ENGLISH SLANG – 15 trendy fashion words

TRANSCRIPT

Hi, everyone. In this lesson we're going to look at trendy fashion words. These are words that I'm hearing used a lot now around our times, so let's have a look through the words and learn them one-by-one so we can sound really cool and fashionable.

Let's start with: "en pointe". If something is en pointe, it means perfect, it looks so good. What you're wearing today, that dress, your dress is en pointe. It's so fashionable, it's so, so hot right now. Very similar meaning to something being "on-trend". If we think about the word "trendy", it means fashionable. But to say something is trendy isn't fashionable enough anymore, we have to change it and say: "on-trend". We could also change it and say: "bang-on-trend". If it's bang-on-trend, it's even more now, happening right this minute.

Next, if we're talking about makeup... When I was younger we used to talk about wearing lipstick or wearing red lipstick, or a pink lipstick, but now instead of saying the word "lipstick", it's described as: "I'm wearing a red lip today." And the same thing, instead of saying: "eye shadow", "Oh, I bought this eye shadow. It's blue. Look at it on my eyes", you don't say that because it doesn't... Doesn't sound... Doesn't sound fashionable enough, it doesn't sound like you know about makeup. So, what people who know about makeup say is they say: "Oh, today I'm wearing a smokey eye." I'm not wearing a smokey eye, I haven't got anything on, but a smokey eye is when the eye shadow looks grey or dark, and it's most often worn at night when you're going out. You get your eye shadow these days in "palettes". And instead of wearing just one eye shadow, like, wearing a pink eye shadow, the eye shadow palette comes with about... Well, as many as you want I suppose, but from 4 to 12 eye shadows, and what they do is they put on the different eye shadows from the palette. So, they will talk about creating the smokey eye from palette number three, or whatever.

Next is a makeup term that's been around for a few years. This makeup term came from when the Kardashians got famous because the kind of makeup Kim Kardashian would use was a kind of makeup that shades her face to give it a certain... To make it look like there's more shadow on the face and a more dramatic kind of foundation, which is done with different brushes. It's a kind of makeup technique called "contouring". Apparently it comes... Apparently it's a makeup technique that's been around for ages, but before, drag queens used to use it, men who... Men who were still men, but dressed up as women mostly for performance and being in shows and things like that. So it originally comes from there. And I did experiment with contouring. I once watched a few too many YouTube videos, and it all went terribly wrong, so moving on from contouring.

Next we have "drugstore makeup". In England we don't have drugstores, we have pharmacies where you go and buy your medicine, and you can buy toiletries, but we don't have drugstores. We have chains of drugstores, for example, Boots or Superdrug, and you can go in there and buy makeup, but we never call those places drugstores. Yet, when people talk about makeup now, the younger generation, they will... They will talk about buying drugstore makeup, which means the kind of makeup that only... Only costs you a few pounds to buy, it's not the really, really expensive makeup, and you can... You can buy it easily, close... Close... Close where you live. So, drugstore makeup is the kind of makeup you can do that doesn't cost you so much money as the really expensive brands. So that's an American term, but it's being used a lot here now in England.

The next... The next two terms are about hair. These are newer fashionable techniques for dying your hair, and the two words come from French. In the English pronunciation we'd say: "balayage".

[RoosmarijnKoster]

Really refreshing to hear you talk about those words in a objective way. They entered my vocabulary without me noticing I now realize. Love watching your videos. Thanks.

[kimsejeongkpop]

Wow, I love this channel 😊 thank a million 💎

[mustafajawad]

We really appreciate what you doing for us, thanks jade

[sathi]

thanks!!! interesting...thanks for update...sunshine blue skies from Msia...

[alisazhou]

very lovely lesson Jade, thanks for your video!

[neyelsilvarodriguez]

Thanks God you're back ! This video is en point- as usual

[sierrapapa]

You're trendy fashion great !! :) . Thanks for the lesson and have a relaxing wekeend yourself. Cheers.

[pablofedericofidelamendola]

Great lesson Jade. I´m fancy about your accent. Love it!!!. Cheer from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

[abhinavkumar]

Thank you so much mam'm! the tricks which you have provided me have helped me a lot!

[arckocsog]

I always wondered what the hack 'go to' is. Thanks!

[paulwilson]

I believe the term drugstore is becoming obsolete in America. I don't know when was the last time I heard that here. Pharmacy is much more common now. Thanks for revealing the instagramers' secret :) Great video as always. I did not know half of them.

[danielstalks]

"Fashions fade, style is eternal." —Yves Saint Laurent

[sniegobarsas]

Hello, Jade, ...nice to see you, .. still working with you....Ben

[MrAsevin]

The english pronunciation of "balayage" is pretty close to the french one, but what happended to "ombré" and "en pointe"??
Sounds strange to me! xD

[sanaakhazaleh]

Hey guys.. can you please give me more links talking about the same topic❤️

[vdl]

ahahaha the mentioning of those beta instagram boyfreinds was on point

[misterglennhood]

When women wear casual tops, jerseys or tees, there can be an uneven tautness in the center of the bust area causing 2 or 3 horizontal puckers in the fabric . I would like to know what this is called .

[duraosunda]

Jade, by chance it has ever occured to you that some English native speakers (ens) speak English as if they weren't ens?
If it has, I´d love to hear your thoughts about why that happens.
Take care

[Anwar-qxlv]

hhh thank you my teacher i m fallowing you in morocco

[abdullahalmoqbali]

Nice .. so I hope to improve my language by you .. and I will study hard to be abest ..