you all the best in your life.
the MCR shirt made me happy! :D
Isn't it funny that those (myself included and others I personally know and have observed from afar) who grew up in very "liberal" households are now more conservative. Not politically, but in mindset and style.
Probably has more to do with whether one respects their parent's actions and reasoning. Lots of us are similar to our parents, too
I love this. Be your TRUE self!!
Love to see people expressing their true selves! <3
I dont recall my kids wanting purple hair or whatever. I probably would not have made a fuss over that. But I do draw an absolute line around anything satanic. There were so many influences over my life as a child - some instituted by my parents that were definitely done to bring in my utter lifelong loyalty to dark forces. And that is why God made me a rebel. I look how I look...my mom loved to cut my hair so short that a barber could have cut it. So my hair is down to my waste and very natural and I pretty much do whatever I damn well want - with careful thought and preparation through prayer - in all aspects of my life. Now that is freedom.
Shame that your mother did that to you. I had my hair cut very short as well until I was about eight when I was allowed a longer page boy cut.
Wow! These people tapped into their spectacular.
Ok, they are free to change their appearence and i'm free to think their previous state was better. What's the problem whit being conservative if that's how i want to "express myself"?
If I'm thinking of the right audio, the original person said "not that there's anything wrong with that, it just wasn't you"
Nothing wrong with that unless they’re being forced by their parents or family to look a certain way. A way that isn’t truly them and how they wish to express themselves.
Nothing wrong with being you unless you are hurting other people. These kids felt repressed and are happy to be free.
They didn't look that conservative before. The dresses with thin straps was very much a late 90's to early 00's look. People dyed their hair then but not blue or green.
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Exactly because the left is more fascist then most conservatives and they honestly think there is more of them but sadly no. We conservatives just stand back and let crazy be crazy. Most of us feel like you do whatever just leave me alone and don't demand that I have to change my way of thinking because just being offended doesn't mean that your right and facts don't care about feelings
You are welcome to think the way you wish to. When you share your opinion you are welcoming others to give you feedback. If you' actually keep it to yourself (i.e. leave other people alone) nobody is gonna come at you. Saying things outloud that many people find vulgar or offensive has always had consequences. Fascism is when a states forcibly quashed opposition rather than allowing dissent
They all look beautiful
Well done to all of you.
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henrywiggins26 lol
Meh i feel like i'll never be free to be my true self. Heck, i myself don't even know my true self.
Also @RainbowLady I’m soooo jealous ♥️
Shaming conservative parents is just as bad as shaming the "glo-ups". Fair is Fair. Liberals are allowed to crap all over conservatives, but flip it and you have mutiny. It's hypocritical.
Be you in any way possible
I am glad I wore everything I wanted, occasionally losing clothes or picking them out of the trash again.
For me the left pictures are way more down to earth and accessible. I like decentness, when it's true, not forced. Seem like normal people and well- they all look fine and happy. So what's wrong with that? What's wrong with being just a normal person like everyone else? The pictures in the right look f*****g lost and crazy to me and I would definitely avoid people like that. Like : what's it worth? I am not conservative at all, I would say, I have a pretty free mind. I just think: as if it matters! ... Come on... You can change your outlook and everything, but you'll always be the same person inside. So what's the deal? Get in peace with yourself... With your hurts and your destiny, and you won't need that.
so you assume one is not in peace with themselves if they have a certain aesthethic? Sure they looked fine and happy before but you never know what people repress inside. You say you have a free mind but you think there's something wrong with people "not being a normal person like everyone else". I think it's stupid too if you change your appearance in order to fit in with a certain crowd, but when you are at peace with yourself, and you want to have a certain look to make you a happier person, go for it. As long as you're safe and stay true to yourself.
I love all of these.
they all look amazing!
My mom always to treat people the way you want to be treated. It doesn't matter who you are what you look like true beauty starts from the inside.
