My Beauty Timeline: A Look at the (Mostly) Scary Past of My Hair and Makeup Follies
I’m one of those people that can be described as a chameleon. I change the way I look pretty much every 2-3 months and have since my teens. I change my makeup style, hair style, length and color, and even the way I dress constantly. I cannot tell you how many times someone has said to me “Oh I didn’t recognize you” and I kinda like it that way 
If you asked me what my style was I would say “ever changing”.
Maybe it’s because I’m a Gemini (we get bored easily) or maybe it’s just because I am never satisfied. Whatever my reason is for wanting to look different, it’s been a fun (and sometimes expensive) adventure and I think it will probably continue until the day I drop dead!
Also try to note how much better the camera quality gets (for the most part) as the years go by, it’s kinda cool.
Age 6, 1978 (with my first kitten, Precious)
Age 7, 1979
Age 7:
- Makeup: I snuck on some pink lipgloss before my school photo was taken and then claimed I didn’t have any on when my mom asked about it
- Hair: Long, light blond and straight. Starting around age 8 or 9 I had a “thing” about my hair, being up on either one side or both. I HAD to have it up or I would have a fit. I had some clips with long colored ribbons on them that I loved. Oh and if I wore it in a ponytail and there was a SINGLE LUMP, god help us all.
Oh and no, I haven’t outgrown the hair finickiness (blame it on being a Gemini)
Age 14, 1986 (looking a little like Cherri Currie from The Runaways here, haha)
Age 13: This is when I started wearing makeup
- Makeup: Thick black Wet n Wild eyeliner on the bottom only, winged out. I loved all dark nail polishes, but there weren’t very many back then
- Hair: Shortish, feathered and still naturally blond but getting darker. I started dumping peroxide on it and sitting in the sun at this age. I was DESPERATE for it to grow as fast as possible because no respectable metal-head back in the day had short hair
Age 16, 1988
Age 16:
- Makeup: Blue eyeliner and mascara, three shades of pastel eyeshadow (pink, blue, purple), brows not shaped, nothing on lips or face. The worst!
- Hair: Permed for the first (and last) time. Horrible. I hated the poufiness at first so I wore this godawful bandana on it constantly. I am speechless when I see this, I want to gag
Age 17, 1989
Age 17:
- Makeup: Same horrible eye makeup. You can’t see it in this photo but I had a cast up to my my thigh for 8 weeks. I had my ankle broken by someone throwing a table on it at a Death Angel/Vio-Lence show (oh the irony). There was a huge riot and things got nasty. That’s how I spent my 17th summer
- Hair: Growing out of perm, looking frizzy and bleh
Age 17, 1989
This was taken on New Years at a big party in the city. I am looking particularly ghostly and scary here with the makeup, crimped, frizzy hair, and frosted pink lipstick.
Age 18, 1990 (yep same Metallica shirt)
Age 18:
- Makeup: I finally lost the horrible eyeshadow but still loving the dark liner and mascara. Nose was pierced
- Hair: Still growing out and not dyed much. Somewhere around this time I dyed the tips of my blond hair black. Less than I week later I tried bleaching it out with STRAIGHT Clorox. It faded to brown, so I then cut off the ends
Age 19, 1991
Age 19, 1991
Age 19:
- Makeup: Rocked a major red lip and red fingernail polish almost all the time. The eyshadow was this awful orange/copper color and I wore it up to my brows. Important note: This is the age where I discovered MAC. More on that later.
- Hair: Was finally long and straight, but pretty fried and poufy. It was the Kelly Bundy era
Age 20 or 21, 1991/1992
Age 20/21:
- Makeup: Still rocking the red lip quite frequently, but I got way into MAC and my eyes were opened up to a whole new world of color!
