15 Years of Celebrity Skincare

From stars peddling zit zappers and foundations to tanorexics and bronzer-phobes, here's how we put our best face forward.

June 16, 2009 12:00 AM
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'90s Grunge Goddesses

The arrival of androgynous Gen-X icon Kate Moss inspires ghostly faces in fashion and film. In the real world, diversity infuses beauty with color.

'94 Kate Moss's spectral phase
pale skinned celebrities
Barry King
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'90s Grunge Goddesses

'95 Winona Ryder still sporting her Beetlejuice glow
pale skinned celebrities
J.Smeal
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'90s Grunge Goddesses

'95 Drew Barrymore has Mad Love for matte
young skin
Jeffrey Westbrook/Studio D
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1994-1999: Forever Young

1995 Bare Minerals rocks the world with its SPF 15 foundations
T. McGinnis
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'90s Grunge Goddesses

'95 Forget the band. Was Courtney Love living in a Hole?
Jeffrey Westbrook/Studio D
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1994-1999: Forever Young

1996 Spa mania goes mainstream when Bliss opens in NYC
Ke.Mazur
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'90s Grunge Goddesses

'96 Gwyneth Paltrow's period-perfect pallor
Jeffrey Westbrook/Studio D
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1994-1999: Forever Young

1997 Rx miracle-worker Retin-A Micro fights acne and fine lines
J.Smeal
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'90s Grunge Goddesses

'97 Angie does her best Morticia
Jeffrey Westbrook/Studio D
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1994-1999: Forever Young

1998 Dr. Perricone's The Wrinkle Cure heralds salmon as antiaging superfood
J.Smeal
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'90s Grunge Goddesses

'99 Vampire slayer Kirsten Dunst
Ron Galella
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'90s Grunge Goddesses

'99 Chloë Sevigny sports a Kids-like cast
R. Hartman
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The New Spectrum

Mainstream beauty welcomes color.

'94 Iman launches a self-titled makeup collection for women of all skin tones
R. Hartman
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The New Spectrum

'94 RuPaul vamps it up as the original face of MAC's Viva Glam campaign
SGranitz
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The New Spectrum

'96 Halle Berry inks a multimillion-dollar spokesmodel deal with makeup giant Revlon
Fernanda Calfat
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21st-Century Gilded Lilies

From Brazil's beaches to the coast of Cali, the rise of the bronzed bombshell sparks sales of baby oil and orange-tastic spray tans.

'00 Gisele blames it on Rio
Jeffrey Westbrook/Studio D
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2000-2004: Glow-Getters

2000 Prescriptives Magic Liquid Powder dusts up a sexy shimmer trend
Kirby Lee
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21st-Century Gilded Lilies

'00 Look - no tan lines! J.Lo flaunts her tawny glow
Jeffrey Westbrook/Studio D
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2000-2004: Glow-Getters

2000 Olay Total Effects brings derm-backed antiaging skincare to drugstores
Theo Wargo
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21st-Century Gilded Lilies

'02 Life's a beach for Paris Hilton
Jeffrey Westbrook/Studio D
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2000-2004: Glow-Getters

2002 Botox's FDA approval for frown lines freezes L.A.'s smiles
S. Granitz
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21st-Century Gilded Lilies

'03 Bronze biscuit Cameron Diaz
K. Mazur
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21st-Century Gilded Lilies

'03 Kate Hudson goes goldie
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21st-Century Gilded Lilies

'03 Mimi matches her chest to her honey highlights
R. Mickshaw
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21st-Century Gilded Lilies

'04 Oompa-Loompas inspire Charlize Theron's Oscar look
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2000-2004: Glow-Getters

2004 Better than a Crayola 24 box: L'Oréal True Match and CoverGirl TruBlend foundations
K. Winter
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21st-Century Gilded Lilies

'04 Catherine Zeta-Jones toasts in the Bermuda sun
K. Lee
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21st-Century Gilded Lilies

'04 TV's golden girl Jen Aniston
Jon Furniss
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Modern-Day Fair Ladies

The secret to youth? Shun the sun. The bronze backlash leads to a proliferation of porcelain-pretty complexions.

'05 Cate Blanchett's Elizabethan complexion
SGranitz
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Modern-Day Fair Ladies

'06 Reese Witherspoon shows off her pearly whiteness
James Devaney
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Modern-Day Fair Ladies

'06 Kate Winslet skips the eternal sunshine
Jeffrey Westbrook/Studio D
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2005-2009: Easy Does It

2007 Natural beauty: Origins Organics gets USDA approval
Joe Kohen
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Modern-Day Fair Ladies

'08 Julianne says no Moore bronzer
Jeffrey Westbrook/Studio D
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2005-2009: Easy Does It

2009 Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair supercharges its ultralight serum
Kevin Mazur
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Modern-Day Fair Ladies

'09 Amy Adams: Disney-princess pale
Jeffrey Westbrook/Studio D
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2005-2009: Easy Does It

2008 Virtual skin: Make Up For Ever HD and Cargo Blu-Ray makeup
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