Beauty Trends Tuesdays - Woman 90s Makeup Trends

Today’s post is all about woman’s makeup and cosmetic trends. Makeup looks from the ‘grunge look’ to neutral tones and no-makeup looks.

The early 1990’s makeup trend, ‘grunge look’, primarily consisted of dark red lipstick, slept-in, heavily-applied black eyeliner and black nail polish. Dark eye shadows and mascara were also used to keep the eyes looking dark. Grunge music was a strong influence in this makeup look due to its rising popularity in the early 90s. This style continued into 1994 but was getting out of style the year after. 

During mid 90s, neutral tones became desirable and woman had a broader colour palette with a wide variety of neutral, light pink and brown shades. For eye shadows, lighter shades on the lids and darker shades in the crease then the brow bone highlighted. Eyeliners were usually dark and only applied on the top lid. Matte lipsticks were also a trend that emerged where dark shades of red were worn for an evening look. 

Blue-frosted eye shadows became fashionable.

By 1997, lip gloss and sparkling, glittery makeup had come into style. It was called ‘Y2K makeup’ and consisted of facial glitter and lip gloss.

Plucking eyebrows until they were basically nonexistent was also huge in the 90s. Looking at brow trends of today makes me shudder at the look of those over-plucked eyebrows.

What 90s trend are you still sporting today?

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- Wendy

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Reference

http://www.ehow.com/list_6577215_makeup-styles-90s.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s_in_fashion