Before this, there was this. In this video I time-traveled back to the early 2000s and tested a lineup of the most viral beauty gadgets I remember seeing on TV as a kid—some iconic, some cursed, and some that genuinely ate. I started with Hot Stamps (glitter hair stamps), except mine was fully dried out, so I literally had to DIY the tube with my own glitter + strong hair gel just to get a fair test. After that, I got way too intimate with the Pet Egg (yes, the foot cheese grater) and even tested the infomercial claim that it’s “so gentle it won’t pop a balloon”… and somehow it didn’t. Then I went full hair gadget chaos: Wrap Snap and Go heatless rollers (which actually gave me a perfect curl), Heragami bun tools (not a slay for me), the original Topsy Tail (heinous, I’m sorry), and the Bump It (it works, but I can’t morally call it a slay). I also tried the Shadow Shield and became lowkey obsessed because it made my eyeshadow edge so crispy and winged liner so easy—big slay. And yes, I spent $75 on a 20-year-old vibrating Lancôme mascara… and it looked incredible, even if the vibration theory is questionable. We ended with my childhood dream: the Conair Quick Wrap hair wrap, featuring my witch assistant’s redemption arc. Slay.