Many people are intrigued by the question of whether our style types can change across time, due to factors like filler, facial surgery, weight fluctuations, or natural aging.
My general perspective is this:
Based on my observations, people’s style types typically remain consistent across time.
So if you’re an Ethereal Gamine Ingenue as a young adult, there’s a good chance you’ll still be an Ethereal Gamine Ingenue as an older adult.
But I can’t promise with 100% confidence that your personal style type has stayed or will stay the same across time.
Ultimately, our style essences are based on our faces (specifically, on the figurative vibes created by our literal facial features). Therefore, anything that changes the look of your face can potentially change your essences.
Let’s cover these points in greater detail:
Do Our Essences Change with Age?
Here’s Helen Mirren at about age 80:
Based on my analysis, Helen Mirren is an Ethereal Dramatic Classic here.
She’s striking in what appears to be dreamy and edgy Ethereal Dramatic earrings, plus Classic hair and a basic blazer.
And Helen Mirren is also an Ethereal Dramatic Classic in her 20s, 30s, and 40s.
Helen’s essences and essence order appear to have remained unchanged over a long period of time—over half a century. And I’d guess that her essence percentages have stayed fairly consistent, too.
Her literal facial features do show physical changes, because of course that’s what happens with natural aging.
But she still appears to have dreamy, edgy, and polished EDC vibes at age 80, and she’s still quite flattered by styling that reflects those essences.
When I’ve analyzed other celebrities at different ages (including Barbra Streisand, Jodie Foster, Anjelica Huston, and many more), this is also what I’ve found: while a person’s literal facial features do change with time, their style type remains the same.
More Celebrity Examples
Halle Berry has a lot of Gamine and Romantic and a bit of Dramatic at around age 30:
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Halle Berry in 1997.
And she’s still a Gamine Romantic Dramatic at around age 60:
Halle Berry in 2025.
Another example is Lucy Liu:
Dramatic Natural Classic Lucy Liu in her late 30s.
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Lucy Liu in her late 50s—still a Dramatic Natural Classic.
The Hollywood Confound
But there is a potential issue with using celebrities to understand how style essences change with natural aging.
Specifically, celebrities aren’t necessarily a relatable example of what natural aging looks like.
Famous people commonly have access to procedures designed to maintain a youthful appearance.
So celebrities might be said to provide clues (rather than definite proof) that style essences remain the same across time.
Another Clue to Essence Consistency
Something that may provide a better clue is that people seem to inherit their essences from their parents in predictable ways.
So far, I’ve found this seems generally true for both celebrities and non-celebrities.
This is also evidence that essences typically stay the same across time.
Why? Because if essences do tend to change with age, then your parents’ essences at age 60, 70, or beyond probably wouldn’t be expected to reliably predict your essences when you’re in your 20s, 30s, or 40s.
But in my experience, parents’ essences do predict their children’s, hinting that essences usually remain consistent with age.
Will Your Essences Stay the Same?
From young adulthood through middle age and older adulthood, there’s a good chance your essences will stay the same—though it’s not guaranteed.
We’re all beautifully unique. So even if most people’s essences remain constant, you might end up being an exception to this trend.
What’s Less Certain
I primarily analyze people in their 20s and beyond, occasionally in the teenage years.
So I actually don’t have a good sense of whether your style type as a child is the same as it is now.
I do suspect it would be, because of the continuity that we see with essences across the 20s and beyond.
But it is true that faces change a lot in the early years of life. So this is something that’s hard to be certain about.
What about Other Factors?
Since celebrities’ essences seem to stay the same at different ages, we can infer that other physical changes (such as weight fluctuations, filler, and cosmetic surgery) also don’t typically alter style essences.
Why? Celebrities commonly exhibit all those physical changes. So if those factors did have a good chance of influencing essences, I don’t think we’d see the consistency in style essences that we typically do see across time.
I’ve also observed that in many cases, filler and plastic surgery don’t seem to influence essences, including for celebrities like Kylie Jenner and Sabrina Carpenter.
However, I’ve found that in at least one instance, plastic surgery did change a person’s style type.
Specifically, Jennifer Grey underwent two nose jobs that, according to many people, made her look like a completely different person.
Style analysis can explain why the change felt jarring: prior to the nose jobs, Jennifer was an Ethereal Natural Ingenue Dramatic; after the nose jobs, she was an Ethereal Natural Ingenue Gamine.
So it’s absolutely possible for plastic surgery to change essences.
The catch is that Jennifer Grey’s experience is extreme. Her case is one of the most notorious ever of plastic surgery making someone look like a different person.
Most surgeons seem to have the opposite goal, a goal that’s actually very much aligned with style analysis: specifically, plastic surgery is ideally supposed to create changes that are harmonious with the features that already exist in the face.
And since famous people tend to have access to top surgeons, we wouldn’t necessarily expect that celebrity cosmetic surgery would typically alter style essences.
Of course, Jennifer Gray is an exception, and there could certainly be others. Future posts may investigate this topic further.
Conclusion
In summary:
Anything that changes the look of your face can potentially change your style essences.
This includes filler, facial surgery, weight loss or weight gain, and natural aging.
But these factors don’t necessarily have a good chance of changing your essences. In fact, based on what I’ve observed so far, style essences tend to remain consistent across time (though exceptions can certainly occur).
P.S.
You may also be interested in my recent post on the amazing Ethereal Dramatic Natural type. I had mistakenly thought that this post was already published—I’m very grateful to the reader who asked me about it!
