The viral "uncanny valley" makeup trend is taking over TikTok with more than 40 million views as creators are trying to spook their viewers with their scary good makeup skills.

Generally called the uncanny valley makeup trend, it involves creators using makeup to appear as hyper-realistic bots. Some of the videos under this trend have received up to 13 million likes on ...

The uncanny valley makeup trend apparently started with an Oct. 26 TikTok from @blonde.girlyy, who was “attempting to subtly not look human.” The look didn’t quite look inhuman, but she was ...