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“I’ve been diverse throughout the years, but I was always drawn towards having guitar-driven songs.
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That’s how my sound was on my first album.”
Lavigne’sLove Suxera is poised to be one of her best.
And that’s just so Avril, right?
Her style has grown up with her, but its DNA remains the same.
Her signature smoky, kohl-rimmed eyes.
“I wanted thoseblackeyes when I was younger,” she says.
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“I’d use whatever I could get my hands on.”
“Back then, makeup wasn’t really thatgood.
It was so hard to find ablack eye shadowthat had pigment.
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Everything we put on was gray,” she recalls.
“It was a lot of smudging with eyeliner, sometimes more than the eye shadow.”
At the time, she relied onMAC’s Smolder liner,a pencil she still reaches for today.
When you’ve been doing it yourself for 20 years, it has to.
“I just can’t stand people doing my makeup, because I know how I like it.
If anything, I do half of it or let them touch me up,” she shares.
“No one can do it right.
Plus, I can’t sit in a chair for an hour while someone’s doing my makeup.
It drives me nuts, especially when I can do my smoky eye in two minutes.
“The process is less of a routine and more of a ritual.
On early shoot days, it starts before she even leaves the house.
“You don’t want it to be justblack,” she explains.
If you just do solid black, it’s really hard to get it a good shape.”
She starts by applying her beloved Smolder liner to her lower lash area.
Then she gets to work blending and shaping the lids.
The 2022 version of the look has far more bells and way shinier whistles.
“It took me literally up until a year ago to figure out how to use liquid eyeliner.
It was always so hard for me.
And now I can just ha, ha, no pun intended wingit and do it really fast.”
If she’s feeling a little extra, she’ll bring in an element of bling.
“I actually hate wearing sparkles because they end up in my eye.
I used to wear real sparkles alot.
Now, I’ll reach for a glittery, silvery metallic-y eye shadow to use instead.
It gives the same effect but it’s more of a shimmer.”
Hair has also been a key element of Lavigne’s overall look from the start.
Those bone-straight, dirty-blonde strands that swung just past her chest in 2002’sComplicatedwere the result of painstakingflat ironing.
“I have curly hair,” she casually mentions, to which I am audibly shocked.
“Google it,” she tells me, calling out a specific image from 2019.
She’s wearing a fur-lined black jacket and a vintage band T-shirt.
Her hair blooms around her in loose ringlets.
“Yeah, dude, that’s my hair.
I let it air-dry.”
Of course,Ilove it, but that only makes one of us.
“My friends and everybody else love it.
They’re like, ‘Why don’t you wear your hair like that?'”
Length and color are of course another major element.
Sometimes, her crown is striped with neon green.
Other times, she’s sporting orange soda-colored tips.
Like her makeup, her hair is at its best when she does it herself.
It’s wild.”
Same.The woman is aging at a vampire’s pace.
She tries to steer clear of products with harsh chemicals or fragrances.
The best kind of smoky eye, according to Lavigne, is one that’s been slept on literally.
“It stays on, you wake up, and it’s still there.
There’s nothing like going to bed with a full black eye on and waking up the next day.
It looks so rock and roll.”
