Dramatic Natural Ingenue
“Carefree Royalty”
Dramatic Natural Ingenue (DNI) Mandy Moore
Do Dramatic Natural Ingenues have the most unique beauty type?
All the essence blends have fascinating faces. But the DNI type has layers and layers and layers of uniqueness.
And, as we’ll explore below, “layers and layers and layers” can also be a great formula for how to dress as a DNI.
Dramatic Natural Ingenue Faces
Odette Annable
Mandy Moore
Yancy Butler
Dramatic Natural Ingenues have regal beauty. Despite not having Classic, their faces project a distinctive polish and prestige, emerging from their blend of aristocratic Dramatic, neat Ingenue, and confident Natural.
Above, DNIs Odette Annable, Mandy Moore, and Yancy Butler demonstrate that Dramatic Natural Ingenues can have a very recognizable type of look:
striking Dramatic Natural bone structure
paired with sweet, rounded Ingenue eyes and lips
But not all DNIs will fit this pattern—for instance, some will have more angular Dramatic eyes or strong Natural noses.
Part of the beauty of style analysis is that even if two people share all the same essences, they may still look extremely different.
Like DNI fashion (explored below), DNI faces play with strength and sweetness, edges and curves.
Dramatic Natural Ingenue Celebrities
DNI Jennifer Hudson
The tights feel playfully Gamine, but the highly Ingenue dress is so cute for her!
Dramatic Natural Ingenue celebrities are on Pinterest here and listed below:
Christina Chong
Gemma Styles
Harry Styles
Jennifer Hudson
Jessica Lowndes
Mandy Moore
Megan Boone
Odette Annable
Whitney Houston
Yancy Butler
Dramatic Natural Ingenue Fashion
If there’s a mainstream aesthetic that captures the Natural Ingenue vibe, it would be “cottagecore”—a style that draws inspiration from vintage pieces and rural life:
Outfit—and very nature-based accessory—with cottagecore vibes.
Cottagecore emphasizes:
breathable fabrics
delicate florals
flowy cotton dresses
puff sleeves
gentle colors
practical accessories, like straw hats and woven baskets
Sounds very Natural Ingenue, right?
So if you’re a Dramatic Natural Ingenue, you can think of your style as Edgy Cottagecore.
One of the easiest ways to do Edgy Cottagecore: base your outfits primarily around Natural Ingenue fashion—which, as a bonus, tends to be pretty practical for real life—and then add unusual or avant-garde Dramatic pieces as layers, shoes, or accessories:
Sometimes hair is your best accessory—this romper doesn’t have Dramatic, but the sleek, straight, extra-long hair absolutely does.
While rompers often express playful Gamine, this one feels more casual (Natural) and sweet (Ingenue). The earth-tone color and roomy fit are Natural, while flowy shorts and delicate lace suit Ingenue.
Unlike Ethereal or Romantic lace (which tends to feel more formal, with large, elaborate florals), Ingenue lace tends to feel more casual and to have smaller, more orderly shapes.
Another loose Natural romper with sweet Ingenue detail—this time a ton of dainty ruffles, plus a tiny bow:
To add Dramatic, you could layer over an extra-long edgy blazer, or wear severe pointed toe flats. In colder weather, an option is to pair opaque dark leggings with tall boots in the same shade—this creates the long, sleek line that Dramatic loves.
A dress version:
A lot about this is iconically Ingenue—puff sleeves, ruffles, small buttons. The earth-tone belt adds a fashionably rugged, Natural quality.
Again, layers or accessories could add a lot of Dramatic, including large geometric earrings or necklaces.
Finally we get some Dramatic in an actual outfit, thanks to the plunging V-neck:
But overall this is textbook Ingenue—ruffled short sleeves, fitted waist and flowy midi skirt, tiny buttons.
The gingham print in a laidback blue and white color scheme works for Natural, too.
If you can’t decide whether to do Ingenue puff sleeves or Ingenue ruffle sleeves, you can do both:
Jeans help keep it casual and cool.
