Ariana Grande, Before and After
As anyone who reads my red carpet reports knows, I’ve got my celebrity beauty crushes... and then I’ve got my people like Ariana Grande.
With her ever-present ponytail, oversized false lashes and mask-like makeup, she has developed a very particular beauty aesthetic—which couldn’t be further from mine. It’s the “Sexy Baby” concept, as Vice has called it[1] (and includes a wardrobe rotation of racy, lingerie-like outfits that wouldn’t look out of place on a Bratz! doll).
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Even still, those things don’t really bother me. What I actually find unsettling is the development of what I like to call her Resting Smug Face. Or, as Buzzfeed puts it: “Have you noticed that Ariana Grande always looks like she’s politely listening to a very bad joke?”[2]
But things weren’t always this way.
I, for one, suspect that cosmetic interventions may have played a role in 28-year-old Ariana’s dramatic transformation. Here’s how her look has changed from back in her Nickelodeon days until now.