Cosmetics Business team picks: beauty items from 2016 that deserve a comeback

By Lollie Hancock | Published: 19-Jan-2026
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With the 2016 resurgence trend in full swing, the Cosmetics Business team travel back in a beauty time machine to share their favourite products from the era and what made them special

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The internet is taking a collective trip down memory lane at the moment, rewinding a decade and reviving some of the biggest trends from 2016.

In 2016, Justin Bieber fever was in full swing; 1990s and 2000s television favourites Full House and Gilmore Girls made their return in new formats; and it was impossible to go anywhere without hearing songs from Drake’s album Views and Beyoncé’s Lemonade.

While it was a strong year for pop culture, 2016 was arguably an even stronger year for beauty, bringing a number of iconic launches to market spanning skin care, colour cosmetics, fragrance and further beyond.

This yearning for nostalgia has sent the Cosmetics Business team down a rabbit hole of their favourite beauty products from the time, collated here to spark your own memories of 2016’s most loved beauty essentials.

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