- Hair: Long, straight and dyed a dark yet really bright burgundy purple, which faded into a hideous orange (see above). I then attempted to strip the orange out by dumping tons of peroxide and blond dye on top of it. It turned canary yellow mixed with white and felt very “mushy”. I had to go to a professional the next day to get it looking normal again. I took nose my piercing out because everyone I knew was getting them and I was no longer “unique”
Age 23, 1995
Age 25 or 26, 1998/1999 (wearing MAC Viva Glam II lipstick)
Age 22-26:
- Makeup:
- Age 22: I wore Chanel Vamp nail polish and lipstick to the company Christmas party. Loved the polish, but the damn lipstick feathered and bled all night long. I wore mostly MAC and Urban Decay throughout my entire 20′s
- Age 23 & 24: I was heavily into MAC Folio lipstick and wore it constantly until Viva Glam II came out and that has become the lipstick I have gone through the most tubes of in my life
- Age 25: I fell in love with MAC Cyber lipstick and wore it all the time. In daylight. A tad dramatic for the office, no?
- Hair:
- Age 23: I cut my long hair off into a shoulder length cut. The color was some kind of blond
- Age 23/24: I went much shorter with the hair and had the very popular Kelly from 90210 cut. My hair was bleached white blond for about the whole year and I had it done every 6 weeks. I finally got sick of the maintenance, so I went a little bit darker beige blond
- Age 26: Had my hair dyed a dark red/purple when it was about shoulder length. I loved it but it faded super fast so I cut it very short and began the process of stripping the color out so I could get it back to blond. It took an eternity
Age 28, 2000 (wearing MAC So Be lipstick)
Age 28:
- Makeup: Getting a much better understanding of what looks good on me as far as makeup finally. Brows are shaped and trimmed, not wearing ridiculous eyeshadow and finally started wearing blush and foundation on a regular basis.
- Hair: This is as short as I have ever been and it was super, duper blond (but not bleached). Loved this cut and color at the time, it looked great on me and took about 2 minutes flat to style
Age 29, 2001
Age 31, 2003 (fresh from the salon, sans makeup, and with a baby Squirt!)
Age 32, 2004 (with a young Sammy)
Ages 29-32
- Makeup: I was getting better and better at choosing colors that worked for me and working on my application techniques. No more scary multi-colored pastels
- Hair: It went from long to short and back again over and over, and I was every shade of blond imaginable. I always wind up back to my favorite though, which is a cool, light beige blond
Age 32:
Had my hair dyed deep chocolate brown. Took me an eternity to get used to it and by the time I did, it was very faded. Decided to go back to blond…slowly
Age 35, 2007 (wearing MAC Pervette lipstick)
Age 35, June 2007 (wearing MAC Crystal Rose Lipglass, possibly my fav lipgloss ever)
Age 36, 2009
Age 37, August 2009
Age 37, April 2010
Age 34-37:
- Makeup: Started blogging in 2008, which kicked off a whole ‘nother level of makeup collecting. By now I have amassed a ridiculously large collection of nail polish (over 2,000). My makeup skills have improved tremendously during this timeframe, mostly from watching YouTube tutorials. Have learned A LOT. I was also fortune enough to create my own nail polish collection in December with one of my favorite brands, BB Couture called The Vampy Varnish Collection
- Hair: My hair was cut into an angled bob at various lengths and was mostly blond, sometimes lowlighted with dark brown, sometimes highlighted, sometimes solid. I pierced my nose (again but on opposite side) this summer but took it out after 6 months when it refused to heal
Age 38, August 2010
Age 38:
- Makeup: Steadily growing collection since I started beauty blogging. I feel like this year I have improved the most on my skills and look 1,000% better than I did at age 20 (even with the damn fine lines that are amassing rapidly)
- Hair: I had been growing it out almost the whole year of 2010. I went from a brown color early in the year to blond with dark brown underneath to then adding purple underneath then…
Age 38, September 2010
I felt a strong urge to hack it off again. So this time it was blond on top with a little of the dark brown (the purple above faded to dark brown) on the bottom. Then…
Age 38, November 2010
I chopped it off again, even shorter to more of a pixie style. I had it dyed medium/dark brown in November, but it faded and I didn’t like it. So then I…
Age 38, January 2011
Had a bunch of highlights put back in to make it blonder and am slightly growing the pixie out because I don’t like how short it is.
