This Y2K Beauty Trend Is Back (and Better Than Ever)

I was born in the ’90s and hit peak adolescence in the early to mid-2000s. Even though it was a problematic era for many reasons (I’m convinced body positivity was an unheard-of and almost unfathomable concept), I still look back on it fondly. Back then, I didn’t know I would become a beauty editor, but I knew I loved stealing spritzes of my mom’s perfume, applying the odd Mary Kay lipstick sample, and covering my limbs in blue raspberry-scented body glitter (IYKYK).

One of my favorite Y2K beauty trends was glitter lip gloss. Iconic and eye-catching, I remember seeing some of my favorite celebs photographed with shiny, shimmery lips on the covers of my most-collected teen magazines. I wanted in on the trend. I remember begging my mom to buy me a shimmery pink lip gloss so that I could look like Britney Spears. She acquiesced, and I wore it constantly.