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Beauty and fashion influencer Erim Kaur has everyone talking, or should I say vibing and relating, with her Instagram remix of the viral TikTok song Looking for a Guy in Finance...
Looking for a girl with long hair, low iron, brown eyes, and attitude, it goes..
So, when youve got a remix casually tossing around low iron as if its some quirky trait, itssending the wrong message.Is this the sanitised version of the 1990s heroin chic, characterised by an emaciated appearance with pale skin and dark circles?..
It brings to mind the girl dinner trend, which started off with women light-heartedly showing off their low-effort mealsa thumb in the nose to the domestic goddess archetype..
What really gets me is how trends like girl dinner and Kaurs looking for a girl start off as jokes with a seemingly feminist twist, but end up glorifying unhealthy habits...