![]() And if you read almost any rock biography about a 20 th-century male musician, you’ll find out how they really treated the women in their lives. Kate Moss and Pete Doherty’s tumultuous on-again-off-again relationship ended with her setting fire to his childhood teddy bear and him calling her a “nasty old rag” in an interview with The Daily Mirror. Many of the high-profile relationships the trend idolises were toxic. The music industry’s excessive hedonism has been well-documented ( Kill Your Friends, anyone?) and the archetypal rockstar girlfriend lifestyle is rarely sustainable. On top of that, the aesthetic usually promotes being super thin and a ‘cigarette for breakfast’ lifestyle, which is pretty triggering for a lot of people.” “It’s super heteronormative, typically glorifying white, cis and straight relationships. “In some ways, this trend is more problematic than the indie sleaze and Tumblr aesthetics,” says Jane Macfarlane, art director at creative agency and internet and youth culture specialists The Digital Fairy. In fact, studies show that seeing yourself through the male gaze can lead to self-objectification and a narrow definition of desirability, both of which can have a negative impact on self-esteem. “When we live by the male gaze, we stop living authentically and start living performatively in a way that doesn’t honour our true selves,” says eating disorder specialist Ruth Micallef. The male gaze is so pervasive that it seeps into how women see themselves and other women. “Women don’t need to be reduced to the men in their lives.” “The name of the aesthetic needs to go,” says trend forecaster and writer Mandy Lee, who specialises in naming trends on TikTok. In the rockstar girlfriend universe, men create, make music and perform, while beautiful women become accessories for them to show off to the world. ![]() ![]() Women watch themselves being looked at,” writes John Berger in Ways of Seeing. Today, influencers like Devon Lee Carlson and Suki Waterhouse embody the effortlessly cool look.īut whose fantasy is the rockstar girlfriend? While many female TikTok users are proliferating the trend, its name defines women through their relationship with men. In the 1960s, OG rockstar girlfriends Anita Pallenberg and Pattie Boyd dated members of the Rolling Stones and the Beatles, while also having successful careers of their own. The rockstar girlfriend has existed for as long as the modern rockstar. But of course, the aesthetic itself isn’t new. Many predicted this post-lockdown return to excess and hedonism, even if it sometimes only exists as a fantasy. Musician adjacent female celebs and influencers like Alexa Chung, Kate Moss and Camille Rowe dressed in fur coats, platforms and morning-after makeup pose with cocktails and roses in videos that rack up thousands of likes.Īn extension of indie sleaze and the Tumblr girl aesthetic, the rockstar girlfriend is yet another 2022 trend that glorifies a 24/7 party lifestyle. ![]() The hashtag has amassed more than a million views, as creators try to manifest the jet set, party girl lifestyle for themselves through aspirational montages set to opening riffs from AM-era Arctic Monkeys. Introducing the rockstar girlfriend, the latest aesthetic to whip TikTok into a frenzy. OK, time to jam out to some My Chemical Romance.Silk slips, cigarettes and electric guitars… who is she? Complete the look with a nude pink lip.Sweep on a voluminous mascara to bring out both the top and bottom lashes.Apply a light shimmer to the center of your waterline, across your brow bone and onto the inner corners of your eyes.Gently smudge the color with the blending brush. Use the liquid eyeliner to define the inner corners of your eyes and the pencil eyeliner for the rest of your water line.Apply a darker eyeshadow (like black, brown or blue) along the outer edges of your lid and just above your cat eye flick. ![]() Go over the newly smudged cat eye again with a liquid eyeliner this time to really make things pop.Use a small blending brush to smudge the line.Go ahead and unleash your inner Julia Fox if you want to. It’s up to you how dramatic you want the tail to be. Grab a pencil eyeliner and draw on a simple cat eye.Next, apply some gold or silver shimmer to the center of your lid. Apply a neutral eyeshadow (like mauve or taupe) to your entire lid.But to help get you started, TikTok creator Shayne Marie recreated Emma Chamberlain’s red carpet look from the Oscar’s, so you can follow along and become a rockstar at home. One of the many reasons it’s become so popular is because of how freeing it is. When it comes to this trend, there’s no need to be overly crisp or precise with your makeup application. ![]()
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