25 Old School '00s Beauty Trends You Most Definitely Forgot About
So bad, and yet so, so good
By Chloe Metzger
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Ah, the '00s. A truly glorious time when boy bands were still relevant, blow-up furniture topped your wish list, Limited Too was the holy grail of happiness, and every single girl in your class lived by the following wonderfully awful beauty trends. And you better get your comfy shoes on, because we're about to take a long, uncomfortable walk down memory lane.
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Britney Spears' Crimped Hair
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Part crimped, part curled, part flat-ironed, and 100-percent the hair you dreamed of in middle school.
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Anne Hathaway's Glittery Prom Curls
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Thick sausage curls in need of a good finger-raking, topped with a layer of glitter hair spray? Your mom has this same photo of you currently sitting on her mantel.
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Tia Mowry's Blushed-Out Cheeks
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Basically the same as you when you got your first blush compact from Claire's.
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Kelly Clarkson's Chunky Highlights
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But...why? Why?!
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Paris Hilton's Bejeweled Hair
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Let us have a moment of silence for the little crystals that twisted into your hair, but never actually stayed put.
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Amanda Byne's Flat-Ironed Hair
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This photo represents the first time you ever flat-ironed your non-layered hair, leaving you with a triangular, semi-poofy finish. Also, please note the hardcore powdered skin and lavender shadow.
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Melissa Joan Hart's Woven Hair
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Ah, the art of splitting tiny ponytails and rubber-banding them to other tiny ponytails, creating a woven hair web that was actual hell to take out.
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Gabrielle Union's Center Part
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Flipped out ends with a super-straight center part? Yup, we lived there.
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Hilary Duff's Chopsticks
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Duff's (hardcore culturally appropriated) chopsticks defied gravity by staying in a perfect X shape that yours never would.
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Mischa Barton's Beachy Waves
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BEHOLD! THE OG (OC) BEACHY WAVES! The hairstyle that, even to this day, you still can't master!
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Mandy Moore's Cali-Girl Look
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Shimmery purple eyeshadow, overly-bronzed skin, shiny lips, and choppy, flipped-out layers? This was everything we ever wanted and more.
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Beyoncé's Hair Flower
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We mean, why *wouldn't* you wear a fake flower in your hair in October, and November, and December, and every single other day for the entirety of the early aughts?
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Britney Spears' High Pigtails
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Britney Spears wore high pigtails, so you wore high pigtails.
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Brenda Song's Headband
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Chunky plastic headbands, stretchy mesh headbands, bandanas tied up like handbands—it didn't matter to 2005 you. As long as it was a headband, you were wearing it.
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Ashley Tisdale's Hair Bubble
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The tinier and pointier the pouf, the better. Bonus points if you tricked yours out with a ridiculously bright clip.
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Ashley Olsen's Half-Up Waterfall
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Perfectly swooped, clipped, and splayed out, Ashley's half-up hair was a thing of '00s dreams.
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Rachel Bilson's Copper Cheeks
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Since you couldn't live in the sun-soaked OC like you wanted, you had to settle for swirling heavy layers of orange-y copper bronzer across your cheeks and forehead.
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Alicia Keys' Dark-Lined Lips
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Why use a lip liner that matches your lipstick—or, let's get real, lipgloss—when you can use one approximately five shades darker?
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Lindsay Lohan's Rimmed Eyes
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If you didn't mash black eyeliner across your upper lash line, your lower lash line, your water line, your inner water line, and any other piece of skin that might possibly peek out from your eyes, you were not an '00s kid.
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Jessica Simpson's Face-Framing Layers
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Why have a soft cascade of layers when you could have two long, narrow strips of hair that hung straight in your face?