Are side partings for âold peopleâ? Itâs a question youâve likely never asked yourself, but after it emerged this week that teenagers on TikTok had declared it so, the debate reached the British Vogue beauty team. The discourse began, as talking points now tend to, on Gen-Zâs favourite social media platform, when a user called @Lady-Gleep declared: âProve me wrong, but I donât think there is a single person who looks better with a side part than they do a middle part.â Naturally, all hell broke loose, the #MiddlePartChallenge was born, and side partings were officially deemed past their prime. Even Ashley Graham weighed in.