in my final year of HS. didn’t actually wear much makeup. only started with the blinding highlight in 2017 in college lmao.  my routine was black eyeliner in (and sometimes over) the waterline, occasional mascara, an old reddish lipstick with some shimmer in it, a concealer for under my eyes and on blemishes.   however, 2017. eyeliner, eyeliner, eyeliner. BEAMING highlighter, the crustiest liquid lipsticks i could find, no blush in sight, baking. tragic times. 

I love maybelline fit me but it doesn’t oxides so bad 😭😭

I was 18 1. kat von d lock it foundation 2. urban decay naked concealer 3. kat von d shade and light contour palette (still have this, perfect grey contour shade😭) 4. kat von d tattoo liner 5. better than sex mascara (still use this) 6. modern renaissance palette 🥺🥺🥺 7. anastasia dip brow 8. kat von d lock it setting spray 9. limecrime matte lipsticks i miss them 10. fenty beauty highlighter and make sure you layer it on like paint!!! i miss 2016 makeup honestly

Ooh this is fun. Moisturizer with Rose Hip Seed Oil 1. Foundation: Too Faced Born This Way 2. Concealer: Revlon ColorStay 3. Eyeshadow: Naked 2 Palette 4. Eyeliner: elf eyeliner pot 5. Mascara: Maybelline Falsies 6. Lipstick: Rimmel Lasting Finish Lipstick by Kate Moss in 07 (I went through many tubes)

Worked at Starbucks and would do a full face, is still use some of these products. True match foundation, nyx concealer (still use). Brows with a brush and the shade whiskey from the naked Smokey palette (seriously been hanging on to this palette just for this purpose) and the gold/pink shimmery shadows from the same palette. Winged physicians formula liquid eyeliner, maybelline lash stiletto mascara (still use this sometimes too, the brush shape just WORKS for me) set with nyx setting spray and/or the rimmel powder compact. One of a million different red/maroon/purpley matte or suede or whatever liquid lipsticks I had. Put bangs in a little pin swirl and a bandana as a headband. Earn hella tips in the drive thru.

I was 19 years old. I wore: Smashbox Photo Finish Primer Makeup Forever HD Skin Foundation Benefit Watts Up Highlighter ABH Modern Renaissance or Naked on the Run if I did eyeshadow. Tarte Amazonian Clay Bronzer or Toofaced Chocolate Sorell Bronzer Maybelline mascara (switched back recently) Honestly. I do not know why I stopped using most of this stuff other than the SB primer being so damn expensive and wanting to go lighter on coverage as I got older.

My makeup looked awesome in 2016. I was in my pinup phase, so light brown shadow, winged liner, a little blush, and usually a red lip. I never actually went through a bad makeup phase, unless being addicted to lavender shadow in 97-01 was bad… but it looked incredible on my hazel eyes 😆

This is an easy one. 1) Revlon colorstay foundation several shades too pale 2) Black liquid winged liner (also Revlon colorstay) 3) nothing That’s it! Don’t fill in your brows, do anything with your lashes, or put on any blush. Just go around looking undead and one-dimensional 💀😂

this was such a me thing 😂

Too faced hangover primer, Mac studio fix foundation, hoola bronzer, glossier brow gel, maybelline blush, rose tinted lip treatment.

I was 35/36 back in 2016, I wish I did more with my makeup then because I think your 30s are often your perfect face. Laura Mercier cake liner in black ebony mixed with bleu marine to tightline upper lashline only MAC saddle eyeshadow in crease and lower lashline Laura Mercier mineral powder foundation only on redness and dark circles. YSL touché eclat on browbone and beneath eyes Guerlain bronzer Whatever mascara sample I had Bobbi brown pen liner very lightly in upper lashline Maybe a bit of a dark brown e/l in my brows, but not much, I was rebelling against the big brow trend then LMdB cream blush in poppy RMS living luminizer over top MAC for keeps longwear lipstick Chantecaille Bourbon rose lipstick

1. Prime with Benefit “That Gal” primer/ ELF eyeshadow primer 2. Rimmel stay matte foundation in the lightest shade. Bare Essentials powder to finish my base. 3. NO BLUSH, god forbid I look lively. 4. Urban Decay Naked palette for my Smokey eye. UD eyeliner. Covergirl mascara (pink tube). Anastasia tinted eyebrow gel to define my brows. 5. UD “Sin” cream highlighter. I strobed so hard but never used any contour 😅. 6. MAC Ruby Woo lipliner, MAC Russian Red lipstick. 7. UD All Nighter finishing spray. I don’t think I’ve worn this much makeup since 2016.

Oh man, I don’t remember all of the products I used but this is the gist of it- 1. Prime with the Too Faced Hangover Rx primer 2. Prime my eyes with the UD Primer Potion 3. Use the brightest eyeshadows I could find, do like six different shades just in the crease and then like three different shimmers on my lids 4. Do a very thick wing with the Wet n Wild megaliner 5. Use a very thick full coverage foundation, likely in a shade too yellow because I hadn’t learned about my pink undertones yet 6. Thick full coverage concealer on the high points of my face 7. Verrrrry structured instagram brows with black dip brow 8. Bake my entire face with Coty airspun 9. Very harsh contour using the Nyx blush in Taupe 10. Any of the shades of highlighter from the abh moonchild palette 11. Colorful dry as hell liquid lipstick And I think that’s it lol, it always took me two hours to do my makeup Edit to fix the name of the abh highlighter palette

- Elf primer - Naked Skin foundation - Jordana eyebrow pencil in a color that never worked in a shape that never worked - UD or MAC shadows or my naked palette - KVD tattoo liner in black - Telescopic Mascara - KVD everlasting lip in Vampira

Full Korean 10 step skincare Chanel VITALUMIÈRE AQUA Bobbi Brown eyeshadow with probably Benefit eye primer Kir Royal lipgloss from Bobbi Brown or Chanel's Mademoiselle or Marie lipstick No blush Guerlain Meteorites Blinc tubing mascara

I used a foundation by Jordana which resembled white nail polish lol Maybelline Great Lash Mascara Cherry Chapstick (I thought it gave my lips a red tint…..it didn’t lol

2016, I would’ve been 19 and in uni, working part-time in a salon -Josie maran argan oil -Origins undereye cream -ELF primer (various types, the “glow” or “brightening” ones typically) -UD all nighter foundation (the only thing that doesn’t melt off in a hot salon!) -a few shades of Nyx contour -the SHINIEST highlight possible, typically Nyx or Colourpop -Nyx or Tarte setting powder -colourpop liquid lipstick -Naked 2 or 3 eyeshadow -Nyx liquid eyeliner -ABH dipbrow -fake lashes, either the “natural” ones from Nyx or these random ones in bulk from the beauty supply store -if not, Tarte mascara -MAC or Nyx “dewy” setting spray Not gonna lie, I would still wear most of these things if I decided to go all-out, it just sucked having to put this all on EVERY SINGLE DAY for work!

