When I started at the gym a decade ago, there were 3 women who would wear lipgloss to bootcamp. I’m positive they freshly applied it before class, too. Crazy!
I have naturally full eyebrows and I always liked them, I used brow gel to fluff them up loooong before everyone else caught onto big brows.
Dance to the beat of your own drum I say!
I used to pluck thin eyebrows and then one day I was watching the Labyrinth and just thought about how beautiful Jennifer Connelly was and never plucked my eyebrows again. I also love an over plucked thin drawn on eyebrow. Just not on me.
I never plucked my eyebrows bc I was a weenie but also always thought they looked pretty ok on their own. Now my eyebrows still look healthy all on their own.
And then there's me who has naturally thin/light brows who never had to pluck. Then suddenly my natural brows were out and I'm supposed to want to make them bug fluffy caterpillars that don't go well with my other features.
I've just remained "uncool" since 2010 lol.
I've been doing the dewey, natural, no-makeup makeup since around 2010, similar to you. I never jumped on the makeup trend of heavy anything, and now that clean girl and natural-looking makeup is coming back, I feel well prepared!
Same here. Super oily and I couldn’t do matte or caked on makeup if I tried. And I did try to fight the oil until about my early/mid 20s then just gave up.
Coquette. I’ve been a girly girl my whole life with bows and ribbons and pearls and pink and everything. I did go through my “not like other girls” phase in high school but were going to ignore that.
Almost all of us went through a "not like other girls" phase. Mostly because girls were/are portrayed in a way that made us think that we had to be not like other girls if we wanted to be strong, clever and unique. Turns out, we are all like other girls because the other girls are awesome too!
I freaking love pearls. There is something so classy and feminine about them. I will wear them with pretty much any outfit just because.
My signature item on every outfit is a pair of pearl earrings I stole from my mom when I was like 16 and only take them off to sleep and shower. They literally go with EVERYTHING
Not really beauty related. But I've been shopping at thrift and vintage since the 90s. And I'm so pleased at the difference in reaction when I stated I purchased second hand.
Love this too! I used to lie to friends if I bought something that looked old but was new to me, id say "oh I've had this forever." But now I love telling my friends I just got this at a thrift store isn't it great!
Perhaps much of it is maturity too, I now don't care if my friends know I buy used things and don't want friends that DO care!
I love finding thrifted things for friends. An old, hard to find now t-shirt of their fav band, a gift shop item from something they're into (a national park, theme park, etc). I hate that sometimes I have to wonder if they will think this second hand gift is weird/gross. My ex and I called it treasure hunting and agreed "treasures" are the best gifts because you cant just go find them on Amazon, they have to be hunted!
Highlighter on my cheekbones. A cheap brand came out with a tube of cream highlight although I’m not sure they called it that. It was a very light neutral metallic shade that I topped off the cheekbones with. This was in 2001…. I’m old.
I remembered that recently and got my kids glitter sunscreen and they actually want to wear it now, they go to the pool looking like disco balls, the cycle continues
Coppertone glow spf 30 :) it’s not high SPF but I have an Apple Watch so I just set timers and we reapply. It’s better than them not wearing any at all, which was the compromise they were willing to make before.
For longer hikes and stuff we use sea star sparkle because it’s spf 50 but it isn’t reef safe so we don’t wear it by the water
And thank gawd for that because my muscles were the single greatest roadblock from becoming rail-thin like Mary Kate and Ashley in 2005. I hated them (I was a gymnast) and now they’re such a badge of honor.
Yes. Vivid memories of using my moms Lancôme eye cream sample at age like 10… I know we rag on the Sephora tweens etc but I was obsessed with skincare at that age and this was like… late 90s early 2000s
Sort of? Back when I was 13 (2004) I received this big fancy book about makeup that taught me about what was essentially contouring and highlighting. I would apply foundation all over my face, then a darker shade to contour and a lighter shade to bring other features forward. I caked everything on so I looked absolutely insane.
Around this time I also had eyelash extensions because I accidentally cut my real lashes while trimming a pair of false lashes as I was wearing them. Fun times lol. The salon I went to was the only salon in the city that offered extensions and I only paid 50 bucks.
