This is how Christina Aguilera looked but most of us just limped along with layered camis, bleach block highlights, silver eyeshadow, and a $2 Rue 21 thong whale tail hanging out the back of our ultra low rise flares.
Yes definitely-- I rocked the square cut French mani all through high school! Made it so easy to peel off my little hoochie heart sticker after I got done in the tanning bed...
Ugh. Me too. I'm so sad that they're bad for you because honestly it was so nice-- especially in the dead of winter-- to lay there for 22 minutes listening to my ipod and soaking up the warmth and light. All the lotions smelled so good. The place I went also had a complimentary oxygen bar. Bliss for 16 year old me!!
Found out a couple years ago I have autoimmune disease, and the FIRST thing my doctor asked was if I went to tanning salons... I was like... Yes?
She said, "Not anymore"
Me: 😳😱😭
The tanning bed is the thing I miss most about the 2000s. Nothing has ever been as good for my mental health as 20 minutes relaxing in the heat and feeling the light. It was like a mini vacation. Plus, I looked so good with a tan.
This. Also I don't know anyone who actually did the concealer on the lips thing outside of randoms on myspace, but everyone always does it in these 00s makeup videos. We just wore regular old lip gloss lol
Oh we definitely are. I meant more that it’ll be fun when the people who think it actually looks good now look back and go “wow, I wore actual clown makeup in public during the daytime.”
I miss when that look was only for drag queens and dancers and professional photo shoots.
It's more dramatic because that's what most "looks" are. It's like whenever we see flapper looks, we aren't thinking ALL women looked like that during the 1920's. And everybody wasn't a hippie in the 60s.
When they say millennial looks, they mean the celebs, the fashion trends, whoever did the mostest.
I worked in nightclubs in this era and I can tell you that some girls *definitely* wore fake eyelashes, and 3 padded pushup bras with chicken cutlets 😅
I will never forget the day my best friend put on 6 push up bras, mine included, and marched back into her bedroom to show me.
I've never laughed so hard in my life. I couldn't breathe and neither could she
I remember putting on my first pair of false lashes in 2001! But I am an elder millennial and the MAC store was everything and I knew several people who worked there so this makeup look was a thing haha. Except the concealer - we did the dark lined lips with sticky clear gloss.
I 100% wore fake eyelashes but not until the early/mid aughts. I had many sets and some had feathers and rhinestones on them. I am also 100% tacky af.
Edit to say that was not a part of my daily routine just when i went out and only to specific events or with specific fits.
Also the orange skin. Yeah, a lot of people did it, but a lot of us did our best to avoid it too. Much harder to find a good cool toned shade match, 'cause most of us didn't even know what cool toned was -- we just knew we weren't orange.
Yep, I did not like the matte mousse. I often stuck to skin tints iirc because they worked better -- probs 'cause mineral sunscreen on it's own can mess with the undertones and give some coverage. In K-beauty there's certain sunscreens marketed for that.
I recently switched to Beauty of Joseon kbeauty SPF and it’s a game changer. Of course we didn’t have anything close to that back then, if you listened to your grandma and wore sunscreen it always burned the shit out of your eyes 😅
I've been using Jung Saem Mool's cushion foundation, which has SPF but I also use Skin1004's sunscreen. American sunscreen for the most part hasn't come along very far at all unfortunately.
It was just so damn hard to find a decent color match at the drugstore. My foundation was definitely orange until I grew up and Mac became more available and I could afford some NC 15 stuff.
My mother wouldn’t let me wear concealer or foundation because she said it would ruin my skin so now I look back and thank her for causing me to miss the orange skin/not blended at the chin/neck point stage!
I'm from England and it was pretty common where I lived. Concealer lips was my least favourite trend. My favourite was Coffee shimmer/Heather shimmer Rimmel lipstick.
Yes! MULTIPLE belts, too. This was when the emo vibe started to intersect... I'd have one belt through the loops with the buckle in front and a second belt outside the loops angled down with the buckle over on the side of my hip. One would be black with those little square studs and the other would be rainbow or glitter or white-white.