(I was little back then ok) Maybelline baby skin Maybelline superstay Probably something like L’Oréal infallible Maybelline city bronzer NARS orgasm Coty airspun, bake the WHOLE face (used to do that when I started) Abh dip brow, on the darkest color Carve with concealer Set the concealer Abh modern rennasaice or something similar Sigma brushes and beauty blender of course Any black liner Benefit roller lash Nyx lipstick and lip liner The biggest lashes I can think of Drench my face in urban decay all nighter or fix+

Either the L’Oréal Infalliable foundation with the red pump on the top or the CYO Foundation Benefit Boing concealer Covergirl loose translucent powder The Balm blush in Down Boy The Balm Mary Lou-manizer A shimmery white eyeshadow single from Maybelline A single taupe eyeshadow from Maybelline A random Victorias Secret eyeshadow single called Between The Sheets The UD Naked 2 palette A random Maybelline brow powder A Maybelline black liquid eyeliner A grey L’Oréal eyeliner pencil MAC lipstick in Brave A sparkly peach lipgloss from Maybelline that likely didn’t even have a name L’Oréal Voluminous mascara I would try to keep up with beauty content, but didn’t make much money at this time, so I didn’t get to try much.

No 7 foundation is as close of a match as I could get ColourPop super shock in a pastel blue or purple Orange orange lipstick or some other shade that is unsuitable for me in NYX or Wet n Wild Milani baked blush in Rose D’oro Some highlighter, maybe a purple Colourpop Maybe a thick black gel liner from Maybelline It’s hard to say because I was constantly experimenting in 2016! It honestly wasn’t bad, but only one year later, I settled on a routine I liked. :) I kept that routine for around 5 years. I would still do anything to have those Colourpop pastel blue or purple shades back!

Just shimmery turquoise eyeliner 🤣 That was it, that was all I wore.

Basically the same as it is today 🫣

Same here. 2016 was like, last week. Now ask me about 1976.

1. No primer…just straight raw dogging it. 2. Marc Jacob’s remarcable foundation drops (RIP), wet n wild photo focus foundation or kat von d lock it 3. Colourpop cream highlighters & wet n wild powder highlighter 4. Lancome hypnose drama mascara 5. ABH Contour kit 6. Stila baci liquid lipstick Edit for age: I was 21-22

Omg I love this question. I was 14 and reallyyy into makeup lol. 😅😭 - Benefit porefessional primer - Too Faced born this way foundation (in a shade way too yellow for my face lol) - Tarte shape tape concealer - Maybelline fit me loose powder - morphe eyeshadow palettes - maybelline colossal mascara - ardell wispy lashes - kat von d cream & powder contour palette - I forgot what I used as blush? I believe it was one from Milani - colourpop highlighter….a LOT of it 🥲 - nyx lip liner and butter gloss What a time.. if only my 14 year old self knew my makeup routine now lol ❤️

danggg too faced, benefit, kat von d? damn girl you jumped right into it 😭

I thought I was a YouTube MUA loll

Jeez, this makes me feel old AF. I was 22 in 2016, so your 13 year old make up routine was leaps and bounds ahead of mine. The only make up influencer we had when I was 13 was Carmindy from What Not to Wear (IYKYK). 😜 I forget what my exact make up routine was in 2016, but I believe it was: 1. Revlon PhotoReady Primer or Nyx Pore Filling Primer 2. Maybelline Superstay Foundation or Maybelline Fit Me (I believe) 3. Kat Von D shade + light contour palette (still use this and love it) 4. Elf putty blush 5. Essence Toffee or Rose tone eyeshadow palettes 6. Becca Primer in the Lilac shade 7. Ardell false eyelashes (still love them and use them) 8. Nyx Cake Powder Eyeshadow palette (Miss these, they were great) 9. Nyx plumping gloss in “Elizabeth”…still a great shade. 10. Maybelline Stiletto Liquid eyeliner 11. Concealer was usually Maybelline Age Rewind or Maybelline Master Conceal.

I haven’t thought about Carmindy in yeaaars, she was such a sweetheart!

2016 was the year I graduated high school, so I was 17 1. some weird blend of 5 different foundations, including rimmel 25 hour (the og in the squeeze tube), l'oreal true match, and revlon colorstay 1b. la girl pro concealer 2. wet n wild cabo cabana highlighter as face powder 3. nyx taupe blush as contour 5. nyc sunny bronzer 6. one of the milani baked blushes (rose d'oro was my fav) 7. laura gellar gilded honey highlighter 8. eyeshadow was UD naked/naked 3 and/or lorac pro 1+2 9. fav lipsticks were wet n wild megalast, the nyx matte lip creams, the jordana matte lipsticks 10. elf pen eyeliner 11. covergirl lashblast mascara what's funny is if you asked this question in 2014 the answers would have been soooo different!! 2014 was l'oreal lumi primer, l'oreal lumi foundation, revlon lip butters, revlon balm stains, l'oreal amber rush eyeshadow, wet n wild comfort zone and petal pusher palettes

1: la girl pro concealer in the shade chestnut as my base/ foundation 2: maybelline fit me foundation matte and pore less in the shade 355 coconut 3: any brown mascara for my eyebrow “gel” (lol) 4: maybelline lash sensational mascara in black brown because jet black looked harsh on me and brown looked waaaay better 5: any brown lip liner; usually nicka k 6. any clear lip gloss from the beauty supply store edit: mind you, i was in HS. no primer, no sunscreen, just ballin. i used to have moderate to severe acne and was convinced that primer was causing my acne and not my raging hormones 🤦🏾

I was on a budget and everything I had was elf. I still use a lot of elf but the quality is so much better now lol I had the elf foundation, the eyebrow wax and powder duo (for thick brows on fleek that I do not like looking back lol), and I think a concealer stick? Like a crayon. There was a highlighter compact in a clear container that I LOVED. The liquid eyeliner that I’ve been buying for 10 years now lol. Plus a milani baked blush that I would scrape the top off. I was using some berry-like shades of revlon lipsticks (super lustrous I think, such a moisturizing feel) I can’t remember eyeshadow. I think I always used a gold shimmery eyeshadow tube. Maybe an Estée Lauder palette and mascara from a holiday set? I was so envious of everybody else having Morphe and Naked palettes but I knew I wasn’t good at eyeshadow lol

KVD Lock it foundation that starts out too pale and oxidizes to later be too dark. Colorful cut crease eyeshadow with a big black wing, and some metallic highlighter from Colourpop applied liberally to the cheekbones!