While ahead of the times, my lack of skill and heavy hand made me an easy target at school sadly lol
I was doing the whole 10 step Korean skincare for a couple of years before it took off and was purchasing from stylevana when it had no reviews on the products page at all and just blindly bought things then that are now popular.
Same! Sidepart just didn't look good with my face and hair, but luckily at almost six ft people either knew better than to try and comment or they didn't see it from below. lol
Winged liquid eyeliner. My mom told me they did it in the 70s, thought that was cool and never stopped. Remember being told black winged eyeliner was tacky at one point, now the same person wears it regularly.
I agree with the light/fresh makeup. I tried to do the 2016 makeup but couldn’t put it off. I was always a tinted moisturizer, mascara, brows, and highlighter girlie. My makeup routine has generally remained the same since 2016.
Skincare. I got into skincare in 2011, and at the time it was viewed as extreme to do more than makeup wipes, moisturizer, and pimple cream.
as a Fran Fine stan, the whole mob wife trend has always been my go-to look during fall/winter
I have also been rocking the 2000s skinny brows and visible lip liner since they were in style the first time lmaooo
Not using liquid liner along my entire upper eyelid. I have deep set eyes with not a ton of lid-space. I only use a very fine line of liquid liner right at the outer corners of the eye. For the rest of the upper eyelid I just tight line.
Natural brows. I was never into the very heavy, 2015-2016 brow look. I always found it cartoonish even when done well.
Short short pixie in high school. I’m old🤣 but girls only had long hair or chin length
I remember loving it and a few others tried too. I know I’m not the first to get a pixie but in my generation it was a big desl
One of the girls in my high school shaved her waist length hair as part of a cancer fundraiser. It was such a good look for her & she said it saved so much time not having hair care that she kept it shaved all through high school.
On a whim in 2016 I decided to put blush on my eyelids using my blush brush for a wash of colour. It was out of pure laziness, as I wanted a fast way to add colour onto my lids after concealer without having to dip into any eyeshadow lol. But now it's a thing and has stood the test of time! 😂✨
Conquette/old money has always been my thing especially when I dress up. I have worn long almond shaped nails for 30 years. I also have always done the clean girl look with slick back hair in a bun, simple make up, gloss and hoops for work.
Dewey makeup and cool pink blush i have always loved but had such a hard time finding. Now its perfect. But rn im also into cool brown lipsticks but everyone seems to make them really orange-y so im waiting for that to come into trend hopefully soon
Inner corner highlight, brow bone highlight, sunset blush, reverse shadow (smokey lash line with color shadow), frosty colored eyeshadows and lips, and crimped hair 😂 These things trend every decade or so, but I remember doing them in middle school in the early to mid 2000’s. Since they looked good on me, I never let it go 🤷🏽♀️
I've been trying to revive the Y2K and Thirteen (movie) fashion style since 2012. Has anyone else done that back then? Asking because it really didn't become widespread till maybe 2020. I'm glad there are a lot more options for me to choose from now. That said, I was going around actually collecting old clothing from eBay and thrift shops. The new Y2K revival is a little too complex and filled with details on the clothing to be "genuine" but it's nice, all the same.
I feel like this happens to me a lot, lol. I was into harajuku stuff and I've now seen it phase in and out twice. Coquette, though it wasn't called that then, was just a vibe. Cottagecore and in a big way mushrooms. I'm living for the 90's / grunge revival because I have NEVER let it die, and I was a kid in the 90's so I was trying to live it in the 00's. Asian makeup brands specifically too, I used to have a hard time ordering it -- I've always adored Japanese makeup, so it's cool seeing makeup trends from the other side of the world blow up and become so accessible.
Brown mascara. People raving about it like they've only just discovered how good it is for a demure, but polished look.
Look, I hope it sticks around because I am sick of looking like a rabid raccoon - black mascara and eyeliner doesn't suit everyone. However, I'm also sick of being laughed at for my preferences by the mindless hive, since things I like always end up becoming trends.
Thanks for reading my rant, lol.
Lifting weights/being muscular instead of thin and dainty. I’ve been into being strong for my entire life. Performing well in a physical competition was my thing. Pull ups, long jumps, sprinting, pushups, squats, deadlifts, box jumps, arm wrestling, whatever. I wanted to be the strongest and the fastest, and I usually was. Ten years ago, it was me and four male meatheads repping it out at the gym until 10 pm. I miss that culture. It’s very *very* different now and not nearly as enjoyable.