Some of them look worse in the after photos. And most people grow out of an alternative look to have a more conventional look when they get a professional or public facing job and their employer requests they look presentable. Also when they get a mortgage, car and/or family and just don't have the money for hair dye and alternative clothes. Either wear a shirt, cardigan or jacket on your shoulders or don't wear it all. It looks slovenly wearing one off your shoulders as it looks like you got dressed in a hurry. The girl in the Mickey Mouse headband and shorts didn't exactly look frumpy then.
The girl with the black and red hair is absolutely RAVISHING in her new look!! And the Rogue cosplay.... WOW. Just breathtaking
My son grew his hair long in middle school and high school, extended family didn't approve and I didn't care. We had people who thought he was our daughter he nor I cared. His dad didn't care. We have always supported him and taught him compassion and empathy for others is key. He is 26 now and is an amazing man who loves and accepts people as they are.
This is normal for most, if not all, children as they move through puberty to adulthood. Some change completely, others change inside. Some change abruptly after leaving controlling carers, other change gradually with a support system. This isn't new and will continue on forever.
Conservative houshold is a big mistake! :( I hate this "modell", kids learns nothing about the real! life, where they live in a "pretty-bubble" because of their parents. I grow up in "free". Ok, I has "jobs" at home (cleaning, washing, learning...), and we has rules, but I has so many hairstyle, haircolor (under the vacation). During 13-16 I wore just black clothes, my make-up was black too sometimes I drank alcohol (1 beer, or 1-2 coctail).... And? I'm not alkoholist, I made an education, and I work now as babysitter and petsitter.
Am i the only one that liked the before pictures more?
No.
ivan bolitekurac -
I do as well apart from the girl with rainbow hair and accessories. A lot of them don't look happy in the after photos and it looks like they changed their appearance to fit in with a fast crowd after leaving home.
Doesn't everyone experiment with their appearance when they leave home?
"glow-ups" BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
The real name of cherryemojigirl who started this trend is Hayley Reno. She has registered in a university but also works full time and creates content for social media. I doubt that she attends any lectures or does any studying. She also has an account on Onlyfans which means that she is involved in sex work or trying to be.
These all seem completely backwards. These are glowdowns and it's not even a close.
Congrats, well done, bunch of attention seekers showing how they've gone from mostly attractive, healthy looking people, to clowns seeking validation on the internet. Way to go, you've played yourselves.
Almost half seem to be trans, so it's hard to compare, but out of all these cis kids, they were better off keeping their swag
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH
Why do they all look healthier and happier in the first picture? In the second picture they all look cynical and arrogant.
Why do they all look happier and healthier in the first picture and cynical and arrogant in the second picture?
So this article shows you normal people turning into freaks. Liberals are the downfall of American society.
eh? would you please explain for me, i dont understand TwJh
TwJh what
This is just sad
They think by dying their hair blue and wearing black clothes and hanging outside of Blue Banana on Saturday afternoons they are superior to all those people they call basic or chavs who wear tracksuits and hang outside McDonalds or sportswear shops on Saturday afternoons. It's just clothes, hair and make up and they aren't doing anything different like getting involved in politics.
The point isnt that they think they're superior, the point is that they're finally able to embrace who they really are without someone criticising everything they do.
Are they embracing who they are or are they just trying hard to fit in with a new group of friends they made after leaving home or school?
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another gay/lesbo coming out boring s**t.........
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The amount of downvoted comments on here really says something quite interesting. Seems like a lot of people have forbidden opinions. Nice 1984!
This is the new Proggresive.
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I'm imagining their parents' heads exploding. Serves them right.
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About 90 Percent of these people look worse now.
I agree apart from the girl with rainbow coloured hair and accessories though I don't like the tattoos. The one in the bottom photo looks like somebody I might like to be friends with despite the blue hair and tattoos.
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from supposedly conservative to abnormal...sad....be yourself, I guess...but how many be something totally different than normal to spite their families? Sad...