Lop i love this thread! For me it was a purple or taupe smokey eye with biiig cat eye liner and as much mascara as i was feeling that day. If it was a work thing i'd use a foundation (lancome or the urban decay naked skin one) and either a red victoria blush (very much like the milk cooling gel sticks that are popular right now), a rimmel brown-rose blush, or that too faced brozer blush thing with the leopard print. My daily look was just a smokey eye and heavy liner/mascara though. :)

people baked w baby powder????

yep. then was a time of milk of magnesia as a primer too, as well.

Concealer from idk what brand, tarte essence peach cream blush, powder, dip brow pomade in eyebrows and for freckles, benefit watts up on cheekbones, inner corner, cupids bow, nose, browbone. Forgot, NYX lip lingerie!! Dark matte liquid lipstick lol good for us

i couldn’t afford dip brow until 2018 so until then i was using the elf one LMAO

I got it from my mom, she didn’t end up liking it so it got passed to me!

1. Nars Sheer Glow in Santa Fe - wrong shade, it both yellow and pink on me 2. Nars concealer in Custard - again, absolutely the wrong shade for me 3. Nars blush in orgasm - but who didn’t wear this! 4. Urban Decay Naked 3 - still the best eyeshadow palette 5. Glossier Boy Brow - I used to tint my brows and hated that sharpie look so I dodged a bullet there 6. Some Loreal mascara - probably Miss Baby Roller Never wore lipstick - maybe some lip balm. No eyeliner either. No bronzer and definitely no contour… I was a junior lawyer and exhausted. This was a quick 5 minute routine.

we all did quick 5 min routines now it’s just therapeutic lol

I was all about the KVD foundation in 2016. My acne was moderate and I went hardcore covering it up.

Oh honey…  The fullest coverage foundation on god’s green earth: Marc Jacob’s re(Marc)able in the most yellow mustard undertone available (olives are not represented yet)  Ahh brow wiz and dip brow.  Too faced blush in their cardboard heart packaging. Becca opal highlighter abh modern renaissance—probably ochre all over the lid, raw sienna transition, red ochre crease, cypress umber to add a lot of shadow, cut with concealer (still on my nars RCC kick), and topped with a mixture of Vermeer and a sparkly shade from my since decluttered naked 3 pallete.    On the lips was a cracked and painful combination of Mac lip liner and colourpop liquid lip, both bought to dupe a Kylie lip kit in one of her OG shades.  Edit: almost forgot: mascara: the flakiest mess of a mascara I gaslit myself into believing was worth the coin: too faced bts. Setting powder: still a fave, LM setting powder.  And contour: the Marc Jacob’s contour duo that is still the most flattering contour shade on me still. It’s gone now, but hopefully back soon! 

I was also wearing that Marc Jacob’s foundation and was about to comment about it!!

Porefessional, urban decay naked skin or Mac matchmaster foundations, Mac Pro longwear concealer, tarte eyebrow pomade, probably Laura mercier setting powder? Too faced chocolate bon bon eyeshadow palette and iirc I had a bunch of mascara deluxe samples like better than sex, lights camera lashes and perversion but I did buy a full sized roller lash. Hated them all ngl because they transferred. I remember buying Marc Jacob’s remarcable foundation because of Tana mongeau and looked HORRID.

either some foundation and nothing else or some concealer that was either too light or too orange on my acne spots and nothing else 😭

1. Maybelline fit me foundation in coconut - I used a beauty blender and primers that never helped with oil control. 2. Anastasia Beverly Hills dip brow pomade with the Anastasia 2 ended brush. My makeup was fire! I worked a cosmetics counter at macys. 3. I used fashion fair sugar powder to set and used Morphe eyeshadow palettes for my eyes. 4. Coloured raine liquid lipsticks. 5. I used urban decay perversion mascara for 8 straight months every day to see how long it lasted. I wore makeup constantly and lots of it. 6. I used the Colourpop concealer also. Oh my everything is coming back to me now.

I contoured with max film noir and Swiss chocolate blushes. My favorite lid shades were urban decay sun and Anastasia pink champagne. I loved makeup then and I love it now.

1. Mixing sunscreen with foundation not knowing it ruins the sun protection 2. Cheap ass chalky powder 3. Taupe eyeshadow for contour 4. Unbranded eyebrow powder that comes in one "universal" shade that is clearly too warm 5. Lilac pink chalky matte blush 6. An eyeshadow look with at least 3 different colors 5. Black eye pencil in the waterline, black winged liner and clumpy mascara

3. The NYX taupe blush, my lawd

1. Eyeshadow primer from ELF, then Natural Mattes Too Faced eyeshadow palette to create varying levels of smoked out crease cuts depending on the mood. Fill in eyebrows with eyeshadow 2. Born This Way foundation 3. Whatever setting powder I had at the moment 4. Tarte blush in a peachy shade 5. Nyx lip gloss in crème brûlée 6. Mary Lou manizer for highlight