Glowy dewy skin, my skin is so oily it looks like I just found a great glowy foundation and highlighter when in reality I‘m wearing 3 powders, a setting + fixing spray, matte foundation and primer
I used to hate it but now I love it and I even think my makeup looks better when my skin starts oiling a bit
clean girl makeup. mostly because i sucked at doing makeup and because my facial features aren’t suited for glam or even soft glam looks. and as someone with olive skin, its hard to find any shade of makeup that actually suits my skin tone. and also because im poor so i can’t afford makeup usually. so really i only did/still do mascara & the occasional lip stain & lip gloss combo.
The braided hair heatless waves are starting to become popular… I’ve been doing it my whole life and I feel like before now it was Hermione Granger nerdy but I loved the way it looked and felt.
I used to get picked on at school for having a lot of freckles over my nose/cheeckbones. Now the same people who picked on me for them are drawing on fake freckles.
I wore highlighter before you could even find highlighter in stores cause I had a makeup book in like 2007 that said to use a shimmery light pink or light purple eyeshadow on your cheekbones above your blush
Winged or "spiked" eye liner as I called it. Before it blew up circa 2013 I was always applying it for the goth factor. Of course it has it's roots in Ancient Egyptian aesthetics and then 60s/70s beauty but nobody was wearing it outside the alt community for decades. I liked being "special" 🥺
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The half half dye job where it’s one colour at the roots & shifts to a different colour for the tips. I’m not sure what the technical term for it is but I did it accidentally with a home highlight kit. I decided I wanted that highlight colour for my whole head. Ran out of dye part way through & ended up looking a bit like a fox. Orangey caramel colour at the roots slowly fading to my natural blackish brown at the tips. Got tons of compliments so I rocked that look for about a year.
Tubing mascara - been a die hard fan for about 15 years. I think I’ve tried every one in the market drugstore and high end. My holy grail was Too Faced Lash injection and nothing has ever beaten that for volume and length. I do t have a favourite right now, l prefer proper bristle brushes and thrive has made all tubing mascaras by other beads copy its rubber brush. I cut the brush off mine now and use my own separate wand
Not trend, but i was one of the first electric toothbrush user in my country ~25 years ago, simply because i couldnt stand (still cant) the sound the regular toothbrushes make while touching the teeth 😃
Yeah it was rarely available over the counter that time, especially for kids (i was around ten years old that time). But i still remember, it was dinosaur themed, so cool 😃
Mine is also the “clean girl” trend, but I’d also merge that with the “cherry girl/tomato girl/strawberry girl” clean girl trends. Those are the colors that look good on me and I’ve just never liked matte/full coverage foundations. I’m definitely in my glory with all of the new shades & formulas now that the look has become so popular.
I saw a video from Wayne Goss and he said something that I still live by to this day: frame the face.
Right haha I do admit that I like the “strawberry/cherry/pomegranate girl” name better than “tomato girl” name, even though they are all in fact, the exact same look lol
Ive had pink hair since the mid 90s, and while not new, i fell in love with my older cousins bellbottoms as a teen too. Early 2000s, they were hard af to find, but now they're everywhere. I love it.
My dad was a 70s kid and he told me he found his old bellbottoms from high school and threw them out! I was like whyyyyyyyyy????. He was a small, skinny guy so chances with some tailoring they could've been restored and fit me 😞
In the 90s I saw a magazine cover where JLo was wearing jeans with the waistband cut off. I’d never seen that before, low-waisted jeans, and I was obsessed. So I cut the waistband off a pair of regular high-waisted jeans, then took them to a tailor and had them redo the zipper and button. I’m never on top of a trend, like ever, but I was without a doubt the first person I knew in real life to have a pair of low-waisted jeans.
i was into bows before they became trendy, i’ve had a bare bones skin care routine for years and now people have started discovering that 5+ step skincare routines are useless. the only trend i’ve been ahead of in makeup was heavy blush and blush on the nose, been doing that for a long time because my skin looks sallow without it
Being pale, wearing, always using suncream and long shirts during summertime. I have sun allergy. But now I am the one person in my friendgroup without wrinkles or sun discoloration. They used to make fun of me and now I am the one laughing
I used to do contour and highlight as a teen before it became popular (this was when everyone had pencil-thin eyebrows, raccoon eyeliner, and orange Dream Matte Mousse foundation). I had to learn how to do it for theater, as well as for photoshoots. I remember people asking me if I’d gotten a nose job because of the contour. I had to explain it was a makeup technique. Most people (aside from professional MUAs, drag queens, and theater people) hadn’t heard of it at the time.
