As a part of our Selfridges x Dazed Beauty Space, a web based and physical pop-up experience – an area of resistance, imagination, and latest identities – we’ve been looking forward to the subsequent 100 years of beauty. 

An exciting component of our research into the long run of cosmetics was working with fashion futuristic and trend forecaster Geraldine Wharry to predict six beauty subcultures from the long run. Based on Geraldine’s forecast, we will probably be dropping Instagram face filters centred on each subculture every week and we’ll be exploring and constructing on her trends through live make-up, hair, and nail tutorials within the Dazed Beauty Space at Selfridges. Enroll here for a likelihood to be involved.

For now, read and discover Geraldine’s out of the world predictions for what might occur next for beauty, make-up, hair, surgery, filters, and self-expression.

PALE BABY ANDROID 

The transhuman philosophy that we must always merge with machines to increase our intelligence and life expectancy has develop into highly coveted with the rise of an ageing global population. Emboldened by the exponential growth of neurotech, biotech, and the looks of the primary cyborgs within the 2010s, we’re redefining the bounds of the human body and chasing the fountain of youth. Meanwhile, the primary baby androids are in development, in an effort to make us “greater than human”. In 2017 we were already capable of grow a premature lamb in an artificial womb and brain-computer interfaces often known as the brainternet. It was only a matter of time until we developed baby android mass-manufacturing.

To ease acceptance into today’s society, we introduce androids as babies and match them with human families who raise them with dreams and dysfunctions. The subculture is a component robot, with exposed metal or clear silicone body parts. Their eyes and hands offload and upload data for upgrades, information exchange in addition to sense checking. As a type of reassurance, we take qualities, physical traits from family members, even those that have passed away, and upload them into our android children as a technique to cheat death and dabble with resurrection.

This subculture is in a birthplace stage, mutating. A creature is being spawned. The Pale Baby Androids represent a latest life form in its cellular stages. Their skin textures vary from wet and translucent to powdery and matte, with color gradations mimicking mushrooms or lichen. Due to this fact the colors are blanched, textures are filmy, cellophane-like, slimy even, inspired by pearlescent spores, bacteria, bubbles, eggs, petri dishes, and fungi because the very primary life form. The child android manufactures saliva which mutates and has psychotropic or fertilizing qualities and if taken in excess could be toxic. Underpinning that is the thought of duplication, twins, the multiplying of cells, in addition to creatures feeding off of one another. Inspired by Vore fetish, this subculture sees life, death, and rebirth as a part of the identical thing.

PRIVACY HACK

We have now been on a continuous quest to hack the human condition and technology made us grapple hard with being human within the 2020s, when institutions began attempting to put a moratorium on facial recognition technology and we realised how hard it could be to guard privacy.

But it surely was too late, our digital footprint had already develop into the sexiest thing on earth. We were so seduced with creating highly precise services powered by our intimate data, that we failed to manage hyper surveillance. We had spawned a trail of knowledge we could never ever escape, even within the afterlife. Social rating as a type of access to government services was already underway within the late 2010s and spread like wildfire across the globe within the years to return, as governments acquired unprecedented power to trace and rate residents.

Just a few a long time later and our worth as residents is now intricately linked with our data. As omniviolence terrorism increases, the Privacy Hack subculture becomes the symbol of the resistance, fighting for humanity’s freedom and Artificial Intelligence exclusively used for the greater good of the people and the planet. They rose up during 2019’s social uprisings world wide, and from this was born a movement of facial recognition hackers. They joined forces with hackers who garbled social media captions as a type of art and a bid to confuse algorithms, successfully derailing web surveillance by turning words into a large number of illegible code.

The Privacy Hack subculture has subverted the entire traditionally known data-tracking tools to create a beauty standard where our faces are adorned with data designed and garbled to confuse others, and only understood by just a few. Their masks act as algorithmic signal scramblers and make members unrecognisable, equipped with a shape-shifting face filter, distorted layers of glitches and pictures. Freedom is being reclaimed by “virtually hacking” faces with code, illegible messages, fragments of faces. They’re rebels hunted down by governments, living off the grid. Their ranks are joined by the LGBTQ+ community which have fought so hard for claiming their freedom to decide on, the appropriate to fluidity and a free identity.

BAROQUE DYSTOPIAN 

Inspired by a feudal structure of society chronicled within the Aristocratic Decade (2038-2048) Dazed Beauty predicted in 2018, the Baroque Dystopians seek to flee from the anxieties of climate change and offset them with the exuberance of radical hope. They tap into the 1700s French Aristocracy and the Baroque era for hairstyle inspiration. In times of socio-political instability when visionary pondering is way needed, beauty trends lean on the eccentric types, reflecting a have to escape and indulge. Think the twenties post-War era with its glitter, luxury, and decadence. By 2038, we are going to experience tense separatism between the haves and the have nots, and it should manifest in nostalgic excessive beauty trends.