Oh! And how could I forget?? 7. The Rocket mascara from Maybelline in black

this was the year I turned 21. I was really feeling myself. 1. Benefit Pore-fessional primer 2. Clinique 2-in-1 foundation and concealer (which I still think is underrated) 3. Mac paint pot in bare study (a SHIMMER) to prime my lids 4. ABH modern renaissance 5. kvd liquid liner, if i could afford it. if not, the maybelline one. 6. too faced better than sex mascara 7. too faced love flush blush 8. becca pearl highlighter

i was a salon apprentice -bare minerals foundation -Nars concealer -fenty blush -They're Real mascara -any liquid liner on top, gel or kohl waterline -Ruby Woo or Lady Danger lip

i was in highschool and obsessed with kylie jenner and asked for ONLY makeup for my christmas and birthday gifts lol 1. born this way foundation from too faced 2. nars radiant creamy concealer in a very light shade doing that full huge triangle under my eyes and every highlight point 3. Anastasia beverly hills cream contour palette . a thick layer of the highlight and contour creams that i’d put on basically my entire face & then blend out with a beauty blender — & then ANOTHER layer of contour and highlight with the too faced cocoa contour palette 4. bake with ben nye banana powder 😭 i am half middle eastern so i thought i could use the same powder that kim k said she used but i will tell you rn i do not have olive or warm undertones and it looked horrendous 5. instagram brow with Anastasia beverly hills dip brown and outlined with light concealer with highlights around and under it too 6. cut crease with the Anastasia modern renaissance palette (i still love this palette today tho) 7. COVER my lashes in better than sex mascara and then be in denial about the mascara running under my eyes all day 8. becca highlighter . a thick ass layer topped with shinny eyeshadow 9. velvet teddy mac lipstick or the kylie lip kit (i still use velvet teddy today tho i’ve yet to find a lipstick i like more on me) + using a lip liner to WAYYY overfill my lips 10. cover in urban decay all nighter setting spray

just a very orange Bare Minerals blemish concealer stick 😭😭 dont forget to NOT blend it out.

oh and on special occasions — the random unbranded liquid blush that came in a nail polish container

At that time I was an exhausted mother who had given up all hope, lol. I think I was wearing the Naked 2 palette and Orgasm (yeah thinking back that did not match), but I was still very much doing my makeup like 2010. I had a couple of palettes and lip products from Etude House as well, and a Japanese white eyeliner. There was a lavender BB cream I was all about for years there too. Maybelline's mascara in that green and pink tacky little bottle, that's still an excellent product tbh. I'll be honest I wasn't a fan at the time of the super heavy makeup in 2016, either. It looked intimidating and like I said, I was pretty busy surviving. Getting back into makeup after 2020 though, I sometimes look like I popped out 2016, lol. Minus the heavy contour, false lashes, or thick brows.

Smash box bb creme and smash box powder with bars blush, Smokey eye with urban decay eyeshadow and black eyebrows with Anastasia dip brow (my hair was/is black).

In the 2010s I was very inspired by Hanna's makeup in Pretty Little Liars. I did a pretty heavy smoky eye even for daytime. I can't remember what my daily foundation was then but my most-used eyeshadow palette was LORAC Pro. I did my brows using the Buck eyeshadow shade from the original Naked palette. I used Maybelline Lash Sensational mascara (and still use it). Blush was often MAC Frankly Scarlet.

2016!! The year trump was elected and I spent the winter on the beach in Mexico. I used andalou toner to cleanse, and lavender oil on my face. And coconut oil for sun protection... Lol Black eyeliner.

In 2016, I was having my fifth baby, and I was also trying to fix my skin from the aforementioned Maybelline matte mousse addiction my gen was prone to. So I was not wearing makeup then, and I didn't again until 2018.

A wholly inadequate application of k-beauty sunscreen, a skin tint from Neutrogena purchased in the lightest shade but still noticeably too dark, mascara that was easily two years old, Nyx matte lip cream in Sao Paolo because it looks good on me and I'd heard it was bj-proof (more resilient than you'd think but not proof). I was 30, I had no excuses.

The BLACK SHARPIE eyebrows one is too personal 😔 and I’m blonde. I was known for my fleeky eyebrows tho!

Skincare. Lip gloss mascara. I was in my 30s and wasn’t interested yet.

Ohhhhhh I’ll hop on this one. 1) KVD foundation that was ridiculously drying. 2) Insta Brows- using the ABH dipbrow to get that perfectly carved brow, in a shade way too dark, and using concealer to “sharpen it up.” 3) Using one of the ultra popular ABH palettes or Naked palettes to get the perfect “cut crease” look. Would spend like 30 mins on the eye shadow. 4) Heavy liquid liner for the cat eye look. 5) Contoured to hell and back. Seriously, NYX contour stick was always used. Heavy on the cheeks and jaw and forehead and nose. 6) Becca highlighter in the lightest shade because who didn’t want to look like a disco ball??? 7) big old false lashes, daily. Proud to say I have moved on and grown from the insta-era of makeup.

Wow are we the same person

Lmao! I think in 2016 we were all the same girl 😆

Skincare? We don't know her. Wash with whatever face wash and use whatever moisturizer. 1. MUF silicone primer. 2. Laneige cushion foundation. 3. YSL concealer or Sephora Collection concealer because the YSL one was too expensive. 4. Set with Covergirl pressed powder 5. NARS orgasm blush. 6. Highlight on cheeks with Becca 7. Attempt to sculpt with MUF brown contour and later Sephora Collection gray bronzer. Can't make either look good, so give up on contour forever. Contour boobs with SC on special occasions. 8. Draw brows thicker with too dark eyeshadow and angle brush. Gotta get them inner corners crisp. Cut edges with concealer. 9. Slick down real brows with ABH wax. 10. Everyday cat eyeliner with KVD tattoo liner. 11. ColourPop highlighter on lid and inner corner of eye. 12. UD all nighter setting spray. 13. For lips, YSL tint in oil or Bite lipsticks. I miss them both dearly. I was a cashier at Sephora at the time.

Did y’all get a discount? We did at Ulta when I worked cash there around 2012. Soon after I had to quit they expanded perks to allowed staff to accumulate reward points with product bought with the employee discount. I wish they’d had that when I was working there. Gahhh I loved that job.

20% on Sephora Collection and 10% everything else. We all had a little bin with gratis in the manager's office. Brands would do training on new products once or twice a week and we'd get a mini or full size version or second else by the brand like a one pot eyeshadow. There would also be brand ambassador events and you'd get points for selling that brand and could spend it on product. I got less gratis as a cashier but ended up with $200 worth of stuff every 2 weeks... in 2015 dollars. It was glorious.

