Get the latest gossip

From the Met Gala to your Instagram feed: how ugly beauty took over fashion

In this week’s newsletter: Celebs at this year’s spectacle appeared to reject standardised versions of beauty – mirroring a wider shift to experimentation. So is this the end of fake, filtered perfection?

Gaining traction in recent years, it has been thriving on social media and spans everything from intentionally unblended foundation on jaw lines to gradient coloured lips and the use of prosthetics to change the shape of cheekbones or to create tiny forehead horns. Her new book, Beauty of the Beast: A Makeup Manual, from independent production house A24, which is behind films such as Priscilla and The Zone of Interest, aims to share some of her tricks, from how to create the illusion of having no eyebrows to how to make hair look like it’s turning grey. While social media is rife with videos of (typically) young users asking viewers to guess their age, then getting upset when they speculate correctly or higher, Schubert, who has worked with celebrities such as Dev Hynes and model Bella Hadid, has a whole chapter dedicated to making yourself look younger and older.

Get the Android app