It is sad when most of them are changing their appearance to fit in with a new crowd of friends following a life change such as leaving home, leaving school or starting college.
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Meh, I prefer the opposite transformations. When ex-liberals change their tomboy styles and glow up to be really beautiful.
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Disgusting. insulting nature. Man becoming women and women becoming men.
Excuse me?
the transphobia is strong with this one
If you don't like this stuff, then why did you come here?
is that seriously all you got out of this article?
I- excuse me while I take out the anger i got seeing this comment on a pillow. mkay, so, nobody really asked what you think about the trans community. If you dont have anything positive to say, why the hell would you say it?
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Who said anyone HAS to be positive. He is expressing how he feels and you judged him for it. That's a little hypocritical don't you think?
I don't think that this is always wrong but there is too much pressure on young people to transition if they are not happy or like things that the opposite sex like. They are expected to be all girl or or boy not pick and choose the things you like regardless of what gender they are associated with. A lot of them do regret transitioning and then revert back to their birth sex.
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Serious downgrades.
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Yeah. What’s wrong with looking natural (hair not dyed some crazy color, minimal makeup, etc)?
nobody said anything was wrong with it, it just depends on what the person wants to look like and express themselves as. These people didn't like their previous more conservative look so they changed into what they wanted to look like.
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When you support yourself you can do what you want. Good on the parents teaching this lesson.
Until then you will be controlled and you will like it!
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happy I have a healthy daughter who don't need to justify her gender or inferiority complex by been extrovert
I feel sorry for your child.
oh, god. Your poor child.
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Did anyone else grow up starved for attention so that when you got social media you did this?
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CherryEmojiGirl looks way worse now. And if you need to express yourself with hair dye instead of articulating an opinion then you are dumb.
One does not preclude the other.
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Yeah! I consider conservatism as a primitive and even, sinful thing. But to be fair-- there were nothing wrong with the previous appearances.
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There is nothing wrong with being conservative what a fascist thing to say. How about people leave people alone and let you do you and if people don't share your opinions don't try to ruin their lives just move one grow up people get rid of cancel and pc culture forever
Um, stating one's opinion isn't fascist... maybe look the word up. Why do you get to decide that bombastic folks get to keep on keeping on if their employer or event manager say "nope, we don't want to be associated with you"? Honestly curious
I'm speaking to your wish to end cancel culture, BTW
There is something most definitely wrong with being conservative. Have you read the studies that look at intelligence and conservativism? It's not pretty. Why do you feel the need to make everyone the same? Also, do you know what fascism is? I appears not.
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Don't worry, we have a name for this to on the conservative side. It's not pleasant. Thanks for the laugh!
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Imho they looked better before. It's as if they want to destroy their natural beauty
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Their new expressions will definitely improve their chances of being hired by Fortune 500 companies.
Yes, because everyone's ambition is to work for a Fortune 500 company... I'm sure they'll do fine in life, making choices that suit them.
Not just Fortune 500 companies but most employers.
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So from normal looking people to unnatural modified bodies. Is that considered an improvement nowadays?
To many it is. To each their own
Scyth doesn't want to let people do their own thing. God, conservatives are sad.
Yes, but you can't change back again when you want to look more conventional. Hair and hair colour will grow back but you can't get rid of tattoos or extreme body modifications.
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Why did they all jump into radioactive waste. (Edit: Yikes, people here sure like toxic waste if i got this much downvotes)
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In almost every one of these, the before version was better.
I prefer the version where they are genuinely happy and being true to themselves, but I guess I'm just less judgemental.
Edward can't understand sarcasm. Edward can't understand a lot of things.
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You were judging someone for wearing a bow tie but ok
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Hey why challenge your beliefs? why pledge to stand for something worth fighting for? Why work hard to educate yourself on social issues? why take a bold stand for a good cause? Why try to treat others better? Why volunteer to help others? WHEN.....you can change your image! REMEMBER Style over substance, Image is EVERYTHING.