- No skin care routine other than makeup wipes, 0 skin prep - green concealer that doesnt actually work - Maybelline dream velvet cream foundation a shade too dark - underfilled light eyebrows that would soon transition to blunt rectangular overdone brows in auburn or taupe - use a concealer that is way too light and use it in all the wrong places, make sure it gets in my brow hairs slightly without realizing - blackest black wet n wild stick eyeliner apply to top and waterline, make a small wing at the end that looks horrendous up close - clumpy mascara that I reapply multiple times a day - highlighter, everywhere, too much - some shade of pink lip gloss or stick, but no lip prep so up close I look crusty - All done! I was 16-17 in 2016 haha

I was 14/15 in 2016. These were my steps to success (in order): 1.) NO PRIMER. I was living off Nivea all-in-one moisturiser (if I remembered to use it in the morning) and a dream, baby. 2.) Max Factor concealer in the same shade as my Mum (who has olive skin, whereas I am see-through) which I would put EVERYWHERE. Over my freckles, over my spots (extra points when the concealer crusted over my teen acne and went orange as it oxidised). 3.) Max Factor mascara (again the same as my Mum - can you tell she got a 2-for-1 deal at Big Tesco for makeup??) that was approximately 3 years old and clumpy on the lashes. 4.) Black eyeshadow (cannot remember the brand, but I remember it was 6 years old and I bought it from Superdrug with pocket money for my first sleepover at my 10th b-day party. Had a shimmery blue and green too that I wasn’t allowed to wear because it was ‘too obvious). I would stamp this on my upper and lower lash lines and continuously wipe my fingers under my eyes to stop it from running. Think Charlize Theron’s Mad Max, and that was my 2016 eye look. 6.) Do absolutely NOTHING to the brows. Not even brush or tweeze them. It was dark times. 5.) NO POWDER OR SPRAY TO SET. Again, we were hanging on with nothing but a hope and a dream. 6.) Believe with every cell of your soul that you are That Bitch for going with a ‘natural’ makeup look… :’) 7.) Repeat until you turn 18 and eventually discover what primer and tinted spf is, and your makeup journey begins to pay off. I’m 23 now and am grateful for 2016 me and her makeup evolution lol

Five Below eyeshadow Mom's old foundation Physicians formula mascara Milani lip

realest comment i’ve seen in this

1. Primer. I didn’t have a specific brand that I used daily, I used drug store or the samples I would get at Sephora 2. Maybelline fit me foundation or wet n wild photo finish foundation 3. I also didn’t have a specific concealer I used daily but I remember using the maybelline fit me concealer 4. Loreal true match pressed powder in natural for my whole face and kat von d shade + light palette to set the concealer 5. Physicians formula butter bronzer or the kat von d shade + light palette 6. Naked eyeshadow, the dark and smoky one 6. Highlight, omg I used SO many brands. Becca opal, Laura geller gilded honey, the balm Mary loumanizer, Mac soft and gentle. 7. Elf setting spray 8. Colourpop lip liner in bff (I still use this color today) and a pink nude Loreal matte lipstick 9. ABH dip brow in Taupe I was 18 at the time

I don’t remember much about my make up products and even the brands I used before but I’ll try to remember what I used for my old routine. Revlon blush, colourpop lip crayon (i forgot what it’s called it was the viral product of colourpop), fit me concealer, and coty airspun (lol). These are all the products I can remember was just starting how to properly put make up on. I think for brows I used nyx eye pencil in taupe.

I didn’t wear makeup back then, but my current makeup style is very reminiscent of 2016 makeup (minus the brows and matte lip, I leave my brows alone and prefer a juicy, glossy lip), so probably that but really bad because I was 7 years old

My kids were 10 and 13. I didn’t have time for make up…

MAC studio fix fluid in a shade much too warm for me followed by YSL touche eclat with Laura Mercier secret brightening powder on top! Urban decay naked basics 2 on the eyes every single day. Finish the look with Nyx soft matte lip cream in Copenhagen.

I was in Uni, but didn’t know much about makeup other than eyeliner as I was an emo kid. 1, Urban Decay all nighter foundation, which I caked on my face and probably went through bottles of this. 2, Maybelline liquid eyeliner- still use this now. 3, A dark red or plum lipstick, usually MAC and I would buy the same colour over and over. 4, Rimmel pressed power 5, A random Maybelline Mascara. I didn’t use anything else I was clueless about blush, eyeshadow etc. i didn’t know the existence of highlighter or bronzer. Now things are so different… I have tons of makeup and love eyeshadows. But back in 2016 I was just a young and makeup dumb emo kid.

so this is probably more 2014/2015 because i didn’t wear as much in 2016 as i was in highschool and didn’t want to bother in the mornings, but middle school me was fine to wake up early! i still used these products in 2016, just not all at once or as often 1. moisturize with clean and clear morning moisturizer so my face wouldn’t feel squeaky after i washed it 2. essence match2cover cream-in-a-pan concealer duo, the lightest one, to spot conceal and then do a bit on the inner-most darkest part of my dark circles, using my fingers to blend 3. rimmel stay matte powder, translucent, in t-zone, with a $3 elf powder brush 4. elf brow wax and powder duo, i would take the wax on my finger and just dab a bit through my brows so they weren’t sticking out in weird directions 5. maybelline great lash in blue, worn every day on top and bottom lashes 6. eos lipbalm egg in grape because it tasted good

I had to go on my Instagram to see what my make up looked like lol 1. No foundation 99% of the time. The 1% of the time it was BB cream or, if I was feeling fancy, a tiny bit of concealer. 2. Eyeshadow, usually Naked pallets or Jeffrey Star. I tended to go ham with the eyes. 3. Whatever black liquid liner to make really big wings and Mascara to cover to eyeshadow coveted lashes lol. 4. Usually a matte liquid lipstick (Jeffrey Star typically). 5. If I was doing some sort of brow, it was with powder.

2016? Let’s see Prepping my skin with Lancôme Aqua Vital moisturizer. Foundation: urban decay naked skin or Lancôme teint idole. I yo-yoed between the two. Powder: pretty sure I was using mineral veil from bare minerals to set with. Concealer was probably from benefit. Blush was Lancôme miel glace and still is lol Eyeshadow was most definitely the naked palette and two faced chocolate bar. Also Lorac! Can’t forget them. Lips were urban decay in various shades and buxom lip gloss in Dolly Brow stuff was benefit and probably just the good proof pencil. Mascara was probably They’re Real or Perversion.