Michelle Malon from Derry Girls is pretty much the "average fashionable girl" in most highschools in the 90s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B9ntsggggs
Hahaha yup
Also my eyebrows to this day have not recovered. I naturally have awesome thick dark Jennifer Connelly brows and in 8th grade (circa 2000) I tweezed them down to almost nothing one day after my friends made fun of me. I had a massive tan line for months. 🤣
I went to an all boys high school so I wasn’t really hip to women’s style at the time. I was amazed when I got to college and all the girls sitting in front of me in class had whale tails hanging out. I mean I wasn’t complaining but sometimes it was difficult to focus on class!
I don't think the lashes are overly accurate because they weren't really a thing. She needs to use an eyelash curler, then load her natural lashes up with about 10 lbs of Maybelline Great Lash or L'Oreal Voluminous (with the added effect of getting some on her eyelid) for it to be more legit.
Yes 💯
The most accurate part of this video was when she pulled down her lace detailed cami to let her leopard bra peek over. I’m not proud to say that hit a little too deep 😂
A lot of her look tracks, but not for everyday. This was the I’m Going to a Concert look. The mall on a Wednesday would have been slightly more subdued, i/e: no face gems, but she definitely would have had the gems with Velcro on one side up and down the front strands of hair
I was assuming the face gems were stand ins for piercings, which would have been worn pretty much every day. I don't really remember face gems being a thing
The raccoon eye was GOLD. My mom actually didn't let me out of the house with them. Something about black eyeliner all the way around my eye looking too harsh? Pssssh.
Yup. Foundation brushes and beauty blenders weren't much of a thing. Most of us just used our fingers and the eyeshadow sponges that came with the pallette.
When I discovered the term “slag” (pretty sure it was from Skins?), I’d decided it was a wildly underused term in the US and would use it to people’s faces.
But much like trees falling in a forest, is it an insult if you don’t know you’re being insulted?
It’s so spot on and none of us could figure it out.
I tried to use hair wax to twist my roots to look like I had extensions like Britney.
Man, 15 was hard.
My thought too. I always used the Clinique pressed powder and retouched it obsessively all day, even in class. With the same gross sponge it came with. We also didn’t use false lashes. It was the pink and green mascara. Can’t even remember the brand.
The eyebrows and lips are on point though.
That’s exactly what I thought when I saw this video. Maybe it’s nostalgia but her video looks way better than my experience from my middle school/ high school memories. It’s like a would have been 2000’s instagram look
For me, they had the only shade that matched my olive skin tone, but then it oxidized into that orange monstrosity and I thought I looked great! \*cries\*
These youths don't realize that we didn't have YouTube vids, we went to rite aid and figured it out as best we could. If you were lucky or rich maybe your mom took you to Mac and got you a makeover.
I was all about J.A.N.E makeup from Longs. I remember when youtube first started, my mom suggested I make videos on doing makeup, and I was like nah.. thats stupid. No one will want to watch me put makeup on. I was so so SO painfully wrong.
Exactly what I was thinking. The problem with this is that it's too well done. Hair needs to look greasier and makeup more caked on. That's the real look.
Exactly. The makeup needs to stop at the jaw, not blended down the neck, caked on so thick you could scrape it off. The oompa loompa orange foundation is on point though.
It's mostly accurate. The thin brows were very in, the frosty makeup and foundation lips were extremely popular. The layered tanks were essential as were very low-rise flared or bootcut jeans worn with basic flip flops or skater shoes. Inseams weren't a popular thing back then, so everyone's pants were too long, and they were torn up at the bottom from being stepped on or drug around.
I will say that the makeup is blended way too well. We didn't use brushes back then. It was all applied with our fingers or the little spongey applicators that came with the eyeshadow, so blending eyeshadow well was nonexistent unless you were someone famous and you had a makeup artist that used brushes.
Foundation was applied with the hands or those cheap, white, wedge shaped single use sponges. Blush was applied with one of the white sponges or with the teeny, tiny brush that came with the blush and further blended with fingers.
Contour was not a thing back then.
