I haven’t worn makeup in years, much to the chagrin of my mother. It’s not a protest, just laziness combined with always being in a rush in the morning. I used to have a lot of fun with it though, and liked to think that my painting background led to bold color choices. Some called it edgy, others clownish. Luckily very little photographic evidence survives. But I’m still enthusiastic when someone takes a risk with their red carpet look. I loved Florence Pugh’s futuristic Edie Sedgwick eye makeup at the New York Dune 2 premiere, and then I was excited to hear that Austin Butler donned some as well. The interwebs were likewise in favor:
Zendaya has been absolutely eating everyone up at the Dune: Part Two red carpets. From London… to Seoul… to New York. She’s been making her male costars look boring and basic. The men have, quite simply, not been putting in the work!
But now it seems that we have a glimmer of hope at the Dune 2 New York City premiere, where Austin Butler took the tiniest of fashion “risks.” He wore white eyeliner, and people seem to really, really like it.
A post about the eyeliner has over 30,000 likes on X. “Please save me Austin Butler with white eyeliner,” this fan said. “[T]hank you Jesus for giving us make up,” another fan said. Other people pointed out, well, his Elvis accent.
Either way, I know it’s extremely small, but baby steps are baby steps. Progress is progress!
Now, let’s get back to our regularly scheduled program of anticipating what Law Roach dresses Zendaya in next…
Either the interwebs are in a collective effort to gaslight me, or I need another eye exam. Where is his eyeliner?!?! The only hint I get is in a close up shot where it looks like there’s kind of a highlighting line on his bottom lids (a trick I used to do myself). Is that what we’re talking about? With all the hype, maybe I was expecting something bigger. I know this ages me, but I feel like when Ewan McGregor used to wear eyeliner on the red carpet, you really knew he was wearing it. Ah, me. Assuming the white underlid liner is what everyone is talking about, good for Austin! I hope it gave him the feels he was aiming for! I just wish I could see it… I’ll give him this, though — he didn’t sound like Elvis to me in the interview clip.
Meanwhile, Austin met Sting at the premiere, who played the same role (Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen) in the 1984 David Lynch Dune film. Apparently, Sting offered to dry clean his codpiece from filming and loan it to Austin. Yes. The answer is yes, Austin.
OHHH the white eye pencil ate so bad pic.twitter.com/8xrzU61IHG
— lay (@saoirdaya) February 26, 2024
we must truly appreciate the moments ewan mcgregor unabashedly wore eyeliner and we mustn’t forget it pic.twitter.com/rHGlGnOffQ
— miranda (@hisgirlfridays) January 10, 2020
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Yes waterline at the bottom and inner corners. Looks good and not too in your face.
I see some highlight on the inner corners of his eye, but dude – that is just not going to cut it when Zendaya, Florence, Timothee and Anya are all pulling out big looks on the same tour.
idk, i appreciate that he is staying in his lane. he has a fairly small range of looks and it more or less works for him. i personally find timothee’s looks a little try-hard (and miss) but admit I am faaaaaar from the age that he is trying to appeal to and give him credit for trying. the women are killing it.
If you follow Tom & Lorenzo, they’ve been highlighting all the looks from this promo tour judiciously and AB’s look here is one of his tamer presentations. He’s been wearing a lot of really sleek, sharply tailored Saint Laurent suits, etc. and he’s looked GOOOOOD. Honestly, they’ve all been serving on this promo tour — Timmy, Z, Rebecca Ferguson (who absolutely slayed in a sheer goth/vamp/Madonna-esque 80’s look at the NY premiere), Flo… Even Dave Bautista busted out a showstopper of a suit at the NY premier.
“I haven’t worn makeup in years, much to the chagrin of my mother” This made me chuckle, was just recounting to my sister how my mother said to me, in high school, “I hope you aren’t going to be one of those weird women who doesn’t wear makeup.” I am not the most adept at applying it, especially eye makeup, but I put some one for special occasions
I remember white eyeliner in the 90s! It makes your eyes look bigger and I have little beady eyes, so I used it. I had some silver eyeliner that was a little better for that. I can see Austin’s just in the corner of his eyes but he does appear to have deepset eyes, which I do too (and which makes eye makeup almost superfluous IMO bc you can barely see it!)
My mother was also of the generation who got up and immediately applied eye make up and lipstick – Many times as a teen/young adult she would comment “are you ok? you look a little peaked” – My response ” fine ma, not wearing any make up today” We would both laugh. I know it drove her crazy I hated wearing make up. I think my skin thanks me for it now!
I’m so happy we are somewhat free from those constraints. I can look like hell if I want to! (But I don’t think I do…)
I love watching makeup tutorials on YouTube and apparently, on the rare occasions I did wear makeup, I had been doing it wrong – for decades 😂. But I learned the difference between tightlining and water lining so could easily ID the white eyeliner on AB’s lower waterline and he/it looks good. Unfortunately there’s still not much variety in men’s fashion so its good when they think outside the box.
I feel like it’s obvious in that video because of the angle, but it wasn’t really meant to make a statement. He’s probably just tired and someone said “this will make you look more awake in photos” not anticipating the way he tilted his head when talking to this person so that his waterline was completely flat to the camera.
Classic Ewan in eyeliner is setting my inner 25 year old on fire. Let’s not forget back then he also insisted on doing full frontal in every film. He wasn’t always papa Obiwan my young padawans.
Full frontal…Was the view good? :-/
OMG! Discover for yourself. Two options are Velvet Goldmine and The Rogue Trader (which honestly are both really fun movies on their own).
I never paid all that much attention to him. He seemed a bit bland to me. But he was so good when he played designer Halson in the Netflix series. Haltson was such a big personality.
I was in college when Trainspotting was released and I was absolutely mesmerized by him.
I saw it when the movie came out as well. Idk. He did nothing for me.
Bring back that era of Ewan 😭 When he was hot, young, hung, and unproblematic happily partnered to an older French wife.
I was obsessed, but bailed when he left his wife in such a gross way.
Yep, that was a turning point for me also. I don’t even like that season of Fargo.
“and unproblematic happily partnered to an older French wife.”
That reduces my interest. 🙂 Or when hot male celebrities have kids. It threatens the fantasy.
Now, if the guy is out and about and single and on the prowl … then I have a chance. Granted it’s really, really, really low. .0000000001 %. 🙂
Ariel, have you ever seen those pics of him with Melanie Laurent (Beginners costar)? Ex-wife Eve was most probably okay with open marriage for a long time. I can’t find a guy who is that liberal relationship-wise hot.
On his anatomy, I think it was his father who said he saw one of Ewen’s films and realised his son took after him in that aspect, LOL.
WOW, yes I totally remember those pics! I was actually cool with the open relationship rumors — living in Seattle, I know a lot of poly folks who make it work well.
But when he bailed for the younger costar? OOF. Ruined the whole vibe for me. Especially when I heard from LA friends who had kids who went to school with his daughter, just how deeply damaged she was by the situation.
I feel so bad, but he looks like a rat to me. I don’t find him attractive at all.
This was such a trend back in the 1990s or early 2000s.
He looks good. Saw a pic of him out with Cindy C’s daughter; it was from the side and showed how thin he really is.