Mads Perch via Getty Images People are using microblading and even broccoli to obtain a freckled look. Growing up with freckles, lifestyle and wellness influencer Vic Styles heard all of the standard-issue insults about the tiny specks: “Your face looks dirty.” “Could I play connect-the-dots with them?” Having classmates zero in on her face admittedly got under Styles’ skin.
She absolutely hated her freckles for years, and since she couldn’t find a foundation that fully covered them, she just had to live with the spots. Now 38, Styles loves the constellation of freckles across her face. Instead of covering them, she looks for ways to accentuate them with her makeup.
Advertisement “I let them live in their fullest glory, if you will, and I really love the summertime because they tend to pop a little bit more,” she told HuffPost. “I think that they’re probably one of the most favorite things about my face. I think they’re really unique.
” It doesn’t hurt that freckles are very much “in” these days. For a long time, freckles ― essentially sun spots caused by overactive pigment cells― were considered blemishes in need of coverage or even skin bleaching. As early as 1910, Pond’s was advertising vanishing cream to banish freckles , while in later years, people started lasering them off .
(Full disclosure from this freckled writer: As a preteen, I used concealer to try to cover every freckle I had ― a tedious process that probably made them look .
