Hairy Nef

The Actress, Model, and Writer Chats About Individuality, the New Gucci Fragrance, and What Advice She Would Give Her Younger Self

- Kahlana Barfield Brown​

What’s your beauty philosophy?

I think once you place a definition on beauty, you set yourself up to fail. The cliché about beauty coming from within works because the people I find most beautiful don’t look alike. They look the way they want to look—uniquely themselves. They’re people who can describe their style in five words that no one else can use to describe theirs. That doesn’t come from following the beauty rule book; it comes from learning how to write your own book.

At what point in life did you learn to embrace your uniqueness?