“Glam Girl-Next-Door”

Is the most-followed woman on Instagram a Romantic Natural Gamine?

As of mid-2025, yes: the title goes to actress, singer, and businesswoman Selena Gomez.

Does Selena’s style type contribute to her extreme popularity? We speculate below!

Romantic Natural Gamine (RNG) Celebrities

RNG celebrities are on Pinterest and listed below:

Ariel Winter
Billy Joel
Brigitte Bardot
Britney Spears
Cameron Diaz
Camila Cabello
China Anne McClain
Diana Ross
Jamie Spears
Jordin Sparks
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Lauren Shiohama
Mindy Kaling
Rachel Roy
Selena Gomez
Simone Ashley
Sofia Vergara

Romantic Natural Gamine Fashion

Romantic Natural Gamine fashion fuses opposites:

Glamorous Romantic
Casual Natural and Gamine

And RNG’s casual-meets-glam aesthetic is undeniably popular.

Exhibit A: The ubiquitous jeans plus dressy top outfit formula:

Relaxed-fit, frayed-hem Natural jeans balance a Romantic Gamine cropped corset. Chunky Natural sneakers complete the look.

You could also swap in lace-up Romantic heels for a dressier feel.

Essence blends with both Romantic and Natural can be some of the funnest to style: you get to create harmony by pairing pieces that look like they shouldn’t go together.

Frayed Jeans + Dressy Top is an outfit we see over and over—and it has so many variations, it doesn’t feel formulaic:

Fitted Gamine denim with Natural distressing, plus a casual Natural belt. The top has a lot of Romantic curving sensuality.

In addition to your many relaxed fit Natural jean options and fitted Gamine options, you can also explore other denim styles like capris, shorts, mini-skirts, midi skirts, and more.

And of course, there’s infinite dressy Romantic tops, many of which have Natural, Gamine, or both:

A plunging Romantic wrap top adds Gamine with playful color-blocking. The casual floral adds Natural, as do the roomy sleeves that feel long for a short-sleeve length.

A more dressed up RNG look:

Rompers often suit Gamine’s fun and flirty feel. A velvety fabric and lace trim add Romantic, while the overall wide, roomy silhouette introduces Natural, especially in the earth-tone hue. This romper could appear formal with heels or be dressed down with sandals or sneakers.

I also love the glamour of the half-up, half-down hair and the oversize hoops—amazing for RNG.

As a Romantic Natural Gamine, you also have endless sexy-meets-laidback dress options:

This dress exudes Romantic—wrap-style, revealing slit, waist emphasis—but also a lot of Natural with the loose, T-shirt style sleeves and casual-appearing fabric in what reads as an earth tone. The playful hat adds Gamine.

The dress and hat exist in different color palettes, but this dress would also be awesome paired with a wide-brimmed Natural straw hat. You could then bring in Gamine with different accessories, hairstyles, or makeup.

Selena Gomez’s Makeup Tricks

If you’re an RNG, Selena Gomez is a fantastic makeup muse.

Her makeup is often highly flattering for her style type, which consists of a ton of Romantic, a good bit of Gamine, and a smaller amount of Natural. Specifically:

Romantic and Gamine are highly flattered by winged liner, one of Selena’s makeup favorites. Plus, Natural is characterized by horizontally wide shapes and so can be flattered by eyeshadow that subtly elongates the eyes in horizontal space:

Selena typically tightlines her eyes, which is great for injecting Romantic glamour and Gamine flirtiness.
Sometimes she sports smoky shadow all over her lids, which flatters Romantic:

She also often includes long or full lashes that amp up the glam, flirty impression:

As seen above, sometimes she does a vibrant matte lip that works for Gamine, or adds Romantic gloss.
Typically she wears a more neutral lip, which emphasizes her eyes. And since her Natural is flattered by minimal makeup, it’s a good strategy to keep at least some aspect of her makeup more understated.

Nowadays, Selena’s brows usually have a Romantic arch, with fullness that works for Natural.

While Selena Gomez doesn’t always do makeup that’s ideal for her type, her signature makeup is generally fantastic for Romantic Natural Gamine (especially for an RNG with primarily Romantic, secondarily Gamine, and a smaller amount of Natural).

This could contribute to Selena’s Instagram most-followed status: with her signature makeup, her face has enthralling harmony. She really understands what enhances her beauty.

Romantic Natural Gamine Faces

Depending on hair, makeup, and overall styling, RNGs can look extremely sensual, or extremely down-to-earth and girl-next door.

Either way, they are gorgeous. The ability to pull off both heavy glamour in makeup and a more fresh face is a hallmark of RNG, and a clue that someone has this type.

Top row: Romantic Natural Gamines Selena Gomez and Brigitte Bardot.

Bottom: RNGs Mindy Kaling and Britney Spears.

Having both the Romantic and Natural essences isn’t necessarily rare—many, many celebrities have an essence blend containing both Romantic and Natural—but it does give a face a special type of beauty.