What’s next for me? I’m not sure because my mind changes quite literally every few minutes on what I want, but I am aiming for blonder and more of a bob shape again. I think my color and cut in March of 2007 and age 36 in 2009 looks the best on me.
What are some of your best and worst makeup and hair moments?
-VV
Welcome! My name is Kelly and Vampy Varnish is a animal friendly beauty blog.
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Wow, this was a really interesting post. I’m only 17 so I don’t really have that much to look back on! I’m just now getting in to makeup. Daily I only wear mascara and tinted lip balm. On the weekends I do more experimenting with eyeshadow and lip colour.
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Great post. I love age 35 blonde bob and the same style slightly darker. Really enjoyed this!
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Wow! That is an amazing post, and wow to have that many pictures of yourself to really see the changing in make up.
I absolutely love how you look in the:
“Age 35, June 2007 (wearing MAC Crystal Rose Lipglass, possibly my fav lipgloss ever)”-
that is a beautiful hair style and the make up is so perfect for you, just love it!
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1. You are beautiful! 2. I’d have to say I agree with the cut and color that looks best on you! That blonde is perfect on you! 3. This is an excellent post!
totally loved this! how fun
i really love the hair and makeup from 35-36 but you are always so cute! i am a gemini also and am never satisfied either.
This was such a great post to read! You really suit blonde hair
I wish I had more pictures showing my previous embarrassing haircut/make up.
I think the worse look I sported as a teenager was a massive black hoodie and far too much mint green eyeshadow and short frizzy hair. That was never going to be a good look! Thank goodness for straighteners!
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I loved this post. You are so cute!
I love love loveee this post!!
As a fellow haircolor chameleon it’s fun to see other people’s hair adventures!
The Make up part is really interesting as well, we can see how each decade has it’s own face! I simply love your gaga like look from the early 90s!
And, Sammy, awww kitteh!
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Great post, I love your 2007 (Age 35) hair the best!
It’s really interesting to watch trends and taste evolve. Thanks for this post!
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loved this post and just find out we’re the same age! love your 2007 hair (i’m a red haired now, though last year i went from blond to brunette! one of the great things is changing, i think!) …
I love that you were a total rocker back in “the day”. I tried, but was not as successful in my look. Thanks for sharing. You look mahvolous!
HI Angelica B.,
Still am, just dress better, hahaha!
Love this post! You really are a chameleon! Awhile back ago when you posted your wedding photo I didn’t think it was you at all. Even after I read it was!
Love your hair in the age 35, 36 and 38 (Sept) photos.
My worst was age 17 lots of black eyeliner and mile high bangs.
when i saw the pix of cherie currie in her book i was totally thinking of you at that particular time when your hair was feathered but growing out of the short alana(?) induced haircut.
im still addicted to the eyeliner, ever since junior high haha. the colors and placements change though. i think my worst makeup time probably was junior high, remember doing checkerboard lips? where the top right and lower left side of lip would be purple, and pink for the other side? ahahahaha, oh we were so DARING!
i still hardly ever get my hair cut, joe was laughing at me for not having a cut since august 2009, but he hasnt either! we’re both having bad hair times right now.
Hi egglet,
I can’t remember WHY I cut my hair that short then, but like the minute I did it, I wanted to go back, haha! Oh yeah checkerboard lips were the bomb! I love my eyeliner still also and hey, blue is making a huge comeback
Damn Aug ’09!! I remember you snipping away slowly at split ends with small scissors 
Such an awesome post! Also very personal, thank you for sharing so much with your readers.
I love your haircut in the year 2009 (age 36). 
My worst look was probably when I tried to make my hair grow superfast. I laughed at your desciption at the ‘Age 14′ because I completely understand where it was coming from, I had the same phase for the same reason.
Thus, I didn’t shape my very very short haircut (that was basically the same as your November 2010 look, only that I used gel for the back hair and they were dyed dark purple) i just let them grow and after a year it looked like Willy Wonka’s (Johnny Depp) haircut in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory if he’d get really drunk and fall under a landmover. Add very burned out hair from all the colour changes and ironing and you got yourself a disaster. But yeah, I wanted to get my hair long so bad, I didn’t even care. That’s also the phase when I combined combat boots with just about everything I put on, including skirts and put black eyeliner on for every occasion. Being the only MU on my face, even without bases. Most of the time I came home looking like a racoon, lol. Thank god for beauty blogs. 
