Your Life As A Moodboard: Girlblogging Aesthetics
Girlblogging examines the spectrum of girlhood in all its vast scope, from the hyperfeminine coquette to the disaster grunge queens still going strong. It’s all about embodying a certain existential angst while crafting a personal aesthetic, whether or not you actually look like your blog IRL: Playing with different aspects of girlhood and maintaining an air of mystery is a big part of the whole deal.
Style, design, and fashion trends from Y2K and the early 2010s have come full circle in girlblogger-core: Posts celebrate timestamped, soft-focus images of low-rise jeans, and borrowed leather jackets, pastel flip phones, and shimmer eyeshadow palettes are all going strong on Tumblr dot com.
Other girlbloggers lean into the grainy suburban vignettes of Americas past with Girl, Interrupted filmstills or an imagined old Americana of lace-draped altars, rosaries, and faded fantasies of long-gone streets, charting an aesthetic lineage from The Virgin Suicides through Ethel Cain and Lana del Ray to Gossip Girl, Priscilla, Black Swan, and Cruel Intentions, via MARINA, Mitski, and Sky Ferreira. Related aesthetics include #angelcore, #coquette, #2014 tumblr, and #fairycore.
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