NUMBNYC
NUMBNYC
DISCO RAGE
Final project done for Shaul Rivas Editorial Makeup course sponsored by Germany’s finest, Kryolan Makeup.
From makeup, wardrobe, accessories, colors, and proportions. I have come to understand how each piece of a puzzle organically and harmoniously fits into each other.
At least. that’s how it felt watching the music video for “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” which was what ultimately inspired this look: iconic Cyndi Lauper.
It’s crucial to emphasize that Cyndi Lauper’s take on this song was her form of debunking the misogynistic connotation and sexualization of woman, which originated when American musician, Robert Hazard, wrote and demoed the song originally in 1979.
MY TURN:
Bleached brows? How about no brows. This approach allowed me to manifest all the fun and boldness that radiated through the female-solidarity anthem. Royal blue hue accentuating the freedom that came with claiming our female autonomy. Orange and yellow hues diffuse to assert our hope and happiness that comes with girls just having some fucking fun.
“disco rage”
Star girl
With the popularity of TikTok, it seems like the "soft life," the "clean girl," the "it girl," was the star of the moment beginning in 2021 and is now starting to die down with what I like to call "heroine chick-core”. She now represents the nonconformist yet elegant revolution that the clean girl also portrayed.
While the clean girl celebrated romanticizing our beauty features for what they are, the heroin chick is also minimalist but going against enhancing, yet also killing, society's or patriarchal beauty standards of what it entails to deliver "feminine energy". The clean girl encouraged a natural bushy brow; the heroin chic loves an invisible brow. Both deliver the perfect amount of airiness, beauty, and self-centeredness.
Meanwhile, back in 2018, I remember scrolling through my Instagram feed and coming across Rihanna's eclectic clothing range and glittery tongue and eyelids on the Best of Beauty issue for Allure.
The clean girl walked so the heroine chick could run. She was debating whether she would buy Milk or Glossier. She wanted freckles, so she painted them on. She was the star of our Instagram feeds and magazines. She was HER, she was the moment.
How can we possibly forget her. And if your are wondering, no, those freckles are not real.
star girl