Again, awesome post, sorry for a long comment. 
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i still do the split end thing! its hopeless though, they seem to breed. but its what i do when i watch tv and see scissors anywhere near me lol. i have serious hippie hair right now, and havent dyed it in years.
in 7th grade i think you had a shortish hair cut and one of your friends (not me!) wanted to trim it for you, and you ended up at a stylist to fix it, which meant cutting off even more.
hey, death angel’s coming to play up here in april, we’re thinking of going!
That is now ringing a bell! I think they just played somewhere near here also or are going to soon. I can’t listen to them anymore, they sound so 1992 to me now, lol!
This is so great! I love it. I went through some pretty hideous phases myself, such as the Smudged Black Eyeliner Phase and the Wildly Overplucked Eyebrows Phase. I also had the Frosty Pink Lipgloss Phase, which was particularly unattractive given how warm my skin tone is. Let’s not even DISCUSS the hair situation (the poofy bangs! the burgundy dye!). You look great with the super-short hair, and with the bob too!
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I so remember Precious! She was little then! Nice time line. I should try and do that.. Wow some of mine were crazy! LOL
I spotted an Iron Maiden shirt and a Metallica shirt!!! Very nice!!!
It’s lovely to see you morph!
Oh god, let’s see, my mother gave me a poodle perm in 7th grade, that was awful. I ended up growing my hair very long, down to just around my waist from 7th to 12, then cut it short into an A line bob. I wore a dark vampy raisin type color from Revlon. After high school, I started dyeing my hair red, pink, purple, etc and always got a different, increasingly shorter cut.
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Great post! We are the same age and I swear I could match you on some of the pics, but add a little neon in! Thanks for sharing!
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Great post Kelly. I love lookin at photos. I like your hair and makeup at age 35 w/mac pervette the best. It was all very flattering on you, in my opinion!
Ok, I *had* to comment on this because we are the same age did a lot of the same cringeworthy stuff in the 80s. Oh gods, the hair metal scene back then… I have pictures for which there are no words. The teasing of the hair, bad perms and ridiculous makeup, I did it all and usually all at the same time.
Although, my regular hair color and cut now is a bright cupcake pink bob. I still wear jewelry in my nose piercing and love bright makeup, too. My mom keeps asking me when I plan on growing up but eh, I figure I’ll have time enough for that when I’m dead. Right now I’m still having too much fun!
Thank you for posting this, what a trip down memory lane. And don’t feel bad, you were / are super cute!
This is probably my favorite of all your posts! (And that’s saying a lot, because I <3 nail polish and makeup.) I love your March 2007 hair!
My worst hair ever was when I was 12 and my grandmother made me get a mullet. Eighteen years later and I'm still bitter about that haircut…
ohh, you’re so pretty!
you haven’t changed a bit! Except for the hair and style, of course… =)
“Hair: Was finally long and straight, but pretty fried and poufy. It was the Kelly Bundy era”
Just by looking at your picture I remembered INSTANTLY!
btw, loved the deep chocolate brown shade! Looks great on you!
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I absolutely LOVED this whole time-line. What a progression. Thanks for sharing this with us. You really refined your whole look but you were beautiful throughout
you look amazing for someone who is as young as 38! wow. love your blog
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What a great progression of style post! I took dance lessons when I was younger and when we preformed we had to wear blue eyeshadow with pink blush and lipstick. No idea how that ever become popular lol.
Oh, I love this! My favorite has to be age 35 (March 2007) wearing MAC Pervette – that cut and color just suits you so well! I also love the two-tone look of late 2010… wish I could pull that off with my hair, but not so much with thick curls!
I LOVE this post!!! You’re so fun and I love how I feel like I get to know you so much better after personal posts. I think my fav look of yours (not that I don’t love you look now) is the Cherri Curry Runaways look.. you’re seriously look just like her there! I totally though of her even before I read your caption for the pic lol!!