Pretty sure they can do both.
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Their parents were right lol
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i'm guessing these are supposed to show improvements... skin deep is all i see
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Yawn, these people all look way worse now. It's sad really, looking for a dye job in place of a personality.
Did you decide to wear a tie in place of personality?
@Edward, Potato isn't judging the guy in the tie. Potato is asking if his own point doesn't apply to his own choices that are on display
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Uh but they are much worse after? Ok.
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Conservative upbringings. Yikes.
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Oh! I'm so cool now!!!! Sorry, but this is so 90's!!!!!
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Some regular acting out here. Also some mental illness that will have poor outcomes later on. Either way, carry on.
me again. shut up
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Look! My hair is several colors, I am interesting person. (EDIT: I knew this would get downvotes lol. coloring your hair is cool if you're like 14. And only then. So downvote me some more, dear interesting people!
And you are?
And a shitty person at that.
And I am? a person.
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When somebody or some govrnment pays your bills they get to run your life.
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T hit ese are the same people standing behind lowering the penalties for pedophiles. Nothing great about this
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If people rebel against their parents by painting their hair purple, their parents were not only conservative, but probably did not love them enough so that they would grow up feeling they are a valuable person. Happens all the time.
Purple hair = being unloved? Interesting... :-/
Hm. Ok. So that means that every person who decides to dye their gray hair wasn't loved enough either. Your logic.
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Some are cool and all the power too them but the sub human failures should've never been allowed to leave home since they clearly are to retarded to do anything better even drugs or murder or hell even pedophilia is better then being to retarded to know what your sex is
Imagine if.....nothing in the biological and physiological world was as simple and straightforward as being black and white? Imagine if.....people who are different from you are still people?
Russian Otaku, calling people 'sub-human failures' and 'retarded' and making wild and unfounded accusations speaks volumes about you and how YOU think and not a thing about them. None of these people are doing anyone any harm. FFS live and let live.
I'm guessing Russian Otaku is one of the conservative parents...
Imagine all the people living for today, you may say i am dreamer but im not the only one. I hope someday you will join us and the world will be as one.
Watch your own bobber, Bill
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Physiology isn't debatable
But you think you're smart? You don't even know the difference between then/than to/too.
I raised my daughter to understand that how she behaved, how she treated others, and how hard she tried were the things that mattered. Appearance was just a matter of personal preference. She started high school with a mohawk in our very conservative small town. Nobody said a word, I'm glad to report.
Thats good parenting
Bravo for allowing her to be herself. I feel like too many parents, mine included, saw their children as representations of them so they had to be mini models. I hated it and felt jailed within my own body.
Jo Choto.... would you adopt me? :D Seriously though....you're a very very cool parent (for allowing your kid to have a mohawk AND teaching them that their behaviour is more important than just their appearance)
This is cool and all, but f*ck tiktok.
why?
Alessandra... No, it doesn't. Even if it did, Facebook, Instagram, and literally most of the other social medias you probably use, steal your stuff in the first place. Your GPS is active on Google, too. And Instagram. And Facebook. Guess what other social medias and search engines ALSO have algorithms that use AIs to study what your interests are, and what your personality is like. None of that is evil, it's a benign thing. It's not used for "evil" things, they just want you to keep scrolling longer and see stuff that you may want to buy, so that you buy something from an ad, and they pay the search engine/social media money because they showed their ad on their website to get more traffic for the ad they were sponsering.
why did yall downvote my comment for asking a question🕴️
It's made to steal ur data; it has a collection of all your apps installed and removed, reminds of all your locations if your gps is active, it saves how much of photos or videos you have on your phone, how much numbers you have saved and more. Plus it has a weird algorithm that changes very often in order to not get investigated. Plus some parts of his program composition change too for the same reason.
Because it’s China owned and they steal your data.
Why?
Why not?
