![]() I always used to say when I was little that I couldn’t wait to get old to have hair like that.ĭid you ever think that your beauty looks would be so impactful? My grandma, who I look like, went completely white like a pearl. It’s rare but I love when older women keep their grey or white hair. Julia Fox: I honestly love the grey hair look the most. Which is your favourite Julia Fox beauty moment of 2022? The fox eye, the red eyes, the grey hair…? ![]() Here Fox shares her thoughts on her year in beauty and gives her predictions for 2023. That’s the thing about her make-up: all you need is a bit of time, enthusiasm and not to take yourself too seriously. Her looks are confronting and female-focused, they are relatable and accessible – as demonstrated by Fox’s charmingly chaotic tutorials which involve drug store products, bare fingers and the occasional “fuck”. Along the way, we can afford her the grace and space to grapple with the contradictions she is spouting and unlearn the messages that are ingrained in all of us.įox has undoubtedly changed how we approached beauty this year and, alongside people like Doja Cat and Aoife, spearheaded a perspective on make-up that doesn’t centre the male gaze or appease societal beauty metrics. Purposefully choosing to look messy, alien-like and intimidating. What we now seem to be witnessing is her experimenting and coming to terms with how she wants to look for herself. Fox felt that it was “a humiliating position to be in”. This is one of the contradictions inherent in womanhood – beauty can equal power, but this “power” is always dependent on being seen as desirable by the patriarchy. On the other hand, Fox has always been honest: she’s openly discussed how, when she realised she was being seen as a commodity in her teens and twenties, she consciously capitalised on her looks and sex appeal to gain money and resources from men. And the discord of proclaiming that ‘ageing is in’ while having just weeks before been paid to be the face of Botox-alternative Xeomin, is not necessarily negated by Fox’s defence that she is “always going to get my bag”. It’s easy to say “I wanna see bellies hanging over the low rise jeans pls” when she herself has one of the flattest stomachs you have ever seen. On the one hand, these statements feel easy to say for a conventionally beautiful, thin, white woman who, intentionally or not, reaps the rewards of meeting societal beauty standards. Fox also started vocalising this reaction against conventional beauty norms, making bold proclamations and predictions on her TikTok account like, “Ageing is fully in… dirty girl, ugly, not wearing clothes that fit your body type – just fully wearing anything you want – all those things are in.” ![]() Then came the black lips and a painterly white wing, the latex-wrapped ponytail, the pencil brows drawn over bleached eyebrows, the grey hair. In March, she appeared on an Oscars party red carpet with bright-red, bloodshot eyes framed by her signature black wing – a look achieved by being stoned to the bone. Most crucially, it was fun, and seemed to signal a mode of self-expression beyond prescriptive ideas of attractiveness.Ī series of equally chaotic looks followed, cementing Fox’s status as the patron saint of the so-called bad beauty movement. The look instantly seized our imaginations, a relief from aspirational celebrity beauty. That was the spirit Fox captured at the beginning of the year when she stepped out in her now infamous signature black eye make-up. Post-lockdown, in the face of the cost of living crisis, it’s not surprising that sweaty, hedonistic, messy make-up has replaced the meticulous, multi-step Instagram Face of the 2010s. What we do have time for is smearing the crumbs from a battered eyeshadow palette over our eyes like a contemporary Boudica and rounding it off with a stumpy, old eyeliner shoplifted from Boots. We don’t have the time, emotional, or indeed spiritual capacity to attempt to emulate the unattainable beauty standards that have haunted the past decade the simulacra of professionally applied make-up layered over thousands of pounds’ worth of Botox and filler, then posted on social media after a quick FaceTune and some Photoshop. Our love for Julia Fox and her madcap make-up is emblematic of our current state.
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