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The 80s were a rough time for everyone, fashion-wise. I teetered between rocker and alternateen during those years, so I too know how crazy looking at old photos can be.
Thanks for the post! I enjoyed all of the pictures and seeing how your look evolved. “Age 35, 2007 (wearing MAC Pervette lipstick)” is my fave look I think, but everything around that time looked good on you. <3
I am amazed that we discovered MAC and Viva Glam in the same years. I had some old school Urban Decay nail polish (Peacock, Oil Slick and Gash!) that I really regret throwing out. I happened to come across an old tube of UD’s Gash in my collection and was saddened at how much their packaging has changed.
And I have to agree with you, I hated how Chanel’s Vamp lipstick would bleed…I bought one tube and never got it again. When I discovered MAC my favorite colors were Paramount, Viva Glam (with Mahogany liner!) and Chelsea. Viva Glam is the one MAC color I’ve gone through for the most lipstick tubes.
You are awesome for posting this – I think you’ve inspired me for a new entry!
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What an awesome blogpost and so funny to see how you grew into make-up and stuff, and how much you have changed!
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This reminds me of my days with “the crow” eyeliner, black lipstick, and teased out haired… I looked like a misunderstood version of the Cure!
Oh, and going to underground black metal concerts at 9 with my uncle, dressed in pink, with the cutest blon d ponytail:P Ah, the Ninties!
You look GOOD with the bob haircut!
Delightful post. Loved it!
I love the longer angled bob look on you. Very pretty. I’ve always wanted that haircut myself, but my hair is way to kinky/curly and I don’t like using to much heat to maintain my hair.
Love the post! You have always been beautiful, but I think you have become even more so over time.
Love seeing your transformation. I was a metalhead as well. You’ve brought back many memories.
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I love your picture from 2003, you looked so pretty with your hair like that! But you look pretty even with horrible blue eyeshadow!
So yeah . . . I just looked back at some of my old pics. It was a sight to see. I had 2 very big faux pas in my teens. One was I was very heavy into glitter from 10 till about 20
Glitter on the lids, lashes, cheeks, lips, and as a highlighter and in the hair as well *ugly cries while remembering this*. I also used to line my lips with black liner and then put gloss in the center *cringes in horror*.
LOL!!! I LOVED glitter! Still do, just have the sense not to wear it at my age
I used to go through tons of that Dippity Do glitter gel for hair and body 
This inspired some flashbacks – the hair and nail polish in particular. I guess I’m a year younger than you (born in ’73).
The perm that I BEGGED my mom for…it looked freaking awful on me and took forever to grow out. I stole my mom’s hair dye and was pissed that it didn’t work – til I got a haircut and found orange streaks when the hair was lifted and I was given a mirror to see behind me. You can imagine how hot I looked with the dark brown permed hair and a poof on top (what else were we supposed to do with the top of our permed heads).
While a freshman and sophomore in HS, I dated someone with longer hair than mine. I spent most weekends in his bandmates basements while they practiced and then at local clubs to watch them play. I wore A LOT of black (metal black) – including black nail polish and eyeliner and tight skirts with black tights underneath. Went to concerts at Giants Stadium (will NEVER forget watching drum kit rise up and spin at Motley concert).
When I went to college in ’91, I realized that Aqua Net did not work in upstate NY (UGH, the freaking gnats from the campus’ nature preserve).
One thing I am particularly thankful for…my mom fought me about curling and teasing the top of my hair for my senior picture. We fought tooth and nail. She eventually won. As a result, my senior picture isn’t at all dated. Can’t say the same for my friends with their gold chains and teased hair.
You are really brave for showing your timeline. It’s actually pretty great that you have these pics to look at – to have a visual reminder of certain times in your life.
that deep chocolate brown really brings out your eyes! personally it’s my favourite of the other styles you’ve tried
Love your hair in 2007! I like that look best.
