EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT: Scaping By Anna Pursglove For You Magazine Published: 08:01, 21 September 2024 | Updated: 08:01, 21 September 2024 e-mail View comments What’s that? Taking an intimate space and making it more beautiful. Like when men shave all the hair off their..
. That’s manscaping. Doesn’t that count? It’s a bit ‘June’.
Which intimate spaces should I be scaping in September, then? Your airport security tray. Cool or crazy? Even fridges are getting a scape-over on Instagram. As in the grubby grey things? The very same.
The trend for styling them is currently huge on TikTok where it’s being called ‘airport tray aesthetic’ (16 million views and rising). What should be in the photograph? TikToker Piper Taich – considered by Gen Z to be a leading authority in this field – goes for a pair of shoes, sunglasses, a hair accessory, coordinating cosmetics, a boarding card and a retro camera. Most of which don’t need to be taken out of your bag at security.
Doh! You do it afterwards. What do you think those polling station-esque tables are for? For people to pack away their ugly stuff in private? Yes, but they are also the perfect canvas for your performative possessions. Budding trayscapers should note, however, that this is a competitive arena, so Taich advises an at-home practice shoot before going live.
How do I do that? All you need is one of Amazon’s grey potting trays (£11.99), the aforementioned items and a TikTok/Instagram account. Brightening up the airport security grey tray Any other grey-tray inspo? Maybe a well-chosen book.
Possibly a small bag. Publisher Faber is posting trays themed around its books on Instagram, while bag brand Noa Noa put its designs next to Chanel accessories. You say I need a small bag, so must that also be unpacked and the contents small-bagscaped? You have a point.
Today’s hot scape can easily become tomorrow’s ‘What the hell were we thinking?’ I refer you to last year’s re-emergence of bathscaping. What happened? It started with bathwater prettified by a few petals and ended in people cramming entire herbaceous borders into the tub. Sounds hazardous.
It was but not as hazardous as fridgescaping, which swept through the nation’s Samsungs earlier this month. What on earth were people putting in their fridges? Bafflingly, this particular scaping mania somehow got itself entangled in the craze for all things Bridgerton . Although a fridge would have to travel 200 years into the past to make it to regency England.
Do you think people who put dried flowers and lengths of ribbon in their salad drawers care about historical accuracy? Go on then, what dangers lurk in the regency fridgescape? ‘Fresh flowers, handmade picture frames, mirrors and other trinkets,’ reported MailOnline. The trend has even led the Food Standards Agency to warn people against the risk of ‘cross-contamination with harmful bacteria’. Although maybe then the scientists could do some listeriascaping under their microscopes.
Is there actually any food in these fridges to get contaminated? One photograph did appear to feature some sliced ham artfully arranged on a shelf above a mini bust of Aphrodite. What has the too-old-for- TikTok demographic got to say about all this? ‘I’m trying to work out if yesterday’s lasagne will fit into the wicker basket,’ opined one MailOnline reader, to which another replied, ‘No – use it for the soup!’ Anything else? ‘I did find my car keys in the fridge, but it wasn’t intentional. Maybe I’ve started something.
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They could be on to something. What if the key shelf in the hall is the next scaping target? Well then you know what that photo would be called on social media, don’t you? A keyscape? No, a shelfie. Share or comment on this article: EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT: Scaping e-mail Add comment.
