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People Are Shading Gen Z's Viral 2000s Makeup Challenge For Not Being Legit

Updated September 8, 2021

I'm going to need you to stop for a second and just look around you — what do you see? Okay, probably your bedroom wall and your dog on your bed, but I'm not talking about your physical surroundings.

Okay, I'll help you out. Y2K style is EVERYWHERE, and youngins on the Vine revival application TikTok are trying it out, but Millennials are not having it.

It's the year 2000. The clock has struck midnight and everyone is freaking out because we were told the world is ending.

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And really, the world would end in a different way.

Low-rise jeans, shimmery shadow, pencil-thin brows, baby crop tops, spaghetti straps, Limited Too anything, newsboy hats, and bum text sweatpants took over.

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The list of doom really goes on and on.

Fast-forward 19 years later, and there's a 2000s makeup challenge going around the app TikTok.

TikTok | @chaseevers_

Youngsters are giving themselves Y2K-inspired makeup looks.

Most of the users pop Britney Spears' 'Oops!... I Did It Again' over the videos to really set the ambiance.

TikTok | @positiveidaa

These video mashup tutorials include a lot of butterfly clips and lots of blue eyeshadow.

Many people were loving these tutorials.

TikTok | @sophiekraynak

You can't deny those sweet sweet nostalgia feels!

But if you were a tween or teen during the 2000s, then you may have picked up on some oddities during the tutorials.

It's safe to say, not everyone is loving these 2000s makeup recreations.

Millennials are shading these tutorials HARD.

They got the blue eyeshadow right, sure. I guess we can give them props for that.

But there was more to 2000s makeup than just shimmery blue eyeshadow.

There was definitely a more DIY aesthetic to our makeup looks.

Twitter | @ellle_em

Remember finger painting Dream Matte Mousse foundation on your face? I sure do, but I wish I didn't remember that.

We didn't have access to YouTube beauty gurus to teach us how to properly blend any form of makeup on our faces.

Contouring sure as heck didn't exist! I don't even think it was a real word until 2014.

We also sure as heck did not have liquid eyeliner!

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I can remember dragging black pencil eyeliner across my lid several times. Why? I'm not too sure, and I try not to think about it.

This person was even shading the choice of song!

Okay, but it's true. There were so many other songs that defined the time.

I mean, what about even Britney Spears' debut song "Baby One More Time"? What about THAT?!

Cat eyes were for the elite.

I didn't even know it was possible to drag eyeliner beyond my natural eye shape.

You could throw every other iconic makeup item away, and skinny brows would really be what DEFINED this weird time in beauty standards.

Do you know how long it's taken to grow these puppies back out after all that plucking? Like I had to relearn what my real eyebrow shape was, and it was alarming.

This could not be more true.

The only objects used to apply makeup were our fingers or those awful spongey applicator things that came with drugstore eyeshadow pans and did not help at all.

But you gotta give these gals props for appreciating a time period that we thought died.

Did you ever think that anyone would ever think that the 2000s were a cool enough time period to seriously recreate the looks?

We made it.

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