It’s trite to say you were born in the wrong generation, but sometimes this ’90s baby wishes she were a ’90s baddie. Besides the fact that I would’ve loved to spend my nights playing with the cord on a landline phone while gabbing (you just don’t get the same physical satisfaction from a slick iPhone case), I never feel cuter than when I’m wearing my mom’s old slip dresses and some brown lip liner.

Honestly, a new tube of Bobbi Brown’s discontinued Ruby Stain lipstick might alone be worth joining Gen X for. I’ll never know the pleasure of applying it, but I’ll try my hardest to get close. Word is that it was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s favorite.

As far as I know, the nearest we can get to physical time travel is recreating the looks we so adore looking back on. The ’90s It Girls are my beauty muses year round, but there’s something especially autumnal about so much of their glam. Is it because nostalgia hits harder in the fall, with back-to-school season and Thanksgiving plans bringing us back to our hometowns? I’m not sure! What I do know is that as the leaves fall, I want to look like I’m on Twin Peaks.

Ahead, I’m sharing a list of ’90s muses that provide endless fall beauty inspo, from gorgeous lip colors to messy hairdos and brows both heavy and thin.