2023’s Surprisingly Trendy Instagram Beauty Styles
2023’s Surprisingly Trendy Instagram Beauty Styles. This year, we’ve seen eyebrows cut and screwed into works of craft worthy of a gallery, hair shaved and styled to within an inch of the hair strands, and nail art that you’d need a Ph.D. to do at home. Because there are more and more makeup artists on Instagram, these pranks can make the Internet go crazy for a while and bring the beauty community together, if only for a day or two, to fight about the latest “trend” in weird eyebrows. We’re reflecting on the bizarre Instagram beauty trends that rocked and horrified us in 2023 since these flashes in the (shade) pan may sometimes be forgotten just as fast.
2023’s Surprisingly Trendy Instagram Beauty Styles. We’ve compiled a list of this year’s craziest, strangest, and most divisive beauty Instagram trends, like brow art, nose art, and everything in between. Keep reading to find a trend you might try in 2023
Fishtailed Brows
Never doubt that the Internet can help you develop a new idea. Fishtail brows became popular in 2023, thanks partly to beauty influencer Huda Kattan. While Kattan’s swoopy brows were Photoshopped in this instance, we hope she at least gave one of her 30 million Instagram followers the idea to dive in with a fish motif.
Nail Art in a Heart Shape
It seems like everyone can support the idea of Valentine’s Day nail art. But this video by nail artist Park Eunkyung split the Internet with a process that takes much more work than you might think (like relationships). For the manicure, hearts are cut out of plastic nails and shaped into them. The heartsare then glued onto the nails and painted.
Halo Brows
The halo brow look also called a backward unibrow, made people look both beautiful and evil simultaneously. It also showed no limits to how creative people can be: Hannah Lyne, who made this look and is 16 years old, said that fishtail brows inspired her.
Hair That Is Half Long, Half Short
This bob haircut with stacked extensions split the Internet like Yanny and Laurel. How long or short is the cut? Is it more like a jellyfish or a fancy lampshade? In either case, it was made by Darren Ambrose, the owner of a studio and the global brand spokesperson for Wella. He used tape-in extensions, a razor blade, and many guts to make it.
Sparkling Soap Brows
Gel, a spoolie, and, thanks to 21-year-old Holly Aldous, a bar of soap are all things that can be used to make brows look good. Aldous, who is from the U.K., brushed bar soap through her eyebrows to make them look like feathers. She then put Lime Crime Gem Crusher Lip Topper in Unicorn Queen on top of them. The finished look is brows that look like they were put through the Kira Kira filter.
Wave brows
With her wave brows, inspired by Hokusai and emojis, Dutch makeup artist Rebekka Theenaart turned the popular brow trend into a real art form. Theenaart told Allure that she accidentally shaped her eyebrows into a wave shape, so she used that as the basis for her look. She shaped the hair with soap and painted each wave with white and blue liquid lipstick.
Sunburn-Inspired Makeup for the Eyes
In 2023, Terry Barber, a makeup artist, made a fake sunburn that the editors of Allure liked. Barber, the director of makeup artistry at M.A.C., created an eye look that resembles a severe sunburn using colors from the Pro Eye Palette in The Romantic, which are creamy red and violet. The makeup kind of recreation is accepted, but not the real-life kind.
Full-Hand Swatches
Allure writers are used to spending the whole day covered in swatches of products, but the year 2023 taught us a whole new way to try on makeup colors. Chaos Makeup and Dawn Eyes Makeup, two small makeup companies, showed pictures of hands fully covered in color-changing powder. Putting on a full coat of color is a lot of work, but it makes these shades stand out.
Hair Flower Vase
This was the period when beauty experts showed that you need a vase to put flowers in your hair. Taylor R., a Canadian writer, got her tiered updo idea from Cindy Lou from The Grinch. She placed it with an empty plastic water bottle and creatively placed elastics. The cherry on top? A real bunch of flowers was tucked into the hair.
Shrek Brows
If these Shrek brows aren’t the pinnacle of brow art, they’re pretty damn close. Not only are these eyebrows painted with our favorite monster, but if you look closely, you can see that the picture of Shrek is of a naked Shrek laid out like a Playboy centerfold. Audrey Addams, an Australian makeup artist, made this weird take on winged eyeliner, which may or may not have ruined a favorite cartoon from her childhood.