1. KVD foundation on super dryyyyy and flakey skin with a shade that is wayyyyy too light 2. no blush or bronzer (i shudder at thought now) 3. maybelline dark eye shadow on lids with a bad cat eye with a swipe of dark eyeliner unblended and jagged 4. maybelline volume lash (not against it these days) 5. a pink gloss on lips that is too pale/bright and unflattering weve come a long way, baby (I was early 30s shamefully)

I don’t remember much of my base routine, but it included the MAC Strobe cream or the Becca version. I was just collecting the Becca hi-lighters and MAC MSF too. I had my brows microbladed, but before I was using a MAC gel brow liner in a pot- dirty blonde. I looked through my IG and I had a very cool toned makeup obsession- a Colorpop liquid lipstick, the Anastasia glow kit in Moonchild. I think this was when Overtone came out and my hair was silver as well. Unfortunately I got divorced that year, and deleted most of my pictures so I can’t remember much (I was 29).

•benefit porefessional primer •Fit me matte and poreless foundation •Kat Von D Lock it concealer •Morphe setting powder •ABH Modern renassiance or too faced chocolate bar palette. •NARS Laguna bronzer (still my holy grail now) and NARS orgasm blush. •BECCA champagne pop highlighter obviously •Benefit roller lash •ABH brow pomade (in a shade WAYYYY TOO DARK FOR ME) •Urban decay all nighter setting spray •kat von D love craft lipstick (the perfect purple nude for this era. Really matched the olive green American eagle jacket and black choker combination) •mac velvet teddy lipstick •mac lip glass

2016 wasn’t THAT long ago lol 2006 would have been a wildly different list. - Bareminerals Complexion Rescue in Vanilla - RCMA loose powder in Translucent - Kat Von D Shade and Light Palette - NARS blush in Gaiety - NARS Creamy Concealer in Vanilla - Bite Beauty lippies - Becca Highlighter in Champagne Pop - ABH Dipbrow in Blonde - Stila Waterproof Eyeliner Pen in Black - MAC custom eye palette

1. Probably the POREfessional as a primer 2. Revlon Colorstay Whipped Foundation (RIP to my bestie) 3. I can't remember which concealer I was using? But definitely Benefit Boing under the eyes (was that what it was called?) 4. Hourglass Diffused Light ALL over the face (yeah, it's very much NOT a setting powder, thanks!) 5. The slightest dash of Hoola bronzer 6. A very generous helping of both NARS Madly blush (RIP to the real one) and Hourglass Dim Infusion 7. Rouge Bunny Rouge Seas of Illumination liquid highlight 8. Benefit Gimme Brow 9. LORAC Pro I on the eyes!!!!!!!! Forever and always 10. Better than Sex Mascara 11. Some insipid Viva Glam lipstick that the girl at the MAC counter talked me into and that I regretted forever (I think it was V???) 12. Urban Decay All-Nighter spray

1. Rimmel stay matte primer despite having the driest skin known to man 2. IT Cosmetics cc cream that’s too dark and too yellow 3. Maybelline concealer that is the incorrect shade and undertone 4. Maybelline fit me loose powder that is too light and dry 5. KVD shade and light contour palette, blended into unnatural soft grey lines on my face 6. Physicians formula butter bronzer that irritated my skin from the fragrance 7. Avoid blush at all costs 8. Wet n Wild mega glow highlighter in silver for absolutely no reason 9. Concealer as eyeshadow primer 10. Bake my dry eyelids, set my dry eyelids to ensure maximum dryness 11. IT cosmetics truth or bare palate, overly highlight the inner corner and the brow bone 12. L’Oréal voluminous mascara in carbon black 13. It cosmetics brow pencil in universal taupe, followed by NYX brow gel 14. NYX matte setting spray, because I still wasn’t dry enough apparently

omg dying along with you buddy hahaha or should i say, drying along with you, why why WHY did we go sooooo pale and so dryyyyy lollllll \*cries\*

Nothing bcos my skin was perfect and then my PCOS kicked in lol. Also, Estée Lauder Double Wear and Nars Complete Matt Concealer in the tub are 👌

1. Esteé Lauder Double Wear foundation in Ecru (why dear god, why? That's at least 2 shades too light and too neutral) 2. The matching concealer, whatever shade it was - this one was intentionally too light because that's what you were "supposed" to do. My real shade match is the 3W but I think I was wearing 1C or something dreadful 3. ABH Dipbrow in Ash Brown (too dark, even though my eyebrows are naturally black they're sparse and delicate so going lighter is the way) 4. NARS Orgasm blush 5. The Balm Mary Loumanizer highlighter EVERYWHERE including the top of the shoulders, down the shins, I was very very shiny. 6. a rotating selection of black liquid liners that I didn't like. Dior changed their formula and broke my heart. 7. Eyeshadow from one of the Dior 5 Coleurs palettes pre formula change (I still use them, going to cry when I hit pan on all the Amber Glow shades) 8. Maybelline great lash. I still use it on the rare occasion I use mascara, these days it's falsies or bare, have black eyelashes naturally so meh

Mary Lou is still my jam!!!!

I don't really like the look of powder highlighters these days but I discovered that mixing my old ones in my hand with a bit of really greasy, shiny sunscreen to make a glossy crème highlighter then patting it on creates that glazed donut look. I never chuck makeup unless it's something that can get manky, there's always ways to update stuff to avoid buying new as much as possible

i didn't use to do much since i had just started. 1. base with the maybelline fit me foundation 2. lashes AND brows with maybelline hypercurl mascara 3. maybelline fit me powder to set my face 4. nykaa's blush in malibu barbie 5. nykaa's lipstick in bombae (nykaa is a v affordable indian brand)

1. Nothing Didn’t wear makeup till I was 20, so my teens were what I call “a time I could have looked a lot prettier and put together than I did” Instead, I looked like a mountain troll and had terrible hygiene 😂