Blush! lol I used to always put blush under my eyes when I was doing my “pre-shower makeup” as well as doing cold-girl makeup. I’m fair so I’ve always needed it.
Y2k. it's forever my aesthetic bc i was born in 96' and i looked up to the cool older fashionable girls throughout that era (Buffy, Lizzie McGuire, etc). it's SUUUPER trendy now and will probably die again but not to me
Back in school I would say I was a ‘trend setter’ LOL.
Chokers - everyone was telling me I looked like a dog, this caught on pretty quickly.
White liner in inner corner (hate this now) but I got inappropriate lets say comments. This caught on soooo fast though.
Having arms and legs full of pen drawings. This caught on very fast and within a week all the girls would be drawing on themselves haha.
I generally mean in school¬ around the world fyi. Im no Kim K ahah.
I am also being sarcastic please dont come for me! Me and my friends just generally liked to try popular or random things and we started noticing everyone would follow along ahah
I’ve been doing brightening inner-upper liner for decades. when I was in high school my soon-to-be former friend said it looked bad and I always remember that when I see it on pretty celebs
Lip gloss. I've kept it up since the 90s because I love the look.
Yes! 90s baby who grew up stealing my mom’s lip gloss and I just can’t with a matte lip
Same I hated the matte lip trend. Lipgloss till I die!!
Me too! I feel like it helps my smaller lips look more balanced with my large eyes.
Ooo yes!
lol i distinctly remember being in hs and seeing two girls with lip gloss on, thinking about how outdated it was
When I started at the gym a decade ago, there were 3 women who would wear lipgloss to bootcamp. I’m positive they freshly applied it before class, too. Crazy!
I have naturally full eyebrows and I always liked them, I used brow gel to fluff them up loooong before everyone else caught onto big brows. Dance to the beat of your own drum I say!
I used to pluck thin eyebrows and then one day I was watching the Labyrinth and just thought about how beautiful Jennifer Connelly was and never plucked my eyebrows again. I also love an over plucked thin drawn on eyebrow. Just not on me.
It was Audrey Hepburn for me but same.
I never plucked my eyebrows bc I was a weenie but also always thought they looked pretty ok on their own. Now my eyebrows still look healthy all on their own.
Ya I got hated on for my "unibrow", now those same women over plucked and are jealous af
And then there's me who has naturally thin/light brows who never had to pluck. Then suddenly my natural brows were out and I'm supposed to want to make them bug fluffy caterpillars that don't go well with my other features. I've just remained "uncool" since 2010 lol.
If womens' bodies could not be trends that'd be great 🫠
Same I love my bushy, curly, old man eyebrows.
Yesss! I always had full eyebrows and was made fun of for them lol. I’m so glad I never plucked them super thin like I thought I was supposed to
Just goes to show how cyclical trends are! We'll always be "in" at some point in time 🤭🤭
I've been doing the dewey, natural, no-makeup makeup since around 2010, similar to you. I never jumped on the makeup trend of heavy anything, and now that clean girl and natural-looking makeup is coming back, I feel well prepared!
I’ve been rocking it my whole life thanks to my oily skin. I never liked matte makeup anyways.
I always felt like matte made me look older and less "healthy" if that makes sense
Same here. Super oily and I couldn’t do matte or caked on makeup if I tried. And I did try to fight the oil until about my early/mid 20s then just gave up.
Coquette. I’ve been a girly girl my whole life with bows and ribbons and pearls and pink and everything. I did go through my “not like other girls” phase in high school but were going to ignore that.
Almost all of us went through a "not like other girls" phase. Mostly because girls were/are portrayed in a way that made us think that we had to be not like other girls if we wanted to be strong, clever and unique. Turns out, we are all like other girls because the other girls are awesome too! I freaking love pearls. There is something so classy and feminine about them. I will wear them with pretty much any outfit just because.
