A face that looks like it’s made out of clay.” The celebrity makeup artist Colby Smith told me, “It’s Instagram Face, duh. “It’s like a sexy . . . baby . . . tiger,” Cara Craig, a high-end New York colorist, observed to me recently. The face is distinctly white but ambiguously ethnic-it suggests a National Geographic composite illustrating what Americans will look like in 2050, if every American of the future were to be a direct descendant of Kim Kardashian West, Bella Hadid, Emily Ratajkowski, and Kendall Jenner (who looks exactly like Emily Ratajkowski). It looks at you coyly but blankly, as if its owner has taken half a Klonopin and is considering asking you for a private-jet ride to Coachella. It has catlike eyes and long, cartoonish lashes it has a small, neat nose and full, lush lips. It’s a young face, of course, with poreless skin and plump, high cheekbones. This past summer, I booked a plane ticket to Los Angeles with the hope of investigating what seems likely to be one of the oddest legacies of our rapidly expiring decade: the gradual emergence, among professionally beautiful women, of a single, cyborgian face. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.

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