MY FAVE POST!!! So fabulous
THIS is a true blog entry, where we get to see VV “behind the scenes”. Thank you for sharing with all of your fans… hope to see more new looks in the future 
Wow, what a transformation! And man, does that chocolate brown hair ever make your eyes POP! I keep trying to go that colour, but I need to break down and go to a stylist, because my hair always goes red, and I don’t want to risk mousy-ness with an ash to combat it
Love the pictures from the 80′s-90′s…..brings back sooooo many memories!
I have to say, you had a whole lot more going on in the makeup department than I did growing up. I loved makeup, but never wore it because I didn’t really know how, and I didn’t do anything else with my appearance. I had this looooong frizzy brown hair that was usually in a ponytail (complete with scrunchy!), I wore nothing but t-shirts and blue jeans (major tomboy!), and was constantly without a stitch of makeup in public…unless you count Bonne Bell lip gloss. To make it worse, I decided one afternoon that my eyebrows were too bushy….and plucked them off. Not intentionally, but “evening up” the two sides after numerous tragic mistakes meant that I was left with about four hairs on each side. So basically, for about half of the eighth grade, I looked like Uncle Fester with a bad wig. >_<;;
Then came high school, with my "raver" look…..neon orange bobbed hair,, lots of blue and black liner, and crap tons of metallic eyeshadow. Not to mention the goth look that interspersed my high school years as well. I needn't describe that one
Oh, and NO WAY you’re 38! Lookin’ good, mamacita!
I *love* the *love* LOVE the 2007 hair color. It’s just so pretty.
Um, you wouldn’t want to see photos of my past. At about 18 I finally got out of the stage of the excess of everything. It’s baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad. 14 wasn’t so bad. I admit. I look at my graduation dance party and it isn’t bad. The hair is awful, but the eyeliner and dark burgundy lipstick isn’t so awful you want to burn the photos.
My freshman year of highschool in 2003-2004. THAT was bad. I was finally allowed to color my hair. I chose a hideous short hair cut and rose red hair color that brought out ALL THE PINK in my face (oh, there was the brass phase and the orange phase too. None are good on cool-toned skin!). Not cute. So what did I do? Full coverage liquid foundation plus full coverage foundation powder. Plus the really bad ringed eyeliner with gold eyeshadow and peach blush and peach lipgloss. Aye, yie yie yie. What was I thinking? I’m cool-toned! Peach and gold don’t work with cool-toned skin!
I finally looked at myself as other’s saw me when I was 17 or so and said, “Oh holy hell. This is bad. This is very, very BAD.” Out went the old makeup. In came the tinted moisturizer (my acne finally disappeared) and Youtube. I haven’t looked back. *shudders* I should really find those old photos and burn them. They’re awful!!!! Too much of everything! Then again….it was the early 2000s. Excess of everything was in style. *shudder shudder shudder shudder* Bad Katie.
Hey Kelly – this was fun to read! Thanks for sharing. I think my favorite hair/makeup look on you is March 2007
Beautiful pictures!
That was fun. Looking at all the different looks. My hubs’ cousin looks just like your age 16 photo, now. She has that same hair style & wears her eyeshadow just like yours (blue or purple up to her eyebrows). She totally needs a make-over.
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I’m 10 years older than you so I do know the styles, I was doing them as a teen and young adult too. I haven’t seen my ‘real’ hair color since I was 17. lol I’ve been either blonde or red; mostly blond. And I like my hair long rather than short. I’ve regretted it terribly when I have gotten it cut above my collar bone.
Throughout your years, you were and still are adorably cute!
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This is so cute and amazing! Thanks for taking the time to do this and share it with us. You continue to be my favorite blogger because you do awesome, outside-the-box things like this.
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You age really well! (I thought you were in your late 20′s)
great pics for sure – you’re much more brave than me, although I see you have no “scary” phases, as I went through the total punk/goth thing through h.s. and definitely a cameleon as well and I turned 38 this month! =( I also see you have mad love for your kitties as do I – I have 3!
I peeked at this post yesterday but didn’t have time to comment.
First I wanted to say what a cute little girl you were! i just want to pinch those cheeks and I loved the story about sneaking the lip gloss, totally something I would have done (or might have done, lol).
