Caterpillar lashes, thick eyebrows, slim nose, pillow lips... it's the identikit look du jour. LIZ JONES went to its spiritual home to ask devotees: Why DO so many young women now want to pay for the same Love Island face?

Caterpillar lashes, thick eyebrows, slim nose, pillow lips...

it's the identikit look du jour. LIZ JONES went to its spiritual home to ask devotees: Why DO so many young women now want to pay for the same Love Island face? By Liz Jones Published: 01:34, 5 November 2024 | Updated: 01:34, 5 November 2024 e-mail View comments IT’S called the Love Island Look. An over-large, smooth forehead above dark, multiple rows of caterpillar lashes.

A slim face, narrow nose, with a razor-sharp ‘snatched’ jawline. Lips like pillows hovering above a chiselled chin and a swan neck. Another pillow, this time of breasts, and highly decorated talons.

For a while now, as the Love Island trend filtered down from reality stars to online influencers to ordinary twentysomethings across the UK, I’ve felt that these wonderful, vibrant young women are selling themselves, and their natural beauty, short. It’s as though all our pretty, unique girls-next-door have been replaced by strange aliens who all look the same! I’m 66 and have been obsessed by my weight and looks for most of my life. I know what it feels like to want to conform to a trend – in my case, the status-defining thinness of the 1990s – but still find myself baffled by the ubiquity and sameness of the Love Island face, which takes serious dedication and, in some cases, thousands of pounds worth of surgery to achieve.

So I decided to go and ask some of the women themselves why they are spending their hard-earned cash on an ide.