Brenda Song Opened Up About Her Suite Life Era Beauty Mistake: ‘It Haunts Me in My Sleep’

Brenda Song is having a serious profession resurgence due to roles in The Last Showgirl and Netflix’s Running Point, and he or she’s taking a second to replicate on her transition from Disney darling to grown-up actor…whereas doing her make-up.

In a cute video for Merit, the previous The Suite Life of Zack and Cody star mirrored on her strategy to cosmetics then and now, joking that the 2003 model of her “solely appreciated to put on a smokey eye, a purple lip, block forehead and a full contour.” For one purple carpet in 2006 she remembers a face stuffed with magenta blush—a glance she says nonetheless “haunts me in my sleep.”

Brenda Song in 2006.Mark Mainz/Getty Images

Thanks to the recommendation of a make-up artist, her new technique is to “Pick one focus of my make-up and stick to that,” and for this look, Song selected “enhancing pores and skin.”

Unlike some former little one stars who cringe at their previous work, Brenda Song had nothing however optimistic issues to say in regards to the Suite Life period, calling her “Disney days…simply a lot enjoyable.” As lodge heiress London Tipton, she wore outrageous maximalist fashions that had been the “dream closet” of the time.