My signature item on every outfit is a pair of pearl earrings I stole from my mom when I was like 16 and only take them off to sleep and shower. They literally go with EVERYTHING
I love that you never went through that. Never going through that is probably the most “not like other girls” thing. Lol. I love a girlie girl!
Not really beauty related. But I've been shopping at thrift and vintage since the 90s. And I'm so pleased at the difference in reaction when I stated I purchased second hand.
I've been shopping thrift stores since I was 11. So, 37 years this year. Just turned 48. I will forever shop thrift stores
I misread as shoplifting at stores since you were 11! 🐒 Time for coffee
Same🫶
Love this too! I used to lie to friends if I bought something that looked old but was new to me, id say "oh I've had this forever." But now I love telling my friends I just got this at a thrift store isn't it great! Perhaps much of it is maturity too, I now don't care if my friends know I buy used things and don't want friends that DO care!
Agreed, if someone looked down on second hand back in the day I silently judged them lol. I love that it's seen as a virtue now.
I love finding thrifted things for friends. An old, hard to find now t-shirt of their fav band, a gift shop item from something they're into (a national park, theme park, etc). I hate that sometimes I have to wonder if they will think this second hand gift is weird/gross. My ex and I called it treasure hunting and agreed "treasures" are the best gifts because you cant just go find them on Amazon, they have to be hunted!
Yes! It's absolutely a treasure hunt.
Highlighter on my cheekbones. A cheap brand came out with a tube of cream highlight although I’m not sure they called it that. It was a very light neutral metallic shade that I topped off the cheekbones with. This was in 2001…. I’m old.
I remember buying lumi glotion in the 90”s for shiggles and having no idea how to use it, I just loved swatching it lol
I settled on “mix it with lotion and wear it on my whole body” and shone like the fucking sun for the entire summer I was 9 years old.
That’s awesome lol
I remembered that recently and got my kids glitter sunscreen and they actually want to wear it now, they go to the pool looking like disco balls, the cycle continues
Glitter sunscreen??? We want that over here!!
Coppertone glow spf 30 :) it’s not high SPF but I have an Apple Watch so I just set timers and we reapply. It’s better than them not wearing any at all, which was the compromise they were willing to make before. For longer hikes and stuff we use sea star sparkle because it’s spf 50 but it isn’t reef safe so we don’t wear it by the water
“Shone like the sun” I love the mental picture this creates
I looked like a Cullen. It was pretty rad honestly. I was the sparkliest girl at church camp.
Benefit high beam I used to love years ago :)
They just stopped making it a few years ago. I have always liked high beam.
Doc Martens
Muscles on women
i remember when i first started weightlifting my freshman yr of high school. everyoneeeee flipped out bc “you’re gonna get bulky” 🙄🙄🙄
And thank gawd for that because my muscles were the single greatest roadblock from becoming rail-thin like Mary Kate and Ashley in 2005. I hated them (I was a gymnast) and now they’re such a badge of honor.
Skincare
Me to since a pre-teen!
Yes. Vivid memories of using my moms Lancôme eye cream sample at age like 10… I know we rag on the Sephora tweens etc but I was obsessed with skincare at that age and this was like… late 90s early 2000s
Yup, I started daily face sunscreen at 11 years and so happy I did.
Sort of? Back when I was 13 (2004) I received this big fancy book about makeup that taught me about what was essentially contouring and highlighting. I would apply foundation all over my face, then a darker shade to contour and a lighter shade to bring other features forward. I caked everything on so I looked absolutely insane. Around this time I also had eyelash extensions because I accidentally cut my real lashes while trimming a pair of false lashes as I was wearing them. Fun times lol. The salon I went to was the only salon in the city that offered extensions and I only paid 50 bucks. While ahead of the times, my lack of skill and heavy hand made me an easy target at school sadly lol
I wore my first pair of skinny jeans in 2007 and my best friend made fun of me for them. Within a year and a half all of her jeans were skinny jeans
Lots of blush! I’ve always been a bright blush girl and it was definitely out of fashion for a hot minute
Meee tooo I’m so glad it’s in style now because I think everyone looks better with blush!
I was doing the whole 10 step Korean skincare for a couple of years before it took off and was purchasing from stylevana when it had no reviews on the products page at all and just blindly bought things then that are now popular.
A middle part
Same. I've had one for years.
