Back in the 00s makeup was not nearly as well applied as it is these days – these days it is uncommon for one of your mates NOT to be a makeup artist, meaning all your makeup worries no longer exist. You can just rock up to your mates having forgotten to do your eyes, and in 10 mins have the best smokey eye ever. But unfortunately this was not the case back in the day, we thought we were really good at makeup – but looking back we were absolutely dreadful. Have a look at the following 00s beauty fails and see how many you were guilty of…
1- Majorly overplucked eyebrows
We all got to that age where plucking your brows was the cool thing to do, unfortunately for us, we had no idea what we were doing so often ended up with brows that resembled upside-down Nike ticks.
2- Bronzing your ENTIRE face with this godsend
We needed to be tanned, and fake tan was too much effort…so a big blusher brush and this bronzer was all we needed to go from pale to super tanned in minutes. Unfortunately, for most of us, we just ended up going a dark colour of rusty brown and our necks would be a complete different colour.
3- Applying far too much of this because you weren’t quite sure how much would qualify you as a ‘bad gal’…
There was always that rocker phases where we genuinely wanted to look like a bad gal, but instead, we just looked like we had slept in our make up. Not a good look really, especially when the rest of our makeup with crap as well.
How do 14-year-olds look so old nowadays? Their makeup is so good ad I don’t understand how or why? It took me until about the age of 20 to figure out how to put eyeshadow on well.
4- Owning every single flavour of these little beauties…
Once we got one of these our mums were in for it, it was ESSENTIAL that we had every single flavour that existed. Was it just me who used to actually try and eat them too? They literally smelt so good I felt the need to bite mine just incase I was allowed to eat it….I wasn’t.
5- Carrying this around everywhere like it contained the Crown Jewels
Not being funny, but our makeup was just as precious as the crown jewels…do you know how long it took us to build up our stash of makeup? Sneaky lipglosses and eyeshadows put in the trolley during each Tesco shop.
6- Using this because your mum would never let you get those pink streaks you ALWAYS wanted since Beyonce rocked them in the Bootylicious video
We always wanted to dye our hair but our Mums were snide and got us these hair mascaras instead and they were pretty shit, I’m not going to lie, but they were the closest things we could get to change our hair colour. And if you had dark hair like me, you had no chance of them even working in your hair.
7- That phase where we were super resourceful and used concealer on our lips
We all wanted to look like Lizzie McGuire in the Lizzie McGuire movie where she was dressed like a Iglu. This makeup trend was pretty hideous and it did nothing for us, in the slightest. We just looked like we were suffering from a mild case of anemia.
8- Buzzin when these were free in Cosmopolitan…
Getting your mum to buy you loads of copies of the magazine these were free in so you could collect all the colours but they’d always be the proper sh*t ones you’d end up with. Oh well, at least you were able to go to school with your Lancome lip gloss dripping half way down your chin because you’d put so much on.
9- Not realising the ‘less is more’ rule when it came to applying Mascara
We’ve all been there, we wanted those celeb style super long lashes (which at the time we didn’t realise were actually false lashes), so we would apply endless amounts of mascara in the hope our lashes would look like that too. They never did, instead, we just looked like we had spiders legs hanging from our eyes.
10- Thinking you looked sh*t hot when applying lip liner 10 shades darker than your lipstick…
If Gwen could pull it off, we could too?
Maybe not. Not even Gwen could pull it off either. Let’s just hope this makeup trend doesn’t come back into fashion.
11- Any eye product that was blue would look good, right?
We didn’t stop at blue eye shadow…blue mascara AND blue eyeliner was the only acceptable look.
It wasn’t acceptable, especially when you wore it with brightly coloured lipstick that clashed completely. It just made you look like a clown.
12- Wearing a fake hoop piercing in your eyebrow…
Spice Girls were our idols, so as soon as we saw Scary spice with this eyebrow piercing we knew we NEEDED one too. Unfortunately, our mums would never have allowed it, so a fake hoop from Claires Accessories was the next best thing.
Thank god my mum never caved an let me get that piercing, I mean, some people pull it off, but I would have looked like a complete w*nker.
13- Thinking this foundation was the best thing ever created…
Admittedly it did feel nice on our fingers, but once we put it on our faces it was non-existent, apart from when we had dry skin and it would stick to it like a fly to sh*t. You’d be walking around with crusty bits of dream matte mousse around your nose and whats worse is half the girls wouldn’t wash their hands after putting their 50th layer of foundation on their faces so there would be foundations marks pretty much everywhere in the girls toilets and on every school desk.
14- Blue mascara was life…
We felt SO edgy when we rocked up to school on own clothes day with not only mascara on, but BLUE mascara. Slay girl.
15- The only pre-party prep you needed…
Slapping so much of this on yourself, you were as greasy as a pot of oil, and waking up the next morning with a white dribble line where you had been dribbling in your sleep. Lol woops. It would always come out streaky too ffs.
16- White/Silver eyeshadow gave you life…
When you were invited to that big birthday party, there was only one thing to do…get out the silver eyeshadow and knock em dead.
17- Covering your body in tats at the weekend
We were always bad ass*s, as soon as we got home on a Friday the school uniform would be whipped off and the tats would be applied.
18- Bedazzling your gnashers…
When everything was bedazzled how could we miss out our teeth?
It was never fun when you’d get the glue stuck to your fingers and you’d have to rip them apart….that bit wasn’t fun at all.
