Dewy skin, pearlescent nails, an iced oat latte in one hand, an Ottessa Moshfegh novel in the other; she’s your Gen Z girl boss who wears a blazer to the club but is too young to know Dilemma by Nelly and Kelly when it plays. If Bella Hadid told her to jump off a cliff she’d post a TikTok before reaching the ground. As the ringleader of the “clean girl aesthetic”, she won’t leave the house without her Charlotte Tilbury Flawless Filter, a wasp-sting-effect lip gloss, and hair so heavily gelled you could knock on it.
If our ‘clean girl’ is the Blair, our ‘messy girl’ (yes, it’s a real thing) is the Serena. Ruling Tik Tok’s For You Page on the other side of the internet lurks the girl who deliberately chips her nail varnish and boasts that she hasn’t had a haircut in five years. She takes her coffee black and will sleep in her makeup so everyone thinks she’s doing a walk of shame the next day. She wants you to think she’s listening to Jimi Hendrix, when really, it’s Doja Cat soundtracking her commute.