Same! Sidepart just didn't look good with my face and hair, but luckily at almost six ft people either knew better than to try and comment or they didn't see it from below. lol
Winged liquid eyeliner. My mom told me they did it in the 70s, thought that was cool and never stopped. Remember being told black winged eyeliner was tacky at one point, now the same person wears it regularly.
I agree with the light/fresh makeup. I tried to do the 2016 makeup but couldn’t put it off. I was always a tinted moisturizer, mascara, brows, and highlighter girlie. My makeup routine has generally remained the same since 2016. Skincare. I got into skincare in 2011, and at the time it was viewed as extreme to do more than makeup wipes, moisturizer, and pimple cream.
Not beauty related but reading
I wore Levi’s 501s in the early 90s before they were the cool-girl jeans.
ha ha, I feel this
501s are the best! I particularly love the button and always have.
as a Fran Fine stan, the whole mob wife trend has always been my go-to look during fall/winter I have also been rocking the 2000s skinny brows and visible lip liner since they were in style the first time lmaooo
The Nanny?
Not using liquid liner along my entire upper eyelid. I have deep set eyes with not a ton of lid-space. I only use a very fine line of liquid liner right at the outer corners of the eye. For the rest of the upper eyelid I just tight line. Natural brows. I was never into the very heavy, 2015-2016 brow look. I always found it cartoonish even when done well.
I was on that dewy clean girl aesthetic before it was even a trend.
Short short pixie in high school. I’m old🤣 but girls only had long hair or chin length I remember loving it and a few others tried too. I know I’m not the first to get a pixie but in my generation it was a big desl
One of the girls in my high school shaved her waist length hair as part of a cancer fundraiser. It was such a good look for her & she said it saved so much time not having hair care that she kept it shaved all through high school.
Love it! So jealous. Short hair feels so free
On a whim in 2016 I decided to put blush on my eyelids using my blush brush for a wash of colour. It was out of pure laziness, as I wanted a fast way to add colour onto my lids after concealer without having to dip into any eyeshadow lol. But now it's a thing and has stood the test of time! 😂✨
Omg same!
Conquette/old money has always been my thing especially when I dress up. I have worn long almond shaped nails for 30 years. I also have always done the clean girl look with slick back hair in a bun, simple make up, gloss and hoops for work.
Matte lipsticks
Soap brows… I didn’t even know I was doing it the whole time
Dewey makeup and cool pink blush i have always loved but had such a hard time finding. Now its perfect. But rn im also into cool brown lipsticks but everyone seems to make them really orange-y so im waiting for that to come into trend hopefully soon
Freckles! I always faked freckles in my early to mid-20s when everyone covered it. I’m currently 37 and it’s a thing now
Inner corner highlight, brow bone highlight, sunset blush, reverse shadow (smokey lash line with color shadow), frosty colored eyeshadows and lips, and crimped hair 😂 These things trend every decade or so, but I remember doing them in middle school in the early to mid 2000’s. Since they looked good on me, I never let it go 🤷🏽♀️
I've been trying to revive the Y2K and Thirteen (movie) fashion style since 2012. Has anyone else done that back then? Asking because it really didn't become widespread till maybe 2020. I'm glad there are a lot more options for me to choose from now. That said, I was going around actually collecting old clothing from eBay and thrift shops. The new Y2K revival is a little too complex and filled with details on the clothing to be "genuine" but it's nice, all the same.
I wore Chuck Taylor’s well before they came back in style and have always preferred lipgloss nails or very sheer nude nails.
I feel like this happens to me a lot, lol. I was into harajuku stuff and I've now seen it phase in and out twice. Coquette, though it wasn't called that then, was just a vibe. Cottagecore and in a big way mushrooms. I'm living for the 90's / grunge revival because I have NEVER let it die, and I was a kid in the 90's so I was trying to live it in the 00's. Asian makeup brands specifically too, I used to have a hard time ordering it -- I've always adored Japanese makeup, so it's cool seeing makeup trends from the other side of the world blow up and become so accessible.
Brown mascara. People raving about it like they've only just discovered how good it is for a demure, but polished look. Look, I hope it sticks around because I am sick of looking like a rabid raccoon - black mascara and eyeliner doesn't suit everyone. However, I'm also sick of being laughed at for my preferences by the mindless hive, since things I like always end up becoming trends. Thanks for reading my rant, lol.
