Jessica Alba Critiques 10 of Her Best, So '90s, and Most Dramatic Beauty Looks

"Oh those eyebrows. I didn't even bother with an eyebrow pencil! And the Victoria's Secret water bra! You're basically looking at chicken cutlets, water bra. I did it all."

"Oh! Look at her. I have no idea who she is, she feels so long ago. That's before I had a stylist and before I had a makeup artist. I 100 percent did my own makeup and hair on that. I always did—my mom went to cosmetology school."

"I could have done better! You know what happened is my hair was so blonde, and it was so broken that I cut it all off to start all over. I should've just had my tape-ins. I felt like with the blonde it looked better long than short on me—especially with that baby face."

"I remember those days. I've been blonde a few times. I feel like I look a lot like my mother Cathy Alba and my daughter Haven. Haven and I look very similar with the lighter hair!"

"Those are real bangs! I had my hair so many different ways over the years—you can't be too attached. I don't mind the lip matching the dress and the earrings and all the things. Sometimes I feel like you either need a really strong eye or a strong lip, wearing such a bold primary color."

"Doing a double braid is always fun. It makes it a little bit more interesting and adds a little bit of that volume. I originally did a nude lip and it just didn't work because the dress was such a bright blue. It kind of overpowered everything. So, I needed something punchy. I think that's a good lesson: If you're going to do a yellow or a blue dress, experiment with a bright red-orange color on your lips."

[In real life] the lip matched the dress. I originally had a nude lip and then I was like, "What if we...?" It was last minute. I felt like it was so old Hollywood glam and the dress was very much that as well. I think we were going for that, but adding that little punchy color to the lip and having it coincide with the coral in the dress just made me feel a little more modern."

"The straight hair was fun. I put, like, 70 tracks in my hair because I don't want to look like a wet dog. When I do the straight hair, I put in many tracks so that it still has volume and doesn't look like I just came out of the water. I remember we added a lot of sea salt spray to get light, good texture and make it kind of puffed up and cool."

"The dress was a lot, so doing nothing with my hair and makeup wouldn't have been right. I wanted to do a strong eye, so then of course I did a nude lip and really glowy skin. I like having a good, clean skin canvas and then you choosing to pop my lips or my eyes."

"Catherine Deneuve [was the inspiration for this look]. Classic. Feminine. Beautiful. The strong brow, and the bow, and the diamonds, and the dress: It was all chic and timeliness. I feel like you can wear that 50 years ago or 50 years from now and it'll always work."