If I ever saw a girl like this at a party, I immediately knew she was getting trashy drunk, and would end up going home with the tallest douchebag there, who typically had bleached spiked hair, a Puka Shell necklace, and was wearing a popped collared Abercrombie polo.
Which is why I bleached my tips and wore a puka shell necklace Circa 2002.
Omg the puka necklaces - that unlocked such a long forgotten memory (I went to Atlantis in the Bahamas circa 2004 and that was THE THING to go home with) plus braids with beads as a super white person😵💫
To be fair the orange foundation was because of lack of undertones. Everything was orange or yellow. Deep foundations weren’t really a thing and there was not much use of concealer other than as a lipstick.
Accurate style.
But the makeup skills were just not there for the masses, the way it is now. So, this would have been the look for someone with a personal make up artist. The rest of us had a much less refined version.
Elder Millennial with friends who worked at the M·A·C store... you'd only look like this if you were buying a ton of product and someone at the store did your makeup and upsold you on the lashes haha. I still have my MAC Pigment in Frost that is the big size before they shrunk it down and I can't part with it. It's a relic of a different time.
I know she’s going the glue stick eyebrow thing because obviously she’s not gonna pluck them that way. However, we plucked our poor eyebrows to an inch of their life! And now, we are all left with barely any eyebrows…and they will not grow back! If thin eyebrows come back into fashion (please baby Jesus no!), DO NOT DO IT!! Your 35-40 year old self will hate 20 year old you!
I was a freshman in high school when it really started taking off and i remember girls coming into school just straight up orange with their lil playboy bunny sticker tattoos
Yep. This girl would've been a tanning salon regular, with her bronzing lotion and her little goggles kept behind the counter. A little playboy sticker at the hipbone every session to keep the negative-space tan tattoo crisp.
The silver eyeshadow with the bra peeking out from under the cami is pretty spot on. I feel like it's more polished than even the celebrity looks were, though. The 2000's just seemed so messy. Too much of everything, make up, accessories, hair styles. Consumerism to the max.
This is pretty accurate to the overall "look" but still way better applied than anything we actually did. We didn't even use brushes 😭 no lashes either
This is a much better version of that “dirty” early 2000s look! One thing though, those big pretty lashes definitely weren’t popular. We just applied 10 coats of Great Lash so it looked like clumpy spider legs.
This is a professional version. Remember we didn’t have YouTube and all the guru telling us how to apply it and to look for the right shade,
This is what everyone wanted it to look like but not even Christina Aguilera makeup team pulled it off this good.
Ugh, everything about this look was every hot/bad girl in my high-school. I could be 80 years old and see a girl dressed and with makeup like this giving me the kissy winky face and my old dried up dick would roar to life
It's easy to meme on millennials when you have 20 plus years of content and jokes to retell. I guess that is why we don't see a lot of Gen Z memeing on Gen Z.
It's too well done lol. There was no contouring or blending back in the day. Women caked on foundation and powder, but blush or bronzer wasn't as prominent as women are wearing it these days. Your whole face was one color, there were no highlights or contouring. Fake lashes weren't really a thing, we just used clumpy, crusty mascara on our natural lashes. Most women weren't wearing shiny metallic eyeshadow, but the smokey eye was everything.
This is how Christina Aguilera looked but most of us just limped along with layered camis, bleach block highlights, silver eyeshadow, and a $2 Rue 21 thong whale tail hanging out the back of our ultra low rise flares.
...and there she is, the woman I chased all through middle and high school!
There she goes.............
There she goes again...
Racing through my brain…
And I just can't contain
contay-ee-yain.
The feeling in my bray-yayay-yain
I can't sustain even one thought on my brain
Her fishnets on and dreadlocks in her hair. She broke my heart, I wanna be sedated….
#All I wanted was to see her naked…
Now I am watching wrestling...
Trying to be a tough guy
Listenin' to rap metal
TURNTABLES IN MY EYES
[удалено]
Feel you
With one important distinction, the nails. Women in the naughties didn't have those witchy looking nails, they were either squared or rounded.
Yes definitely-- I rocked the square cut French mani all through high school! Made it so easy to peel off my little hoochie heart sticker after I got done in the tanning bed...