To make sure your jeans are Natural rather than Gamine, keep the fit roomy rather than fitted (these jeans may actually be a little narrow to be Natural—see all about the best jeans for your essences here). Simple athletic sneakers—no flashy colors or patterns—also generally flatter Natural.
Give this outfit the edginess Dramatic needs by adding a long, sleek leather jacket.
What if you’re highly Dramatic?
If you’re a DNI with a lot more Dramatic and Natural than Ingenue, you can embrace the “avant-garde meets casual” mashup of Dramatic Natural fashion, combining edgy pieces with laidback basics.
One of the easiest ways to create a Dramatic Natural look is to layer layers.
That’s not a typo! What I mean is that you can, for instance, layer a sharp-angled Dramatic coat over a Natural sweatshirt. Or throw a severe Dramatic blazer over a denim jacket, or an extra-long Dramatic jacket over a roomy Natural sweater.
You can also layer extra-long tops over even longer straight skirts, or long tunics over wide-leg jeans.
You may be breaking some fashion rules as a Dramatic Natural Ingenue. But the avant-garde Dramatic essence knows that some of the coolest outfits come from ignoring traditional style advice.
If you have a lot more Dramatic and Ingenue than Natural, you can focus on sweet-meets-avant-garde Dramatic Ingenue style.
Because Dramatic and Ingenue represent opposite aesthetics—edgy vs. sweet—it can sometimes be hard to find clothing items that contain high amounts of both.
The easiest solution? Pair highly Dramatic pieces with highly Ingenue ones, like a fitted top with an angular, unusual Dramatic neckline matched with an Ingenue circle skirt.
Are Dramatic Natural Ingenues rare?
DNI celebrities don’t seem as common as many other styles types.
Why? It’s definitely not because DNIs are unattractive. To the contrary, they often have many popular, on-trend facial features (NOT that a face needs to have “trendy” features to be attractive!), including strong bone structure, turned-up button noses, and full brows.
DNIs are, as one commenter recently noted on my Pinterest pin of DNI Christina Chong, “Gorgeous.”
My theory is that for whatever reason, it’s simply a bit less common to see Natural and Ingenue (and to a lesser extent, Dramatic and Ingenue) in the same face, at least compared to other essence combinations.
For instance, so far I haven’t found anyone who’s a pure Natural Ingenue, and I’ve only found a handful of pure Dramatic Ingenues.
Popularity doesn’t determine beauty, so ultimately the popularity of DNIs has no bearing on their attractiveness. But if you want more evidence that DNIs are considered attractive:
Harry Styles
Harry Styles’s wildly popular beauty embodies what people love about DNI faces.
Specifically, Harry Styles has very chiseled bone structure:
Harry has strikingly strong bone structure, likely with influence from both Dramatic and Natural.
His angular jawline gives his face a distinctly mature look, since of course adults tend to have much sharper, more defined bone structure than children.
But despite his grown-up bone structure, Harry Styles also projects evident youthfulness—even sweetness. This comes from his Ingenue, which may be present in his eyes, lips, and/or nose: rounded shapes that read as gentle, even “pretty.”
And that’s what’s so remarkable about Dramatic Natural Ingenues, and I’m guessing part of why Harry Styles has such widespread appeal: he can be appealing to people who prefer strong faces, and to people who prefer softer faces. He can even be appealing both to people who prefer extremely strong faces and to others who prefer extremely soft faces, because he’s rather extreme on both.
His strong bone structure also makes the sweetness of his rounded features stand out even more, and his rounded features make the hardness of his chiseled bone structure stand out even more:
So Harry Styles manages to simultaneously embody two very different varieties of aesthetic preference.
The same can be said for Dramatic Natural Ingenues in general—they blend sweetness and strength for versatile beauty.
Confused for Gamine
I’m guessing many would type Harry Styles as Gamine, because youthful faces are often associated with Gamine, and because he’s known for his quirky aesthetic.
