Meaning of soft girl | Babel Free

Definitions

A girl who adopts a look or aesthetic involving a wholesome and feminine appearance in subdued pastel colours, as well as (often) watching anime and listening to K-pop.

Examples

“Commemorate your relationship with siblings and cousins by buying them their team's newest jersey from your local Adidas or Nike if they're sports fans. Maybe a cute scarf or some pearl-studded hairpins if they're going for the new "soft girl" look.”

“You will find the soft girl online, pigtailed, clad in pastels, perhaps with a spray of faux freckles – or little clouds, or hearts – painted across her blush-pinkened cheeks and highlighted nose.”

“Soft girls often paint clouds on their cheeks and wear lots of blush and highlighter.”

“Unlike the VSCOs who tirelessly work towards ending global warming by saving one sea turtle at a time or the Dark Academics who remove themselves from the world by pretending to live in outdated times, being a soft girl requires nothing other than maintaining an ultra feminized appearance. Thus, by having one's identity be solely based upon superficial notions of beauty and more specifically ultra femininity, the Soft Girl aesthetic promotes exclusivity based on unrealistic standards of appearance.”

“Junior Katie Wilson displays a typical soft girl aesthetic look with jewelry, a pleated skirt and frilled socks.”

“Soft girl makeup, as the name suggests is a pastel, sweet style that focuses on accentuating natural features with a signature element being blush and faux freckles.”

“"I got a little vulnerable (on this new music)," [Dess] Dior said. "(My old music) is a little rough, a little hard, so we're going to tap into my soft-girl era next."”

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