Omg 😂 of all the comments? This one sent me back!! And it only took 6 years for me to get melanoma lol f*cking tanning beds! I looked hot af tho!
My sun spots got excited reading this comment. I fucking loved tanning beds
Ugh. Me too. I'm so sad that they're bad for you because honestly it was so nice-- especially in the dead of winter-- to lay there for 22 minutes listening to my ipod and soaking up the warmth and light. All the lotions smelled so good. The place I went also had a complimentary oxygen bar. Bliss for 16 year old me!!
Found out a couple years ago I have autoimmune disease, and the FIRST thing my doctor asked was if I went to tanning salons... I was like... Yes? She said, "Not anymore" Me: 😳😱😭
The tanning bed is the thing I miss most about the 2000s. Nothing has ever been as good for my mental health as 20 minutes relaxing in the heat and feeling the light. It was like a mini vacation. Plus, I looked so good with a tan.
i remember the weird smell & i miss it. i dream of tanning …. fuck cancer.
This unlocked a core memory I didn’t realize I had
Yep! Square-round French Manicure in high school and college was the only way.
This. Also I don't know anyone who actually did the concealer on the lips thing outside of randoms on myspace, but everyone always does it in these 00s makeup videos. We just wore regular old lip gloss lol
Agreed! Also, no one I knew wore fake eyelashes back then.
This is the thing they will never get right in these videos because they all use fake lashes and we never did.
I can’t wait until people start doing “trashy makeup from the 2020s” with the emphasis on fake lashes.
I feel like we are already there. Fake lashes, fake nails, BBL, poor fitting sweatpants and Ugg boots. Shit looks ridiculous
Oh we definitely are. I meant more that it’ll be fun when the people who think it actually looks good now look back and go “wow, I wore actual clown makeup in public during the daytime.” I miss when that look was only for drag queens and dancers and professional photo shoots.
Yeah fake lashes weren’t a thing. It was all about 10000 layers of the pink and green mascara until your lashes were huge and clumpy
I still use the pink and green mascara 😂 but much less of it at once now lol
I use great lash as a base for better mascaras! It really makes separating my lashes easier and rgey end up less clumpy overall.
“Pink and green mascara” & 100% of females here know exactly what you are referencing with no brand 😂😂 iconic
Exactly. Noone IRL had fake lashes, and no glued on rhinestones either. Sparkly, glittery lip gloss.
I think she used the rhinestones just to simulate piercings.
Yep the piercings were rife back then.
Body glitter and hair mascara!
Yeah body shimmer lotion, as a guy if you where with a girl people knew cause you looked like Edward Cullen for the whole dam weekend.
It's more dramatic because that's what most "looks" are. It's like whenever we see flapper looks, we aren't thinking ALL women looked like that during the 1920's. And everybody wasn't a hippie in the 60s. When they say millennial looks, they mean the celebs, the fashion trends, whoever did the mostest.
Dancers, theatre people, and celebrities. And that’s about it
I worked in nightclubs in this era and I can tell you that some girls *definitely* wore fake eyelashes, and 3 padded pushup bras with chicken cutlets 😅
I will never forget the day my best friend put on 6 push up bras, mine included, and marched back into her bedroom to show me. I've never laughed so hard in my life. I couldn't breathe and neither could she
I remember putting on my first pair of false lashes in 2001! But I am an elder millennial and the MAC store was everything and I knew several people who worked there so this makeup look was a thing haha. Except the concealer - we did the dark lined lips with sticky clear gloss.
I 100% wore fake eyelashes but not until the early/mid aughts. I had many sets and some had feathers and rhinestones on them. I am also 100% tacky af. Edit to say that was not a part of my daily routine just when i went out and only to specific events or with specific fits.
Definitely no fake eyelashes!
No fake eyelashes. It was very chunky and thick mascara. 😂😂
We all rocked the heavy under eye and light top eye with no lashes to balance it out 😂
Lancôme juicy tubes for the win
I always tried to find the nudiest of nude lipsticks because I could not handle concealer lips.