Dear parents, allow your kids to express themselves while young so once they reach adulthood they don’t do a 180 on you. Quit caring so much about what Karen next door will say. They’re your kids. Let them be happy. Sincerely, one of those adults who grew up with strict parents
Well said!
You had me here with everything, except for the Karen thing. It needs to stop. My name is Karen and this is nothing more than bullying. And for those of you out there that want to say, that I'm just behaving like a "Karen". You can't think of anything better to say, so that's your go to. I'm a nice person. I'm a good person. I'm a kind person. I'm not a racist and I'm tired of having to tell people this. If you think it's funny. It's not. You're all using my name as a slur and it's hurtful.
I agree completely CatWoman312. As someone who also had strict parents, and then never had a chance to express myself, because I was working from age 12.... I will 100% be actively encouraging my kids to experiment with their looks. It's the one time in life when there are so few repercussions for it (ie you won't get fired for having blue hair etc). Seriously - let them frikken play!!! <3
Maybe they were expressing themselves in the before photos as well as the after photos. They reflected who they were, who they were hanging out with and the fashions at the time. Anybody who can read facial expressions can tell the after photo for cherryemojigirl shows an angry smile. If anybody looked at me with that expression I would give them a wide berth. Besides many of them in ten year's time will look back at the after photos and wonder what they were thinking at the time and how they looked better in the before photos. Nikidimar looks unhappy and quite aggressive and scary_styles looks peeved. It's like most of them have got in with a bad crowd after leaving home and had to adapt their appearance to appease them.
Moodie.maggie looks surly in the after photos. Most of the appearance changes go along with a change of attitude towards being surly and unapproachable.
I agree with you except for one thing. Sorry to nitpick but I hope people stop using 'karen' as an insult. It's harmful because its used often as a catch-all insult towards women, with the goal to shut them up and stereotype them as whiny and entitled. Usually by white dudes who dont like hearing what someone has to say or who want to paint any angry woman as a 'karen'. There's no real male equivalent, and moreover, it's not very clever nor original as an insult. If you want interesting articles about why it's bad to use the term, look up 'is karen sexist' or the guardian has a good article about it too. The fact me just saying this gets me labelled with 'ok karen' or whatever is exactly what I mean.
Yes that is true, but some women actually do act like this, as someone who's worked in retail, middle aged white women are far more likely to act rude
Beans easy
You are happiest when you are free to be yourself
Why does everything need to be extreme? Parents hinder their children in developing self-esteem, children compensate with a strive for total transformation. It unlikely will make them really happier...gaining self-conscious and finding unconditional love would. At the same time, we know nothing about these people. Some may truly suffer from their childhoods, some may live a delayed puberty and some might simply like to show off.
*everything* isn't 'extreme', or nothing would be. These people are just enjoying the freedom to live and look how they want to. Some may continue their whole lives, others will go back to looking more conventional. I don't see why people get het up over this.
I agree. They didn't look frumpy in the before photos just conventionally attractive. I don't see why people feel they have to dye their hair blue or green, wear heavy make up, look like the opposite sex and/or cover their bodies with tattoos. They eventually grow out of it anyway when they get a professional job, mortgage and/or family. As for those transing some of them do regret it later on.
When I turned 18, I got my ears pierced with 2 holes in each ear. My mother found out, and she hit the roof, saying things like how I went to the 'other side' and how I was probably hanging with some local gang. I was neither, and I was always more respectful of others than she ever was. But, that goes to show you how little faith parents have in their children.
Ironically, I was supposed to have my ears pierced at birth, I only got them pierced at 9- past my communion where I was also supposed to get them pierced, as I declined. My mother has 6 holes in each ear, I'd also love to do that, If the holes wouldn't close up (they don't hurt or infect my ears)
People learn these dumb rules about life that they enforce on their children and they don't even stop to question where these beliefs came from in the first place. It's like, hereditary misinformation and mental blindness.
No offense, but your mom sounds crazy.
Raine's.
deanna woods Raine's or Lola's?
