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You can’t have a 2026 hot girl summer without adding sparkle, shimmer to your fashion

Spending three hours on a 'no-makeup makeup look' was a collective delusion anyway. It's time to bedazzle your entire life.

Over the past decade and a half, the world seems to have forgotten how to have fun, and everything became so serious and dull, like the saturation filters in our eyes just got lowered to -100. Minimalism started trending, and suddenly words such as  “effortless”, “clean girl” and “nonchalant” became the new standard.

From Pinterest boards to Instagram reels, tips and ways to look effortless with soap brows, dull neutral colour palettes and matte everything: lips, eyeshadow, face. Plain. Everything dry and so two-dimensional. The Sahara Desert would have more colour and whimsy than this level of dullness.

Hours spent perfecting that no-makeup makeup look, all while wondering: if you’re going to put in so much effort anyway, why not look like you did?

Luckily, though, it seems sparkly and shimmery are back........

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