As a Romantic Natural blend, you combine the most glam and the most down-to-earth essences.

People vary in whether they tend to prefer more glam or girl-next-door beauty, or whether they prefer more elaborate or natural makeup.

As a Romantic Natural blend, you may have the special ability to appeal to a very wide range of aesthetic preferences—you embody both more high-maintenance and more laidback beauty.

RNG Appeal: Girl-Next-Door Glamour

A related reason RNG faces can be so appealing: they make Romantic beauty more relatable.

Romantic might be the most hyped-up essence in style analysis circles—the sexiest essence, some will say. And I’ll grant it’s a good contender for the “most conventionally sexy essence” title.

But what’s sometimes overlooked is that, in the real world, Romantic beauty can be intimidating. Romantic’s sexiness and glamour don’t win the title of “most approachable style essence.”

But Natural is a strong contender for the most approachable, friendly-looking essence.

So the fascinating thing about types that combine Romantic and Natural is that Romantic can now take on a more approachable, relatable quality. In RNG faces, suddenly Romantic looks a lot friendlier.

This could be another factor contributing to Selena Gomez’s most-followed status—or maybe not. Ultimately, factors like her personality may be more important.

Still, people sometimes underestimate the degree to which (perceived) friendliness and approachability influence assessments of attractiveness, especially in real world interactions.

A Romantic Dramatic like Megan Fox might internally be the friendliest, sweetest person on the planet. But externally, Romantic Dramatics don’t tend to project that vibe.

And while a Romantic Natural Gamine won’t necessarily have a warm personality, they’re much more likely to visually appear like they do, at least compared to many of the other Romantic blends.

So having both Romantic and Natural in your style type can be a powerful thing, because you possess the high conventional sex appeal of Romantic and the approachability of Natural.

Gamine can increase Romantic’s approachability, too (by making Romantic seem less intense and more flirty and fun), though maybe not as much as Natural.

RNG Appeal: Rare Beauty

As mentioned several times now, Romantic Natural Gamine Selena Gomez is currently the most-followed woman on Instagram.

And part of her popularity might be largely due to non-physical qualities—her personality, her work, etc.

But of course, Instagram is a visual platform, so it seems unlikely that her exorbitant follower count has nothing to do with her looks.

As noted, part of Selena’s visual appeal might be her makeup that so frequently harmonizes with her face.

Also noted above, another factor might be that Romantic and Natural together create an incredibly attractive, “approachable glamour”—the intimidating aspects of Romantic beauty are minimized thanks to Naturals’ laidback, relatable appeal.

So maybe of all the types, Romantic Natural Gamines have some of the most “popular” beauty.

This leads to a third potential reason for Selena’s visual appeal: mainstream fashion consists of highly casual Natural and/or Gamine style—tees, shorts, sneakers:

Natural Gamine is the aesthetic of the modern age.

So despite Selena’s mega-celebrity status, she looks harmonious in the casual style on heavy wardrobe rotation of the average person.

Outside of the red carpet, it seems rare to see purely Romantic style. In everyday life, Romantic fashion is usually paired with much more laidback elements—Natural, Gamine, or both.

Maybe this is a modern cultural ideal: look gorgeous and like you tried, but also somehow like you didn’t try.

As a Romantic Natural Gamine, Selena Gomez can easily embody this I-tried-but-didn’t-try sentiment, with her blend of glam and casual beauty.

Style Type and Color Season

A final thought on Selena Gomez’s widespread appeal: her Romantic Natural Gamine style type has a very obvious relationship to her color season, Dark Winter (sometimes also called Deep Winter).

Dark Winter is Winter with Autumn influence. Winter’s vibe is intense, serious, and bold, fitting qualities of both Romantics and Gamines.

Many colors that are stunning for Dark Winter, like deep reds and purples, are also iconically Romantic. Bold Dark Winter colors also match Gamine’s electric energy.

So Dark Winter has a strong relationship to Selena’s dominant Romantic, and also easily flatters her Gamine.

And Dark Winter’s Autumn influence ties in her Natural: compared to other Winters, Dark Winter’s colors are warmer and more faded, which echoes the laidback Natural feel.

Importantly, any color season can work amazingly with any style type. It’s just possible that because Selena’s style type has an obvious relationship to her color palette, this helps her beauty to feel more understandable and appealing to an (extremely) wide audience.

Beauty is Beauty is Beauty

Ultimately, Selena Gomez and other Romantic Natural Gamines are beautiful because they are beautiful. A verbal analysis can’t fully explain why someone is beautiful, because of course beauty is something we experience with our senses. You can’t completely capture this experience with words.

This is why if you really want to understand the types, spending time observing celebrities’ (and non-celebrities’!) faces, and observing them in different fashion, hair, and makeup, is the most powerful way.

Romantic Natural Gamine