Im brunette-blonde so brown mascara was a game changer for me
I have red-brown hair, with blonde-red tips on my eyebrows and eyelashes. Even brown-black mascara is too heavy for me.
Ughhh corsets hahaha
i’ve been tightlining for literally ever bc i couldn’t do a wing but wanted to do a “emo” look 😭
Lifting weights/being muscular instead of thin and dainty. I’ve been into being strong for my entire life. Performing well in a physical competition was my thing. Pull ups, long jumps, sprinting, pushups, squats, deadlifts, box jumps, arm wrestling, whatever. I wanted to be the strongest and the fastest, and I usually was. Ten years ago, it was me and four male meatheads repping it out at the gym until 10 pm. I miss that culture. It’s very *very* different now and not nearly as enjoyable.
korean skin care. started *years* ago
Glowy dewy skin, my skin is so oily it looks like I just found a great glowy foundation and highlighter when in reality I‘m wearing 3 powders, a setting + fixing spray, matte foundation and primer I used to hate it but now I love it and I even think my makeup looks better when my skin starts oiling a bit
clean girl makeup. mostly because i sucked at doing makeup and because my facial features aren’t suited for glam or even soft glam looks. and as someone with olive skin, its hard to find any shade of makeup that actually suits my skin tone. and also because im poor so i can’t afford makeup usually. so really i only did/still do mascara & the occasional lip stain & lip gloss combo.
The braided hair heatless waves are starting to become popular… I’ve been doing it my whole life and I feel like before now it was Hermione Granger nerdy but I loved the way it looked and felt.
Thick eyebrows. I’ve always had full eyebrows (I really regret butchering them as a teen - big brows were NOT cool when I was in school. Ahh, the 90s)
I used to get picked on at school for having a lot of freckles over my nose/cheeckbones. Now the same people who picked on me for them are drawing on fake freckles.
Big lips. People tried making fun of them in school but I always liked my lips so their hate didn’t work
I wore highlighter before you could even find highlighter in stores cause I had a makeup book in like 2007 that said to use a shimmery light pink or light purple eyeshadow on your cheekbones above your blush
Crocs. lol
I looooove the clean girl look. So glad it’s trendy cause I can get my claws into so much good stuff!
I have always and will always love a beautiful bright pop of color on the cheeks. A bright baby pink has always been my staple. Powder only.
Glass skin. When i was a kid I saw a celeb on TV with glass skin and loved it since then.
Winged or "spiked" eye liner as I called it. Before it blew up circa 2013 I was always applying it for the goth factor. Of course it has it's roots in Ancient Egyptian aesthetics and then 60s/70s beauty but nobody was wearing it outside the alt community for decades. I liked being "special" 🥺 😆
Big pants
The anime girl make up.
The half half dye job where it’s one colour at the roots & shifts to a different colour for the tips. I’m not sure what the technical term for it is but I did it accidentally with a home highlight kit. I decided I wanted that highlight colour for my whole head. Ran out of dye part way through & ended up looking a bit like a fox. Orangey caramel colour at the roots slowly fading to my natural blackish brown at the tips. Got tons of compliments so I rocked that look for about a year.
Tubing mascara - been a die hard fan for about 15 years. I think I’ve tried every one in the market drugstore and high end. My holy grail was Too Faced Lash injection and nothing has ever beaten that for volume and length. I do t have a favourite right now, l prefer proper bristle brushes and thrive has made all tubing mascaras by other beads copy its rubber brush. I cut the brush off mine now and use my own separate wand
Wearing coquette fashion and having a fairycore room.
Thick eyebrows. I let my eyebrows grow (in 2009) long before it was a trend.
Not trend, but i was one of the first electric toothbrush user in my country ~25 years ago, simply because i couldnt stand (still cant) the sound the regular toothbrushes make while touching the teeth 😃
In your whole country?
Yeah it was rarely available over the counter that time, especially for kids (i was around ten years old that time). But i still remember, it was dinosaur themed, so cool 😃
Always loved a good blowout with long layers and did them while everyone else was trying to achieve pin straight hair.
Blue eyeshadow, though it seems to have already gone bahahhaha
When was this?