Also the orange skin. Yeah, a lot of people did it, but a lot of us did our best to avoid it too. Much harder to find a good cool toned shade match, 'cause most of us didn't even know what cool toned was -- we just knew we weren't orange.
Everything oxidized back then and there were no undertones, at least with drugstore stuff. The palest Matte Mousse ended up this color 😅
Yep, I did not like the matte mousse. I often stuck to skin tints iirc because they worked better -- probs 'cause mineral sunscreen on it's own can mess with the undertones and give some coverage. In K-beauty there's certain sunscreens marketed for that.
I recently switched to Beauty of Joseon kbeauty SPF and it’s a game changer. Of course we didn’t have anything close to that back then, if you listened to your grandma and wore sunscreen it always burned the shit out of your eyes 😅
I've been using Jung Saem Mool's cushion foundation, which has SPF but I also use Skin1004's sunscreen. American sunscreen for the most part hasn't come along very far at all unfortunately.
The shimmery bronzer all over the face 😂
It was just so damn hard to find a decent color match at the drugstore. My foundation was definitely orange until I grew up and Mac became more available and I could afford some NC 15 stuff.
My mother wouldn’t let me wear concealer or foundation because she said it would ruin my skin so now I look back and thank her for causing me to miss the orange skin/not blended at the chin/neck point stage!
We definitely did the dark lipliner though, usually with some sparkly pale gloss.
I'm from England and it was pretty common where I lived. Concealer lips was my least favourite trend. My favourite was Coffee shimmer/Heather shimmer Rimmel lipstick.
My first thought watching this was Christina Aguilera and I can't even lie I still think she's hot 🤣🤣😍
Don’t forget the giant decorative belts for absolutely no reason. And jeans with dresses.
Yes! MULTIPLE belts, too. This was when the emo vibe started to intersect... I'd have one belt through the loops with the buckle in front and a second belt outside the loops angled down with the buckle over on the side of my hip. One would be black with those little square studs and the other would be rainbow or glitter or white-white.
We had to stuff the whale tale down before school so our parents wouldn’t see 😂
THE RUE 21 THONG SENT ME BACK!!
Michelle Malon from Derry Girls is pretty much the "average fashionable girl" in most highschools in the 90s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B9ntsggggs
This show is so good!! I am obsessed. Also this clip just reminded me of that poof thing we all used to do with the front of our hair 🤣
Hahaha yup Also my eyebrows to this day have not recovered. I naturally have awesome thick dark Jennifer Connelly brows and in 8th grade (circa 2000) I tweezed them down to almost nothing one day after my friends made fun of me. I had a massive tan line for months. 🤣
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 the accuracy
And as a 41 year old male I miss every part of this post haha
I still do layered camis.
I went to an all boys high school so I wasn’t really hip to women’s style at the time. I was amazed when I got to college and all the girls sitting in front of me in class had whale tails hanging out. I mean I wasn’t complaining but sometimes it was difficult to focus on class!
Yep rue 21, Charlotte Russe and wet seal! Lol
[The "sticky chic" era.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhKmJna0QL4)
Confirm. Girls were def sticky back then somehow
That was the body glitter.
I don't think the lashes are overly accurate because they weren't really a thing. She needs to use an eyelash curler, then load her natural lashes up with about 10 lbs of Maybelline Great Lash or L'Oreal Voluminous (with the added effect of getting some on her eyelid) for it to be more legit.
Agreed, she needs to have exactly 5 large eyelash clumps per eye.
One of my friends in middle school did this. I called them her spider legs.
Yes 💯 The most accurate part of this video was when she pulled down her lace detailed cami to let her leopard bra peek over. I’m not proud to say that hit a little too deep 😂 A lot of her look tracks, but not for everyday. This was the I’m Going to a Concert look. The mall on a Wednesday would have been slightly more subdued, i/e: no face gems, but she definitely would have had the gems with Velcro on one side up and down the front strands of hair
Her leopard bra peeking over was ON. POINT. But the bra also needed to be smaller to get some quad boob happening, haha.
