But if she was around to muse on beauty culture in 2025, I’m pretty sure she would have honed in a little higher up, with her (self) critical gaze landing somewhere around the mandible bone that lends shape to our lower faces and chins.
How a sculpted jaw became the new holy grail of beauty A defined jawline is the latest aesthetic ideal on the red carpet and beyond.
Margot Robbie, Lily-Rose Depp and Emily Ratajkowski are just a handful of mandibular-ly blessed celebs who spring to mind, while ultra-sleek jawlines have also contributed to the recent incredible “glow-ups” of two Nineties and Noughties stars, Christina Aguilera and Lindsay Lohan (neither woman has commented on or confirmed any surgery rumours, but that has only increased feverish speculation online).
Look at any red carpet during awards season and you’ll see an apparently endless stream of perfectly angled jawlines, sharp enough to cut glass, and side profiles that are noticeably free from the puffiness, double chins and incipient jowls that seem to plague us mere mortals.
For every actor who’s clearly been genetically blessed with an almost cartoonishly square jaw since his teen idol days, there’s a clutch of male stars who have re-emerged onto the scene, after an absence from the public eye, with strikingly stronger, more chiselled jawlines, as if they’d recently been reimagined as cartoon superheroes.