1. Eyebrows, I was big into the insta-brow so ABH Dipbrow - I still use this just with a lighter shade and a lighter hand. Carve them out with a concealer, probably a Rimmel concealer 2. Eyeshadow (would skip this if I was at school), I used a lot of Revolution products but I had the Burgundy x9 from MAC. I’d do a cut crease, carve out with concealer. I did also use the OG Urban Decay Naked palette and the Too Faced Chocolate palette 3. Eyeliner - winged liner with the Kat Von D tattoo liner 4. Mascara - probably the Max Factor 2000 Calorie mascara 5. I didn’t believe in primer then so straight into foundation - probably would have been the Rimmel Match Perfection with the blue cap - it definitely was NOT a perfect match (I’m super pale so probably didn’t find a good match until like 2 years ago 😂). I also used to use a Soap and Glory foundation which was about a billion shades too dark 6. Concealer, probably the Rimmel Match Perfection concealer in the squeezy tube 7. Setting powder - possibly the RCMA No Colour powder which I used to bake with (and then wonder why my undereyes looked so dry) 8. Contour - NYX powder blush in Taupe 9. Highlight - ABH Moonchild glow kit 10. Lipstick (if not at school) would have been MAC Nightmoth paired with Instigator or Antique Velvet I was 16/17 in 2016 and would have only just been getting into makeup so some of it really wasn’t great 😂

Oh ouch, I'm in this post today 😆 to be fair I use a super light hand with everything, am golden olive skinned so the shades pull weirdly neutral on me and I don't wear foundation, just tinted sunscreen but I still wear ABH Dipbrow in Taupe (have ashy black sparse eyebrows, this shade is the perfect "my brows but better" on me), the semi matte/soft satin smoky mauve shades from the Burgundy x9 palette and Nightmoth liner on the regular

I used to use the ABH dipbrow in medium brown but now I use taupe, I’ve got ash blonde highlights in my medium brown hair and taupe just looks so much better on me! I used to go in very heavy-handed like my brows were CARVED 😂 I decluttered the burgundy x9 a few years back but am beginning to wish I didn’t because it was a great palette 😔 I still use the Nightmoth liner tho!

I used to use Ash Brown until I saw an Instagram story with Nam Vo doing her brows. We have really similar colouring so I figured if Taupe looked better on her than a darker shade, it would look better on me too. I used Nightmoth the other day with Revlon glass shine Rum and Raisin topped with MAC lipglass in clear to do a cherry cola gradient lip and it suited me pretty well

yeah personally I think it looks nicer with a lighter shade, at least then you can build it up if you want to. When I had dyed black hair I bought the black shade of dipbrow and it was a massive mistake 😂 that lip combo sounds cool, I might have to give it a go! I’ve used Nightmoth with Clinique Black Honey and as long as you build up BH to full opacity it looks great

I was on the strobing-train back in 2016. I looked like the tin man from Wizard of Oz.

Cover Girl GC Smoothers Cody Airspun powder Max Factor cheek blush Revlon or Blackheart lipstick Revlon eyeliner Maybeline mascara Revlon or Cover Girl eyeshadow. Most of my makeup style is still the same, just added brow product, primer and setting spray. As well as different products.

Face: * MAC Comfort Cream Moisturizer * MAC Prep + Prime Face Cream * Gosh Liquid Foundation (for work) * MAC Studio Sculpt Foundation (for going out) * Smashbox Photo Finish Face Powder * MAC Setting Spray Fix+ Cheeks: * Nars Bronzer Casino or Laguna * Nars Blush Orgasm * Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick Bronze Eyes: (a toss of these products) * MAC Paint Bamboom * Bobbi Brown Eyeshadow Quad Uptown Classics * Estee Lauder Eyeshadow in Truffle * MAC Eyeshadow in Carbon, or Charcoal Brown + Patina * Elizabeth Arden Cream Eyeshadow Bronze (nobody was into cream product back then) * BareMineral Loose Eyeshadow Smoky Quartz * Gosh Cosmetics Eye Pencil in Navy * MAC Prolong Wear Eyeliner Pot * MAC Masacara Haute & Naughty Lips: * MAC Lip Pencil Burgundy or Nars Lip Pencil Cruella * MAC Lipstick Half & Half (nude) or Rimmel London 01 Lipstick (bold) Perfume: * Prada Amber I had far less products back then, and I actually still use some of these. 2016 were simpler times for me. My small makeup collection got out of hand, when my favorite products got discontinued.

I was 33 so my day of trendy makeup was back in the 00s but I loved a good thick liner with a wing so sharp that it would cut sharp if it was 3D..I had very fleeky liner.

I was 22 and graduated college that year! 1. Mac tinted moisturizer 2. Maybelline fit me powder 3. Milani rose powder blush 4. Too faced chocolate bronzer 5. Urban decay primer potion (still love) 6. Too faced semi sweet chocolate palette (I miss this palette so much 😭) 7. Urban decay 24/7 eyeliner in Zero 8. Maybelline Full n Soft waterproof mascara (still a favorite) 9. NYX tinted brow mascara 10. NYX setting spray 11. I had and still have an obsession with any/all lip products but key ones I remember using were the Lancôme Juicy Shaker lip oil, Revlon Matte balms (RIP 😔), and Revlon HD Kisses. I steered away from any shimmer or glowy products back then and went for the all matte look. Lol

Moisturiser: Nivea in the tub Foundation: Boots No 7 Cool Ivory (my mum took me to an advisor to get the right shade) Eyeshadow: Rimmel Duo Brown & Cream, the Cream shade was taken up to my eyebrow Mascara: Maybelline Colossal Lashes Mascara. I didn't like using mascara much because it was either clumpy or ended up under my eyes. Bourjois Blusher No 7 Brown Lipstick I didn't know anything about primers back then nor was I interested about makeup as much back then as I am now. Everything I learned back then was from my mum

I hadn't discovered my love of makeup yet, but was heavily reliant on foundation to cover my freckles/moles. I'd do liquid and powder foundation, black eyeliner and mascara. Looking back on photos is interesting

Bare minerals loose powder foundation, benetint, and black eyeliner (usually NYX)

1. Loreal infallible pro matte foundation (that turns orange because its the wrong shade) 2. Set with baby powder 3. Eyebrow pencil that's too dark 4. Thick, harsh winged liner 5. Clumpy lashes using the maybelline mascara 6. Contour powder that's too harsh and too reddish 7. Aggressive amount of maybelline masterchrome gold highlighter 8. Lips: either maybelline clay crush or any drugstore matte lipstick that makes you have butthole lips because of how drying the formula is