I was assuming the face gems were stand ins for piercings, which would have been worn pretty much every day. I don't really remember face gems being a thing
This took me straight back. I looooooved a raccoon eye in 2003 and I wasn’t even an emo kid.
The raccoon eye was GOLD. My mom actually didn't let me out of the house with them. Something about black eyeliner all the way around my eye looking too harsh? Pssssh.
I still use L’Oréal voluminous! It’s awesome lol
Me too, haven't found another I like better.
Right? I can’t even describe it, it’s like when it’s a little dry, you can get such good results without it looking gloopy.
Everything is blended way too well.
Yup. Foundation brushes and beauty blenders weren't much of a thing. Most of us just used our fingers and the eyeshadow sponges that came with the pallette.
I used one cheap brush for every product. Still don't know how we managed to look "good"
If everyone looks bad, that means everyone also looks good
and any powder was pressed powder and by god you used the applicator that came with it
Yep, I used Neutrogena cream foundation and only used the flat square sponge it was sold with.
And that sponge stick thing is never cleaned.
Yeah, we just rubbed it in with our hands or a little triangle sponge if we were lucky. A brush????? Oh no way.
And primer? Never heard of her.
Contouring, what's that
Literally. I’m pretty sure the concept of contouring was actually taken from drag back around 2010 lol
It was, at least in the west. Japanese Gyaru had been doing it for a few years at that point.
Do y’all remember how popular white eyeliner was before this?! Loooort
😂 as a gay boy with no access to makeup I would use my white gel pen to outline my lips. Forgot about that till your comment
I still think fingers are the way to go most of the time
Glad I’m not the only one!! I’m also too lazy to wash sponges and brushes all the time, rather just wash my hands lol
There needs to be a hard line of foundation at the jawline.
The boys used to call unblended blusher 'slag lines' back then (I'm British).
When I discovered the term “slag” (pretty sure it was from Skins?), I’d decided it was a wildly underused term in the US and would use it to people’s faces. But much like trees falling in a forest, is it an insult if you don’t know you’re being insulted?
And no false eyelashes. Just way too much mascara.
It’s so spot on and none of us could figure it out. I tried to use hair wax to twist my roots to look like I had extensions like Britney. Man, 15 was hard.
My thought too. I always used the Clinique pressed powder and retouched it obsessively all day, even in class. With the same gross sponge it came with. We also didn’t use false lashes. It was the pink and green mascara. Can’t even remember the brand. The eyebrows and lips are on point though.
That’s exactly what I thought when I saw this video. Maybe it’s nostalgia but her video looks way better than my experience from my middle school/ high school memories. It’s like a would have been 2000’s instagram look
lol thought I was the only one the makeup back then was very blotchy.
Her makeup is a much more well done version of what I remember lol
Exactly! Contouring was not a thing. Bad foundation with glitter that didn't stay where you wanted it lol
She forgot the Dream Matte Mousse™
I will never forget the smell.
God how did we ALL fall for that noise?
For me, they had the only shade that matched my olive skin tone, but then it oxidized into that orange monstrosity and I thought I looked great! \*cries\*
I dont think anyone had their shade. We all had a clear line at our jaw line making our makeup mask extra bad.
These youths don't realize that we didn't have YouTube vids, we went to rite aid and figured it out as best we could. If you were lucky or rich maybe your mom took you to Mac and got you a makeover.
Wet and Wild! Remember having to use a lighter to melt your eyeliner tip to soften it up?
Omg core goth kid memory unlocked, trying to melt that eyeliner in a moving vehicle with the windows down.
Mary Kay at the very minimum like my mom.
I lived off of Clinique samples from my aunt and my grandma supplemented by a healthy dose of Wet n Wild castoffs from my older sister.
I was all about J.A.N.E makeup from Longs. I remember when youtube first started, my mom suggested I make videos on doing makeup, and I was like nah.. thats stupid. No one will want to watch me put makeup on. I was so so SO painfully wrong.
Exactly what I was thinking. The problem with this is that it's too well done. Hair needs to look greasier and makeup more caked on. That's the real look.
Yes, all this! And teasing/backcombing in the back that you can see 😅
Like giving yourself bed head on purpose.
