“Wearing make-up can empower you to feel better about yourself”

Every time there’s been a big change in my life, the way I get excited about it is by changing my style. It’s the most literal representation of who you are. Beauty is a superpower and it can make you feel more confident about yourself, and about your place in the world.

“Comparing yourself to others is pointless”

I don’t know any 14-year-old girls who feel messed up because Kim Kardashian has really good cheekbones – we all know what’s going on there and actually, contouring is really fun. When I’m blown away by a woman’s beauty in a movie, it’s because she’s really giving herself over to the performance and it’s incredibly bold and striking.

“You don’t have to be perfect”

When the things you come to see as beautiful are interesting, nuanced or weird, then it becomes a lot easier to appreciate those things in yourself. I’ve come to realise that I don’t have to be perfect or pretty. Someone like David Bowie is such a role model because he used beauty and fashion as a medium to express something else. Other times, I love channelling those really bare Nineties Calvin Klein ads. It’s just about being yourself, and that’s great.

'Beauty and feminism can happily exist together' Tavi Gevinson sat down to talk beauty truths with Stylist