Kim Kardashian Didn't Always Look Like This

The changing looks of Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian catapulted to enormous fame in the early 2000s, thanks to a date with newly-single Nick Lachey, a sex tape, and her frenemy-ship with fellow celebutante Paris Hilton. Love her or hate her, the reality starlet has gone on to become one of the most famous and most photographed women in the world in the ensuing decade. While her long and silky dark hair, her nude, glossy lips, her smoky eye makeup, and her eterna-bronzed skin are her signatures, Kardashian's looks and general style have evolved immensely through the years. She's gone platinum blonde, made the "strobing" makeup technique a "thing," popularized the bandage dress, wore leather while pregnant, and poured her signature kurves into many a latex frock. But overall, she still looks similar to her original form. Let's look back at Kardashian's changing looks, from top to toe.


Non-blonde L.A. party girl

Kardashian arrived on the scene as a party girl in Los Angeles, despite not having the typical California girl blonde locks and blue eyes. That said, she was bronzed and pretty, often framing her deep, dark eyes by rocking lighter eye shadows while out and about. She had and showed off her curves way back when, too!


Orange you glad

Permatans were Kardashian's thing in the mid-2000s. Her skin, of which she usually showed a lot, often had an orange cast, like she got blasted by Cheeto dust. Okay, so maybe that's an exaggeration. But she did have a bright, citrus-y, and obviously faux tint to her normally olive skin.

Pouty-lipped princess

While her little sister Kylie Jenner has admitted to getting lip injections to create her trout pout, Kardashian has always denied getting her lips done, telling SELF that her pucker has always been voluptuous. We have to admit that paging through photos of Double K through the years do indeed prove that she has had a full, Angelina Jolie-like mouth for a long time. It must be a mixture of DNA and the plumping agents in her favorite nude glosses.

Lashing out

Kardashian's eyelashes are always impossibly long, aided by extensions and falsies, since no one has super long, extra curled, and voluminous lashes all at once and in real life. But Kardashian's eyes began looking bigger and even more doe-eyed as she began to incorporate dramatic, statement eyelashes.

Kontouring kween

Kardashian also introduced the mainstream world to the makeup technique known as contouring. Her cheekbones, nose, forehead, and other features are always perfectly on point and the light hits and brightens her face flawlessly, thanks to the way she and her makeup artist place shimmery, highlighting products at certain points on her visage. She also popularized strobing, which is a softer alternative to contouring, in recent years.

Botox babe

Yes, Kardashian is blessed and is naturally gorgeous. But she gets a little assistance beyond cosmetic products. Her line-free face is the result of Botox, which she has admitted to getting on an episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians.

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