![]() There’s a really soft taupey grey shadow creating the suggestion of a smokey eye, fringed with dark lashes, a soft matte complexion and gentle peachy blush. Her makeup is consistent throughout the movie, it just dials up and down in intensity. It bounces out from her face then swooshes down over one eye like a 90s redux of Veronica Lake. It ranges throughout the movie from perfectly roller set and brushed out, to teased into a kind of glam rock 80’s bouffant in the scene in which she attends a college frat party. Veronica’s voluminous, deep side parted bob is a masterpiece, maybe my favourite hair anyone has had ever. Enter Winona Ryder as Veronica Sawyer, who wears her naturally blonde hair dyed raven dark - a look she will keep from throughout her career - telling Vogue in a 1991 profile that it suits her pale skin better and that she never ever goes in the sun. Yet Ryder’s natural, ineffable coolness manages to make the Lydia Deetz look a huge vibe and starts to position her as a more offbeat choice of teen idol.įollowing Beetlejuice, cult classic Heathers hits so many incredible fashion and beauty moments, which even if it wasn’t such a perfect movie it would be worth watching for them alone. It’s a much harder cultural debut to pull off than Julia Roberts’s - girl next door with the kilowatt smile in Mystic Pizza - which was released the same year. Lydia’s skin is an unholy pallor and she has greyish, reddish hollows beneath her eyes. ![]() Her spiky fringe is gelled into sharp teeth, paired with a mega teased bird’s nest updo - a hair moment that is still referenced in shoots and shows in 2023. Taking a look back through these three movies that chart the beginning of her Hollywood ascent, you can clearly mark out some of the beauty moments that made her the fave of self identified misfits.Īs baby goth Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice, Winona already has the air of self possession that makes her so compelling. She felt like the grungier and more nonchalant version of the rest of her cohort and had the indie movie credit list to match. Amongst them though, Winona epitomised an outsider vibe. Winona Ryder was part of a new generation of 90s teen stars that included Julia Roberts, Alicia Silverstone and Angelina Jolie, all of who created some of the best movies and served the best looks of the decade. Maybe it’s worth noting that both Hepburn and Ryder are beauty icons who seem to resonate more strongly with women than men. It’s hard to imagine people not immediately recognising Ryder as one of the few truly genetically blessed, but she does have a sort of low key elfin quality that reminds me of Audrey Hepburn, who herself was described as a “gamine”, meaning sort of boyish and elegant and positioned in opposition to the “sex kitten” persona embodied by Hepburn’s contemporary Bridgette Bardot. The first five things I did, I was cast as what was literally described in the script as 'the ugly duckling'." And even at the height of her fame, post Edward Scissorhands, she was still described in weird terms like “the thinking man’s pin up” which is an interesting compliment that somehow feels like a neg. In the Eighties, it was all about blondes and a very different look. She has gone on the record with Vogue about not being considered a beauty when she first started out - “I was the opposite of what was going on in film. Ryder’s popularity marks a sort of change in the culture. Yet she had starred in nine movies, was half of the most high profile celebrity couple of the day and could go nowhere without the breathless attention of the world. She started filming as Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice when she was just 15, filmed Heathers at 16 and by the time Edward Scissorhands was out she was still only 19 years old. Between 19 Winona Ryder starred in three cult classic movies: Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, as well as Daniel Waters’s Heathers.
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