Taylor Swift says she did her own hair, makeup, and styling for the Folklore album cover

Taylor Swift says she did her own hair, makeup, and styling for the Folklore album cover

Taylor Swift pretty much pulled off Folklore as a one-woman show, or at least that was the case when it came to styling herself for the album cover.

The hitmaker, 34, reflected on how her eighth studio album came together during the COVID-19 pandemic during her second Eras Tour show in Hamburg, Germany on July 24.

While setting up for her Folklore set on stage during the concert, which coincided with the four-year anniversary of the record, Swift revealed she did her own hair, makeup and styling for the album shoot.

That’s right. Those cottage-core looks and intricate plaited space buns were the pop star’s doing.

“You can’t have hair and makeup. You can’t have a wardrobe. You just have to do it yourself,” said Swift in a fan-captured video shared to TikTok.

“So, I called my friend who has some woods behind her house and was like, ‘Can I take some pictures in your forest.’

She said yes. I ordered all these night gowns online and brought them and did my own hair and makeup and just was like, ‘I guess I’ll braid it, I don’t know.'»

Swift also reflected on how she and her team, which included producers Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner, were able to make music while they were in lockdown.

“Making an album is usually such a collaborative situation. You usually get lots of people together, you usually get to play all these new songs for your friends or your band,

and you get to be in the same room with the people you’re writing or producing with.

All of that went away during the pandemic,” she shared, adding that she recorded songs with Antonoff and Dessner on the phone.

«It was such a challenge for us as creators, but it was so fulfilling.»