What’s behind the rise of ‘bad beauty’?
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8 Nov 2022
What’s behind the rise of ‘bad beauty’?

What can the rise of ‘bad beauty’ tell us about the tastes of a new generation of consumers more focused on individualism and intersectionality than any before? And how do products need to embrace the revolutionary and rebellious nature of Gen Zers in order to win them over?

Aoife Cullen

Aoife Cullen is a make-up artist and content creator pioneering the ‘bad beauty’ aesthetic.

Emilie Bruyere

Emilie Bruyere is senior content strategist at Isamaya Beauty.

Bee Beardsworth

Bee Beardsworth is a writer, photographer, and creative director based in London with a background in fashion, media, and art. She writes about fashion and beauty through a postmodern lens, with an underlying focus on feminism and queer theory. Beardsworth recently completed a degree in the history of art and visual culture, with a strong focus on femininity and queerness in modernity, internet culture and new media, occulture, and architecture.