“I Just Wanted to Be Different”: Simone Biles Defended Her Impossible-To-Miss Shimmery Look at the 2016 Rio Olympics

Simone Biles, the reigning Olympic champion in gymnastics, is also a fashion queen. The athlete has a keen sense of style and arguably consistently kills it in the fashion stakes. Biles has often appeared on the mat with her beautiful glittery eye makeup.

From time to time, she has also made fashion statements of her own. However, Biles once talked about her shimmery eyeliner and described the process of growing old.

Simone Biles on glittery eyeliner

During an interview with Vogue, the interviewer asked her about the circumstances she has dealt with about her body. Then they asked about her eye makeup and her “headline-making eyeliner looks.”

On this, Simone replied, “I just wanted to be different. I had done so much, and I didn’t want my photos from every competition to look the same. Now that I look back, I don’t think the liner was that great, but you know—it’s a process [laughs]. I just used tubes of glitter that my teammates gave me. You get older, and you figure out how to make it look better.”

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Through the years, Simone Biles has been very active on the issue of beauty standards. As a result, she frequently shares her thoughts and opinions on the subject. However, from time to time, she has received trolling from people about her gymnastics. These trolls mainly comment on the gymnast’s attractiveness. But Biles has her way of dealing with the critics.

Biles’ understanding of fashion

After her 2016 Rio Olympics performance, she has also become a fashion icon among athletes. Biles has been captured many times wearing gorgeous clothes while going on dates with her fiance. Even before that, Simone Biles was photographed wearing a timeless sheer outfit at New York Fashion in 2016. She wore nude makeup, pointed pumps, and bunned hair with this. Biles has worn many brightly colored clothes like orange, blue and yellow on the mat since the start of her career.

Lately, she has been cool with all the experiments in her life. In her latest Snapchat show, Daring Simone, she is trying different jobs like ice cream shop, DJ, and hosting her own talk show. Meanwhile, her fans eagerly await her wedding to NFL player Jonathan Owens.

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