Our society seems to postpone teenage rebellion into the next decade. It seems that 20-somethings are the new adolescents. It would be more interesting if they focused on a group 10 years older and showed how, once they got the weirdness out of their system, many of them were able to get back to reality and lead productive lives.
Seems weird to assume that they're not leading productive lives just because they're letting go with tattoos and hair dye.
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Most employers wouldn't employ someone looking like that especially if they have to work with the public or in a managerial role. You can put on the clothes, make up and jewellery for a night out and take it off again when you got to bed but visible tattoos and body modifications are a no-no in the workplace. People used to use temporary hair dyes, wigs or hairpieces for an alternative look for a carnival, festival or night out and then kept a more conventional look for work.
What about the trans people?
Some of them do regret later on including the ones who have had sex change operations as well as taking hormones. There is a pressure on young women now to look conventionally feminine, like they are a member of Little Mix, with false nails and eyelashes or be completely butch, call themselves a transman and take testosterone.
Well said.
I think it's normal for people to change as they get older. My parents allowed me to express myself however I deemed fit, but I'm definitely not the same person I was in High School or even College. Sure many of my core values are the same, but how I dress and how I present myself have changed. Some of my likes and dislikes have changed. And hey I'm only 30, who knows how I will change over the next 10 years.
The US is weird - this is fairly standard behaviour for UK kids when they go off to uni, it's no big deal.
Standard here too for as many generations as we have documented. Independent people rebel when they are controlled. These people are celebrating their rebellion. Age old story and yet there are controlling folks in here clucking as if this was the first generation to do so.
Because years ago we rebelled by dying our hair blonde or black not blue or green and wearing different clothes. Few people before the mid 90's got tattoos as it was so painful and they are permanent.
I'm glad they were all able to find themselves. Sad but sweet :)
im 23 and still havent find myself lol...nor am i allowed to
I call it the "how soon they forget" syndrome. Every generation goes through phases. Remember the hippies era? That was mine. Now we are old and have teenagers of our own. Who like purple dreds and nose rings. The parents are appalled. They don't remember how it was when their parents criticized them for their Beatles hair cut, pink wide wale hip hugger dungarees and granny glasses...
Barbara Baldwin, I'm right there with you. I remember having a mother who told me I couldn't wear two different patterns (a striped shirt and a flowered skirt) because they didn't "match". I encouraged my kids to wear what they liked. And they did go to school in "non-matching" patterns. One is now an artist, one has a bunch of tattoos, and one always has hair in vibrant colors. I love that they are people that have come into their own. I'm always being surprised by their personalities, and love it. All I've ever asked is that they be kind.
Good point except its utterly bullshit. Wearing some f*****g tye dye and cutting your hair is incompatible to mutilating your own body because you think your of a different sex. These people are mental and should be treated with medicine.
Wow, transphobia much?
Agreed. It's too permanent. A piercing here and there will eventually close up if you don't put a ring in it. But now it's got to be a huge hole in the ear lobe which is created from a piercing and then slightly bigger earrings or a horn you gradually push through the piercing. And tattoos. Hardly anyone, other than those who had been to prison or were in the Navy, had them before the late 90's. The pressure is now on young women to be a cartoon version of femininity with four inch false nails, false eyelashes, fake tan, plastic surgery to enhance breasts and buttocks, waist trainers and hair extensions or to transition to a male and a butch version of that.
Such a shame, none of these kids are actually being very rebellious but they felt they couldn't be themselves at home, home is the one place where you SHOULD feel able to be yourself..
I have a pretty conservative extended family (more old school center-right republican, none are into MAGA or QAnon BS) but my mom is a total progressive. I've always been happy about that, considering how many people I know who weren't as lucky, especially as teens.
Love all of them. It's so hard having to hold yourself back from being yourself.
Still waiting for that day
They all look stunning.
