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Pop star and actress Ariana Grande has been performing since she was a teenager, and has been subject to all the different makeup trends everyone else has the last few decades. Her current look is minimal makeup and glowing skin, but she once went much heavier with the brush. The 29-year-old poked fun at some of her past makeup styles in a new TikTok for her beauty line, R.E.M. Beauty, and it's super relatable for anyone who lived through the 2010s.
In the short clip, the current version of Grande is talking to her old self as she applies some heavy eyeliner. Since it's a TikTok, Grande is lip synching to a bit of dialogue from the Kardashian sisters.
The old self starts, “I've been doing my homework and I wanna talk to you about something.”
Current Grande interrupts to ask, “Do you think your eyes are a little too smokey for every day?”
“Yeah, I'm going through a phase,” says her old self. “Is that OK with you?”
Current Grande responds, “Sure,” because she knows that she will be growing out of it real soon.
Over the exchange, Grande wrote the caption, “Me to old me who wouldn't dare be seen without a thick cat eye and an over drawn lip.”
Fans loved the video, with most of them praising how Grande looked back the and how she looks now. The musical artist recently opened up about how people commenting on her body has been affecting her in another TikTok video, asking folks to be “gentler and less comfortable commenting on people's bodies, no matter what.”
She added, “There are ways to compliment someone or to ignore something that you see that you don't like that I think we should help each other work towards. Just to aim towards being safer and keeping each other safer.”
Grande told her followers that you “never know what someone is going through.”
“So even if you are coming from a loving place and a caring place, that person probably is working on it or has a support system they are working on it with,” she explained.
Aimée Lutkin is the weekend editor at ELLE.com. Her writing has appeared in Jezebel, Glamour, Marie Claire and more. Her first book, The Lonely Hunter, will be released by Dial Press in February 2022.
