Finger Blast from the Past: 90s Make-up Styles

finger blast finger blast oh finger blast found the best all right loose all right thanks are you ready to do a little finger blast with me this week i'm excited have you bent over are you flexible excuse me i just prefer to lie there to be honest you haven't warmed up you're not going to lean into it i'm not leaning into this one

Well, I put on some foundation this morning and because my Dubai tan is now fucked off and I actually haven't faked on my face in a few days because when I'm touring, I pretty much, it's like, I feel like I'm on.

like strictly always have a general crusty layer of tan that's going on and now that's all kind of faded because I'm having a two-week break from tour um I put my foundation on and my foundation was just nowhere near the same color as my face so I looked really orange and then I had a proper

tan line so i ended up having to blend my foundation basically down to my nipples in order to To not look like I was back in 1995 and I'd been down to boots and I'd spent my pocket money on a bit of Maybelline Dream Matte Moose Foundation. That was the completely wrong shade for my faith, but I'm still going to rock it anyway.

Because that was just what we did in the 90s. There was no such thing as color matching. There was nobody stood there on a counter telling you not to buy something. They were like, no, here you go. Here you have this Ron Seal fence.

staining dip for your face um that is going to block every pore on your outer walls that society have to see um and then two days time you're gonna have the worst outbreak of your life and the only way to counterbalance this is to put on top of your dip that is a completely wrong color for your face a um collection 2000 concealer that is whiter than snow and then you're just going to dab that on all of your spots and you're not going to blend it in oh my god

So what do you want to finger blast today, Soph? I want to finger blast our 1990s makeup. styles is what i would like to finger blast because wow and i honestly and i know we've talked about this for hair and things before in the past and hairstyles and the technology that is now available to

the generation now that is needing it. And of course, we didn't have it at our fingertips, did we? When we were younger, we had no fingertips because we burnt them all off trying to straighten our hair with our mum's Morphe Richards steam plus iron. I think the same about makeup for kids nowadays. You see them all on TikTok. They're all doing the contour. They're all doing the blend. They look amazing. And I just think back to sad, little, badly color matched. Millennials. Old Earth.

Just looking like an absolute dog's fucking dinner. Going out trying to blag to the bouncers on our local Yatesies that we were in fact 18. We were 15 there just dancing to two times.

with an apple vk in our hands and just you know that of course a completely different color to our faces so one of my favorites right was apart from the Maybelline Dream Matte Moose Foundation base um was a sweet sizzle lipstick This was my go-to. A sweet silver. This was number 17. So I don't think that that exists anymore. I think they just have number seven, but number 17 was like the teeny bop, wasn't it? The teeny bop. Do they not have it anymore? No, it's gone.

I'm pretty sure it's gone and it's now just number seven. have a google but i think that number 17 is no more um and i did i used to get the sweet sizzle lipstick and i had the sweet sizzle lipstick because it went very very nicely with my white and pink gingham checked tammy girl shift dress

And my pink pearlescent juju jelly shoes that of course I wore for the year seven and eight disco with our local boys school, St. Margaret's. Okay. Cause I was in the all girls schools. We used to have to kind of come together with the local boys school. just so we could snog random boys and drink a bit of Mad Dog round bike sheds. So yeah, I had a bit of sweet sizzle. I also was very, very partial to a bit of Heather Shimmer.

was my other one which i think was also number seven oh no i think it was rimmel i think it was rimmel heather shimmer lipstick and that was quite just brown just brown maybe with a hint of a purple tone to it like a plum yeah it wasn't a good look but you know it did have a little shimmer to it so that kind of you know disco raved your lips up a little bit they would probably be my go-tos if I was gonna you know really dull myself up

for a night out what was yours well let me tell you first 17 still exists oh it's no longer number 17 it's 17 full stop oh let's see what they did there But yeah, they've got an eyeshadow palette there. They've got... um another level volume mascara uh they've got second skin enhancing concealer they've got it they have they've got it so it looks it looks very different it does look a bit different to how it was back in the day i remember it i remember it very basic package yeah

very basic packaging um i think it all everything was just a white lid and just a plastic bottle yeah they really saved their pennies no frills yeah so my go-to so i actually i i feel like i inherited a trend when i was about 15 maybe 16 so when we first started going out maybe early 16 and I would have my dream memories foundation actually before that I remember what was it was it a maybelline but it was basically like foundation but it was

in like a stick it was almost like a big fat concealer stick and it was so dry because you had to have it was matte wasn't it you could not have any element of any kind of shine whereas now we're all dewy and glary aren't we back then just just crayon it on yeah it was your skin was like sandpaper so I remember that and also it was quite like your face would it would like be quite pale and then I went for

for a good i'm gonna say i still do it a little bit now but not so intense a very very smoky eye but i'm talking charcoal charcoal black yeah black i would just put like black no i wouldn't have the eyeliner flex i wouldn't have the eyeliner just black eyeshadow black underneath really black eyes and then a really really really soft baby lip gloss oh a gloss gloss oh i tell you i was very partial to a juicy tube juicy juice

That was posh. That was posh. I had a honey one, which was kind of a little bit gold. But again, it just didn't do anything with anyone. But I used to put so much on that when I went... parted my lips you could you could see strings yeah you had the strings in your lip gloss and I just keep adding coats and coats and coats to it um because I was a boy that I fancied his name was Colin

And he was about three years older than me. And I thought, if I put another 10 layers of this juicy tube on his mind, not going to be able to resist these lips, is he?

