Selena Gomez’s Barrettes and Blue Nails Are Straight Out of 1995 — See Video

Expensive reader, I can not write about Selena Gomez‘s newest look with out drawing consideration to my age, which is… older than Selena Gomez. I am turning 46 in a few months, OK? I am solely calling that out as a result of I would like to determine myself as an unimpeachable knowledgeable on being a teen within the ‘90s and since every little thing about Gomez’s hair, nails, outfit, and equipment are mainly straight out of my aesthetic once I was 16.

It pains me to suppose that Gomez’s magnificence and elegance inspiration in her newest Instagram submit comes from 30 years in the past—in my thoughts, 1995 is 10 years in the past—however what does not ache me is how flawlessly she’s executing the look. I communicate from first-hand expertise once I say that she has fully nailed the early Delia’s catalog vibe together with her bow-print tank high and chokers.

But it surely’s Gomez’s magnificence particulars which might be actually bringing me again, particularly to my sixteenth birthday sleepover, at which all 4 besties—and myself—wore our hair parted within the center and held in place with high-set barrettes, similar to Emilia Pérez star is doing together with her white triangle snap clips.

Her vibrant blue nails are additionally so mid-’90s, and actually needed to be there to grasp why. Though blue nail polish is not any huge deal these days, the ’90s had been just about the primary time folks began actually experimenting with nontraditional polish shades. So if you used your part-time job cash to buy a blue nail polish, you felt like a complete insurgent.