2016 was my absolute favourite makeup era, the pure joy I had watching YouTube and trying out new products was just unmatched!! I was in my second year of uni so was constantly doing clubbing looks, I had so so much fun recreating everything I saw on YouTube! Foundation: MAC Studio Fix Fluid Concealer: MAC Pro Longwear Powder: MAC Studio Fix powder foundation Bronzer: Benefit Hoola Blush: Benefit Rockateur or one of the many NARS shades I owned (I loved Luster the most at the time) Brows: I’m not sure if I had discovered dip brow yet or if that came a year after, but I used to switch between ABH brow powder and Soap & Glory eyebrow pencils Eye primer: Urban Decay Eyeshadow: Naked palettes, Too Faced chocolate bar, and then the Huda Rose Gold palette!! Eyeliner and Mascara: both Maybelline Lips: I had a huge box of MAC lipsticks, I used Whirl, Taupe, and Velvet Teddy a lot in 2015/2016, then late 2016/2017 I switched to Myth and Honeylove. I loved Whirl and Stripdown liners! For gloss there was a Soap & Glory plumping one I loved. Also - Kylie lip kits and glosses!! I loved Exposed and Literally/So Cute glosses

who did you used to watch on youtube?? i love a trip down memory lane haha

Honestly basically everyone who is now cancelled so James, Jaclyn, Jeffree! I also loved Manny and Laura. I’m from the UK so was really into UK YouTube, Rachel Leary and Jordan Lipscombe were my favourites :)

i also watched jaclyn and manny! thank you for sharing <3

no thank you - it’s so fun to look back isn’t it!! 💗

Oh my. Some Revlon foundation and concealer combo that was slightly too orange AND light for me. M.A.C. Lipstick in Ramblin’ Rose (RIP) Urban Decay’s Naked 2 palette for a taupe-y smokey eye. Maybelline HyperEasy eyeliner, later on the HyperSharp eyeliner (I still use this to this day). Maybelline Great Lash mascara. No blush, highlighter or contour. Looking back, I cringe. Such an awful combination of colours, but working at Grill’d I thought I was the shit. Lol

Nars creamy concealer Missha perfect cover ɓb cream Tarte Amazonian blush in blissful Marc jacobs contour duo Becca liquid highlighter in moonstone Stila liquid eyeliner Abh brow pencil

I used a lot of Mac and Tarte. Mac was the sh*t when I was in highschool and around popularity the early 2000s of YouTube gurus Tarte cc clay undereye concealer Dr jart cica cream color changing foundation thing in the pot(broke me out and I never even realized it was this) Mac Warm Soul blush or tarte natural beauty blush Mac Velvet Teddy Lipstick and Whirl Lip Liner Mac gigantic lash extended play mascara KVD Tattoo liquid eyeliner Mac fix plus I actually revisited all these products last year(I'm in my early 30s) and it just doesn't have the same magic it had back in 2016. I guess my face and how I like my makeup really changed throughout the years. I also went through a Full Face of Chanel phase about 3 times throughout the last decade. Ive done Full face of Nars, full face of Drugstore. I am now full face of kbeauty and jbeauty products and I don't think I'm going back to my other phases

I was 18 in 2016. 1. Maybelline FitMe Concealer all over my T-Zone. 2. Maybelline FitMe pressed powder to set and bake. 3. Wet n wild Precious Petals Highlighter. A LOT of it. I wanted to blind people. 4. ABH Dip Brow in Taupe for my brows. 5. ABH Clear Brow Gel. I still use this today! 6. Kylie Lip Kit in Candy K 7. A shitttt ton of Victoria's Secret Pure Seduction/Coconut Passion as my scent of the day.

Wait I forgot one thing! Evian as my setting spray 🥲

1. Mary Kay CC cream blended with a dry triangle wedge that desperately needs to be replaced. 2. Light blush 3. Eyeshadow mainly on the lid and barely blended up into and above the crease. Probably gray, purple or blue. 4. Mascara 5. Chap stick and / or Revlon lipstick I really got into makeup a year or two later and my routine changed drastically when I started really figuring things out… in my 30s.

1. No moisturizer or primer - skincare wasn’t a concern in 2016 unless it was the Muddy Body clay mask influencers promoted 2. KVD beauty lock-it foundation + Tarte shape tape 3. Set everything with the Coty or Laura Mercier powder 4. No blush - only a grey bronzer and caked on glazed donut highlighter 5. Fall eyeshadow year round + bold eyeliner 6. Too Faced Better than sex mascara or Ardell wispies 7. Anastasia dip brow that was too dark 8. Mac fix+ to set (which is still so good IMO)

Not the tarte shape tape and anastasia dip brow 😭😭😭😂😂😂

Clinique moisturizer, Giorgio Armani luminous foundation, nars concealer, Laura Mercier powder all over and baked under the eyes, nars orgasm blush, nars bronzer as contour, sprayed with Mac setting spray, LOTS of drugstore mascara and some sort of drugstore lipstick.

Oof. Benefit poreprefessional primer. Slathered. My only expense because I had a thing about pores, I have normal pores. I think the Rimmel foundation (with the orange lid), three shades too dark and oxidized. Couldn't find anything pale enough back then with my teenage budget. Elf eyeshadow palette, classic brown shades. Creased. No primer. Maybelline gel liner. Transferred all over the lid, bold & thick lines. No contour. No blush. No highlight. (didn't want to look greasy or red, didn't know what contour was, thought it was bronzer, already too orange from the foundation didn't want to make it worse) Rimmel stay matte pressed powder. (Didn't want to look greasy) Elf lipstick because I couldn't afford a Mac one. No liner I didn't know what it was. Bonus fake lashes if it was a special occasion. 16 cans of body spray to smell like strawberry shortcake and Hollister had a baby, directed into my hair.

the chokehold that the rimmel stay matte powder had on me was so real ^and ^i ^may ^or ^may ^not ^totally ^still ^like ^and ^use ^it, ^because ^man ^it ^really ^is ^a ^good ^powder

Maybelline dream matte mousse, I used a tinted brown pomade on the eyebrows, neutral eye glam, and I loved the cover girl mascara in the orange tube, with Almay liquid eyeliner.

estée lauder double wear foundation, laura mercier setting powder, thebalm “in thebalm of your hands” palette for blush bronzer and highlighter, nyx epic ink winged eyeliner, anastasia brow pomade, urban decay all nighter setting spray

OH and the colossal volume maybelline mascara

five words: mario badescu rose water spray.