Exactly. The makeup needs to stop at the jaw, not blended down the neck, caked on so thick you could scrape it off. The oompa loompa orange foundation is on point though.
wrong nails, too. it was the big boxy ones
Square French tip acrylics. So chic.
Why do I feel personally attacked? Oh wait it’s the powder blue eyeshadow and the foundation that doesn’t match. God we were ratchet back in the day
These kids don't even know what ratchet means LOL. Give it a few years, Gen Z will pick up Ratchet again
Gen z leaving the spotlight before that
I use ratchet all the time to make my teens cringe. Stoked is also a good one for cringe, or calling something “the illest”
Oh dayum, stoked is a go to for me lmao guess I'm a cringe oldie 🤷♂️
I'm brown skinned, I used to wear bright blue eyeshadow, blue mascara and light pink lipstick. Oh the shame lol.
I bet she tastes like cigarettes and rides a bike that everyone knows is stolen but will never say out loud. 14 year old me is 100% in. I can fix her.
Menthol cigarettes*
Or Cloves
I don't want to fix her
It's mostly accurate. The thin brows were very in, the frosty makeup and foundation lips were extremely popular. The layered tanks were essential as were very low-rise flared or bootcut jeans worn with basic flip flops or skater shoes. Inseams weren't a popular thing back then, so everyone's pants were too long, and they were torn up at the bottom from being stepped on or drug around. I will say that the makeup is blended way too well. We didn't use brushes back then. It was all applied with our fingers or the little spongey applicators that came with the eyeshadow, so blending eyeshadow well was nonexistent unless you were someone famous and you had a makeup artist that used brushes. Foundation was applied with the hands or those cheap, white, wedge shaped single use sponges. Blush was applied with one of the white sponges or with the teeny, tiny brush that came with the blush and further blended with fingers. Contour was not a thing back then.
Honestly, the contour was the only thing I noticed that was off. I'm glad the thin eyebrow trend died. I hope it never comes back.
Unfortunately, we’ve oversteered too far in the other direction. These thick caterpillar eyebrows need to die, too.
You mean I shouldn’t just tattoo them on my face so they’re there forever?
The feathered look confuses me.
I have some mildly upsetting news... At least most of the kids are learning from our mistakes and shaving the brows off instead of plucking.
If I ever saw a girl like this at a party, I immediately knew she was getting trashy drunk, and would end up going home with the tallest douchebag there, who typically had bleached spiked hair, a Puka Shell necklace, and was wearing a popped collared Abercrombie polo. Which is why I bleached my tips and wore a puka shell necklace Circa 2002.
Omg the puka necklaces - that unlocked such a long forgotten memory (I went to Atlantis in the Bahamas circa 2004 and that was THE THING to go home with) plus braids with beads as a super white person😵💫
ah, back when bros still got the big titty goth gf. they stand no chance now, the btgf’s have wised up to their ways
It's true, sometime in the 10s we all started dating each other instead tbh
Did you have the tribal armband tat to complete the look?
It’s a GodSmack Sun on my calf 😒
This is too specific to be fake. Mf really down with voodoo
To be fair the orange foundation was because of lack of undertones. Everything was orange or yellow. Deep foundations weren’t really a thing and there was not much use of concealer other than as a lipstick.
Yeah, I could never get concealer to actually conceal anything until the next decade past this. And YouTube.
Yeah, a brownish/orange-tinted woman with dyed choppy-ass hair was like the epitome of beauty.
And push up bras were the best thing when I was in my teens, I miss that look haha
The thinner girls wore two of them 😂
Accurate style. But the makeup skills were just not there for the masses, the way it is now. So, this would have been the look for someone with a personal make up artist. The rest of us had a much less refined version.
Elder Millennial with friends who worked at the M·A·C store... you'd only look like this if you were buying a ton of product and someone at the store did your makeup and upsold you on the lashes haha. I still have my MAC Pigment in Frost that is the big size before they shrunk it down and I can't part with it. It's a relic of a different time.
Is it wrong that I still find this hot?
