Over the course of the past decade, The Weeknd has cultivated a distinct audio and visual aesthetic that has only grown more exaggerated with time: bleak, violent, sensual, and hauntingly empty. Also present in the album's imagery are a band–aid over his nose and black eyes, with bandages wrapped around his head like a mummy. Donning a wide pair of deep black shades and a handlebar mustache, Tesfaye added a red and black suit to his wardrobe, not to mention the most striking feature- a bloody nose and beat up face. For 2016's Starboy, he cut his signature hairstyle, sparking mild interest, and flaunted a sharp cross around his neck, a symbol for that era.Īnd now, for 2020's After Hours, his hair has grown back into a simple afro, and Tesfaye has radically altered his look. He followed that record up with 2015's Beauty Behind the Madness, the same mane of black hair cut–and–pasted against a void, like a child's cardboard paper. Then, he appeared on the cover of his first studio album, 2013's Kiss Land, bearing a messy mop of coiled braids. Back then, no one knew who The Weeknd was, or what he looked like. He anonymously debuted in 2011 through a hazy spew of mixtapes, which were self–released under his own label XO and later compiled by Republic records in 2012 as Trilog y. The multifaceted personality he brings to the looks of this era are exemplary, too, of the double standard in the music industry between men and women when it comes to self–presentation.Īrguably one of the few mainstream male pop stars to have discreet eras within each of his albums, Tesfaye's reinventions have been historically subtle. With the notable exceptions of Harry Styles and Bad Bunny, Tesfaye stands in blaring contrast to his colleagues-especially during the campaign for his most recent album and era, After Hours. No other cisgender heterosexual male pop star in the current mainstream puts as much effort into their aesthetic as Abel Tesfaye does. “Consisting of 4 prosthetic appliances, main face being a collapsible mold.The Weeknd stands out from his fellow male pop stars in his self–presentation. “My original rough sculpture and separated appliances with textures,” he captioned the gallery of pictures. After the video debuted, Marino took to Instagram where he revealed the makeup’s original concept which started as a rough mold of The Weeknd’s distorted face and then the addition of prosthetics to the sculpture Prosthetic Renaissance Makeup-FX Studio designer Mike Marino helped the singer fake the altered face. Luckily, the ultra freaky look was just as a stunt as the facial alterations were all prosthetics for the new music video for his single “Save Your Tears.” from his fourth album After Hours. Giving off major Cat Lady vibes, the Canadian musician, real name Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, looked dead-eyed and captioned the plasticy post, “Hello Ken, where’s Barbie.” In a totally creepy selfie, the “Blinded By The Lights” singer appeared to have undergone some major plastic surgery showing off a a swollen face, thinned-out crooked nose, chiseled jaws, super high cheekbones, over-plumped lips and surgery scars. The Weekend shocked fans this week when he revealed a radical new look on social media. A post shared by The Weeknd needs to make a call to Botched ASAP.
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