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10 GIRL Trends That Guys HATE

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Ten trends women swear by have guys running the other way — and TheThings breaks down exactly why.

TheThings Celebrity’s video “10 Fashion Trends That Girls Love” does what a lot of dating-advice content tries and fails to do: it actually names the specific styling choices that split opinion along gender lines. The breakdown doesn’t argue women are wrong to wear any of it. It just lays out, item by item, why a look that reads as confident or on-trend to one audience can read as confusing or off-putting to another.

• Dark, bold lipstick tops the list as a look women embrace as modern and statement-making, while the video says many men describe it as vampiric, aggressive, or simply impractical up close.
• High-waisted pants and “mom jeans,” praised in women’s fashion for waist definition and a retro silhouette, get flagged in the video as boxy and unflattering compared to the low- or mid-rise cuts men tend to prefer.
• The rest of the list runs through eight more contested choices — from overplucked eyebrows to tights worn as pants — mapping the same gap between styling for other women and styling for the male gaze.

The Lipstick Divide

Dark lip shades — deep berries, oxblood, near-black — have been a go-to statement look for years, marketed as bold and self-assured rather than demure. The video’s read on the male reaction is blunt: guys often find the color overpowering, describing it as unapproachable or “vampiric” rather than sexy. It’s less about the shade itself and more about what it signals — a look built for a photo or a night out, not necessarily for the kind of closeness men say they respond to.

That disconnect is really the engine of the whole video. Women choose the shade because it photographs well and makes a statement among peers; men judge it on a completely different axis — approachability, not aesthetics. The video doesn’t resolve which standard should win. It just points out that they’re different standards.

High-Waisted Pants and the Retro Backlash

Few trends get a rougher treatment in the video than high-waisted trousers and mom jeans. Women have leaned into the cut for its retro throwback appeal and the way it defines the waist; the video’s male perspective calls it the opposite — boxy, shapeless, and prone to distorting natural proportions compared with a traditional low-rise or mid-rise fit.

To a lot of guys, high-waisted denim doesn’t read retro — it reads like it’s adding weight where a lower rise would show a curve instead.

It’s the same story told from a different angle: the trend was never designed with the male gaze in mind. High-waisted cuts took off because women liked how they looked in mirrors and on Instagram, not because they were chasing a partner’s approval — which is exactly the tension the video is built to spotlight.

The Rest of the List

The remaining eight entries cover ground that’s just as familiar to anyone who’s scrolled through a beauty aisle. Overly teased, bouffant-style hair gets tagged as a callback to the ’80s and ’90s that guys would rather not see revived. Heavy perfume application lands as overwhelming rather than alluring — enough, the video notes, to trigger headaches. Excessive nail art and heavy foundation both draw the same complaint: more is read as “cluttered” or “fake” rather than polished.

Overplucked eyebrows, excessive bronzer, tights worn in place of actual pants, and chokers round out the ten. In each case the video’s framing is consistent — these are trends built and sustained largely through female-to-female approval and social-media visibility, the same forces that have reshaped runway standards and reality-competition fashion over the past decade, evident in how dramatically the styling on shows like America’s Next Top Model has shifted from cycle to cycle. Men, watching from outside that feedback loop, often clock the same choices as excessive rather than aspirational.

Styling for Peers Versus Styling for a Date

What ties all ten entries together isn’t a single fabric or color — it’s who the outfit is actually for. Bold lip, high-waist denim, statement nail art: each one performs well in a mirror selfie or among friends who speak the same style language. None of them were engineered around a straight man’s checklist, and the video’s whole premise is that most women aren’t dressing for that checklist in the first place. It’s the same divergence that shows up in bigger, splashier fashion moments too — plenty of ink has been spilled over the gap between what turns heads on the red carpet and what actually gets worn to a wedding aisle, where practicality and tradition win out over trend-chasing.

None of the ten entries are framed as a verdict on what women should wear — TheThings’ video is a list of observed friction points, not a style mandate. But the throughline is clear enough: the trends topping women’s must-have lists and the trends topping men’s most-disliked lists overlap almost entirely, and dark lipstick and high-waisted denim sit right at the top of both.