Bebot Makeup 101: Everything You Need To Look Like A Filipina Y2K Baddie

Before we had the clean girls, baddies, and office siren aesthetics, Filipinas had the bebot makeup look. The makeup look is currently taking over our feeds, just on the coat tails of our 2016 nostalgia fest, with content creators recreating the 2000s look with the Black Eyed Peas song amping up the energy.

Any 90s and 2000s baby would know Black Eyed Peas' absolute earworm of a song, "Bebot." ICYDK, the word is slang for "pretty woman". But if we were to rewatch the music video, we'd catch a glimpse of some girls sporting one of the signature makeup looks of the early 2000s for Filipinas in the background.

In 2026, the song has found new life in a makeup transformation trend on TikTok. It seems to have been started by content creator Belle Pauleen, who captioned her post with a simple, "Bebot is just Filipina Baddie but in Tagalog 🙂‍↕️".

If you want to hop on the trend, we've got you covered. To start off, you need to do a smoky eye look with cool-toned eyeshadows (typically with silver or bluish gray tones) and a smoked-out eyeliner. This is the detail that determines the makeup look of the 2000s, after all! Next, you need to keep your eyebrows thin and lightly filled in, but keep them sharp! A little highlighter on the brow bone is welcome too.

As for the complexion, keep it light with a powder foundation, as well as some minimal blush and bronzer to up your morena glow. You need to finish off the look with some glossy pink lips. Here are some products you can use in your transformation:

Not quite gray, but not quite brown is the only way to describe the eyeshadow color required for this look. And ISSY just so happened to have formulated the perfect shade and aptly named it Greige (gray + beige, get it? 🤭). You can top it off with a silver shimmer eyeshadow for a more glammed-up, night-out-ready effect.

Say it with us: A smoky eye isn't complete without eyeliner. But compared to the stark and sharp wings of 2016, the trend requires a more diffused and smudged eyeliner look. This gel eyeliner pencil makes it easy to achieve this effect, while still lasting through hours of partying the night away.

Any baddie of any era have their brow routines perfected to a T. For the bebot makeup trend specifically, the key is to keep your arches lightly filled in with an eyebrow pencil, to keep that au naturel look.

Finish off your look with a super glossy lippie. Sunnies' Lip Elixir provides that high-shine and translucence that were v popular during the 2000s. The fact that it comes in morena-friendly shades is just a bonus!

In its newest revival, the bebot makeup trend has become a platform for showing empowered morena confidence—and celebrities and content creators alike are serving up some hot and sizzling "historically accurate bebot" looks we can't get enough of.

Sue Ramirez was one of the first Pinay celebs to hop on the trend, pairing her bebot makeup transformation with a v v hot red dress.

Zeinab Harake-Parks' night out look is the modern bebot look, and she was ready to serve fans with her take.

Sisters Ivana and Mona Alawi opted to add lighthearted fun when they hopped on the bebot trend.

Some girls are just meant to do the bebot trend, and content creator Lierge Perey is def one of them. The sassy attitude is truly on point!

Beauty content creator Belle Rodolfo did an act of civil service when she shared her bebot makeup tutorial—and finished it with a quick explainer on how to achieve the signature bebot hairstyle too!