"It's hard to pinpoint exactly when AI-generated "slop," as it's being called, began infiltrating your Instagram feed. All I know is that one day, cartoonish videos of cats as barbers and the Sex and the City characters as Victorian-era women showed up alongside the, uh, more normal Reels. The chronically online know one genre that lives underneath the AI umbrella: " Italian brainrot. " This name comes from the audio (a man speaking Italian gibberish) as well as the characters' names. The characters in question? Half-animals or people, half-everyday objects doing ordinary things. You know, like a three-legged shark wearing sneakers or a baseball bat-yielding log."
"Ballerina Cappuccina & Espresso Signora Makeup Consider this another example of creators translating Internet culture into makeup aesthetics (see also: VSCO girl and "cottagecore" beauty.) Since Ballerina Cappuccina is a bright-eyed dancer who always dons a pink tutu, her beauty look leans ethereal and, well, ballerinacore. TikToker @hayleybuix showed off her take on the character with a romantic beat, complete with shimmery light pink eyeshadow, rosy blush, a soft eyeliner wing, and glossy lips. Her hair was pulled into a tight ballerina bun adorned with a pink bow. User @charlottelooks shared a similar Ballerina Cappuccina-coded makeup look with rosy pigments and doll-like lashes. Espresso Signora is Cappuccina's moody sister. She's often frowning with a cigarette in hand as she sits cross-legged in her black dress, gloves, and fishnet tights. It makes sense, then, that her makeup vibe is dark and vampy. In her video, @minaamouse016 clarifies, "This is not mob wife makeup - this is Esp""
AI-generated "Italian brainrot" features surreal characters—half-animals or people, half-everyday objects—paired with Italian-sounding audio. Notable figures include Ballerina Cappuccina, a dancer with a cappuccino head who wears pink tutus, and Espresso Signora, a moody woman with a coffee cup head dressed in black. Social creators translate these characters into makeup: Ballerina Cappuccina inspires shimmery light pink eyeshadow, rosy blush, soft eyeliner, glossy lips, and tight ballerina buns, while Espresso Signora drives darker, vampier looks with black dresses, gloves, fishnets, and moody styling. These trends show internet aesthetics influencing beauty culture rapidly.
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