The Baroque Dystopians thrive in raves and underground social spaces. They’re street wanderers with unsurpassed exuberance, adorned with eccentric hair braiding, exaggerated bouffant volumes decorated with pearls and golden roping, brightly hued and boldly curled hair, dental braces and face jewellery worn as their crown.

They use found jewels and stones, metal wires, industrial metal scraps reworked and moulded into vine shapes and alluring face gear. They represent the dichotomies between classes and mix the superior airs of royalty with the sting of life on the streets. This subculture also harnesses cross-cultural style references, inspired by the opulence of Middle Eastern clothing and jewellery. They navigate cultures and races, with a DNA so mixed it’s unclassified, only often known as the world’s latest diaspora subculture, untethered to anything but their community, their street savviness and exuberant self-expression.

FACE RECYCLERS 

We have now reached technological singularity and the 12 months is 2045. Within the era of the integrated circuit according, our technology 12 months 2020 was doubling every 14 months. Today it has reached countless processing power. Us humans can’t sustain. Nonetheless, we see opportunities in renewing our identities by applying the identical principles of recycling and the circular economy to the principles of owning the legal rights your face, a necessity that emerged within the 2010s attributable to the rise of deep fakes.

The concept of face recycling gains momentum as people comply with swap faces. They’ll opt to do that within the digital realm or in real life through transplants and cosmetic surgery. Within the digital realm, a well-liked filter is inspired by surrealist collages, juxtapositions of various faces. One other trend for face swapping and recycling uses easy solid color overlays. These hues hook up with personal data and may change shades with changing moods, biometrics, and even weather patterns. And for extra money, our augmented skin includes promoting for the subsequent e-sports world championship.

For many who cannot afford a latest face IRL or a elaborate augmented filter, the growing practice of using recycled materials to mask your face or adorn it with found objects creates a surprising space for what is taken into account latest precious jewellery. Adornments are created from yesterday’s relics: microchips, concert ticket stubs, an old barcode, even an old kitchen utensil, wonderful memories now used to proclaim and have a good time our post-consumer history.

SUPER NATURALS 

Humans have evolved into elongated fairy-like creatures each ethereal and lethal. 90 years earlier a small group of biotech firms and scientists had developed age-reversing technologies. And the tip of the second millennium allowed us to reconnect with our primordial natural tendencies of hunting and feeding on only what we want, as we ran in need of natural resources and needed to create latest ways of getting our nutrients.

At first of the 2100s, scientists and bioengineers have now developed skin cells capable of harvest essential vitamins and if lucky, flowers. This has enabled us to develop into closer to nature and has given society a chance to reflect and long for what we once had and took with no consideration. Flowers lost their perfume but fortunately, scientists were capable of engineer tattoos that release a floral scent. Because the lines blur between the natural, virtual and the human, we use bio-sensitive smart tattoo inks that change colors and are available to life through augmented reality, visually mimicking orchid petals and dragonfly wings.

Humans have develop into avatars of flowers and produce nutrients to mimic pollination. From this, we’ve created unlikely bonds with insects that appreciate our skin’s nourishment, especially ladybugs and iridescent worms. Our bodies have been engineered to be a component of the earth’s geology, as we are actually capable of produce face crystals mimicking nature’s wildest patterns. The adornments are filled with nutrients, allowing us to recharge only for an evening and even minutes as a part of our wellness routine. With the ability to design our ideal future self, we’re presented with a menu: from a floral creature to a fairy, feathered eyelashes to crystallised skin, the selection is ours.

DARK HEAT 

The planet has drastically modified attributable to global warming. We have now grown used to living in the dead of night attributable to heat reaching dangerous heights through the daytime. Pollution levels and microparticles within the air have darkened the sunshine. Besides, the world is now overpopulated, and we cannot all work at the identical time, subsequently society works in split day or evening time shifts, with global time zones now dictated by heat and density of population.

To navigate this world, we’ve developed ways to see in the dead of night and develop into accustomed to heat mapping cameras and infrared vision. We glow in the dead of night through our tattoos, contact lenses and make-up. But very similar to a cheetah or a lioness, we understand the importance of camouflage, being stealth. Due to this fact our tattoos can move and switch to nothing, powered by swarms of nanobots running through our veins. This subulture wears soft robotic body parts as masks or nose extensions, a clever development after the invention of sentimental computer parts similar to the octobot within the 2010s.

Neon green prevails, with other hues inspired by tropical fish and coral accustomed to limited light within the depths of the ocean. Our perceptions evolve, natural evolution makes us reconnect with our natural tendencies in a move to mimic the intelligence of untamed animals with feather or fish inspired brows, pointed earpieces and increased senses similar to hearing or smell. Piercings increase our spatial awareness and protrude, mimicking the spikes of hedgehogs for defense, in the shape of metal insertions that help us navigate the dark and sense our surroundings. We may go for the less aggressive and equally alluring markings of jungle beetles. These adornments double as a logo of status and tribal rating, various from solid silver to shiny tropical hues.

Dazed Beauty Space runs from March 9 to April 19. For the total programme click here. Selfridges, Beauty Workshop, Ground Floor Level, 400 Oxford Street, W1A 1AB.