In my view, though, the sequins he’s wearing above—high on playful Gamine—don’t perfectly harmonize with his face (though their circular shapes do connect to his Ingenue!). He’s great in conventional Natural style and long, slightly messy Natural hair (see the first image of him in this post). He’s also flattered by avant-garde elements when they appear serious, like Dramatic suits and blazers with long, sleek lines and oversized lapels.
And especially to his fans, he’s probably amazing in anything—he’s very good-looking! But if we’re talking from purely a visual harmony perspective, then the short, sharp silhouettes characteristic of Gamine tend to feel costume-like on him—and he’s a performer, so that may be exactly what he’s going for.
Dramatic Natural Bone Structure
While Dramatic and Natural clothing is defined by (mostly) straight lines, people with the Dramatic and Natural style essences don’t always have literally straight shapes in their faces.
This is because your most harmonious fashion is the clothing that harmonizes with your face, rather than being literally the exact same as the shapes in your face.
With that said, if people have very high amounts of Dramatic and Natural, sometimes you are able to trace literal straight or sharp lines across the contours of their features (as you can for Harry Styles).
Controversial DNI: Jessica Lowndes
In this smiling photo of Jessica Lowndes, I think you can see hints of her demure Ingenue beauty. But, while I type celebrities carefully and always double-verify them, I was initially incredulous of my result of DNI for Jessica—I felt that she likely had either Romantic or Ethereal.
So I retyped her several times, and each time, I didn’t see her as harmonious in R or E fashion. I’ve solidified my view that she’s a DNI. But to the naked eye, she doesn’t always look that way.
As a related story, when I was searching for images of her that illustrate how she looks harmonious in Ingenue, I came across a photo of her in Ingenue curls that I found unflattering on her. I thought, you know what, maybe I did mistype her. But then I realized that in the photo, she’s also wearing a deep, plunge-neck dress that has Romantic. When you cover the plunging Romantic neckline and just view her from chin up, suddenly the curls actually do look pretty harmonious with her face.
The unharmonious part of the photo wasn’t the Ingenue curls; it was the plunging Romantic neckline. But I didn’t recognize that at first.
Part of why it’s so hard to accurately analyze people’s style essences: in any given photo of a person, regardless of whether you feel their styling is flattering, it can be really hard to say exactly what about their styling is or isn’t flattering.
If you think a celebrity looks unharmonious in a given photo, how do you know for sure whether it’s due to their hair, makeup, or outfit (or a combination, or just specific components of their hair, makeup, and/or outfit)? For Jessica, I initially assumed that the unflattering aspect of her styling was her hair, probably because I don’t typically see her in ringlets, and because ringlets can be a tough style to pull off.
Takeaway: part of why style analysis is so hard is that even if you think someone appears overall flattered or not flattered in a certain kind of styling, it can be difficult to tell exactly what about the styling provoked your reaction.
This is why when I type celebrities, I don’t rely on finding photos of them “in the wild” where they do or don’t look harmonious—instead, I’ll take cropped photos of just their face and compare their face to different fashion styles that I’ve already verified represent all the different essence blends. With time and (a ton of) practice, I’ve found this method produces consistently accurate results.
Why Dramatic Natural Ingenues Look So Unique
Dramatic Natural Ingenues can look unique for many reasons:
1) Imposing Dramatic and sweet Ingenue have utterly opposite vibes. A striking juxtaposition is created when these essences combine.
2) Style types that combine both Natural and Ingenue seem overall less common than many other blends. As of mid-2025, I haven’t yet found a single person I’d consider a pure Natural Ingenue.
3) Finally, the Dramatic Natural type already has quite a unique look—this is the essence blend of many models, actresses, and athletes who are known for their powerful, standout faces.
Since the Dramatic Natural type already feels highly original, when you add Ingenue—an essence with very different shapes and vibes from either Dramatic or Natural—the result is extremely striking, special, and widely-appealing beauty.