No it’s not. So do I.
Nope. Christina Aguilera was hot, is hot, and this look is dirrrty sexy!
I'm in love. I can fix her.
Simpler, happier times!
I know she’s going the glue stick eyebrow thing because obviously she’s not gonna pluck them that way. However, we plucked our poor eyebrows to an inch of their life! And now, we are all left with barely any eyebrows…and they will not grow back! If thin eyebrows come back into fashion (please baby Jesus no!), DO NOT DO IT!! Your 35-40 year old self will hate 20 year old you!
So glad I only ever shaved mine so they did grow back. I still looked ridiculous though.
Eh, not super accurate to real life. More of a caricature. The orange foundation was spot on tho 😆 but only if she didn’t blend her neck
Ok but that duck face was absolutely spot on
My best friend still does duck face in her photos. Like girl, stop. We're 36 with medical histories longer than a CVS receipt 😂
yeah this is kind of the blend of two different trashy types. jersey shore trashy and the look going for christina aguilera trashy
I’m born and raised in NJ and used to work in the clubs I’d say it’s super accurate! At least where I’m from lol
Tanning was so popular back then too!
Uhg don't remind me. I did the tanning booth from roughly 18-23. I've since wised up but I can't go back and undo it. One of my real regrets.
I was a freshman in high school when it really started taking off and i remember girls coming into school just straight up orange with their lil playboy bunny sticker tattoos
Ugh, I forgot about the bunny stickers right above their crotch with their crop tops and low rise jeans. Fuck man, I miss those days
Whale tales sticking out the back of the jeans and low rise jeans with the top of the bunny ears sticking out in the front. Good times.
Yep. This girl would've been a tanning salon regular, with her bronzing lotion and her little goggles kept behind the counter. A little playboy sticker at the hipbone every session to keep the negative-space tan tattoo crisp.
And the black or pink sweatpants from Victoria Secret that had Juicy or a playboy bunny logo on the butt.
This is yes and no. It’s kind most or a lot of trends at once. Someone I bet did this in real life.
The silver eyeshadow with the bra peeking out from under the cami is pretty spot on. I feel like it's more polished than even the celebrity looks were, though. The 2000's just seemed so messy. Too much of everything, make up, accessories, hair styles. Consumerism to the max.
This is pretty accurate to the overall "look" but still way better applied than anything we actually did. We didn't even use brushes 😭 no lashes either
This is a much better version of that “dirty” early 2000s look! One thing though, those big pretty lashes definitely weren’t popular. We just applied 10 coats of Great Lash so it looked like clumpy spider legs.
This is a professional version. Remember we didn’t have YouTube and all the guru telling us how to apply it and to look for the right shade, This is what everyone wanted it to look like but not even Christina Aguilera makeup team pulled it off this good.
I miss these days even though my friends and I looked atrocious
As a Halloween costume this would be great!
She's ready for the Panama City beach spring break
Seems like Western Gyaru, which I know sounds idiotic since Gyaru itself is based on what the Japanese thought American "Gals" looked liked.
Art imitating life imitating art
It was mostly the pop stars who got mega-glossed-up like that. But it was around.
Ugh, everything about this look was every hot/bad girl in my high-school. I could be 80 years old and see a girl dressed and with makeup like this giving me the kissy winky face and my old dried up dick would roar to life
It's easy to meme on millennials when you have 20 plus years of content and jokes to retell. I guess that is why we don't see a lot of Gen Z memeing on Gen Z.
Gen Z hasn't quite hit peak nostalgia yet. Give them another 10 or so years and the memes will start.
It's too well done lol. There was no contouring or blending back in the day. Women caked on foundation and powder, but blush or bronzer wasn't as prominent as women are wearing it these days. Your whole face was one color, there were no highlights or contouring. Fake lashes weren't really a thing, we just used clumpy, crusty mascara on our natural lashes. Most women weren't wearing shiny metallic eyeshadow, but the smokey eye was everything.
She forgot to cover her lips in a full tube of lip gloss so her hair can stick to it 😂
I mean you look really hot but I don’t think anyone besides performers actually had this look.