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He can’t get enough of it so much so that he loves Mondays.
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“It’s awesome.”
Rutherford can date his fixation with changing back to age five.
“I dressed myself,” he recalls.
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“But I would have four ‘fits a day, all the time.
I was nevernotchanging my clothes, not changing my hair.”
At one point, half of his dark-chocolate hairwas bleached.
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At another, hesmeared glitteron his cheeks beforeEuphoriaeven existed.
“I’ve done things along the way, just to do them first.
I’m not afraid to do that,” Rutherford says before taking it back.
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“That’s a lie.
I am afraid but not enough for it to stop me.”
Now, the band is lead by a beaming silver man, and its music is the soundtrackto TikToks.
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Chip Chrome is Rutherford’s alter ego in all senses of the world.
Why commit to Chip Chrome as a full-body, head-to-toe experience, though?
He could have dyed his hairneon greenand adorned his face with floral face paint.
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But none of that would have been enough to obscure his trademark look.
“I already gave myself a permanent head-to-toe experience with all my tattoos,” he quips.
“I already gave myself a permanent head-to-toe experience with all my tattoos.”
But as time went on, he felt overexposed and wanted to part with his tattoos without removing them.
Chip Chrome has “no connection to my past visual identity,” he says.
“This is my way to kind of have a shield up.”
Chrome could beanycolor with a metallic finish.
For Rutherford, silver was the only option for Chip.
Once more, Rutherford felt comfortable presenting himself to the world’s prying eyes.
“This project has shown me a lot with trusting myself, trusting my vision,” Rutherford says.
“Chip has helped me tap into a part of myself that I hadn’t seen for a while.
“This is just kind of a more extreme iteration.”
Rutherford’s mom wasn’t too surprised by Chip Chrome, either.
His attitude growing up could be described as, “Let me drive the fucking car.
Let me be behind the wheel of who I am,” he says.
Rutherford felt like he was taking up drawing again, one of his favorite childhood hobbies.
“I’ve always moved fast and rushed to the next thing,” Rutherford muses.
But the magic of the process still moves him.
Rather, he’s more of an alien in makeup than anything else.
“It’s hard to even call it beauty.
I’m just trying to do something creative.”
The singer is hardly defensive or pretentious with these claims, though.
Instead, they encapsulate his passion for art and self-expression.
Makeup, Rutherford believes, should be as broadly and abstractly approached without gender roles attached.
“I mean, I’m a straight, white guy, plain and simple,” Rutherford asserts.
Taking off his silver shield is not as arduous as you may imagine it would be, Rutherford swears.
In fact, he can return to his pure Jesse form in four minutes flat, if needed.
However, Rutherford laments just how easilythe paint comes off.
“It’s not chill when you want to keep it on,” he points out.
“It starts getting pretty shitty pretty quick.
I have a very expansive forehead, so I’m wrinkled up there.
The paint’s just constantly cracking.
It’s the worst.”
His clear complexion can’t exactly be owed to an extensive skin-care routine, though.
His review: “It’s really rejuvenating,” he says.
“It doesn’t even feel like it is soap.
It’s like Gatorade for your face.”
Carlson also passed along his go-to moisturizer at the moment from Laura Mercier.
That’s about it.
“I’ll do a face mask every once in a while,” Rutherford adds.
“But for the most part,I shave.
I have to every time I do Chip.
That’s full-commit exfoliation.”
In certain scenes, you could catch his tattoos on full display, free of silver paint.
However, his lids are rainbow.
That’s where I want the confidence.
I’m not really interested in that.
I’m interested in presenting myself for the art with the art.
If recognition comes along with that, fuck yeah.
That’s exciting.”
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