All Eyes on Malia Baker

There are some unwritten beauty rules society tells us never to break. To name a few: Don’t go to sleep with your makeup on, don’t forget to blend your foundation down your neck and never… I mean, never…cut your own bangs.

- By Amanda Montell

Seeing Blue

All-around eyeliner gets a girly upgrade in brilliant blues. Line your upper and lower lash lines with aqua cream eyeshadow (we like NYX Vivid Brights Crème Color in Endless Skies, $10, ulta.com), then blend your inner and outer corners with a Q-tip to soften, says celebrity makeup artist Zabrina Matiru, who created the looks on these pages. Add a bit of shimmery blue shadow on the lid, a peachy tone above your crease and a pop of gold in the inner corner to make your eyes really sparkle.

But rules are meant to be broken, especially if you’re 15-year-old actress and activist Malia Baker, who spontaneously snipped a set of curly fringe all by her own dang self just a couple weeks before our interview.

“I just cut them on a whim!” she says with a casual laugh, and I can’t help but gasp. Would it be too dramatic to call her…brave?

As it turns out, the answer is definitively no, because crushing the DIY bangs game is hardly the only beauty barrier Malia has overcome.