Then I wanted to say that I think the short, blonde hair really suits you, it’s my favorite of all the looks. Scrolling through the photos, every time you switch to that look, I always think it looks so pretty (not that you aren’t gorge in all the photos).
I think I’m about a year and a half older than you, so I went through most of the same trends, and while you say they’re ‘scary’, you were right there with the rest of us, so we all looked scary, I guess. Of course, we all thought we looked rockin’, right? I’m glad I wasn’t alone in my fried, frizzy, blonde hair phase, who knows what I was thinking then, lol.
This was a fun post, and I’m impressed that you had the guts to put it all out there, I don’t know that I would, lol. Of course I did go through a pink hair phase, then a blue hair phase… and not nearly as well as Phyrra does it, lol. Also lots of black eye makeup and dark lips too, what fun! Anyway, great post, you’ve only gotten better with ‘age’, since you’re still a spring chicken
Thanks for showing us the pictures – you look so great througout the years! I lol’d at the eyeshadow – looks crazy ^^
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Love the Age 32 look with the young sammy!!! i think i’m the only one but i love the hair color and makeup in that pic!! the recent photos are great also but the age 32 is my fave.
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Hi Kelly,
This was so fun to read and you are so bold for putting all those pictures up! I do think the blonde bob flatters you the most, although I do like darker hair on you, but you’re pretty in all of the photos!
I like your look in Age 37, August 2009. you look so cute as a little blond kid!v my worst was dying my hair blond and then it turned orange because of the sun. I tried to change it back to my own color but they never got the right color and it turned to another color all the time so i had to grow it out. took ages haha but now it’s finally out for a couple years. i want highlights again but i’m afraid that it’ll start to look ugly again.
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Love this post! Your’re so beautiful!
I really like the pic when you’re wearing MAC Pervette lipstick and Age 36.
And how you look now of course
<3
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Such an entertaining post to read!!! Thanks for sharing this part of your life héhé!
My favourite hair cut is at your 35!! So pretty! it’s funny how to see make up evolves during the years and something we were sure was looking good on us 3 years ago is looking so hideous nowadays.
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I love this post! I was a metal head when I was younger too, wouldn’t know it from looking at me, I looked very much the nerd.
I have been told I look exactly the same as I did when I was in high school; I am both horrified and thankful when I hear this compliment. Thankful because I am not to wrinkly yet, but horrified to think that I am wearing my hair the exact same way I did in high school. I think my favorite hair is age 36.
You’ve always been beautiful! <3 ya! I'm so happy you posted the Kelly Bundy pics
I was hoping they'd be in this post lol.
Thanks! What a great post! Makes me want to go through my old pictures.
you look absolutely gorgeous as a long haired brunette!
Don’t know if it’s just me but in the pic “Age 23, 1995″ you look like Lady Gaga. I think she stole your look lol! I agree about the blond bob, it looks great on you!
Hi Nicole,
That’s hilarious, someone else said that also. She DID steal my look, hahaha!
I love this! Lil ms blonde bombshell:)
I loved this post! Sure brought back memories of days gone by. Thanks for having the courage to share your photos, I don’t think I’d ever be brave enough to do the same!
This was a really fun post. Love seeing all the different eras of hair and makeup. You look adorabe in all. It’s funny how our makeup doesn’t look so good years later. It was looking good during that time. I had perms some times when it was really popular. When it was done professionally I looked good. When my friend did it there where some problems!
I would have never guessed we were the same age! You look good, girl!!
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I absolutely love this post, it´s sooo perfect, it´s history and it´s fun, love it. x @Advogada_Tati
What a great post, Kelly! I really, really enjoyed reading this. It’s really nice seeing how much someone can change and try new things and still retain their individuality and incredible beauty. Thank you for compiling and sharing this. What a wonderful trip down memory lane this must have been too. I know I have specific emotions and memories linked the different hairstyles, makeup, and clothing; it can be nice to look and back and relive those memories. On a side note, I love how so many of your pictures have your cats in them (I have similar “Brooke over the years” photos, many featuring a cat or two!). Thanks for sharing
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