Courteney Cox Provides Herself a “Gen Z Woman” Makeover

Courteney Cox could also be 59 years outdated, however this week she channeled her 18-year-old daughter to create an outfit worthy of somebody born nicely after the millennium.

The Mates star posted a video to Instagram on Wednesday during which she jokingly turned herself right into a “Gen Z woman,” crop high, pigtails, and all. Within the quick clip, Cox is scrolling by footage of Gen Z women on social media when she broadcasts, “Have a look at these Gen Z women, so cute. I wish to try this!” The actor then offers herself a makeover montage set to Sam Smith‘s tune “Unholy,” offering close-up pictures of herself making use of copious quantities of eyeliner, contour, spotlight, and lipstick. She adopted up that make-up routine by styling her hair into two bubble pigtails full with tendrils, securing them at varied factors alongside the tails to create a spherical, puffed impact. After consulting her Gen X wardrobe, Cox lastly landed upon a TikTok-worthy match composed of distressed denims, a tie-dye, zip-up sweatshirt, and a crocheted crop high, breaking out her cellular phone for selfies. Whereas flashing the peace signal and protruding her tongue, nonetheless, her picture sesh was rudely interrupted by the sound of somebody within the hallway, prompting her to scuttle away from the mirror as she shouted, “Oh shit, he is house,” seemingly referring to her boyfriend, Johnny McDaid. Cox captioned the submit, “Am I slaying this proper?”

And that is hardly the actor’s first time making a viral video poking enjoyable at herself. In September of final yr, Cox turned her heartbreak into content material after discovering out that Kanye West will not be a fan of the present that launched her profession. That month, the disgraced rapper revealed that he truly wasn’t the wordsmith behind a few of his followers’ most beloved Twitter one-liners, together with when he proclaimed that “Mates wasn’t humorous.” In response to that remark, Cox, who starred as Monica Geller on the hit present, responded with a comedic video of herself jamming out to the rapper’s tune “Heartless” whereas scrolling by Instagram on her telephone when she stumbles throughout West’s authentic submit, zeroing in on the phrases “Mates wasn’t humorous.” She then shakes her head sadly earlier than abruptly turning off the music, including within the caption, “I guess the outdated Kayne [sic] thought Mates was humorous.”