The Natural Beauty

Cool Girl

NATURAL GAMINE

Cool, confident, effortless—this is the feel of Natural Gamine beauty.

Natural Gamine celebrities

See Natural Gamine celebrities on Pinterest.

Celebrities I’ve verified as Natural Gamine are also listed below:

Alison Pill

America Ferrera

Beth Behrs

Bethany Mota

Cher Lloyd

Chloe Sevigny

Cynthia Nixon

Diane Keaton

Elisabeth Shue

Emily Osment

Lauren Conrad

Julie Bowen

Judd Apatow

Justin Bieber

Kaitlyn Dever

Mae Whitman

Malin Akerman

Melissa McCarthy

Queen Latifah

Rachel Zegler

Ryan Gosling

Troian Bellisario

Zoe Sugg

Natural Gamine Chloe Sevigny in Natural Gamine style.

a Natural Gamine outfit inlcuding a loose T-shirt, skinny jeans and brown ankle boots
a Natural Gamine outfit--a gray loose off-the-shoulder chunky knit sweater and black skinny jeans

Natural Gamine fashion

For Natural Gamine style inspiration, you can look almost anywhere, from the grocery store to your own home—Natural and Gamine pieces are wardrobe staples for most of us.

Jeans, T-shirts, sneakers, ankle boots—these are the fundamentals both of Natural Gamine style and of modern mainstream fashion.

And that makes sense, because this aesthetic feels extremely cool—it embodies not-trying-too-hard, low-maintenance, laidback beauty. Of all the essence blends, Natural Gamines might have the most conventionally cool vibes.

Natural Gamine style is also practical, allowing us to move comfortably and even be highly active. So it matches modern values of practicality and productivity.

girl wearing a long-sleeve Tee, distressed skinny jeans, and athletic sneakers with colorful accents

The easy Natural Gamine outfit formula: jeans, Tee, sneakers. Loose sweater or jacket if it’s cold.

Sounds basic? Depending on the viewer, it might be. But this aesthetic can also be extremely exciting and experimental.

high fashion natural gamine look including jeans with bubble-letter patches

Gamine gets color blocking, fun prints, and vibrant color. Natural gets slouchy, oversize silhouettes that can feel ultra-modern, even grungy or edgy.

Natural Gamine can be as basic as T-shirt and jeans—and remind us of the effortless beauty of simplicity—or as daring as a color-blocked orange and green cardigan, jeans decorated with bubble-letters, and neon yellow and pink sneakers. Or somewhere in between. Within all the style types, we see so much range.

Confidence and natural beauty

With its wide, blunt-edged shapes, Natural feels laidback. With its short, pointy shapes, Gamine feels playful. So Natural Gamines can harmoniously wear the most casual fashion of all the essence blends. Styles described as casual or athleisure are often heavily Natural or Gamine or both.

Part of why Natural Gamines look confident is that they don’t need highly polished or glamorous fashion to look gorgeous. They’re also beautiful with very minimal makeup. Of all the blended types, they best fit the archetype of the Natural Beauty.

So Natural Gamines embody a metaphor about accepting yourself as you are and not trying to put on a costume to impress. And the paradox is that by not trying to be impressive, you do come off as impressive—self-assured, confident, and cool.

As beautiful Natural Gamine Malin Akerman shows here, Natural Gamines can harmoniously wear some heavier eye makeup looks, including tightlining, because of their Gamine—though she doesn’t need the shimmery eyeshadow!

Active or laidback?

Natural Gamine can feel casual and laidback while also feeling highly active and productive—after all, this is the essence blend most flattered by activewear. So Natural Gamine can simultaneously embody relaxation and productivity.

This illustrates how defining any style essence or essence blend as any one thing is reductive. There are definite patterns in how the essences manifest in both faces and fashions—but often accompanying those patterns are traits that seem to defy those patterns.

If you’re a given type and you dislike my or others’ descriptions of that type, you can reconceptualize the type based on what you observe about your features and your most flattering fashion. And—to use an overused word that has genuine meaning when applied to Natural Gamine—that’s really cool.