The most annoying trends of 2019

Every new year brings us ingenious advances in science and tech, fascinating creations from the art and fashion worlds, and breakthroughs in our collective id.

But, as always, there is a flip side to the good, the new, the interesting — the trends and goods that just should never have been. To quote a bad song from 1998, “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end,” and may all the beginnings we are about to discuss end — and never come back.

Here are just some of the worst trends of 2019 we’d like to see go the way of the Dodo:

Face tattoos

2019 was a particularly bad year for these ill-advised tattoos. In September, Aaron Carter, for some unknown reason, got a huge inking of Rihanna as a mermaid on the entire right-hand side of his face. Carter now joins the dubious crew of Post  Malone, Justin Bieber, Lil Wayne and Kehlani who also have permanent, nonsensical doodlings on their mugs….