Some of these makeup and hair looks are best left in the last decade, while others have become a part of beauty canon.

As we enter 2021 and officially situate ourselves in the 2020s,&nbsp;it&#39;s time to look back at the past decade&#39;s biggest beauty trends. The 2010s were&nbsp;a time of many transformations, especially in the realm of technology with the&nbsp;boom of <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/tabitha-sanchez-tiktok-fashion-stylist" target="_blank">social media</a>. Beauty trends were no longer confined to the&nbsp;school hallways, runways, or feature films&ndash;they could be posted and shared by anyone on a global scale, and spread on platforms like <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lofficielusa/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, Tumblr, and <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/pinterest-gen-z-fashion-inspiration-mood-boards-social-media" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>.&nbsp;Some of these trends have survived&nbsp;past the 2010s, becoming staples of the beauty industry in our new decade,&nbsp;and some we&#39;d rather leave behind. Here, L&#39;OFFICIEL&nbsp;revists 10 beauty trends that defined the 2010s.

How could we ever forget the raccoon eye trend? The heavy smokey eye was featured everywhere&ndash;red carpets, Ke$ha music videos, in high fashion magazines&ndash;making that &quot;still wearing last night&#39;s make-up&quot; look seem cool. Though there might have been a time and place for this trend, we&#39;ve evolved into a more subtle <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/beauty/chanel-makeup-artist-nina-park-smokey-eye" target="_blank">smokey eye</a> that&#39;s much more flattering for the everyday.&nbsp;

Smokey Eye

In the early 2010s, you couldn&#39;t log onto Facebook or Instagram without seeing a girl you knew with&nbsp;ombre hair. From subtle and strategic&nbsp;lightening of the ends to dramatic and colorful&nbsp;DIY&nbsp;dip-dyes, celebrities to middle school girls alike participated in this trend.&nbsp;

Ombre and Dip-Dyed Hair 

Before the 2010s, overplucking&nbsp;was the name of the game. Then society did a sharp 180, with supermodel <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/rainsfords-music-video-cara-delevingne-kaia-gerber" target="_blank">Cara Delevingne</a> and others sporting natural, full brows. Big brows were back (much to the dismay of everyone who suddenly had to magically undo years of plucking). This trend&nbsp;continues to stick around, with the <a href="https://www.allure.com/story/brow-lamination-trend-photos" target="_blank">laminated brow Instagram trend</a> and many models wearing messy,&nbsp;au naturel brows.

Full Eyebrows

Emo and goth fashion became wearable in the 2010s, thanks in part to Tumblr&#39;s influence.&nbsp;Along with dark eyes,&nbsp;dark lipstick took&nbsp;runways&nbsp;by storm. Though this bold look can be&nbsp;glam, it&#39;s not always the most practical.

Dark Lipstick

If&nbsp;the everyday goth look wasn&rsquo;t for you, chances are you probably followed all the Victoria&rsquo;s Secret models and subsequently tried to replicate their main hair trend of&nbsp;the 2010s: the beachy wave. Somewhere in between straight and the curling iron, it&#39;s that (not so) effortless look that&rsquo;s withstood the test of time.

Beachy Waves

This was not&nbsp;the poppin&#39; lip gloss Lil Mama sang about in 2008. The 2010s traded in Juicy Tubes for a matte finish and&nbsp;overlined lips.&nbsp;Neutral and brown-toned lipsticks became the go-to colors, and <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/beauty/kylie-cosmetics-topshop" target="_blank">Kylie Jenner&#39;s Lip Kit sensation&nbsp;</a>took the world by storm.&nbsp;

Overlined, Matte Lips

Before there was a&nbsp;Kardashian beauty line&nbsp;by nearly every Kardashian family member, there was <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/pop%20culture/kim-kardashian-west-charity-criminal-justice" target="_blank">Kim Kardashian&#39;s</a> contour. As the reality star rose to fame, so did her full face contour, and soon enough,&nbsp;contour, extreme highlight, and face baking became key steps to achieve an Instagram-ready face beat.

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Heavy Contouring

Somewhere in between dramatic eyeshadow, contour, and the Kylie Lip Kit&nbsp;came the &quot;no-makeup&quot; makeup look&ndash;makeup designed to make it look like you&#39;re not wearing any. It usually consists of a combination of lip balm (preferably Carmex),&nbsp;Mario Badescu&#39;s Rose Facial Spray, and maybe some BB&nbsp;cream or Glossier products. Though the end of the&nbsp;2010s witnessed&nbsp;some dramatic Instagram make-up looks (&agrave; la Kylie Jenner), the &quot;no-makeup&quot;&nbsp;makeup look has <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/beauty/spring-summer-2021-beauty-trends-fashion-week-runway" target="_blank">persevered</a>, with a hyper&nbsp;focus&nbsp;on skincare and natural glam over the past few years.&nbsp;

"No-makeup" Makeup

We can&#39;t forget the phenomena of The Jersey Shore in the 2010s. It both demonstrated (and perhaps advocated for) the tanned look that was all the rage for a while. With that came the rise&nbsp;in&nbsp;self-tanner and tanning booths, which resulted in <a href="https://www.allure.com/story/jersey-shore-housemate-grilled-over-tanning-bed-comments" target="_blank">big health risks</a>.&nbsp;

The (Overly) Tanned Look

Making your nails pop was a big thing in the 2010s. With the emergence of customized patterns, manicures were all about being extra and artistic. Nail art has evolved since, and now&nbsp;nail art&nbsp;conitnues&nbsp;with at-home products making&nbsp;manicures more accessible than ever.&nbsp;

10 Beauty Trends That Ruled the 2010s

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