If you had to pick a beauty icon it would be Lizzie McGuire <3 (Picture: Nickelodeon)

Being a noughties teenager was the best thing ever. Mostly because everything we owned in life was shimmery, glittery and bright – especially our make-up.

Here are the 19 products we all had in our (Hello Kitty) make-up bag.

1. Argos make-up set

Circled in the catalogue back in October, it was one of these bad boys that had pride of place in our bedrooms. So many lip glosses to apply with a lip brush (wtf?), so many eye shadows. Dreamy.


2. Pink shimmer lip glosses

They all looked like this, they were all pretty much the same shade, they all collected hairs and dust around the lid, and your favourite one tasted like strawberry.

3. Maybelline Dream Matte Mouse



You could get it for a fiver and it soaked up all of that lovely teenage oil that puddled up on your face, cute.

4. Anything Natural Collection

Your mum would happily buy you a new eye shadow from this Boots brand because NATURAL is in the name. It can do no harm. Plus, it had a pretty daisy logo.

5. Claire’s glitter hairspray

And if you went shopping on a Saturday a shop assistant would spritz it in your hair for free. Saturday night sleepover hairstyle sorted.

6. So…? Kiss Me perfume

This was pretty much the most solid way to ensure your crush came near you at the school disco. How could he resist when you smelt as sexy and sassy as this, eh?

7. Hair mascara

Standard. Every babe needed blue highlights.

8. Collection 2000 liquid eyeliner

Applied at least five times before a house party to really nail a dramatic eye, obvs.

9. Lip Smackers

Because how else were you going to stopped chapped lips, eh?

(Picture: Lip Smacker)

10. Lip Smacker roll-on lip gloss

These were of vital importance to your lip well-being, also.

(Picture: Lip Smacker)

11. Lip smacker liquid

And these beauties which literally just tasted like putting syrup on your lips, and you normally just licked it off before re-applying. Sassy.

(Picture: Lip Smacker)

12. Maybelline Great Lash Mascara

It was the only mascara to have fun packaging, so you went with it.

13. Anything from Sabrina’s Secrets magazine

Hey, you could get an entire make-up set worthy of a make-up artist if you could just collect every single issue.

14. Eyeshadow palletes

As long as it included blue or purple and looked like this, you wanted it. Desperately.

15. Impulse body spray

As far as you were concerned this was the same as that ‘antiperspirant’ thing the PE teachers were banging on about; it just smelt nicer.

16. Clear mascara

Surely it just did the same job as the black stuff but didn’t leave you with panda eyes if you accidentally rubbed your face?

17. Barry M glitter pots

They were damn expensive at £4 each but they just transformed your eyes into something that Britney would be proud of.

(Picture: Barry M)

18. Roll-on glitter

There was no point even showing up to the year 7 disco unless you had this slathered across your chest and arms.

19. Coloured mascara

Because black was boring. You wanted to be bright and fun and cool and hip.

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