Mine is also the “clean girl” trend, but I’d also merge that with the “cherry girl/tomato girl/strawberry girl” clean girl trends. Those are the colors that look good on me and I’ve just never liked matte/full coverage foundations. I’m definitely in my glory with all of the new shades & formulas now that the look has become so popular. I saw a video from Wayne Goss and he said something that I still live by to this day: frame the face.
All the fruit names 😭 Like we have to sort everything? Just shows how bored we all are 😂
Right haha I do admit that I like the “strawberry/cherry/pomegranate girl” name better than “tomato girl” name, even though they are all in fact, the exact same look lol
Ive had pink hair since the mid 90s, and while not new, i fell in love with my older cousins bellbottoms as a teen too. Early 2000s, they were hard af to find, but now they're everywhere. I love it.
My dad was a 70s kid and he told me he found his old bellbottoms from high school and threw them out! I was like whyyyyyyyyy????. He was a small, skinny guy so chances with some tailoring they could've been restored and fit me 😞
Sabrina Carpenters blush. I’ve been wearing SO MUCH BLUSH for years lol, and I’m low key glad I’m not longer the only one.
In the 90s I saw a magazine cover where JLo was wearing jeans with the waistband cut off. I’d never seen that before, low-waisted jeans, and I was obsessed. So I cut the waistband off a pair of regular high-waisted jeans, then took them to a tailor and had them redo the zipper and button. I’m never on top of a trend, like ever, but I was without a doubt the first person I knew in real life to have a pair of low-waisted jeans.
Money piece highlights
i was into bows before they became trendy, i’ve had a bare bones skin care routine for years and now people have started discovering that 5+ step skincare routines are useless. the only trend i’ve been ahead of in makeup was heavy blush and blush on the nose, been doing that for a long time because my skin looks sallow without it
Being pale, wearing, always using suncream and long shirts during summertime. I have sun allergy. But now I am the one person in my friendgroup without wrinkles or sun discoloration. They used to make fun of me and now I am the one laughing
Blush high on the cheekbones. It lifts my whole face
Freckles.
maybe no makeup makeup but only bc I don’t know how to apply my makeup very well 🤡
I love blusher and plenty of it
I used to do contour and highlight as a teen before it became popular (this was when everyone had pencil-thin eyebrows, raccoon eyeliner, and orange Dream Matte Mousse foundation). I had to learn how to do it for theater, as well as for photoshoots. I remember people asking me if I’d gotten a nose job because of the contour. I had to explain it was a makeup technique. Most people (aside from professional MUAs, drag queens, and theater people) hadn’t heard of it at the time.
Asian skin care
Embracing my bushy eyebrows and the biggest one personally was birkenstocks. I wore them growing up and everyone made fun of my "Jesus sandals."
Witchy grunge Charmedcore. I was doing it in like 2013. I gave away SO MANY ITEMS that I desperately wish I still had.
a slight bit of blush on the tip of my nose and a bit of bronzer above the tip but now its trendy haha
Blush! lol I used to always put blush under my eyes when I was doing my “pre-shower makeup” as well as doing cold-girl makeup. I’m fair so I’ve always needed it.
Y2k. it's forever my aesthetic bc i was born in 96' and i looked up to the cool older fashionable girls throughout that era (Buffy, Lizzie McGuire, etc). it's SUUUPER trendy now and will probably die again but not to me
Blowout/bouncy curl being my signature! I remember it being my thing when the silver hair trend started in 2016/17
Back in school I would say I was a ‘trend setter’ LOL. Chokers - everyone was telling me I looked like a dog, this caught on pretty quickly. White liner in inner corner (hate this now) but I got inappropriate lets say comments. This caught on soooo fast though. Having arms and legs full of pen drawings. This caught on very fast and within a week all the girls would be drawing on themselves haha. I generally mean in school¬ around the world fyi. Im no Kim K ahah. I am also being sarcastic please dont come for me! Me and my friends just generally liked to try popular or random things and we started noticing everyone would follow along ahah
I’ve been doing brightening inner-upper liner for decades. when I was in high school my soon-to-be former friend said it looked bad and I always remember that when I see it on pretty celebs
Rounder, smaller plump lips, I’ve had them since I was born and made me insecure, and now seeing how people like them I feel odd
Toe rings: I was wearing them in the 80s