Globalized beauty standards now blend features from every ethnicity into one hybrid face

Evidence

Global standardization wasn’t confined to spaces or objects; it also reshaped bodies. The New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino coined the phrase “Instagram face” to describe the homogenized visage proliferating across social media: “a young face…with poreless skin and plump, high cheekbones…catlike eyes and long, cartoonish lashes…a small, neat nose and full, lush lips.” The look was the beauty equivalent of the omnivore monoculture; makeup artist Colby Smith described it as “an overly tan skin tone, a South Asian influence with the brows and eye shape, an African-American influence with the lips, a Caucasian influence with the nose, a cheek structure that is predominantly Native American and Middle Eastern.” — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 650

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘Instagram face’ as the omnivore monoculture applied literally to human bodies.
• XREF: Directly extends the omnivore-monoculture thesis — the flattening of ethnicity-by-ethnicity distinguishable looks.
• ADDENDUM: Parallel to ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ in that embodied norms carry cultural signaling — this is the 2020s version on faces rather than dress.