Summer is heating up, but beauty trends are cooling way down. And if your makeup bag still screams "sun-kissed bronze goddess ...

The tightlining makeup look is back from the early 2010s, but it's gotten a chic upgrade since the indie sleaze era.

Whereas experts predicted a full resurgence of the grungy indie-sleaze trend — a notable departure from the minimalist "clean girl" aesthetic that has reigned over the last few years — beauty ...

as well as the epicenter for a rise in constraining tradwife beauty techniques. There is still a plethora of fun content on TikTok, but it’s not as uniform as it felt in the era of the indie kid, and ...

Overall, it’s about experimenting and seeing how far you can change your look just using makeup. We’ve lived in an era of quiet luxury and the clean girl aesthetic for far too long.

The impossible beauty standard of “hyper-thin women,” Slone says, was set long before indie sleaze was even a thing. Indie sleaze as an aesthetic, she believes, also lacks mass appeal.

Unlike beachy waves, indie-sleaze waves are intentionally messy ... I would never sleep in my makeup, and although I only wash my hair twice a week, when it's really dirty, you can usually find ...

By now, these digital-native aesthetics are standard nomenclature, at least for the chronically online—each “core” a keyword to enable the search and retrieval of related images. Unlike ...