these lips don't lie yeah so quite partial to a juicy tube and i tell you what you know what you just reminded me of you know you said about how and you painted on your crayon and we all would have matte pieces did you used to have the oil blotting paper everywhere you went like you were like you were rolling a

fag you have like your papers and just look to your face just trying to absorb any form of shine that might have been on your face oh my god they were hilarious you think we can still get those oh wow do people still blot I don't know. I don't, I don't know. I don't, I don't blot. I'm going to pay a lot of money for foundation that makes me look greasy. So no, I don't blot. I feel like, do you know a trend that I've seen that is potentially coming back?

visible lip liner so a darker lip liner than your lips do you know what that reminds me of first series of Big Brother I still remember there was a contestant called kagi and she used to play or caroline and she used to play the saxophone yeah and she had like baby pink lips and dark pink

lip liner and I still I still remember her do you remember that I do I remember the name Kagi but I couldn't tell you what was on her lips um I do remember going out with black eyeliner on my as a lip liner and then having and my concealer for lipstick so oh god and I think I'd even drawn on a fake beauty spot slash mole with my eyeliner

as well it looked so it looked so bad that probably if anybody had seen it they thought she should get herself to a clinic and get that checked out because that doesn't look healthy on her face why is it black and irregular shaped tried to be a bit marilyn monroe oh slash julia roberts i don't know what was going on i've been inspired haven't i by a prostitute who got picked up by a creepy businessman it's a very confusing moral of the story

The concealer on the lips, though, I remember my friend Kat, she used to wear this. It was Natural Collection from Boots. Natural Collection. Natural Collection, yeah. And I remember she used to get the concealer and wear it as a lipstick. And literally, it was... She didn't have a lip. It was just like there was nothing there. Continuation of her face. Discontinuation. I remember once.

um doing it to my lips and I think I might have talked about this before I remember I was going out must have been about 17 and I'd neutralized my lips let's put it that way and I remember going to the front room my dad was like see me darling are you okay you look a bit pearly It was because my mum was like, no, she's just got... She's just trendy, Morris. Yeah, exactly. But I did. I looked like ill. Ill. Yeah.

trend come from oh i don't know but it could probably stay wherever it came from really not a great look was it um i used to wear as well clear mascara for what purpose it did nothing i look like a thumb just a thumb With no definition on my face whatsoever. We only plucked eyebrows that you didn't fill in because you didn't... Was that well? Eyebrows were, you know, not a thing. They weren't allowed, were they? We all basically were meant to look like Voldemort.

Just nothing. No eyebrows and no eyelashes. I would go and stay in Ireland with my cousin, like my family over there, Easter and stuff. I remember once going over and my cousin would be like, let me get onto your eyebrow. Like, cause I had like caterpillars, like, you know, like proper teen brows, which would be great. Eat now.

yeah but she would she i remember once she plugged them they were up to a hairline and there was it was like a line that's like um spock brows now that you get after you have bad botox it lifts your eyebrows up and you get eyebrows like that yeah They were so, honestly, I need to find a picture, but they were so thin. It was literally just one line. These were in the days before you were Lucy with the friend. So everybody, you were just Lucy with the shit eyebrows.

Yeah, I was. Lucy with the pubes sticking out over them. Yeah, that was an awful, awful time, wasn't it? I had eyebrows quite reminiscent of sperms. I had quite bulbous at the end. And then they went quite thin. So experimented a tadpole with kind of the look that I was going for with me thumb eyes and my dodgy black lined lips. Wow. Did you as well? Something that I remember doubling in as a late teen, if I was going out, out.

and the sort of the crazy night out in Berwick that we would have would be a bit of glitter. Oh, you have to have a bit of glitter. There was the glitter. Remember, can you remember the glitter gel eyeshadow? And you'd put it on and then you'd open your eye and it would just all stick in the crease of your eye. Like somebody had come on your face. Yeah.

You'd spend like 10 minutes perfecting this beautifully glittered eye shadow with this gel and then you'd open your eyes and close them again and they would just all be stuck up.

so i see your um your glitter eyeshadow and i raise you glitter nits which is when you used to sprinkle your glitter in your hair as well glitter yeah oh god because you had your hair twisted of course with your twisty twisties with your butterfly clips in and then your spiky bit at the back so your glitter nits were very prevalent everybody could see they were hanging out around there it was a bad time wasn't it that's it i just i just look at my daughter now and i just think

you know you're welcome mommy and all of mommy's friends i feel that we sacrificed ourselves almost that we went through those pains so that they didn't have to they were the sacrifices of millennials If I go through and look at my makeup, I have still got like a MAC eyeshadow that I must have bought in 2006. Jet black one, charcoal. It will be. What have you got from back of the day? So I have a charcoal matte.

black one also have a purple version of it and a green like for what what was i what was i going out dressed as a quality street what was i what was i wearing on my face you were so crazy i was so crazy I've still got random bits of jewellery though also that I... kept you know just in case just big medallions with beads attached on either side that kind of made me look a little bit like I'd won an Olympic medal in 1302. I don't know if the Olympics existed back then but yeah.

That's what it looked like. Yeah, it's mad. And then there was the whole pastel eyeshadow phase, you know, like Britney would wear her lilacs and her pink.

yeah blues that like you've been set outside for six hours in a winter's day yeah you mean hypothermia especially if you teamed that with your nude lips nude lips and a blue eyeshadow your mom be like quick take it pulse I told her this is what happened because she went out in a short top and her kidneys were exposed now she's got a chill on them she's going to need a transplant

That was the fear, wasn't it, as well? And you went out in your baby t-shirt that was a little bit cropped as well. Oh, I hate the 90s. We spent the whole decade trying to look older and now we're spending the rest of our lives trying to look younger. And I would go back to the 90s. despite how depressing the fashion and the makeup was because I would have been 15 and what a great time to be alive. Honestly.