18 Essentials For That “Clean Girl” Look If You Have Classic Taste But Don’t Want To Work That Hard
by The Candidly Team
At this point in life, for us to care an inkling about a trend, it pretty much has to transcend the very laws of trendiness. By at least feeling like something that could/ should last forever.
Enter the rise of the “clean girl aesthetic.”
If you’re not familiar (or on TikTok), the clean girl aesthetic is marked by things like:
Glorious glass skin
Shiny, smoothed back hair
Glowy no makeup-makeup
Effortless, understated, comfortable clothes
Soft hues beaming off of perfectly glazed nails (in fact, it was our adoration of this image that inspired this entire article!)
But basically, the things that fall under the “clean girl” label are pretty much the things we all already sort of want for ourselves like 97% of the time. The crisp linen, life-has-been-good-to-us look that’s as lustworthy as it is effortless. (Even as our actual lives are chaos, and our own linens are still crumpled in the dryer at 11PM because we forgot we’d thrown them in 17 hours ago.)
Admittedly, the clean girl aesthetic tends to get associated with girl-aged women. And as with any blurring beauty trend, it risks getting roped in with unattainable levels of perfection (ahem, wealth).
But as far as an aesthetic is concerned, it actually adheres to things most synonymous with looking our loveliest decades past our 40s.
I mean, who among us doesn’t want to appear as if we just emerged from a peony-scented tub, got coated in some miracle oil, and stepped out the door in the best-fitting, most understated outfit of our lives? Hair settled for the entirety of the day. Skin practically reflecting back the sunshine.
And this look shouldn’t be reserved for those with stacks of free time (or old money) to spend on themselves.
We’re not going to pretend a natural look takes absolutely zero effort. But we will say that the clean girl aesthetic is more doable than most. It’s really all about careful, selective choices about the things that will MOST EASILY make us look/ feel like our best minimalist selves.
And we found these things - all 17 of them.
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