I grew up in a small town in Utah. The expectations and pressure are such that a lot of kids go a bit overboard once they escape. Some love the lifestyle, & that’s their choice. I will never understand why parents think a militant upbringing will force their kids to believe everything they do. If history has taught us anything it is that the human spirit will always seek freedom. Our kids don’t have to make the decisions we would. They don’t have to feel and love and behave in only the ways we allow. - Choose your battles parents. A happy child allowed to be themselves doesn’t equate to rebellion and fights.. that’s your misconception. A happy child is joyful, willing to cooperate, and more likely to be open to compromise. - We are not raising minions, we are raising fallible human beings with a capacity to love and embrace, or to hate and push away. It is our own actions and behaviors that will decide which direction that goes.
Some of them look pretty surly as well as putting on the heavy make up. If I was their age they would be people I would go out of the way to avoid. The one with the rainbow colours looks OK though. It could be a wig, hair paint or a permanent dye. Half the photos are of people transitioning sex.
I live in a conservative small town, however that has not stopped a lot of us liberal leaning people from expressing ourselves. People have to be who they feel they truly are and I think that it's awesome that these people are able to express themselves now. Self expression is one of the many things that separates us from other people. If we were all the same, life would be boring. To the people who are trans: I am so happy for you that you were able to transition and I wish you all the best in your life.
the MCR shirt made me happy! :D
Isn't it funny that those (myself included and others I personally know and have observed from afar) who grew up in very "liberal" households are now more conservative. Not politically, but in mindset and style.
Probably has more to do with whether one respects their parent's actions and reasoning. Lots of us are similar to our parents, too
I love this. Be your TRUE self!!
Love to see people expressing their true selves! <3
I dont recall my kids wanting purple hair or whatever. I probably would not have made a fuss over that. But I do draw an absolute line around anything satanic. There were so many influences over my life as a child - some instituted by my parents that were definitely done to bring in my utter lifelong loyalty to dark forces. And that is why God made me a rebel. I look how I look...my mom loved to cut my hair so short that a barber could have cut it. So my hair is down to my waste and very natural and I pretty much do whatever I damn well want - with careful thought and preparation through prayer - in all aspects of my life. Now that is freedom.
Shame that your mother did that to you. I had my hair cut very short as well until I was about eight when I was allowed a longer page boy cut.
Wow! These people tapped into their spectacular.
Ok, they are free to change their appearence and i'm free to think their previous state was better. What's the problem whit being conservative if that's how i want to "express myself"?
If I'm thinking of the right audio, the original person said "not that there's anything wrong with that, it just wasn't you"
Nothing wrong with that unless they’re being forced by their parents or family to look a certain way. A way that isn’t truly them and how they wish to express themselves.
Nothing wrong with being you unless you are hurting other people. These kids felt repressed and are happy to be free.
They didn't look that conservative before. The dresses with thin straps was very much a late 90's to early 00's look. People dyed their hair then but not blue or green.
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Exactly because the left is more fascist then most conservatives and they honestly think there is more of them but sadly no. We conservatives just stand back and let crazy be crazy. Most of us feel like you do whatever just leave me alone and don't demand that I have to change my way of thinking because just being offended doesn't mean that your right and facts don't care about feelings
You are welcome to think the way you wish to. When you share your opinion you are welcoming others to give you feedback. If you' actually keep it to yourself (i.e. leave other people alone) nobody is gonna come at you. Saying things outloud that many people find vulgar or offensive has always had consequences. Fascism is when a states forcibly quashed opposition rather than allowing dissent
They all look beautiful
Well done to all of you.
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Карина Слизова Good response!
henrywiggins26 lol
Meh i feel like i'll never be free to be my true self. Heck, i myself don't even know my true self.
Also @RainbowLady I’m soooo jealous ♥️
Shaming conservative parents is just as bad as shaming the "glo-ups". Fair is Fair. Liberals are allowed to crap all over conservatives, but flip it and you have mutiny. It's hypocritical.
Be you in any way possible
I am glad I wore everything I wanted, occasionally losing clothes or picking them