Baby blue eyeshadow is back with a vengeance, and its return has made my nostalgic Y2K heart skip a few beats. Blue eyeshadow was everything when I was a teenager, in shades ranging from cornflower ...

Photograph by Erik Madigan Heck. Styled by Felicia Garcia-Rivera. There’s been much discussion lately about blue eye makeup having a resurgence. But for the record—and as any savvy makeup artist will ...

It’s been said that what goes around comes around, and I’ve found that’s especially true of fashion and beauty trends. While ’90s and Y2K styles and the clean-girl aesthetic have been wildly popular ...

The nostalgic shade is always toeing the line between tacky and trending. Blue eyeshadow is trending for spring 2026. Because of its place in pop culture, the shade has a nostalgic, dreamy quality.

Out with the old, in with the new: at least that’s what the 2026 eye makeup trends signal, where we’re trading in minimalism with expressive maximalism. While that certainly doesn’t mean we’re all ...